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No layer styles for example makes GIMP unusable for me.

JoeAltmaier 10y ago
Last time I tried, GIMP couldn't even import a layered image. It just flattened it. Useless. I have Gb of images; I can't even begin to use GIMP unless my investment is preserved.
- prokoudine 10y ago
  > Last time I tried, GIMP couldn't even import a layered image. Glad to see you are back to GIMP for the first time since 1998.
  - JoeAltmaier 10y ago
    Be fair. Since about 2 years ago. Just installed latest (2.8), and I see it has a new menu item - Open as Layers. So cool. And also to be fair, from my perspective that leaves GIMP only a few years behind other packages.
    - prokoudine 10y ago
      Be fair. 'Open as Layer' has been around since 2004: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?id=37912655f2073068e73dc30b620c427b41f177f6 https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?id=37912655f207306... :)
      - JoeAltmaier 10y ago
        So all this time I just missed that menu item? Believable; I am pretty dense sometimes. Gotta wonder why though, with a 'flatten' option already there, there's need for two versions of 'Open File', one that screws you and one that works, but that's probably history. I admit I use GIMP all the time, and have for years. It has a scripting language (ok just Lisp but with image-processing primitives) that I use to generate hundreds of images for card games. Photoshop has some arcane scripting ability but they sell it. My game club didn't want to pay, which is reasonable. So GIMP has been useful to me for years.
        kleiba 10y ago
        Two posts earlier: > I can't even begin to use GIMP unless my investment is preserved. Now: > I admit I use GIMP all the time, and have for years. Huh?
        JoeAltmaier 10y ago
        Like I said in the previous post, I use it (exclusively) for the scripts. Launch GIMP, run my script, exit. I haven't so much as opened a file in GIMP for years.
        prokoudine 10y ago
        > So all this time I just missed that menu item? Believable; I am pretty dense sometimes. That's quite all right. I'm not perfect either :) > Gotta wonder why though, with a 'flatten' option already there, there's need for two versions of 'Open File', one that screws you and one that works I'm not entirely sure what you mean by that. Open File opennns files as new images. Open as Layer appends an image to an already opened one. Or am I reading you wrong?
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Last time I tried, GIMP couldn't even import a layered image. It just flattened it. Useless. I have Gb of images; I can't even begin to use GIMP unless my investment is preserved.

prokoudine 10y ago
> Last time I tried, GIMP couldn't even import a layered image. Glad to see you are back to GIMP for the first time since 1998.
- JoeAltmaier 10y ago
  Be fair. Since about 2 years ago. Just installed latest (2.8), and I see it has a new menu item - Open as Layers. So cool. And also to be fair, from my perspective that leaves GIMP only a few years behind other packages.
  - prokoudine 10y ago
    Be fair. 'Open as Layer' has been around since 2004: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?id=37912655f2073068e73dc30b620c427b41f177f6 https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?id=37912655f207306... :)
    - JoeAltmaier 10y ago
      So all this time I just missed that menu item? Believable; I am pretty dense sometimes. Gotta wonder why though, with a 'flatten' option already there, there's need for two versions of 'Open File', one that screws you and one that works, but that's probably history. I admit I use GIMP all the time, and have for years. It has a scripting language (ok just Lisp but with image-processing primitives) that I use to generate hundreds of images for card games. Photoshop has some arcane scripting ability but they sell it. My game club didn't want to pay, which is reasonable. So GIMP has been useful to me for years.
      - kleiba 10y ago
        Two posts earlier: > I can't even begin to use GIMP unless my investment is preserved. Now: > I admit I use GIMP all the time, and have for years. Huh?
        JoeAltmaier 10y ago
        Like I said in the previous post, I use it (exclusively) for the scripts. Launch GIMP, run my script, exit. I haven't so much as opened a file in GIMP for years.
      - prokoudine 10y ago
        > So all this time I just missed that menu item? Believable; I am pretty dense sometimes. That's quite all right. I'm not perfect either :) > Gotta wonder why though, with a 'flatten' option already there, there's need for two versions of 'Open File', one that screws you and one that works I'm not entirely sure what you mean by that. Open File opennns files as new images. Open as Layer appends an image to an already opened one. Or am I reading you wrong?
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