I wanted to do something that I thought would be easier than it seems to be. Basically, I was hoping I could just simply make a rectangle selection (on a photo that has anywhere from 4 to 6 scanned photos from the scanner) and just right click each selection and export out. This doesn't seem possible, so I started making a macro that basically: Copies selection, pastes copy to new image, and then exports. The problem I now run into is that when it says "there's already a file with this name", it only has the option to Cancel or Manually Rename. There's simply no option to "save a copy" (incremental file name), so now every save needs manually renamed. I'd be totally fine with just "Untitled-0001", "Untitled-0002", etc. and without having to type it in every time.

I started getting a headache trying to script my macro to insert the current date and time at the naming screen instead of forcing me to manually type it in every time. 

Is there some easier way to go about this? The most simple way I was expecting was to just:
1. Ability to export current selection. 
2. Export with incremental naming capabilities whether in series or by current date & time.

Any help would be appreciated! I have boxes and boxes of photos to do this with.

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to create a book mockup. The mockup template is a PSD file which opens fine in Gimp. The cover image needs to be pasted into a layer with a mask.

I found a tutorial video which shows this step very easily in Photoshop: https://youtu.be/QqrMKLwmxMs?t=195

I wonder if this step is also possible with Gimp?

Thanks

Greetings! I am an intern in the cultural heritage sector and need to color correct photos with a Kodak color checker reference bar in the frame. For a short term fix I used Levels to improve some of the images. For the long term I would like to learn the right way to use the color info in the color reference bar to do systematic color correction in GIMP. 

I did web and forum searches with permutations of "color checker" "color reference" etc, but couldn't find any GIMP tutorials. I know how to do this in Photoshop, but I prefer to do as much graphics work as possible in GIMP. Thank you for your assistance!

- JCB

what I am trying to do is insert a text gif into another gif and when I do so once I play the gif the text dissolves away and I want it to all go away immediately after the frame I anchored it to.
my process is I open my space gif then I go into layers right click and add new layer and then I usually copy and paste the text gif into that layer then I anchor/merge layer down.

attached is what I am talking about, I really appreciate the help.

I am a complete newbie, thanks in advance

   

Align Tool: Distribute targets evenly in the horizontal

In using this tool I cannot get the targets to distribute with equal gaps (spacing) between the targets.  

To be honest, I am not even certain that the tool is designed to do this, as I am not exactly sure what "evenly in the horizontal" means.

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I have four targets (on four different layers).  Each of the targets is the same height, but are different widths.  If I select all of the targets and choose "Distribute targets evenly in the horizontal" the targets are distributed, but the distance/spacing between the targets appears to be based (more or less) on the width of the one target with the widest width.  

   

In the Attachment example the four images that I am trying to evenly gap/space apart are the four on the top row.  In relation to the selection shown faintly in white.  Ideally, the first image (on the far left) would have its left edge against the left edge of the selection, the last image (on the far right) would have its right edge against the right edge of the selection, and the other two would be evenly gapped/spaced apart.  Actually, all of them would be evenly gapped/spaced apart (regardless of their widths).

Does anyone know how to achieve this?  If not native to GIMP, is there a plug-in that can do this?

Thank you!!

I have searched for an answer, but can not seem to find a solution, so I apologize for asking if already answered.  (I have read thru slicing, guilotine etc.)

I need to take different segmented crops of an image.  Say my image is 100 tall by 2000 wide (100x2000 pixels)

How do I automatically crop an image 100x750 starting x=0 and crop every 10 pixels and save each image to file?

I want to crop all images 100 tall and 750 wide.  100x750

I want to crop every 10 pixels

image 1; x=0
image 2; x=10
image 3; x=20
;
;
;
image 126; x=1250

When it is complete I will have 126 images saved in a folder.  

Thank You

Hi everyone,

I am fairly new to GIMP I have recently started creating car paint schemes using GIMP the last few weeks. Today is the first time I have run into this issue, but when you pull in the iRacing template and the paint scheme you want to use. I go in to change the colors and no matter what color I choose it is like the Red Green and Blue merge with that color and makes it a different color. Like trying to replace red with the white creates a cyan color and other weird combinations. 

Like I said I have made several car schemes and today is the first time I have ran into this issue. Does anyone know of a fix or why the software would be doing this?

Thank you all!

I typically use 150 dpi when creating my graphics, however, sometimes when I open them, the resolution changes to what translates to 150.22 or something like that, but it's showing in mm or something (can't pull up an example right now, and I can't remember exactly, as I'm not on my usual computer). How can I keep it set as always my default resolution and that it doesn't change to something else I never selected in the first place. But it changes the size of the graphic.

I have tried to look online, but all I can find are directions for just changing the resolution, which I know how to do. I just want a permanent setting for the preference. I did setup my preference for what I want my default starting document to be and it IS set for 150 dpi. However, it never opens to the size document I set it up to be.

I currently have version 2.10.20.

Hi

How would you create a segmented circle?

Trying to create various watch faces. Is there a plug that automatically segments a circle into 12?  End result is to have the numbers 1 to 12 uniformly placed around the edge of the circle (adjustable in the plugin?)

I know I can add a marker then duplicate/rotate it by % so many times, then add in the numbers manually, but is there a faster way to do this?

many thanks

Hi
I'm looking for someone to improve the quality of a picture for me. It's for my DVD collection. I've tried a few different settings but nothing seems to work. Thank you in advance if you can help. I've attached the picture below.
Jack

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