A first part of the layers/masks patch

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Saturday 26 September 2009, Cyrille Berger wrote:
> On Saturday 26 September 2009, Dmitry Kazakov wrote:
> > > for a,b,c) it doesn't work perfectly, but it's not that broken.
> >
> > But still not usable =(
> 
> Well now, I have fix all the issue with the alpha colorspace (I have added
> alpha darken). All it remains to do is to make mask support the indirect
> painting interface.
>

Cool! A nice surprise when I woke up this morning.

> It doesn't use the gray color, but this is by design, it means you have to
>  use the opacity setting (this is something we have been debating in krita
>  for years, wether opacity belongs in the tool or in the color selector).
>  Gradient work if you choose a gradient with transparency, in a future
>  release, it could be worth investigating adding an option to the gradient
>  tool for working on the transparent channel instead of colors (I think it
>  might have a broader use).

I agree and it woud be easy to implement as well.

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