## 7. The “Layer” Menu

### 7.1. Overview

In this section, you will find help for commands in the Layer menu, which allow you to work with layers.

In addition to accessing the Layer menu from the main menu and by right-clicking on the image window, you can work on layers by opening the Layer dialog and, for example, change layer transparency and visibility, create new layers and layer groups, add a layer mask, merge or duplicate layers. This dialog also has a right-click context menu with mostly the same commands as shown in the main Layer menu.

| Note
Besides the commands described here, you may also find other entries in the menu. They are not part of GIMP itself, but have been added by third-party plug-ins. You can find information about the functionality of a plug-in by referring to its documentation.

#### 7.1.1. The Contents of the “Layer” Menu

- Section 7.2, “New Layer”

- Section 7.3, “New from Visible”

- Section 7.4, “New Layer Group”

- Section 7.5, “Duplicate layers”

- Section 7.6, “Anchor Floating Layer or Mask”

- Section 7.7, “Merge Down”

- Section 7.8, “Merge Layer Groups”

- Section 7.9, “Delete Layers”

- Section 7.10, “The Text Commands of the Layer Menu”

- Section 7.11, “Discard Text Information”

- Section 7.12, “Text to Path”

- Section 7.13, “Text along Path”

- Section 7.14, ““Stack” Submenu”

- Section 7.15, “Select Previous Layers”

- Section 7.16, “Select Next Layers”

- Section 7.17, “Select Top Layer”

- Section 7.18, “Select Bottom Layer”

- Section 7.19, “Raise Layers”

- Section 7.20, “Lower Layers”

- Section 7.21, “Layers to Top”

- Section 7.22, “Layers to Bottom”

- Section 7.23, “Reverse Layer Order”

- Section 7.24, “The “Mask” Submenu”

- Section 7.25, “Add Layer Masks”

- Section 7.26, “ Apply Layer Masks ”

- Section 7.27, “Delete Layer Masks”

- Section 7.28, “Show Layer Masks”

- Section 7.29, “Edit Layer Mask”

- Section 7.30, “Disable Layer Masks”

- Section 7.31, “Masks to Selection”

- Section 7.32, “Add Masks to Selection”

- Section 7.33, “Subtract Masks from Selection”

- Section 7.34, “Intersect Masks with Selection”

- Section 7.35, “ The “Transparency” Submenu ”

- Section 7.36, “Add Alpha Channel”

- Section 7.37, “Remove Alpha Channel”

- Section 7.38, “Colour to Alpha”

- Section 7.39, “Semi-Flatten”

- Section 7.40, “Threshold Alpha”

- Section 7.41, “Alpha to Selection”

- Section 7.42, “Add Alpha to Selection”

- Section 7.43, “Subtract Alpha from Selection”

- Section 7.44, “Intersect Alpha with Selection”

- Section 7.45, “The “Transform” Submenu”

- Section 7.46, “Flip Horizontally”

- Section 7.47, “Flip Vertically”

- Section 7.48, “Rotate 90° clockwise”

- Section 7.49, “Rotate 90° counter-clockwise”

- Section 7.50, “Rotate 180°”

- Section 7.51, “Arbitrary Rotation”

- Section 7.52, “Offset”

- Section 7.53, “Layer Boundary Size”

- Section 7.54, “Layers to Image Size”

- Section 7.55, “Scale Layer”

- Section 7.56, “Resize Layers to Selection”

- Section 7.57, “Crop Layers to Content”

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