[Gimp-developer] Behavior when saving a selection to channel

[David Gowers]

Hello Rob,

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Rob Antonishen
<rob.antonishen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I dug up a copy of this manula, and discovered a couple things after
> playing with channels in 2.6.4 and 2.6.1 on Ubuntu.
>
> In the instructions, it states:
> Open the Channels tab and create a new channel. In the New Channel
> Options dialog, set this channel to 100% Fill Opacity. Click the black color
> swatch to access the Color Selection dialog, and choose a nice color (this will
> be the first plate to be printed). Name the channel “navy blue” or the
> like, depending
> on what color you chose. Click on the OK button.
> Paste (right-click|Edit|Paste) the image into this channel.
>
>
> It seems you can no longer paste into a channel.
In the latest SVN, you can.
It is confusing that the floating layer shows up in the layers dialog
rather than the channels dialog. otherwise, things are normal. Maybe
2.6 doesn't have these fixes.

David.