[Gimp-developer] feature request: clipping mask layer

[Stephen Griffiths]

yahvuu wrote:
 > i wonder, is what you're proposing the same as the 'group layers
 > masks' described in
 > 
https://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/lists/gimp-developer/2009-April/022118.html ?
 >
 > Is this already covered by 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51112 ?

In photoshop it is a single layer that docks to the layer (or multiple 
layers) beneath it, acting as a mask.
In PS it is activated by Ctrl+LMB (from memory) on the edge between two 
layers.

Layer group masks would achieve the same thing, and sounds easier to 
understand/ use.

regards,
Stephen.