Open as Layer / speed of copy-paste
Boudewijn Rempt
boud at valdyas.org
Thu Sep 13 16:01:31 CEST 2007
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
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