> > 2- add the option to snap guides at the border and/or center of layers > bounds.
Relative snapping/positioning has been on my mind a lot! A lot of times when making banners or brochures, I just want one layer aligned at the same horizontal or vertical position or with same height or width. I don't need grids or any guides. In many of my designs, only the relative positioning of layers matters. Currently, I do this by creating guides and then snapping both layers to it, appropriately. This is quite strenuous to repeat every time I need such a facility. How about "*snap to layer edges*", which creates guides at all 4 edges of all layers. (See [1] ) These "Layer-Guides" could be in a different colour to differentiate from user-defined guides. Could also configure which edges we would like to snap to. If these Layer-Guides get visually confusing with other guides and the grid, then we can display the guide(s) momentarily when a layer is scaled or moved to snap to it(them). That is, show the guides only *during the snap *. [1] https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28366148/relative-guides.jpg On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine < [email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 8:22 AM, wanderer wrote: > > > Here are the suggestions: > > > > 1- When you are using the scale or rotate tool and try to insert a > guide, it > > doesn't close the tool. > > You mean, the suggestion is to _not_ close thew tool? :) > > > 2- add the option to snap guides at the border and/or center of layers > > bounds. > > Makes sense to me > > > 3 - add the option to autocrop layers to their limits (the same thing > like > > when you do 'alpha to selection' then 'layers -> crop to selection') > > whenever you change it. > > To autocrop in which cases? Transformation tools already have that. > > > 4 - add a checkbox button in the scale tool for scale from center. Maybe > add > > also a keyboard shortcut for it. > > This is already in works and will be available in the new unified > transform tool, except it will be called differently. See > http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Transformation_tool_specification#pivot > for reference. > > Alexandre Prokoudine > http://libregraphicsworld.org > _______________________________________________ > gimp-developer-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list > -- * * *Regards, * *Srihari Sriraman *
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