JuGonDaai Posted February 17, 2014 Share Posted February 17, 2014 (edited) Hi there, let me start off with a short thank you to all involved in keeping paint.net on the evolution, making it, personally, the most comfortable image editing tool for my non-professional, hobbyist projects. One of the issues I have within my workflow, is layer management. Even with an effective naming solution, it's needlessly time consuming to sift through layers to find the one you want. I have thought up a suggestion, that would definitely ease this process. That would be a Folder style layer grouping. Instead of over complicating things with a lengthy explanation, I have included a 'Projected" outcome of the end result. Which I will explain. The only changes are to the layer section, which would be the following :The ability to create folders, and rename them (Whether or not their blending modes can be changed to blend with other folders/layers is secondary :A search feature (The little magnifying glass below the layers windows) Clicking it will allow you to search for any part of a layer's name :Moving layers into and out of groups, by just dragging and dropping, much like a regular OS file system :Hiding entire groups (much like regular hiding of layers, this will simply hide all layers in a group The image I have used is merely to demonstrate how this would look/feel. This is by no means limited to editing a photo of a gun, and can have infinite uses depending on the type of image edited and the reasons behind it. I hope I have been informative enough to convey my idea, and that it is a worthwhile addition to paint.net, especially with v4 releasing soon. Edited February 17, 2014 by JuGonDaai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null54 Posted February 17, 2014 Share Posted February 17, 2014 From the Popular Feature Requests: Layer "folders", or the ability to organize layers in a hierarchy -- I want this too, and it depends on some major plumbing work being done. This would be a 4.x feature. No ETA. Plugin Pack | PSFilterPdn | Content Aware Fill | G'MIC | Paint Shop Pro Filetype | RAW Filetype | WebP Filetype The small increase in performance you get coding in C++ over C# is hardly enough to offset the headache of coding in the C++ language. ~BoltBait Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuGonDaai Posted February 17, 2014 Author Share Posted February 17, 2014 Ah, many thanks. I did not see that section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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