Be fair. Since about 2 years ago. Just installed latest (2.8), and I see it has a new menu item - Open as Layers. So cool.

And also to be fair, from my perspective that leaves GIMP only a few years behind other packages.

Be fair. 'Open as Layer' has been around since 2004:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?id=37912655f207306...

:)

So all this time I just missed that menu item? Believable; I am pretty dense sometimes. Gotta wonder why though, with a 'flatten' option already there, there's need for two versions of 'Open File', one that screws you and one that works, but that's probably history.

I admit I use GIMP all the time, and have for years. It has a scripting language (ok just Lisp but with image-processing primitives) that I use to generate hundreds of images for card games. Photoshop has some arcane scripting ability but they sell it. My game club didn't want to pay, which is reasonable. So GIMP has been useful to me for years.

Two posts earlier:

> I can't even begin to use GIMP unless my investment is preserved.

Now:

> I admit I use GIMP all the time, and have for years.

Huh?

Like I said in the previous post, I use it (exclusively) for the scripts. Launch GIMP, run my script, exit. I haven't so much as opened a file in GIMP for years.

> So all this time I just missed that menu item? Believable; I am pretty dense sometimes.

That's quite all right. I'm not perfect either :)

> Gotta wonder why though, with a 'flatten' option already there, there's need for two versions of 'Open File', one that screws you and one that works

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by that. Open File opennns files as new images. Open as Layer appends an image to an already opened one. Or am I reading you wrong?