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Transparency under Gimp2.10.6
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Hello!
Having just upgraded from 2.8.14 to 2.10.6, I have met a surprise (for me) in working with painting tools on layers with wholly transparent pixels:
* under 2.8, choosing mode 'darken only', 'soft light', etc., the brush worked only over the already 'painted' pixels, skipping those with full tansparency--never painted or previously deleted.
* under 2.10.6, the effect on painted pixels is as expected, BUT tansparent pixels get filled as per mode 'normal'.
QUESTION 1: is this effect configurable? i.e., I cannot pretend to understand most of the new features--maybe I am missing something?
QUESTION 2: if it IS a new, unavoidable feature, HOW DO OTHERS FEEL ABOUT IT? I find it
* counter-intuitive: how do you lighten/darken WHAT ISN'T THERE?
* no end of a bore to lock transparency to change the color of a small spot (without bleeding out of the drawing), and then unlock to edit the boundary with transparency. In fact, it is almost as bad as editing a masked layer--endlessly checking/unchecking 'edit mask'. 
On the other hand, some features (so far) are fine: loading time, memory load, BLENDING TOOL...
Any suggestions would appreciated. Thanks!
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Messages In This Thread
Transparency under Gimp2.10.6 - by carmen - 09-13-2018, 09:24 PM
RE: Transparency under Gimp2.10.6 - by dinasset - 09-14-2018, 03:29 AM
RE: Transparency under Gimp2.10.6 - by carmen - 09-14-2018, 09:00 AM
RE: Transparency under Gimp2.10.6 - by Blighty - 09-14-2018, 09:30 AM
RE: Transparency under Gimp2.10.6 - by rich2005 - 09-14-2018, 08:59 AM
RE: Transparency under Gimp2.10.6 - by rich2005 - 09-14-2018, 09:21 AM
RE: Transparency under Gimp2.10.6 - by Ofnuts - 09-14-2018, 09:45 AM
RE: Transparency under Gimp2.10.6 - by carmen - 09-14-2018, 09:53 AM
RE: Transparency under Gimp2.10.6 - by rich2005 - 09-14-2018, 09:53 AM
RE: Transparency under Gimp2.10.6 - by Ofnuts - 09-14-2018, 12:29 PM
RE: Transparency under Gimp2.10.6 - by carmen - 09-14-2018, 06:07 PM

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