© Phillip Whitt 2020
P. WhittPractical Glimpsehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6327-3_2

2. Layers, Channels, Paths, and Undo History

Phillip Whitt1 
(1)
Columbus, GA, USA
 

Now that you’ve had a tour of the Glimpse interface, we’ll look closer at some important aspects of Glimpse and how they relate to image editing.

The topics covered in this chapter are
  1. 1.

    An overview of layers

     
  2. 2.

    An overview of RGB color channels

     
  3. 3.

    An overview of paths

     
  4. 4.

    An overview of Undo History

     

An Overview of Layers

Layers are important in image editing—they make the life of the Glimpse user much easier! Layers allow corrections, revisions, and other edits to be made without scrapping the image and starting over from scratch. Layers also allow more flexibility by utilizing various ...

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