Martin Nordholts wrote: [cut] > Or are people too used to the concept of layer modes that it would > be suicide to make them less prominent? First of all, my field is digital painting/drawing [1], not photography retouching, so we may have different views on this. I rarely use layer modes except for the Overlay one which I use quite often [2], but I've seen many people using them extensively, mostly for artistic work, in order to create effects and tricks of all sorts. I personally have never thought of layer modes as way to obtain primitive non-destructiveness, but as one to obtain some effects that would be otherwise long/tricky/impossible to do or to have more control on them compared to filters/plug-ins. Will GEGL be able to do the same (or even more advanced ones) layer operations as layer modes currently allow? If yes, then I have no problem in removing the layer mode concept, as probably won't the majority of people who uses them now. If not/maybe not, then I think they will definitely need to remain. *** [1] By the way, many people would find nice to see more digital-artist oriented features such as a mixing brush for example, of which there's a third party GIMP source code patch here: http://sourceforge.jp/projects/gimp-painter/releases/ [2] I use paint modes more, especially Multiply, as it's so useful. Off-topic note: paint modes would be much more useful if there was a "sample merged" option for painting tools too, so that they will pick up colors from lower layers. -- SHIRAKAWA Akira _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
