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I've read the whole thread of comments and I'm really confused. For context I'm a long time GIMP user and used Photoshop a few times at a very basic level. Lay
by zdimension 3y ago
I've read the whole thread of comments and I'm really confused. For context I'm a long time GIMP user and used Photoshop a few times at a very basic level.
Layers having boundaries feels... obvious to me? Like, when I scale a layer, the boundaries are what I'll be scaling. When I crop a layer, I'm cropping the boundaries. If I have a large image and insert a small icon in the middle, should the icon's layer take the full size of the canvas? What exactly is supposed to happen if I insert an image that's larger than the canvas?
A layer in GIMP having boundaries is equivalent, to me, to a shape in Inkscape having a size.
- Joeboy 3y agoFor example, does it not seem intuitive to you that it should be possible to take a brush tool and paint on the canvas? In GIMP, you can usually do that, but sometimes you can't, for reasons that are initially baffling. Once you figure out it's to do with layer boundaries it becomes merely annoying and frustrating. Once you get used to doing "Layer to image size" things get a bit easier, but needing to a) know that and b) constantly do that is not a useful feature.