d to read that twice to understand what he was trying to to. Why
does he duplicate the background layer and then delete the original
immediately afterwards? Well, the reason is simple: this is the
easiest and fastest way to add an alpha channel to the background
layer. If you haven't assigned a sho
[about not making background special wrt alpha]
What do you think?
YES please. this is simply annoying.
I would even go as far as removing the "Add Alpha Channel" option from
the menus, and suggest that the prefered method to add transparency to
an imag
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It should be easy add an alpha channel to the background layer as soon
as a second layer is added to the image. Is there a reason why this
should not be done automatically?
I think that it would make things easier to understand for the user.
Making the background layer "sp
On Tue, 16 May 2000, David Necas wrote:
Making the background layer "special" is not very intuitive.
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What do you think?
NO, please.
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The only good solution is probably to make `Add Alpha Channel' more
intuitive. The user should _see_ the background layer
On Tue, 16 May 2000, Jens Lautenbacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raphael Quinet) writes:
I would even go as far as removing the "Add Alpha Channel" option from
the menus, and suggest that the prefered method to add transparency to
an image that has only
May I make a humble suggestion.
Change File-New to allow users to select a Fill Type of either
Background w/o alpha
Background w/ alpha
Then users can select what they want to begin with. Flatten and Add Alpha
Channel can still exist as is in the Layers menu. No automatic
behind-the-scenes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raphael Quinet) writes:
On Tue, 16 May 2000, Jens Lautenbacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would say, simply make a layer by default have alpha always... I
know I know it's more memory for that 0.001 % of cases where people
start with one background layer and stick to
L PROTECTED] wrote:
May I make a humble suggestion.
Change File-New to allow users to select a Fill Type of either
Background w/o alpha
Background w/ alpha
Then users can select what they want to begin with. Flatten and Add Alpha
Channel can still exist as is in the Layers menu. No automatic
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 05:42:54PM +0200, David Necas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
NO, please.
`Special' background layer maybe isn't very intuitive, but automatical
promoting has the same problem: it's based on a side-effect and it's not
gimp automatically promotes layers on a variety of
