WAIT, you can group layers in the Gimp now!?!?

HOW YOU MUST TEACH ME

animatrix1490

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Montrosity wrote:

I saved an image with over 10 layers, and most of those layers were in a group
folder. When I reopened the image, the layers that were in the folder were missing. Those layers had hours of work put into them, and I cant afford to
redo it. Is there any way to get those layers back?

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On 18.01.2013 00:06, Montrosity wrote:

I saved an image with over 10 layers, and most of those layers were in a group folder. When I reopened the image, the layers that were in the folder were missing. Those layers had hours of work put into them, and I cant afford to redo it. Is there any way to get those layers back?

I've never seen a report like this. Are you able to reproduce this? Try a new small image, one that could potentially be attached to a bug report.

Regards,
Michael

Oh my gosh, my life is awesome now.

Thank you so much!

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Montrosity wrote:

WAIT, you can group layers in the Gimp now!?!?

HOW YOU MUST TEACH ME

animatrix1490

In the layers tab, next to the icon where you can create a new layer, there is a
little folder icon. When you click it, it creates a group layer where you can
have multiple layers under the group. it is really handy when you have tons of
layers. You can make multiple groups for each part of the piece.

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On 01/17/2013 07:30 PM, Montrosity wrote:

I've never seen a report like this. Are you able to reproduce this? Try
a new small image, one that could potentially be attached to a bug report.

Im not sure if I understand what you mean?

If you are not new to GIMP, then please ignore the following. I have not been able reproduce your problem.

Assuming you are new to GIMP, what I believe Michael meant was this:

Just do what you had done to create a layer group using a simple image, then save the file. If you started with a brand new .jpg, the fileyou saved will have the same name but with extension .xcf, and if you reopen the .jpg file it will be the one with which you started.You would need to open the .xcf file.

However, if you opened the file simple.jpg, did all your work on the layers in the layer group, and then instead of saving it you clicked on the file selection "Overwrite simple.jpg" the file saved would produce a jpg file with only one layer. If you then tried to close GIMP, it would post a dialog asking you "Save the changes to image 'simple.xcf' before closing?" If you thenclicked on "Close without Saving" because you had overwritten the jpg file, then all the layers would be lost and you would just have a single layer with all your changes consolidated.

In that case, there would be no way to recover the individual layers.