Re: [Gimp-user] So it's a layer border - not a crop frame

2004-08-09 Thread David Neary
Hi Carol, Carol Spears wrote: does anyone know if photoshop has a tooltip explaining the reason they need the same size layer everywhere? Actually, photoshop just keeps layers the size they need to be to hold their contents. If you draw over the edge of a layer, it will grow to accommodate

Re: [Gimp-user] So it's a layer border - not a crop frame

2004-08-09 Thread John Dorfman
one thing that i do not understand is the need for floating layers. i dont think that this term is being used properly here. is there any reason that there needs to be the extra step to make pasting directly to an existing layer easier? I don't think so. I believe there is (or was) a

Re: [Gimp-user] So it's a layer border - not a crop frame

2004-08-09 Thread Carol Spears
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 09:06:15PM -0500, John Dorfman wrote: I'm new here and probably won't post often, but I think I have an answer to the origin of the floating layers. I was recently looking though the GIMP 1.3 manual. And if I remember correctly, it said something like this. There

Re: [Gimp-user] So it's a layer border - not a crop frame

2004-08-08 Thread Carol Spears
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 09:31:23AM -0600, Justin Gombos wrote: * Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-08-07 06:59]: Yellow and black crop frame? That's the border of the active layer, not at all related to crop. Thanks for clearing that up - and thanks to those who privately replied.

Re: [Gimp-user] So it's a layer border - not a crop frame

2004-08-07 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Justin Gombos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As a suggestion to any developers who may be following this thread, it would be really nice if there were a mouse-over that tells the user that the yellow/black line is a layer border. I then guess that would annoy the users who already know what

Re: [Gimp-user] So it's a layer border - not a crop frame

2004-08-07 Thread Alan Horkan
On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Sven Neumann wrote: Date: 07 Aug 2004 18:05:37 +0200 From: Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Justin Gombos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] So it's a layer border - not a crop frame Hi, Justin Gombos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes