Selections on the Adjustment layers

[Sven Langkamp]

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:

> On Thursday 03 September 2009, Sven Langkamp wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org>
> wrote:
> > > On Thursday 03 September 2009, Dmitry Kazakov wrote:
> > > > We can easily change this behavior - a thumbnail of ANY layer will
> show
> > >
> > > the
> > >
> > > > resulting projection with all the masks applied. This won't be quite
> > > > logical, but there is no barrier in implementation.
> > >
> > > Actually, that's the way I wanted it all the time, just like with group
> > > layers: a thumbnail shows the rendered projection of a layer
> >
> > This doesn't make sense for me. The thumbnail would change even if the
> > content of the layer doesn't change,
> > It might also confuse users coming from the other editors.
>
> But the masks are part of the content of a layer, just like the layers in a
> group are part of the group layer -- so it makes sense to use the rendered
> projection in the thumbnail for a layer.
>
> > What's wrong with adjustment layer + group layer? Ok it wastes some
> space,
> > but it's not like we are really saving space in the layerbox anyway.
>
> I must be missing something here?
>

 This (show in the image on the right side):

> >Example:
> > http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/5144/adjustmentlayer2.png
>
> > With filter mask it starts with the paint layer, jumps to the lowest
> child
> > of the layer and goes upwards while compositing (With explicit masks
> > would even be one level deeper)What's also weird is that the preview
> > image of the finished layer would be shown in the first child of the
> source layer (last filter mask).
>
> I don't like the second way as it takes tooooo much space on your
> workplace.
>
> Idea! What if we'll introduce a tree with the root in the bottom and
> branches at the top? =)
>
> Like this:
>
> --o Layer3
> --o Layer2
>
>   + Second mask
>   |
>   + First mask
>   |
> --+ Layer1
> --o Layer0
>
> What do you think?
>
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