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copying and pasting layer groups as layer groups

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copying and pasting layer groups as layer groups bobdobbs 25 Oct 00:16
  copying and pasting layer groups as layer groups Richard Gitschlag 25 Oct 15:25
bobdobbs
2012-10-25 00:16:04 UTC (over 12 years ago)
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copying and pasting layer groups as layer groups

I'd like to be to select a layer groups and copy them over to another pre-existing image.

I've been struggling with this for an hour or so, and I haven't found a way to do this.

Is is possible to do this in GIMP?

The closet I've found is a kind of paste where you do this: drag the tab of the origin image over to the tab of the target image. The result is a new layer in the target image called "dropped buffer". However, the entire origin image is imported flattened.

I've been trying other drag and drop operations, but without success. Usually when I drop the selection to the target image, the icon under the mouse dissapears, and nothing actually happens.

I thought this might be a window manager problem. But I get the same results across kde, gnome and xfce.

Richard Gitschlag
2012-10-25 15:25:16 UTC (over 12 years ago)

copying and pasting layer groups as layer groups

Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 02:16:04 +0200 From: forums@gimpusers.com
To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org
CC: team@gimpusers.com
Subject: [Gimp-user] copying and pasting layer groups as layer groups

I'd like to be to select a layer groups and copy them over to another pre-existing image.

I've been struggling with this for an hour or so, and I haven't found a way to do this.

Is is possible to do this in GIMP?

The closet I've found is a kind of paste where you do this: drag the tab of the origin image over to the tab of the target image. The result is a new layer in the target image called "dropped buffer". However, the entire origin image is imported flattened.

I've been

trying other drag and drop operations, but without success. Usually when I drop the selection to the target image, the icon under the mouse dissapears, and nothing actually happens.

I thought this might be a window manager problem. But I get the same results across kde, gnome and xfce.

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Hmm, you're right - the closest I can find is to click and drag the layer group into the GIMP toolbox (which creates a new image using the layer group), but there does not seem to be a way to do the same with a pre-existing image (SWM or otherwise), at least not via click and drag.

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