Mask Memory

[Robert Schleif]

If I create a mask in one branch of an image tree, use it in a second branch, and then delete the first branch, memory of the mask is gone from the program altogether. I wish the program wouldn't do this, but would save the mask and not a reference to it, in the second branch.

[jsachs]

I don't see how this can be implemented since the mask in the deleted branch will likely depend on other images in that branch. If you really want to do this you need to save the original mask as an image file and then base the new mask on that image. In this case, however, subsequent changes to the first mask will not propagate to the second one. PWP does issue a warning when you try to delete the branch so you can try to untangle the two branches if you need to.

[Robert Schleif]

Looks like the lesson is "Don't delete branches."

[jsachs]

If they contain any transformations that other parts of your workspace depend on.