[Gimp-developer] Feature Request: Layers from Image ( "Linked Layers" )

[Sparr]

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 9:32 PM, kevin<fmwyso at gmail.com> wrote:
>  The feature is mainly for the possibility of having "templates". The
> idea is that you can place a layer that is a link to a certain image, so
> you can have 9 layers on top of each other and each one being an image.
> The idea is that you no longer have to "Load image as layer" every time
> you change an image because the layer would be the image and would
> update itself.

My current workflow for this functionality is to edit my images in
GIMP and maintain the Template in Inkscape.  That sort of thing
belongs in a vector editor anyway, imho, and it already does the link
to image file thing that you are describing.