<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Dmitry Kazakov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dimula73@gmail.com">dimula73@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Dmitry Kazakov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dimula73@gmail.com" target="_blank">dimula73@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>> At the moment you have an adjustment layer with an editable selection. If<br>
> you remove the selection you can't edit the adjustment layer itself anymore<br>
> (except changing the filter),<br>
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</div>I don't see any useful usecase of that, do you?<br>
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> but would have to use a seperate mask for the<br>
> same effect.<br>
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</div>I guess the mask is more obvious [for a user]. One object - one<br>
activity, that's like a unixway, right?<br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br></div>Well, just for history reasons. We discussed it on irc and came to the following:<br><br>1) Masks have a selection showing where to apply filter to.<br>
2) They can't have a child, so they can't have a transparency mask to replace selections.<br>3) Adj. layers should work like adj. masks, so they should have a selection.<br><br>It creates a bit of redundancy: selection / transparency masks are <span>interchangeable. Unixway. =)</span><br>
</blockquote><div><br>I hope I don't confuse it even more. There is redundancy as you can add a transparency mask to adjustment layer (There is some problem with the updating).<br>So it's possible to achieve the same result on different ways.<br>
<br>I think it's more pratical to use less masks to make the layer stack/tree handling not more complicated than it already is. At some points I wish we had a node-based system ;)<br></div></div>