Hi!!! On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Rob Antonishen <rob.antonis...@gmail.com> wrote: > I posted this as a bug, and was told by Sven Neumann the behaviour was > intentional and to raise it here. > > Currently, when saving a selection to a channel, either using the UI > or via the PDB, the active drawable gets changed from the working > layer to the new channel. > > I believe the active drawable should remain unchanged (i.e. where the > selection was made). > > The current behaviour is confusing to a user because of the following > fairly typical scenario: > > User wants to blur a portion of an image, but wants to save the > selection for later use. > > 1) make selection > 2) Select > Save to Channel > 3) Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur > > Now the user is blurring the saved selection channel, not the layer > they started on.
I agree, something similar to the process you describe above is more like what I want to do, and because of this annoying behaviour I don't use 'save to channel' at all ever. It's actually easier to create a new layer and fill it with foreground color, and later transfer layer alpha to selection. While there definitely are some scenarios where I want to perform a filter on a selection, I will typically use QMask mode instead of filtering a saved selection, and IMO this is more intuitive than the workflow I see Sven has just posted about (mainly this is because QMask display is reliable, and channel display requires separate/repeated configuration to get consistent display results) David. _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
