Help request: Editing Masks

[Cyrille Berger]

On Saturday 28 July 2007, Dik Takken wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Bart Coppens wrote:
> > Sorry, but I cannot reproduce this. If I paint with white, the bottom
> > layer is part is hidden, and the top layer is shown. This is very weird
> > :-/
>
> I found out what was going on. I did not realise that a mask works only on
> the layer it belongs to. I just figured that out a few minutes ago. In my
> mind, the layer stack is like a stack of transparancies: If you insert a
> mask anywhere in the stack, the masked areas will obscure these areas in
> all layers below it. In Krita it works differently (counter-intuitive
> IMHO. I'd rather see masks as a seperate type of layer).
Well that's how quick mask works in the gimp and photoshop as well. Unless I 
have missed something. In fact the biggest problem about intuitivity with 
masks in krita is that don't really appear in the UI. That's what we are 
working on for the next version, having mask visible in the layerbox, that 
way it will be very clear wether the mask is a children of a layer or is in 
the layer stack.

> Now that I understand this little detail, I'm stuck with a new problem. I
> duplicated the photograph to a second layer, and used the duplicate to
> create a mask/selection of the edges in the photograph. Next I want to
> apply unsharp masking in the selected areas. But... The unsharp mask
> should be applied to the original layer, not to the duplicate.
>
> So, how can I duplicate a selection or a mask to another layer?
You can't yet. It's one of the biggest problem currently. The goal is to make 
it possible to easily drag and drop mask and selection in the layerbox. But 
your comments seems to indicate we are on the right track for next version ;) 
Even if that mean that currently you can't make your work correctly :(

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Cyrille Berger