2 questions about layers and selection

Hello

How can i select multiple layers at once?
For example when i want to delete 10 layers at once.

Where can i see what my selection size is?
It tells nowhere what the selection size is after releasing mousebutton.

poppe wrote:
> Hello
>
> How can i select multiple layers at once?
> For example when i want to delete 10 layers at once.
>
> Where can i see what my selection size is?
> It tells nowhere what the selection size is after releasing mousebutton.
>
>

Hi

You can currently only select on layer at a time.

The size of the selection can easily be seen in Windows -> Dockable
Dialogs -> Pointer, but you need GIMP SVN trunk for that (i.e. it will
be in GIMP 2.8). The enhancement request was:
Bug 138101 – Pointer (Information) tab should display selection bounds
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138101

BR,
Martin

Quoting poppe <forums@gimpusers.com>:

> How can i select multiple layers at once?

About the only support for "selecting of multiple layers" is to
chainlink them, and this only helps you operate on them as a group for
the transformation tools (move, rotate, scale, etc).

> For example when i want to delete 10 layers at once.

The easiest work-around is to hide all of the layers you want to keep,
merge the visible layers, then delete the resulting merged layer (and
unhide the retained layers).


> Where can i see what my selection size is?
> It tells nowhere what the selection size is after releasing mousebutton.

Again, not directly possible in current GIMP (expect it in the next
version). A kludgy work-around is to float the selection and open the
scale layer dialog -- the dimensions of the selection will be the
layer bounds. CANCEL the dialog and perform an UNDO to return to your
original image.

Hi

I hope deleting multiple layers at once is added also. Sometimes i have tens
of layers i need to work on, and it would help alot.

For example:

While pressing shift, you can select multiple layers. Then by pressing delete
they would be deleted.

Thank You
Poppe



>Quoting poppe <forums@gimpusers.com>:
>
>> How can i select multiple layers at once?
>
>About the only support for "selecting of multiple layers" is to
>chainlink them, and this only helps you operate on them as a group for
>the transformation tools (move, rotate, scale, etc).
>
>> For example when i want to delete 10 layers at once.
>
>The easiest work-around is to hide all of the layers you want to keep,
>merge the visible layers, then delete the resulting merged layer (and
>unhide the retained layers).
>
>
>> Where can i see what my selection size is?
>> It tells nowhere what the selection size is after releasing mousebutton.
>
>Again, not directly possible in current GIMP (expect it in the next
>version). A kludgy work-around is to float the selection and open the
>scale layer dialog -- the dimensions of the selection will be the
>layer bounds. CANCEL the dialog and perform an UNDO to return to your
>original image.
>
>