Open as Layer / speed of copy-paste

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Warren Baird wrote:

> The work that I do involves a lot of combining multiple photos on 
> different layers --- in the Gimp, I simple open the base file, and then 
> use 'Open as Layer' to open the other images directly as layers on top 
> of the base image.
> 
> In Krita, the best approach I've found is to open the files individually 
> and then copy/paste them onto the base image.   Is there a way to do 
> something like "Open as Layer" in Krita?   Would it be hard to implement?

layer/new/insert image as layer
> 
> At the same time I noticed that copying and pasting images in Krita is a 
> *lot* slower than in Gimp.   For 8mp images it takes a very long time to 
> both copy and paste the images.    In the Gimp the copy is instantaneous 
> (I think they are doing a lazy copy), and the paste is probalby 3x as 
> fast as Krita.    Has any thought been give to speeding this up?

krita will, until the gimp is geglified, always be a bit slower than the gimp
because we cannot hardcode for four one-byte channels. But we're working on
optmizations, yes.

Boudewijn