Layer Opacity Access Point(s) Madness
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GIMP: Opacity Access Obscurity I. Would-be Satisfied User Question & II. System Feature Access Change Request | Recommendation, for GIMP SMEs and Online Enthusiasts' Forum: Maddening | Urgent Help Request: I. Apparent is no navigational work-around for a lost, deleted (or simply no included/provided) Layer Opacity access feature ... at least in my version of GIMP v. 2.8.6; ie, I cannot locate among the application's Primary tabs any tab/sub-tab/path/palette link/hot button/menu/sub-menu/relevant-other-tab/data entry field prompt | window/mini-portal, to a much desired {ASIDE 1 of 2: albeit often one such Layer Opacity tool is readily referenced in several of the extant online tutorials .... as a "given", and it is, too, often depicted, replete with a supporting screenshot, no less: so the feature must exist .... perhaps commanded by hidden access privilege(s) somehow, somewhere within GIMP ... for some users, at least ;-)}: GIMP | GUI & Other Layer Opacity Access Priority Change Recommendations: Primary Layer tab's, anticipated, Layer Opacity tool/option tab/sub-tab/path/palette link/hot button/menu/sub-menu/relevant-other-tab/data entry field prompt | window/mini-portal or the like access point(s) is not found. Its (such a Layer Opacity tool/option's form-factor would be manifest typically as an Opacity Glider aka a selectable |adjustable progress bar; nor, for that matter, is there evidence of any semblance of a percentage (%) transparency scroll bar nor an expectable like prompt data-entry field, of any description, which conceivably would execute a "layer's desired fade user-specification (opacity)" aka a amiss is any Layer Opacity adjustment tool (if such does in fact already exist) access point(s), whatsoever. Despite CIRCULAR narratives communicated on this, GIMP's official site, and among the posts of those others created by or in service to | contributed to by GIMP enthusiasts, there exists no CLEAR nor MEANINGFUL ADDRESS as to how one MAKES APPARENT aka would ACCESS ie, access point(s) for Layer Opacity: neither by mouse clicking nor by eg, shortcut keys entry navigation/specification, for such a Layer Opacity tool access point(s). II. Again, when no such tab/sub-tab/path/palette link/hot button/menu/sub-menu/relevant-other-tab/data entry field prompt | window/mini-portal can be readily found to exist among one -- and ideally in more than one -- access point and by more than one navigational path -- GIMP's version (again, v. 2.8.6) is rendered effectively useless for layered imagery work; user satisfaction spirals downward rapidly after a work-around search -- proves counter-intuitive ie, poor anticipatory GUI provisioning, or within the application ie, its Help and/or its User Guide index, and/or among online forums -- exceeds 5, 10, 30, 60, 120 minutes. FIASCO is what that scenario spells: Why could GIMP's SMEs have failed on such an imperative SDLC GUI, indexing and easy-access multi-cross-referencing point(s) objective for this version's release? And what, if any, work-around, for Layer Opacity tool access point(s) within the application, for selection of a layer(s) desired opacity display aka fade level, would be advised, if, in fact, said does exist as a viable tool (just not easily nor readily accessed) within GIMP 2.8.6? Why the Layer Opacity access point(s) convolution? Welcomed would be directions as to any navigation(al) path for said Layer Opacity tool access point(s). NONE is (access point) | are (access points) currently apparent under GIMP's 2.8.6 banner | top-level ribbon | panel of Primary Tabs, nor is such evident within its sub-tabs nor User Guide's Index nor tutorials nor blogosphere. {ASIDE 2 of 2: in fact, Layer Opacity should appear in, so addressed, in both the very beginning of the User Guide, and then latter in the specific Layers section .... but in a more detailed explication, within the latter] nor those tabs' secondary tabs, nor, for that matter under any tertiary-level tabs. Primary Tabs, namely, Tools, Layer, View nor any their "cross-linked sub-tabs" to other tab/sub-tab/path/palette link/hot button/menu/sub-menu/relevant-other-tab/data entry field prompt | window/mini-portal | option(s) | location(s) avails a sort of Layer Opacity Adjustment tool, whatsoever.