Still working my way around this great program - still wondering if I am proceeding in the most logical manner.
Example: I captured an image of my daughter sitting in the bow of our boat. Sky is cloudless, sun is on her left right coming in at probably 10:00 over her shoulder. Best exposure leaves her body a bit on the underexposed side, the sky a bit overexposed. In Gimp, I copy the background layer and set it to screen mode, then add a layer mask that hides this layer so I can paint the additional exposure onto her body. Next, I'd like to add another layer and follow similar steps that will allow me to darken the sky. My question: Is the proper procedure to merge the first copied layer to the background before adding the second (I've been doing this), or is there a way to add that second layer without it negating what I've already accomplished using the first layer copy? I'm a bit hazy on this. Obviously, if I flatten the first copy, I can no longer go back and fix it unless I go into the history or undo everything back to that point. In my mind, I view a layer stack where I might go back and tweak just the fourth of some twenty layers, but when I try that approach, I find that subsequent layers either obscure or alter the visible results obtained by previous layers. More advice needed and much appreciated. Thanks. Caruso -- Carusoswi (via www.gimpusers.com) _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
