On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 21:59 -0700, Tom Williams wrote: > j Mak wrote: > > Using them you > > can experiment with various settings without changing > > the set up of your layer structure. In addition, you > > can edit your artwork, even months or years after > > finishing it, simply by altering the Adjustment layer > > or changing the layer effects parameters. For > > instance, if I decide at some point that don't want > > drop shadows anymore, I simply click on the layer > > effect representing the shadow and I turn it off, or > > add other effect if I want to. > > I'm not a PhotoShop user so please excuse the question but how does your > example > *not* change the setup of the layer structure? > > If I add a drop shadow to something in Gimp, the drop shadow is in a layer an > I > show or hide. How is that different from the "Adjustment layer" you > describe? > I'm sure it is but I don't know how it differs. :)
Hi Tom! The dropshadow effect layer would simply take the alpha mask of the parent layer and apply the blur on that dynamically. So when in GIMP you would have to recreate the dropshadow manually each time you draw on the above layer, with a dynamic dropshadow effect layer, you would get that done automatically. Imagine you would create a set of filters applied on a layer - fill with pattern with "keep transparency" on, apply displacement map based on blurred copy of the alpha channel, applied bumpmap. And now imagine that sequence being applied every time you paint on a layer automatically. Hope that gives you an idea how layer effects can be useful. cheers -- Jakub Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Novell, Inc. _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