} Lack of any easy-access point(s) aka obscure Layer Opacity (eg, a % glider) tool(s) blemishes one's entire would-be GIMP user-experience. Address of said shortcomings is URGENTLY needed, as recommended. Again the question persists: "Is there a reset button (virtual) and/or Command Key Combo and/or some other keystroke Shortcut Key combo, for immediate access point(s) for Layer Opacity specification? If so, kindly direct me as to its access procedure: again, I am attempting to use GIMP v. 2.8.6. I recall vividly, from years ago, that upon my initial GIMP v. 2.6 trial, in fact, readily apparent were an array of access points | paths for/to GIMP's Layer Opacity tool | dialogue field(s). Among that tool's access options was a sub-tab option under Primary Layer Tab, which could also be accessed from Tools Tab's sub-tabs, as well as comforting was the fact that said automatically appeared as an option palette in Toolbox's adjustable-size tool-box | "floating icon" column. Several online forum contributors mention that | similar functionality for v 2.6. Where and how do I access | activate Layer Opacity tool: either % glider and/or keystroke entry of desired layer % fade render; unable to find said. One would think that GIMP management/development/administrative SMEs OUGHT TO seriously consider my GUI Change Requests, and answer my queries, SINCE Layer Opacity is a PRIMARY aka FUNDAMENTAL image manipulation requisite ... and OBSCURE ACCESS POINT(s) [anything other than, at least, immediate sub-tab access from the Primary Layer Tab and the Tools Tab seems counter-intuitive, poor GUI and an utterly ridiculous would-be user nuisance] simply do not make the grade with would-be user communities. Additionally, the '"clouded Layer Option access point(s)", detailed above, pervades all current relevant online instruction content; that would-be educational GIMP instructional content, for Layer Opacity access point(s) navigation is amiss; that dearth of plain language information/directions bodes dark days for GIMP's prospects at garnering new users or retaining user allegiance. Currently, online (anywhere) goes wanting for a clear, concise and expedient answer | directive ........... such goes begging; and, that multi-faceted matter bespeaks serious, if not utterly fatal GIMP application, GUI and User Guide design flaws. Shortcomings of that significance likely silently and unrelentingly go unaddressed, overlooked and/or "lightly dismissed", which, unwittingly, turns off legions of would-be eager converts to GIMP from other imaging software. Do what you can to remedy those flaws, and kindly advise, ASAP. Thank you for your replies to my Layer Opacity access point(s) information request."
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Layer Opacity Access Point(s) Madness
--REVISED INITIAL POST-- {As of Sunday, September 1, 2013} GIMP: Opacity Access Obscurity Requires Features Access Clarification and/or GUI Design Change Immediately----------------- I. Would-be Satisfied User Question(s) & II. System Feature Access Change(s) Request(s) | Recommendation(s), for GIMP SMEs and Online Enthusiasts' Forum: ----------------- Maddening | Urgent Help Request: ----------------- I. Apparent is that there exists no navigational work-around for a lost, deleted or simply a not included/provided Layer Opacity access option/feature ... at least in my version of GIMP v. 2.8.6. ----------------- I cannot locate among the application's Primary Tabs (my initial capital letter convention, for that level feature | option; sub-tabs appear/designated with a lower-case "t") any tab/sub-tab/path/palette link/hot button/menu/sub-menu/relevant-other-tab/data entry field prompt | window/mini-portal, for access to the much desired Layer Opacity tool/option. ----------------- Unknown are its [Layer Opacity access option/feature's] access point(s).----------------- Can (is it possible to phrase the scenario any more explicitly) that be stated any more didactically? LOL.----------------- Simply put, Photoshop-PS+ (whichever "Creative Suite" iteration of PS ....), for many of its options | features | tools | instruments [et cetera] readily details/depicts (if not immediately, then elsewhere) ie, via several (redundant, so to speak) access points, by often cross-referenced app overlaps (eg, navigational paths | aka click sequences, within a Tab or its sub-tab .....): that facilitates access among each [option(S) | feature(s) | tool(s) | instrument(s) etc.], accessible from and by a variety of methods eg, keystroke combos (aka shortcuts), various " any tab/sub-tab/path/palette link/hot button/menu/sub-menu/relevant-other-tab/data entry field prompt | window/mini-portal" data entry/data