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It's probably because of some deep rooted way that was coded to handle layers and it may not be fixable without completely rewriting that. That has become second nature for those of us utilizing multiple programs, and I don't see why you would ever want transparency to not be transparency. Just stating that nearly every other program always treats transparency as transparency no matter what. Not trying to get anyone amped up to argue about the validity of this decision. Again, I thought I was just doing a bizarre workaround for a bug this whole time, did not realize it was working as designed (my friend who works as a UI consultant would say, "then the design is bad"). My two options are either to do a pixel perfect selection (either zoom in really close or ctrl-click with magic wand to individually select the letters) or select, copy, paste to new layer, merge layers. But instead, it overwrites the filled pixels with transparent pixels. You would expect that I could just box selection, slide it down, and since all the "negative space" is just transparency on this layer, I could slide it right up to the bottom word and the transparency would act as transparency. I decide the default spacing is a bit much, so I want to bring the top word down a bit closer to the bottom word. This layer is only text on top of transparency.
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Perfect example: I make text for a piece of art on a new layer above the art. I actually always thought this was a bug in, not a conscious choice. As someone who uses constantly for artwork and utilizes the layer functionality all the time, the program should still always ignore transparency, no matter if its same layer or different layer.
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that program" debate, but I agree that OP's request is totally valid. Everyone keeps getting caught up in the "this program vs. Just want to comment that this would be a useful feature. I recall someone saying that has all the features of MS Paint but that's simply not true and you can see it in the main toolbar at the end of the selection tools options list. So of course there is a mismatch between what you're expecting and what you get. Because of that, it feels like each layer in is an instance of MS Paint. This feels weird when you're used to Photoshop or Gimp. The main issue here is that by default when you're working on a layer in and make a selection, it grabs the entire image's pixels instead of only those from the selected layer. What would take hours on photoshop and gimp ( taking time to de construct everything into it's own piece with transparency on it's own layer/folder, which is great for large projects) takes mere minutes when using MS-Paint and, especially when working in agile. The transparent selection feature is quite useful in MS-Paint and is the only reason I use that program at work to assemble quick mockups of designs for presentations. I think it would be an OK addition to "Move Selected Pixels" tool. I have encountered this quite a number of times, that I had to create another layer, paste my single letter there so I could move it freely without distorting the other letters. Because if I create a selection on a single letter and use the Move Selected Pixels tool to move that letter, the boundaries of my selection would force transparency on anything else outside that it touches, including other letters. However, I think a variation of this "transparent selection" idea may just be useful on some situations like for moving text on the same layer. It makes a lot of sense on a program like MS Paint that has no layer support.
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There was jaggedness of course because MS Paint does not have a good feathering feature (but I know a technique how to do some of it on MS Paint). I love the transparent selection feature of MS Paint because it could do me wonders before I learned Paint.NET and how to work with layers.īasically, I have a background image opened on one MS Paint window and lets say an image of a person opened on another MS Paint window which I would trace out and make sure that it is completely surrounded by white before copy-pasting it to the background image with the transparent selection enabled on both windows.