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Bug 170610 - Suggestion: Blending Mode for Layer Mask
Suggestion: Blending Mode for Layer Mask
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 170608
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: libgimp
2.2.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: GIMP Bugs
GIMP Bugs
Depends on:
Blocks: 170608
 
 
Reported: 2005-03-16 22:44 UTC by Michel Parisien
Modified: 2008-01-15 12:50 UTC
See Also:
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Description Michel Parisien 2005-03-16 22:44:04 UTC 
After writing bug 170608 (suggestion), I gave it a little thought and decided it
wouldn't be a bad idea to simply allow a layer's mask to have a blending mode as
well. This could accomplish what I want to achieve in my other bug report (ie.
the top-down addition of all alpha values rather than the the iterative
overlaying of values. I would just need to apply the mask "Addition" mode rather
than "Normal".) Also, this would probably be much easier to implement and
powerful than what I suggested in the other bug report, which is basically an
on-off option.
Comment 1 weskaggs 2005-03-17 16:00:22 UTC 
It would have been better to add this idea as a comment to bug #170608.  For
Bugzilla management purposes, I am going to mark this one as a duplicate of that
one -- the cross-references should keep the suggestion here from being missed.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 170608 ***
Comment 2 Michel Parisien 2005-03-17 17:00:56 UTC 
I suppose, though I would prefer the opposite: bug 170608 being a duplicate of
bug 170610. I like it much better implemented as I have described above. None of
the blendings that deal with colour could usefully be used on masks though,
until (or if) the GIMP ever adds colour masks (I personally don't need colour
masks right now, so I will abstain from creating a new feature request).

However, I would prefer a solution to bug 170608 getting implemented to nothing.
This is a feature that is now at the top of my wishlist, now that the GIMP is
starting to look extremely stable.

As a side note, I am a programmer, and I will implement a fix to this if no one
else does (and if no better ideas come along, etc.), but I have yet to look at
the GIMP source, so give me a few months for that.