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List:       kde-kimageshop
Subject:    Re: Open as Layer / speed of copy-paste
From:       Cyrille Berger <cberger () cberger ! net>
Date:       2007-09-13 14:09:49
Message-ID: 200709131609.50011.cberger () cberger ! net
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Hi,

On Thursday 13 September 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?

Nah the best approach is "Layer > new > insert image as layer...". And for 
some reason "insert image as layer" doesn't appear in the new layer icon of 
the layers view.

> 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?

/me looks toward Bart ;)

-- 
Cyrille Berger
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