Post by BuckSkin on Oct 1, 2018 13:55:16 GMT
I think this is a neat and sometimes useful feature in GIMP = color-coded layers !
The GIMP layer palette:
The same layers drag/dropped into the parent image in Elements 7:
I find it interesting that GIMP's color-coding carries over into Elements; this sort of says to me that there is no good reason why the layer stack in Elements couldn't also have color-coding capability; maybe it has all along and I just have not been smart enough to find it.
I am often jumping back and forth between Elements 7 and GIMP; GIMP has the best curves feature that I have yet found and GIMP's shadows/highlights is superior to Elements.
There are a tremendous amount of useful and well-thought-out features in GIMP; one that really stands out is that GIMP will allow other maneuvers when a dialogue box is open, whereas Elements will not; for instance, you can make changes in the layer stack, select a different layer, even rename a layer, while the levels or curves or whatever dialogue box is active.
I cannot count the times in Elements that I have had to cancel the Edit > Fill command and start over because I had forgotten to select the mask instead of the image.
The GIMP layer palette:
The same layers drag/dropped into the parent image in Elements 7:
I find it interesting that GIMP's color-coding carries over into Elements; this sort of says to me that there is no good reason why the layer stack in Elements couldn't also have color-coding capability; maybe it has all along and I just have not been smart enough to find it.
I am often jumping back and forth between Elements 7 and GIMP; GIMP has the best curves feature that I have yet found and GIMP's shadows/highlights is superior to Elements.
There are a tremendous amount of useful and well-thought-out features in GIMP; one that really stands out is that GIMP will allow other maneuvers when a dialogue box is open, whereas Elements will not; for instance, you can make changes in the layer stack, select a different layer, even rename a layer, while the levels or curves or whatever dialogue box is active.
I cannot count the times in Elements that I have had to cancel the Edit > Fill command and start over because I had forgotten to select the mask instead of the image.
