How to change color of an ordinary layer?

[hevonen]

Either I've forgotten or never known how to change color of an ordinary layer. I can't even repaint it as I can't find "preserve transparency" checkbox or something like it.

Also, I can't find a way to copy/convert layer transparency to a layer mask, how is this done?

[johnny9ball]

1) Add a Hue-Saturation-Luminosity filter. Called Basecolor HSL filter.

2) Dont know a way to do that.

[Jeremie Noguer]

1) Add an effect on the layer and choose the HSL filter from the list.
2) Indeed there is no way to do this yet.

[hevonen]

Thanks. So I can't change height or roughness with something (like curves, levels or gain/lift/gamma)?

If not, it would be very useful to add "preserve layer transparency" checkbox to ordinary layers as it would allow repaints with different material. Converting layer transparency to a mask would allow for this too.

[Jeremie Noguer]

Yes you can also use a level effect on the layer.
Once the level is applied, you can choose which channel you want to affect through a drop down box.

[hevonen]

Ah thanks.

I still would like something like protect transparency or convert transparency to mask -option.