input fields | points, click sequence(s) and/or selectable other selectable options. ----------------- {ASIDE 1 of 2: Albeit, often one such Layer Opacity tool is readily referenced in several of the extant online tutorials (reviewed were several youtube videos, too).... wherein it was repeated referenced and shown as a "given" "palette" or tabbed item; and it is, too, often depicted, replete with supporting screenshots, no less: so the feature must exist .... perhaps commanded by hidden access privilege(s) somehow [snicker], somewhere within GIMP ... for some users, at least ;-)}:----------------- GIMP's GUI & Other Layer Opacity Access Priorities | Change(s) Recommendation(s): What is aired above (and further detailed below) may prove to be under one and the same rubric; namely, GUI Change. ----------------- Primary Layer Tab's, anticipated, Layer Opacity tool's option | feature tab/sub-tab/path/palette link/hot button/menu/sub-menu/relevant-other-tab/data entry field prompt | window/mini-portal, click sequence or the like access point(s) is ........................... not found! ]----------------- Wracked one's brain ..... to no avail. ----------------- For starters, "no", I simply do not intend to "re-install GIMP", as the assertion that my "app might be corrupted ... does not hold true (late August 2013, downloaded and installed one two occasions. Not so fast; it appears that the problem(s) cited are systemic to GIMP, and that their resolution would require (a) further elucidation ie, "how to" by GIMP (ie, how to access the Layer Opacity tool aka glider); and, (b) require GIMP to apply apt resource resolution measures, ASAP [improve GIMP's GUI, as recommended, herein]. ----------------- Its Layer Opacity tool/option's form-factor should be manifest typically as an Opacity Glider aka a selectable |adjustable progress bar: a percentage (%) transparency scroll bar and/or an expectable like prompt data-entry field conceivably, which would execute a "layer's desired fade user-specification (opacity)". Amiss is any Layer Opacity adjustment tool [if such does in fact already exist) access point(s), as the videos mentioned demonstrate its existence], whatsoever. ----------------- Despite CIRCULAR narratives communicated on this, GIMP's official site, and among the posts of others created by or in service to | contributed to by GIMP enthusiasts, there exists no CLEAR nor MEANINGFUL ADDRESS (redress) as to how one MAKES APPARENT aka would ACCESS ie, access point(s) for Layer Opacity: neither by mouse clicking nor by eg, shortcut keys entry navigation/specification, for such a Layer Opacity tool access point(s). ----------------- II. Again, when no such tab/sub-tab/path/palette link/hot button/menu/sub-menu/relevant-other-tab/data entry field prompt | window/mini-portal can be readily found to an extant -- and ideally in more than one -- access point and by more than one navigational path -- GIMP's version (again, v. 2.8.6) is rendered effectively useless for layered imagery work; user (or would-be user) satisfaction spirals downward rapidly after a work-around search -- proves counter-intuitive ie, poor anticipatory GUI provisioning, or within the application ie, its Help and/or its User Guide index, and/or among online forums -- exceeds 5, 10, 30, 60, 120 minutes.----------------- FIASCO is what that scenario spells: How could GIMP's SMEs have failed on such an imperative SDLC GUI [non-thorough UAT?], indexing and easy-access multi-cross-referencing point(s) objective for this version's release?----------------- What, if any, work-around, for Layer Opacity tool access point(s) within the application, for selection of a layer(s) desired opacity display aka fade level, would be advised, if, in fact, said does exist as a viable tool (just not easily nor readily accessed) within GIMP 2.8.6? Why the Layer Opacity access point(s) convolution? ----------------- Welcomed would be directions as to any navigation(al) click sequence | breadcrumb path for said Layer Opacity tool access point(s). NONE is (access point) | are (access points) currently apparent under GIMP's 2.8.6 banner | top-level ribbon | panel of Primary Tabs, nor is such evident within its sub-tabs nor User Guide's Index nor tutorials nor blogosphere. ----------------- {ASIDE 2 of 2: in fact, Layer Opacity should appear in, so addressed, in both the very beginning of the User Guide, and then latter in the specific Layers section .... but in a slight bit more detailed explication [while never addressing the fundamental Layer Opacity access query, nor anticipating it, within the latter] nor those tabs' secondary tabs, nor, for that matter under any tertiary-level tabs. ----------------- Primary Tabs, namely, Tools, Layer, View nor any those Primary Tabs' "cross-linked sub-tabs" to other tab/sub-tab/path/palette link/hot button/menu/sub-menu/relevant-other-tab/data entry field prompt | window/mini-portal | option(s) | location(s) | navigational click sequence, it appears, would avail a sort of Layer Opacity Adjustment tool, whatsoever.