Carusoswi wrote: > Ok, but, when you merge, do you not lose the ability to go back and fix > something that you might decide needs adjusting? Yes, which is why you don't merge until. you're absolutely sure that everything you're merging is to your satisfaction. And if there are a couple of layers which you're not quite certain about yet, one can merge the layers below those, and still reduce the file size. I haven't explored this yet, and may be wrong, but it might just be that if there is one small area that needs a fix, that one can make a layer just big enough to manage the fix, rather than making the layer the full size of the image. One thing that might reduce the size of the file a bit, is that if there is only a small bit of something that needs fixing, to make
> I would thing that layers in an xcf file would only represent > references to adjustments and the underlying file I think a better visualization of layers is to consider them like an overlay on a projector, and that the layer containing the change is independent of the layer to which the change relates, until the two are merged together. > I'm just a-wonderin' why the xcf files grow so large. > I suspect that becuase you have a number of layers all the same size as the image. ns _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
