Hi, On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 15:51 -0500, Chris Mohler wrote: > > I might be wrong, but it appears to me that everything that "Apply > > Image" does can be done using layers. It's just another way of using > > layer modes and it seems quite akward to use an extra dialog for that. > > Except for one thing: layers don't print out as solid. As far as I can see the result of "Apply Image" is a layer. > I'm not suggesting that this be implemented anytime soon - but it > would be nice to have better channel mixing abilities once GIMP is > using GEGL for composition... Now we are getting to a point. So your post is not actually about "Apply Image", but about missing channel mixing abilities. It would help if you could point out exactly what it is that you can't do in GIMP. Otherwise we will never enhance the channel mixing abilities, using GEGL or not. As far as I can see the point you are trying to make is that GIMP doesn't allow you to use channels for layer blend operations. I've tried to reproduce your example using channels and layers and indeed it appears impossible. I can easily copy a spot channel to a new layer by dragging it from the channels to the layers dialog, but the result will be the grayscale channel. Perhaps it would help if we would change that so it creates an RGBA layer that represents the spot channel. This layer would be filled with the channel spot color and the grayscale mask of the channel would be transferred to the layers' alpha channel. Does that make any sense? Would such a change break other workflows? Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
