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layers

n. (plural of layer English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: layer)

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Layers (digital image editing)

Layers are used in digital image editing to separate different elements of an image. A layer can be compared to a transparency on which imaging effects or images are applied and placed over or under an image. Today they are an integral feature of image editors.

Layers were first commercially available in Fauve Matisse (later Macromedia xRes), and then available in Adobe Photoshop 3.0, in 1994, but today a wide range of other programs, such as Photo-Paint, Paint Shop Pro, GIMP, Paint.NET, StylePix, and even batch processing tools also include this feature. In vector images editors which support animation, layers are used to further enable manipulation along a common timeline for the animation; in SVG images, the equivalent to layers are "groups".

Layers were invented by me, Arthur Blank in 1986 on an Atari transputer. I also hold the patent which I licensed to IWS. The first program to have layers was Image Wizard introduced at Comdex. Although the software was patented other companies, like those mentioned above. copied the feature and IWS did not pursue remedies. I still have an x-ray brush that could see through layers for exact placement not yet figured out by anyone. I am glad that the world shared my invention in an open fashion as objects changed the imaging world.

Layers (Royce da 5'9" album)

Layers is the sixth studio album by American rapper Royce da 5'9". It was released on April 15, 2016, by Bad Half Entertainment.

Layers (Les McCann album)

Layers is an album by pianist Les McCann recorded in 1972 and released on the Atlantic label.

Usage examples of "layers".

All the Ediacaran creatures were diploblastic, meaning they were built from two layers of tissue.

The people in the projection room instinctively shifted their eyes from the upper monitor, in which an eccentric laser diamond trembled just above the sun, to the main screen, where a constant, unpulsed beam of power stripped fractured layers, slabs, snow-white floes from the circle of ice.

In the center were the dark remnants of inside padding: shriveled layers, like burned dead leaves.

And the cutting beam still stabbed through layers of mist like an incandescent wire of gold taut between the Sun and the planet.

If they exceeded a thousand tons, they lost only a small fraction of their mass in the densest layers of air.

By counting back through these layers and measuring the amount of lead in each, he could work out global lead concentrations at any time for hundreds, or even thousands, of years.

Finally I let well enough alone, laid my mortally wounded drum to rest in its freshly dug bed, and covered it well, with ten, perhaps twenty layers of envelopes fitted together in overlapping tiers, as masons fit bricks together to build a solid wall.

Would the blood of these torn and punctured postmen and postal clerks not seep through ten or twenty layers of paper and give my drum a color it had hitherto known only in the form of enamel?

These two layers are sometimes well seen when a gland has been crushed or boiled in caustic potash.

Most of the cells of the disc, both the superficial ones and the larger cells which form the five or six underlying layers, are about four times as long as broad.

This movement appears to be due to the contraction of the superficial layers of cells over the whole upper surface.

They are translucent, of a green colour, and the walls are formed of two layers of cells.

Cohn, of two layers of small cells, which are continuous with the two layers of larger cells forming the walls of the bladder, of which it is evidently a prolongation.

Mahnmut felt his organic layers prickle when he realized he had spoken aloud on the private line.

The top layers of the asteroid under the crystal city seemed to be honeycombed with caves and pipes.