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<TITLE>The Layer Dialog</TITLE>
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<TD width="100%" align="center"><FONT size="+2" color="white">The Layer
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Dialog</FONT></TD>
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The Layer(s) dialog is the main interface to interact with layers present
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in a Gimp image. You can think of layers as a stack of slides or clothes
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on your body. Gimp gives you several methods of combining layers with help
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of <A HREF="../../modes.html">modes</A>. The mode of a layer will determine
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how it will interact with other layers present in the image.
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Before you can do anything with a layer the layer must be activated (if you
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only have one layer that layer is always active). You do so by clicking on
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the layer name, if you double click on the name you will be able to set the
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<A HREF="edit_layer_attributes.html">layer attributes</A> of that layer.
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If you right click on the layer name you will be able to access the layer
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menu, with in the layer menu you have access to several other layer commands,
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see <A HREF="../../layers/index.html">Index</A>.
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With the Opacity slider will you control the over general transparency of
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the currently active layer. The Keep Trans check button controls what ever
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you can or can't paint on transparent areas of the layer. If it is checked
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then you can paint on transparent areas of the layer (i.e you can only paint
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on opaque areas).
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In the button row you have six layer command buttons,
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<A HREF="new_layer.html">New Layer</A>,
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<A HREF="../../layers/stack/stack.html">Raise Layer</A>,
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<A HREF="../../layers/stack/stack.html">Lower Layer</A>,
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<A HREF="../../layers/duplicate_layer.html">Duplicate Layer</A>,
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<A HREF="../../layers/anchor_layer.html">Anchor Layer</A> and
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<A HREF="../../layers/delete_layer.html">Delete Layer</A>.
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Gimp's Layer dialog is by default Auto switched, it will always show the
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image that you are working with. You can however switch this off and choose
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another image to work with in the drop down menu.
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<H3>
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Additional Information
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For further information see The Gimp User's Manual page XXXX and the Gimp
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User's Tutorial page YYYY
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Shortcut Key
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Modifier
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Drag and Drop
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Xinput
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----DEV----
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TODO: Pic of dialog, describe symbols, floating selections layer size and
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layer move.
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<A href="index.html">Index</A>
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(/dialogs/layers/layers.html)
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Sorry but the help file for layers is not yet done.
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/Karin & Olof
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