[Gimp-developer] New alignment tool

[Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris]

Hi,

I had played with the alignent toll a while, and here is my feedback:
 
- It really feels like going together with  the move tool. 
When selecting a target layer, one just  tries to drag it - no help 
doing it otherwise.


- Once a reference layer  is set, if moving the target layer is 
possible, it feels natural that it should snap to the reference layer 
- thus allowing aligning the left edge of the target layer with the 
right edge of the reference layer, and further snap so that both 
tops, or both bottons are in the same coordinates. That would feel 
great, and there is no need for further UI elements.

Regards,

JS
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[Gimp-developer] new Alignment Tool

[William Skaggs]

There is now a new layer alignment tool in HEAD, whose function is
to align layers with other layers in various ways.  It should show up
in the toolbox by default.  The functionality can probably be
discovered by looking at the tool options and playing around, but here
is a quick overview.  To use the tool, first activate it, then
control-click on a nontransparent part of some layer to make it the
reference layer.  Click on some other layer (without holding down
Control) to make it the target layer.  Press one of the six buttons in
the tool options to cause the target layer to shift into alignment
with the reference layer --- the type of alignment is indicated by the
symbol on the button.

If no reference layer is specified, then the target layer is aligned
with respect to the image as a whole.

For future development, I intend to make this work with guides,
selections, and paths, but currently it just works on ordinary
layers.  Also for future development, it may ultimately make sense to
merge this functionality into the Move tool, but it is more convenient
to keep it separate for the moment.

Criticisms and suggestions for improvement are welcome.

  -- Bill

(Bug #147437 shows the development history for this.)

 

 
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