Layer Basics

[Andrea-87]

I'm sure this has been explained a million times but I've looked thru
the UNhelpful help (v2.4.2) and can't find the post that might have my
same question, so forgive me for asking it again.

HOW do you take two separate images (each their own layer, right) and
combine them but still have the individual layers that can be
manipulated in one image?

The Help chapter has lots of nice pictures but doesn't tell you HOW to
do anything!  I sure hope that gets fixed in a future version (I'd also
like to ask for a search feature in Help.)

I've got my two separately saved images all set & ready to go, but I
want to be able to manipulate each after I've combined them.  So far,
if I copy one and paste into the other, I lose the ability to move or
do anything with the one I pasted in, so there's got to be something
else I should be doing.

Please help.  This is SO frustrating!  Is the current version any more
robust or did it resolve any issues?

[Roel Schroeven-2]

Andrea schreef:
> I'm sure this has been explained a million times but I've looked thru
> the UNhelpful help (v2.4.2) and can't find the post that might have my
> same question, so forgive me for asking it again.
>
> HOW do you take two separate images (each their own layer, right) and
> combine them but still have the individual layers that can be
> manipulated in one image?

Select one of the images, do Edit -> Copy (or Ctrl-C).
Select the other image, do Edit -> Paste (or Ctrl-V).
The pasted image appears in the layers dialog as 'Floating selection'.
To create a real layer, in the layers dialog click on the 'New layer'
button.

I suppose that last step is what you missed.

HTH,
Roel

--
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge
faster than society gathers wisdom.
   -- Isaac Asimov

Roel Schroeven

[Pawe³ Pawlak]

2008/3/12, Roel Schroeven <gimpwin-users@...>:

> Andrea schreef:
>
> > I'm sure this has been explained a million times but I've looked thru
>  > the UNhelpful help (v2.4.2) and can't find the post that might have my
>  > same question, so forgive me for asking it again.
>  >
>  > HOW do you take two separate images (each their own layer, right) and
>  > combine them but still have the individual layers that can be
>  > manipulated in one image?
>
>
> Select one of the images, do Edit -> Copy (or Ctrl-C).
>  Select the other image, do Edit -> Paste (or Ctrl-V).
>  The pasted image appears in the layers dialog as 'Floating selection'.
>  To create a real layer, in the layers dialog click on the 'New layer'
>  button.
>
>  I suppose that last step is what you missed.
>

Also, two simple drag&drop operations are possible:

I - Image to image
1. Open one image in GIMP
2. From the Windows Explorer drag your second image and drop it on the
already open image in GIMP (*not* on the main GIMP window)

II - Layer to image
1. Open the two images in GIMP
2. Pop up the Layers window
3. Drag the background layer (from the Layers window) and drop it to
the second image window


Cheers,
Morris

[buralex]

  "Andrea" <eyre23097@...> said on Mar 11, 2008 21:19 -0400 (in
part):
> The Help chapter has lots of nice pictures but doesn't tell you HOW to
> do anything! I sure hope that gets fixed in a future version (I'd also
> like to ask for a search feature in Help.)
Start at the top of the On-line documentation http://docs.gimp.org/en/

Then use Google site specific (eg.) "site:docs.gimp.org Combining
Images" (w/o quotes)

or just use Google: "gimp Combining Images" (w/o quotes) which will
normally show you the same hits from docs.gimp.org together with
relevant hits from the hundreds (thousands (?)) of tutorials which have
been posted by the community of gimp users.

These may include "stuff" in other languages and/or "stuff" originally
for other versions

Roel said:
> Select one of the images, do Edit -> Copy (or Ctrl-C).
> Select the other image, do Edit -> Paste (or Ctrl-V).
> The pasted image appears in the layers dialog as 'Floating selection'.
> To create a real layer, in the layers dialog click on the 'New layer'
> button.
>
> I suppose that last step is what you missed.
Or you may have also missed the ability to drag a layer from one image
to another.
Have Layers dialog open with images Source and Target open and visible
with focus on Source image. Then drag a layer from Source and drop it on
Target image.

Regards ... Alec -- buralex-gmail
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