On 14/12/15 21:00, Ben wrote:
For me and most folks coming from photoshop who may give GIMP a try would find this slowing us down considerably in our work flow (especially when working on composites where masking is heavily used).
On the other hand: * this is something you only do once in the life time of the layer * this isn't an immediate operation... the menu leads to a dialog to select how to initialize the mask