Re: [Gimp-user] Off-canvas editing



On 06/09/2013 12:11 PM, Eduard Braun wrote:
Hello everybody,

I don't now if this is just a stupid question or if this is a
software limitation or if there is even a setting for it I haven't
found yet but why are we not able to edit layers outside the canvas?

I often create images were the canvas size is fixed (e.g. display
resolution). I then add layers to it that are often larger than the
canvas. I would now want to select the superfluous parts of the just
added images (e.g. to make them transparent), but I can't select
parts of the layers that are not on canvas!

I also can not see any layer content that is off-canvas. A workflow
I'd prefer would be copy everything somewhere (not necessarily
inside the canvas) and then align it layer by layer, which is hard
when one can not see the content of the off-canvas layers.

I hope my question is clear and am looking for your answers!

Hey Eduard,

I don't think we can do much other than apply a layer-wide filter,
to edit image content that is off the canvas.

In situations where I need to work with things that are off the
canvas, I make the canvas large enough to hold everything that
extends past the intended "final" dimensions of the image, then crop
the image or restore the original canvas dimensions later.

To keep track of the original canvas boundaries, add guides by doing
control-a (select all), followed by image > guides > new guides from
selection, followed with control-shift-a (select none) and image >
fit canvas to layers.

The guides mark the boundaries of the original and/or final canvas,
and make it easy to crop the image to those dimensions.  Or, select
the area marked by the guides and do Image > Fit Canvas To Selection
to restore the original canvas dimensions and preserve the
off-canvas content.

:o)

Steve







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