Layer usuability idea

[Casper Boemann]

On Tuesday 08 November 2005 13:23, Mr YouP wrote:
> Ok, I'll try to explain my issue. When I'm painting some precise details on
> the edge of a layer, sometime I need to make the curent layer to be
> magnified against the others (for example fade or colorise the other) to
> see precisly what I'm doing. With softs like gimp or photoshop, it leads me
> to create a "dummy" layer fill with a plain color (say green) that I put
> right behind my current layer and put it with less opacity (70% for
> example) and I also have to hide uppers layers.
> It's a heavy process to have a visual result similar to a selection in
> Krita, except that here is not because I may paint some "unselected" pixels
> (this sentence isn't clear :/ )
>
> Well, if it isn't clear, I should give some screenshots
well what you want is simply a way to quickly turn of visibility of all but 
selected layer - right?

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best regards / venlig hilsen
Casper Boemann