Martin, Have you considered assigning the "new layer" function to a key? I have assigned my apostrophe to do just that and, if the need arose, I am quite confident that I could request 100 new layers faster than my computer could generate them; all without even leaving the image window. _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer