Layer Sets (Layer Grouping)?

[toomuchcoffeenotenoughsleep]

I'm a novice GIMP & Photoshop 7 user (color, smudge, cut and paste).
I've fallen in love with the layer sets layer grouping feature in
Photoshop. Is this possible with GIMP?

[Greg-123]

--- toomuchcoffeenotenoughsleep <toomuchcoffeenotenoughsleep@...>
wrote:
> I'm a novice GIMP & Photoshop 7 user (color, smudge, cut and paste).
> I've fallen in love with the layer sets layer grouping feature in
> Photoshop. Is this possible with GIMP?

I don't know about "sets", but you can group layers:  In the Layer
pallet, click the space between the eye and layer icons on each layer
you want to group.  A chain link will appear show that layer is now linked.


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[toomuchcoffeenotenoughsleep]

Thanks for your reply.

I am familar with linking layers in GIMP. "Layer Sets" is a Photoshop
term for adding multiple layers to a folder within the layer palette.
this allows for a "cleaner" palette and also to apply certain
functions to all layers in the folder (i.e. turn on/off, link).

It can really simplify life!

--- In gimpwin-users@..., Greg <greg_b@...> wrote:

>
> --- toomuchcoffeenotenoughsleep <toomuchcoffeenotenoughsleep@...>
> wrote:
> > I'm a novice GIMP & Photoshop 7 user (color, smudge, cut and paste).
> > I've fallen in love with the layer sets layer grouping feature in
> > Photoshop. Is this possible with GIMP?
>
> I don't know about "sets", but you can group layers:  In the Layer
> pallet, click the space between the eye and layer icons on each layer
> you want to group.  A chain link will appear show that layer is now

linked.
>
>
>      
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> Never miss a thing.  Make Yahoo your home page.
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[michaelhoelzende]

--- In gimpwin-users@..., "toomuchcoffeenotenoughsleep"
<toomuchcoffeenotenoughsleep@...> wrote:
>
> I'm a novice GIMP & Photoshop 7 user (color, smudge, cut and paste).
> I've fallen in love with the layer sets layer grouping feature in
> Photoshop. Is this possible with GIMP?
>
A grouping function will assumably available in future GIMP versions
with GEGL as a base. (Maybe GIMP 2.6 ?)

Just to get a "cleaner" palette this plugin could be a little step in
the desired direction:
http://gimp-registry.fargonauten.de/node/207



Regards

Michael

[toomuchcoffeenotenoughsleep]

Thank you for the link, it sounds like an interesting plug-in but I
can't use it as of yet. I assume I need a plug-in for gimp to use
python scripts, so I downloaded <a
href="http://gimp-registry.fargonauten.de/node/9">minimal-real_1.py</a>...
I'm not sure if I've tried to load that correctly, either. I've tried
 layoutlinlayers and minimal-real in the plugins and again in the
scripts folder; i've had one in the plugis and the other in the sripts
, and vice versa.

I did a quick look in the forums at the plugin site and <a
href="http://gimp-registry.fargonauten.de/node/917">found</a>:  

">All-in-all I have installed these files in Windows. This is roughly
>the order I used (obviously I forgot pygobject until last, but the
>rest were in order.)

>gtk-2.8.20-win32-1.exe
>python-2.5.2.msi
>numpy-1.0.4.win32-py2.5.msi
>pycairo-1.4.12-1.win32-py2.5.exe
>pygobject-2.14.1-1.win32-py2.5.exe
>pygtk-2.12.1-1.win32-py2.5.exe
>gimp-2.4.4-i686-setup.exe"

Would I need any of files above also for your plug-in? (aside from
gimp & gtk, ofcourse)

I am also having trouble with toglayvis, could this be related?
toglayvis now shows in Layer->Stack, but seems to have no effect.
Also, it shows up in the plug-in browser with a copyright of 2005.
Opening the file in word pad shows a more recent 2007.

-Thanks again


--- In gimpwin-users@..., "michaelhoelzende"
<MichaelHoelzen@...> wrote:

>
> --- In gimpwin-users@..., "toomuchcoffeenotenoughsleep"
> <toomuchcoffeenotenoughsleep@> wrote:
> >
> > I'm a novice GIMP & Photoshop 7 user (color, smudge, cut and paste).
> > I've fallen in love with the layer sets layer grouping feature in
> > Photoshop. Is this possible with GIMP?
> >
> A grouping function will assumably available in future GIMP versions
> with GEGL as a base. (Maybe GIMP 2.6 ?)
>
> Just to get a "cleaner" palette this plugin could be a little step in
> the desired direction:
> http://gimp-registry.fargonauten.de/node/207
>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Michael
>