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2 questions about layers and selection

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2 questions about layers and selection poppe 11 Jan 15:44
  2 questions about layers and selection Martin Nordholts 11 Jan 15:54
  2 questions about layers and selection saulgoode@flashingtwelve.brickfilms.com 11 Jan 16:46
   2 questions about layers and selection poppe 13 Jan 18:16
poppe
2009-01-11 15:44:07 UTC (over 16 years ago)
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2 questions about layers and selection

Hello

How can i select multiple layers at once? For example when i want to delete 10 layers at once.

Where can i see what my selection size is? It tells nowhere what the selection size is after releasing mousebutton.

Martin Nordholts
2009-01-11 15:54:11 UTC (over 16 years ago)

2 questions about layers and selection

poppe wrote:

Hello

How can i select multiple layers at once? For example when i want to delete 10 layers at once.

Where can i see what my selection size is? It tells nowhere what the selection size is after releasing mousebutton.

Hi

You can currently only select on layer at a time.

The size of the selection can easily be seen in Windows -> Dockable Dialogs -> Pointer, but you need GIMP SVN trunk for that (i.e. it will be in GIMP 2.8). The enhancement request was: Bug 138101 – Pointer (Information) tab should display selection bounds http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138101

BR, Martin

saulgoode@flashingtwelve.brickfilms.com
2009-01-11 16:46:32 UTC (over 16 years ago)

2 questions about layers and selection

Quoting poppe :

How can i select multiple layers at once?

About the only support for "selecting of multiple layers" is to chainlink them, and this only helps you operate on them as a group for the transformation tools (move, rotate, scale, etc).

For example when i want to delete 10 layers at once.

The easiest work-around is to hide all of the layers you want to keep, merge the visible layers, then delete the resulting merged layer (and unhide the retained layers).

Where can i see what my selection size is? It tells nowhere what the selection size is after releasing mousebutton.

Again, not directly possible in current GIMP (expect it in the next version). A kludgy work-around is to float the selection and open the scale layer dialog -- the dimensions of the selection will be the layer bounds. CANCEL the dialog and perform an UNDO to return to your original image.

poppe
2009-01-13 18:16:45 UTC (over 16 years ago)
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2 questions about layers and selection

Hi

I hope deleting multiple layers at once is added also. Sometimes i have tens of layers i need to work on, and it would help alot.

For example:

While pressing shift, you can select multiple layers. Then by pressing delete they would be deleted.

Thank You Poppe

Quoting poppe :

How can i select multiple layers at once?

About the only support for "selecting of multiple layers" is to chainlink them, and this only helps you operate on them as a group for the transformation tools (move, rotate, scale, etc).

For example when i want to delete 10 layers at once.

The easiest work-around is to hide all of the layers you want to keep, merge the visible layers, then delete the resulting merged layer (and unhide the retained layers).

Where can i see what my selection size is? It tells nowhere what the selection size is after releasing mousebutton.

Again, not directly possible in current GIMP (expect it in the next version). A kludgy work-around is to float the selection and open the scale layer dialog -- the dimensions of the selection will be the layer bounds. CANCEL the dialog and perform an UNDO to return to your original image.