}----------------- Lack of any easy-access point(s) aka obscure Layer Opacity (eg, a % glider) tool(s) blemishes one's entire would-be GIMP user-experience. Address of said shortcomings is URGENTLY needed, as recommended.----------------- HOW TO?: Layer Opacity Adjustment Tool [Accessibility, if Any?----------------- Again the question persists: "Is there a reset button (virtual) and/or Command Keystroke Combo and/or some other keystroke arrangement aka Shortcut Key combo or click option | selection, for immediate access point(s) ie, what path | process | navigational sequence that would avail to a GIMP user a Layer Opacity .... 'err .... glider ... 'err .... palette (essentially, a layer's opacity fade glider .... )? ----------------- If so, kindly direct me as to its access path | process | procedure immediately; again, I am attempting to use GIMP v. 2.8.6.----------------- I recall vividly, from years ago, that upon my initial GIMP v. 2.6 trial, in fact, readily apparent were an array of access points | paths for/to GIMP's Layer Opacity tool | dialogue field(s). Among that tool's access options was a sub-tab option under Primary Layer Tab, which could also be accessed from Tools Tab's sub-tabs (or their respective pop-up menus or sub-menus: options | features lists), as well as comforting was the fact that said automatically appeared as an option palette in Toolbox's adjustable-size tool-box | "floating icon or palette" column. Several online forum contributors mention that | similar functionality for v 2.6.----------------- Where and how do I access | activate Layer Opacity feature | option | tool: either % glider and/or keystroke entry of desired layer % fade render; unable to find said. ----------------- One would think that GIMP management/development/administrative SMEs OUGHT TO seriously consider my GUI Change Requests-GUI-CRs, and answer my queries, SINCE Layer Opacity is a PRIMARY aka FUNDAMENTAL image manipulation requisite ... and OBSCURE ACCESS POINT(s) [anything other than, at least, immediate sub-tab access from the Primary Layer Tab and the Tools Tab seems counter-intuitive, poor GUI and an utterly ridiculous would-be user nuisance] simply do not make the grade with user | would-be user communities. ----------------- Additionally, the '"clouded Layer Option access point(s)" problem, detailed above, pervades all current relevant online instructional content; that would-be GIMP's and others navigational directions eg, "how to" (at phase of app use), navigate to a Layer Opacity access point(s): that navigation is amiss; dearth of plain language information/directions bodes dark days for GIMP's prospects at garnering new users or retaining user allegiance .... as the same scenario, it seems, applies to several of the app's other features/options tested. ----------------- Whatever happened to User Acceptance Testing-UAT; was it performed prior to release -- are user (or would-be user) comments/recommendations actually considered? ----------------- Currently, online (anywhere) explication goes wanting for a clear, concise and expedient answer | directive; and, that multi-faceted matter bespeaks serious, if not utterly fatal GIMP application, GUI and User Guide (in its "indexed format") design flaws. Shortcomings of that significance likely silently and unrelentingly go unaddressed, overlooked and/or "lightly dismissed" within the ranks of GIMP {could they "really not be aware of them .... matters of such fundamental significance?"}, which, unwittingly, likely turns off legions of would-be eager converts to GIMP from other imaging software ... from the get (at least those whose experience matches my own). ----------------- Do what you can to remedy those flaws, and kindly advise, ASAP. ----------------- Thank you for your replies to my Layer Opacity access point(s) information request." -----------------
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On the other hand the Layers stack is already accessible in the Layers list...
