On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Jessica Tomlinson wrote: > am still quite foggy on this whole selecting with a layer mask thing. Why > would one want some pixels to be partially selected, or partially > transparent?
Jessica, There are many uses for that. In general, this way you can make gradual transitions between two layers. For example, a typical sunset photo has a sky that looks OK, but the ground/water is a bit too dark. You can duplicate the original layer, then raise brightness of one of the layers, then combine them via a layer mask, where selection gradually changes. As the result, both sky and ground/water will look just like when you were taking the picture. Here is another example of, ahem, artistic use of this feature: http://prokoudine.info/gallery/images/20060901222040_img_0450.jpg Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
