Sent: 2010-05-20 23:20:54 UTC (over 1 year ago)

From: ortaconic

A bunch of questions

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Hey folks!

I've got a small mess of questions, and I do not mind being redirected to
older threads. :)

Here goes:

If I have a bunch of text layers, how do I reselect them to move them and/or
edit their content without moving backwards in the history?

Also, I have a smudge brush effect currently behind a text layer. The brush
effect was a long time before the text layer. I need to remove the brush
effect. How do I do so without going backwards in the history, thus
eliminating the text (and any other previous work on the project after the
smudge tool was used)?

Is there any way to save projects "in progress" to continue editing later,
with the history intact?

Finally, though,
This is the second time this has occurred. The project will be moving along
nicely, then suddenly none of the tools work. Everything is still clickable
and the screen does not freeze or crash, but I can do no more work on the
project.

Has anyone heard of this happening and is there any way around it?

Thanks a bunch!

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Sent: 2010-05-21 00:16:17 UTC (over 1 year ago)

From: Noel Stoutenburg

A bunch of questions

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Adam wrote:
> Hey folks!
>
> I've got a small mess of questions, and I do not mind being redirected to
> older threads. :)
>
> Here goes:
>
> If I have a bunch of text layers, how do I reselect them to move them and/or
> edit their content without moving backwards in the history?

This will only work if you haven't merged the text dialog into another
layer, even another text layer: in the layers dialog, make the layer
with the bit of text you want to edit the active layer, and click on the
text to open the text dialog. Note that in a layer dialog, only the text
is in the layer, so if you are using a font with a large size, you might
have to click exactly on a character of the text.

>
> Also, I have a smudge brush effect currently behind a text layer. The brush
> effect was a long time before the text layer. I need to remove the brush
> effect. How do I do so without going backwards in the history, thus
> eliminating the text (and any other previous work on the project after the
> smudge tool was used)?

Activate the layers dialog, select the layer with the brush effect, and
delete it. Of course, if there is other content in the layer that
contains the brush effect you want to eliminate, that will be deleted, too.

> Is there any way to save projects "in progress" to continue editing later,
> with the history intact?

I know that saving an image as an ~.xcf file will preserve the layers.
I've never tried to save a file with an intact history, so I may be
wrong, but I'm not sure you can save a file with the history intact.
I've never tried to do this, because I've never needed to, since my
standard workflow method is that when I work on a highly complex image,
where I anticipate that I might want to have access to the history, I
create this history by incremental back-ups; that is, after I have layer
1 the way I want it, I save the work, then when I get layer 2 the way I
want it, I make second a back-up with a different name, and when I get
layer 3 the way I want it, I make a backup with a name distinct from the
first two.

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Sent: 2010-05-22 15:28:30 UTC (over 1 year ago)

From: Rob Antonishen

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Regarding backups I wrote a script http://registry.gimp.org/node/14246
that makes a backup xcf file with the same name and date plus time
appended. If you bind it to a key (that is what I do) it is very quick
to save a working copy every now and then.

-Rob A>

On 5/20/10, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
> Adam wrote:
>> Hey folks!
>>
>> I've got a small mess of questions, and I do not mind being redirected to
>> older threads. :)
>>
>> Here goes:
>>
>> If I have a bunch of text layers, how do I reselect them to move them
>> and/or
>> edit their content without moving backwards in the history?
>
> This will only work if you haven't merged the text dialog into another
> layer, even another text layer: in the layers dialog, make the layer
> with the bit of text you want to edit the active layer, and click on the
> text to open the text dialog. Note that in a layer dialog, only the text
> is in the layer, so if you are using a font with a large size, you might
> have to click exactly on a character of the text.
>
>>
>> Also, I have a smudge brush effect currently behind a text layer. The
>> brush
>> effect was a long time before the text layer. I need to remove the brush
>> effect. How do I do so without going backwards in the history, thus
>> eliminating the text (and any other previous work on the project after the
>> smudge tool was used)?
>
> Activate the layers dialog, select the layer with the brush effect, and
> delete it. Of course, if there is other content in the layer that
> contains the brush effect you want to eliminate, that will be deleted, too.
>
>
>> Is there any way to save projects "in progress" to continue editing later,
>> with the history intact?
>
> I know that saving an image as an ~.xcf file will preserve the layers.
> I've never tried to save a file with an intact history, so I may be
> wrong, but I'm not sure you can save a file with the history intact.
> I've never tried to do this, because I've never needed to, since my
> standard workflow method is that when I work on a highly complex image,
> where I anticipate that I might want to have access to the history, I
> create this history by incremental back-ups; that is, after I have layer
> 1 the way I want it, I save the work, then when I get layer 2 the way I
> want it, I make second a back-up with a different name, and when I get
> layer 3 the way I want it, I make a backup with a name distinct from the
> first two.
>

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Sent: 2010-05-24 20:20:41 UTC (over 1 year ago)

From: ortaconic

A bunch of questions

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>I know that saving an image as an ~.xcf file will preserve the layers.
>I've never tried to save a file with an intact history, so I may be
>wrong, but I'm not sure you can save a file with the history intact.
>I've never tried to do this, because I've never needed to, since my
>standard workflow method is that when I work on a highly complex image,
>where I anticipate that I might want to have access to the history, I
>create this history by incremental back-ups; that is, after I have layer
>1 the way I want it, I save the work, then when I get layer 2 the way I
>want it, I make second a back-up with a different name, and when I get
>layer 3 the way I want it, I make a backup with a name distinct from the
>first two.

That's just it, though. I thought so, too, but the xcf file I saved only
kept the text layers intact. Everything else that was done has been lumped
together into a "background" layer, and thus I cannot seem to access the other
layers to delete.

I have, after many headaches already, adopted a similar workflow. :) Though
it is rather annoying in my creative process, I hope it will help, too.
Thanks!

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