Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp-help-2: New From Visible (julien)

2009-01-28 Thread Alchemie foto\grafiche
I understand better. What is visible is really a flattenned stack of the visible layers (with an eye in the Layer dialog). Not exactly flattened but merged Flatten will a remove the alpha channel, replacing any transparent area with the background color The question is the interest of this

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp-help-2: New From Visible

2009-01-26 Thread Alexia Death
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:15 AM, julien jm.h...@wanadoo.fr wrote: What is visible? Using GIMP's terminology it is projection --- flattened stack of layers. Sorry, I am not accustomed to developer terminology. visible is related to a flattened stack of layers? I don't understand that. Is

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp-help-2: New From Visible

2009-01-26 Thread julien
Thank you, I understand better. What is visible is really a flattenned stack of the visible layers (with an eye in the Layer dialog). New From Visible works the same as Merge Visible Layers, excepted that it creates a new layer, not always at top of the layer stack, but, in some cases, just

[Gimp-developer] gimp-help-2: New From Visible

2009-01-25 Thread julien
Hi, I am not a developer, only a docwriter. I browsed the Web, read the thread in the archive of this list: I couldn't find answer to my questions about Layer/New From Visible. The help pop-up tells Create a new layer from what is visible in this image. What is visible? I can imagine a canvas

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp-help-2: New From Visible

2009-01-25 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 5:05 PM, julien wrote: I am not a developer, only a docwriter. I browsed the Web, read the thread in the archive of this list: I couldn't find answer to my questions about Layer/New From Visible. The help pop-up tells Create a new layer from what is visible in this

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp-help-2: New From Visible

2009-01-25 Thread julien
What is visible? Using GIMP's terminology it is projection --- flattened stack of layers. Sorry, I am not accustomed to developer terminology. visible is related to a flattened stack of layers? I don't understand that. Is visible referring to the visible part of an image, as when the canvas