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17 hours ago, Pixey said:

@jimS welcome to the forum  

 

There is also the Tool "Curves" which is built-in in paint.net, found under Adjustments.  Just change Luminosity to RGB and toggle the colors.

 

Yeah! I've done exactly that a few times, but it becomes a big mess when recombining them as additive layers. For alpha editing though pluguins are a must, boltbait's alpha related plugins for example.

 

13 hours ago, NinthDesertDude said:

Built-in channel view isn't a planned feature right now afaik. Lots of stuff to work on, almost no devs. The last major forays have been GPU and the basis for custom brushes. Layer groups, masks, channels, etc. are all sort of related features and maybe when the work switches to focus on that, then it'll receive attention and thought

 

It's good to know it's being considered somewhere down the line, thanks.

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Is this ever happening? It's the one basic thing that's missing.