Layer Support

[marxo]

A had this idea since my first icon...

Wouldn't it be better to make a Layer Manager like in Photoshop (after all Photoshop without Layers is not Photoshop )...

Icons would be much better and it would definetly help Workshop to get the primate in area of icon developing tools...

[A-team]

Hello,

Yes, this is a feature requested by many users. We'll implement it in a future version for sure.

Thanks,
A-Team

[eswanzey]

Like when? Without layers, have to recreate the wheel every time.

[eswanzey]

wow, 1 year later and I'm still wondering

[WAW]

Add my vote to the list to.

[A-team]

Hello,

Yes, the Layer feature is on top of all others for future versions... Stay tuned.

Regards,
A-Team

[WAW]

Add my vote to the list too.

[brianoh]

It's hard to believe that it's four years since layer support was promised. What's the problem here? An otherwise great program is so badly let down by the absence of layers that I cannot understand why this isn't the number one priority for your developers. I can only surmise that either the underlying software model is such that it would have to be redesigned from the ground up to implement this feature and, for some reason I find hard to fathom, it's taking an extraordinary length of time for you to achieve this, or you don't consider it an important enough feature to give it your attention, which I would find utterly baffling.

As a developer myself, and assuming you do consider it important enough to introduce, I have to ask how hard can this be? Although graphics is not my field, surely layers are just objects? You define them as you would any other object, store the definitions in, say, an XML file, and expose each layer on reloading to the end user as a selectable link, much like Photoshop or - somewhat differently - Xara. After all, you have to create them in the first place already, so surely preserving their properties for independent manipulation after committing them to a project is a relatively simple enough step, no?

This one single and very significant omission makes Axialis a frustrating program to work with. Correcting it would be so advantageous to both the end-user and your sales figures that it has to be a major no-brainer, so why the inexplicable delay? How much longer are your users going to have to wait for this?

[GiorgioG]

Too Funny. I keep getting offers from Aaxialis (like the 50% off sale) and everytime I do, I keep looking for layer support....no layers...no sale.

[chumeo_di_hia]

i want to post a topic to request layer for "icon workshop" in the future. Now i read your topic, and i think t don't have to post a new topic.

If "icon workshop" don't have layer, i won't buy it anymore because it take so longtime to complete my project (anyway, "icon workshop" is still a good software)

Thanks to Marxo and Brianoh.