Creating a new Layer
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| Creating a new Layer | Thales img | 06 May 16:24 |
| Creating a new Layer | Joao S. O. Bueno | 06 May 18:07 |
| Creating a new Layer | Martin Nordholts | 06 May 19:33 |
| Creating a new Layer | Thales img | 06 May 20:50 |
| Creating a new Layer | Martin Nordholts | 06 May 21:21 |
| Creating a new Layer | peter sikking | 06 May 22:05 |
| Creating a new Layer | Sven Neumann | 06 May 21:00 |
Creating a new Layer
Hello,
I have an idea and I'd like to know what you think about it.
Let's suppose a situation:
We make a 100 x 100px rectangle selection on a 2000 x 2000px, and we want to create a new layer to paint the rectangle, so when we ask a for a new layer a popup is opened asking Name, Width, Height, etc, for the new layer, for default the Width and Height values are 2000px² (our document's size), we click "Ok" and we have a new layer.
My point here it is that we have a 2000px² layer for a 100px² object, and as I can see - as a user - a 2000px² consumes more performance(I don't know if it's Memory or CPU) than a 100px².
So my idea is to have a option when creating a new layer; maybe a checkbox with something like:
[__] Follow Selection's Size
Did I make myself clear?
Anyway, thanks for the attention,
Thales
Creating a new Layer
Hi Thales --
thank you for your feedback - we will take that in account while working in the UI -
However, this need of yours can be easily implemented through a script - either in Python or Script-fu (if you are on Windows and have issues configuring GIMP- Python) -- this would give yiou this feature immediatelly (instead of you having to wait several months for a new gimp release).
feel free to write further if you want more information on such a plug-in.
js -> wrote:
Hello,
I have an idea and I'd like to know what you think about it. Let's suppose a situation:
We make a 100 x 100px rectangle selection on a 2000 x 2000px, and we want to create a new layer to paint the rectangle, so when we ask a for a new layer a popup is opened asking Name, Width, Height, etc, for the new layer, for default the Width and Height values are 2000px² (our document's size), we click "Ok" and we have a new layer.
My point here it is that we have a 2000px² layer for a 100px² object, and as I can see - as a user - a 2000px² consumes more performance(I don't know if it's Memory or CPU) than a 100px².
So my idea is to have a option when creating a new layer; maybe a checkbox with something like:[__] Follow Selection's Size Did I make myself clear?
Anyway, thanks for the attention, Thales
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Creating a new Layer
On 05/06/2010 04:24 PM, Thales img wrote:
Hello,
I have an idea and I'd like to know what you think about it.
Let's suppose a situation:
We make a 100 x 100px rectangle selection on a 2000 x 2000px, and we want to create a new layer to paint the rectangle, so when we ask a for a new layer a popup is opened asking Name, Width, Height, etc, for the new layer, for default the Width and Height values are 2000px² (our document's size), we click "Ok" and we have a new layer.
My point here it is that we have a 2000px² layer for a 100px² object, and as I can see - as a user - a 2000px² consumes more performance(I don't know if it's Memory or CPU) than a 100px².
So my idea is to have a option when creating a new layer; maybe a checkbox with something like:
[__] Follow Selection's Size
That is a step in the wrong direction, the right thing to do is to make layer boundaries automatically managed so a user won't be bothered with the New Layer dialog at all.
/ Martin
Creating a new Layer
@Martin
It seams to be much more difficult, don't you think?
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Martin Nordholts wrote:
On 05/06/2010 04:24 PM, Thales img wrote:
Hello,
I have an idea and I'd like to know what you think about it.
Let's suppose a situation:
We make a 100 x 100px rectangle selection on a 2000 x 2000px, and we want to create a new layer to paint the rectangle, so when we ask a for a new layer a popup is opened asking Name, Width, Height, etc, for the new layer, for default the Width and Height values are 2000px² (our document's size), we click "Ok" and we have a new layer.
My point here it is that we have a 2000px² layer for a 100px² object, and as I can see - as a user - a 2000px² consumes more performance(I don't know if it's Memory or CPU) than a 100px².
So my idea is to have a option when creating a new layer; maybe a checkbox with something like:
[__] Follow Selection's Size
That is a step in the wrong direction, the right thing to do is to make layer boundaries automatically managed so a user won't be bothered with the New Layer dialog at all.
/ Martin
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Creating a new Layer
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 19:37 +0200, Martin Nordholts wrote:
That is a step in the wrong direction, the right thing to do is to make layer boundaries automatically managed so a user won't be bothered with the New Layer dialog at all.
Right. But until that change has been done, it might make sense to include the layer size in the dialog and to default to the selection size instead of image size. Worth considering at least...
Sven
Creating a new Layer
On 05/06/2010 08:50 PM, Thales img wrote:
@Martin
It seams to be much more difficult, don't you think?
Well, yes, but that can hardly be an argument for doing the wrong thing. It is important to align resources on a project lacking them, and doing what you suggest would be a wasted effort in the long term.
/ Martin
Creating a new Layer
Thales img wrote:
We make a 100 x 100px rectangle selection on a 2000 x 2000px, and we want to create a new layer to paint the rectangle, so when we ask
a for
a new layer a popup is opened asking Name, Width, Height, etc, for
the
new layer, for default the Width and Height values are 2000px² (our document's size), we click "Ok" and we have a new layer.
My point here it is that we have a 2000px² layer for a 100px²
object,
and as I can see - as a user - a 2000px² consumes more performance(I don't know if it's Memory or CPU) than a 100px².
So my idea is to have a option when creating a new layer; maybe a checkbox with something like:
[__] Follow Selection's Size
this whole thing is way too much incidental to include in the dialog.
users might even conclude that it is the preferred way to do it like that. since as noted we are going to solve the problem from the other end, I think all the copy selection + paste as new layer variants we have are enough to tie us over.
That is a step in the wrong direction, the right thing to do is to make
layer boundaries automatically managed so a user won't be bothered with
the New Layer dialog at all.
It seams to be much more difficult, don't you think?
not for users.
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