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as an aside, i have read that photoshop has a function that allows you to go back and undo selected parts of images. i think that's neat, because sometimes, especially with layering you like some changes an additional layer makes but you lose other parts you liked (iyswim), hence with this tool you can just select the bits you would like retain by selecting that part and undoing the change just for that part. is there anything similar in the gimp ? if not is it possible to do ? In GIMP, you can do what you describe with a layer mask. Last I saw, that's how you did it in Photoshop, too. Here's a short run-down of the process: 1) Pick the layer you want to change. Duplicate it (this choice is in the layers, channels and paths dialog, both as a right-click menu on the layer and one of the buttosn on the bottom). 2) On the layer copy, make the change you want to make. 3) Right click the layer copy and choose Add Layer Mask. Pick Full Opacity. 4) In the layers menu, you'll see a white rectangle next to the copy layer. Click on it. You're now editing the layer mask. 5) Now you can edit the image with any of the paint tools. Black will undo whatever change you made on the layer copy. White will show the changes on the layer copy. Grey will show a combination of the two. 6) When the you're happy about the appearance of the change, right-click the layer copy and choose 'Merge Down'. i seem to be the only person on rederosity who uses gimp : and i am telling people it is free :))) (and good, of course) Good work. I'm spreading the word myself. ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] list reply
On Wednesday 08 January 2003 16:29, you wrote: as an aside, i have read that photoshop has a function that allows you to go back and undo selected parts of images. i think that's neat, because sometimes, especially with layering you like some changes an additional layer makes but you lose other parts you liked (iyswim), hence with this tool you can just select the bits you would like retain by selecting that part and undoing the change just for that part. is there anything similar in the gimp ? if not is it possible to do ? In GIMP, you can do what you describe with a layer mask. Last I saw, that's how you did it in Photoshop, too. Here's a short run-down of the process: yes, and thanks for showing how to do it but psp actually has a tool that does that, took me ages to find the refernce again, but its mentioned here, its called a history brush http://www.liv.ac.uk/abe/students/photoshop/05b_palettes.shtml now that is really nifty isn't it ?:)) the history palette is good too. i find increasing the undo levels in gimp is impractical on large images; it slows down the machine too much, even at a tile cache size of 256, and 10 levels of undo are nothing if painting small strokes, so its a bit awkward and i think a history palette would sort that out ? sammi ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
