Awesome, many thanks, this is very helpful.

On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 5:54 PM Ofnuts <ofn...@gmx.com> wrote:

> On 8/6/19 7:03 PM, Julian Rickards via gimp-gui-list wrote:
>
> My point and shoot camera can't do long exposures (at least not during
> daylight, there is a fireworks setting for nighttime). I wanted to try to
> create smooth flowing water using a technique I had read about where many
> single photos were blended. I realize it won't be as good as a long
> exposure but it'll do for now.
>
> However, I'm unclear on the blending settings of multiple layers. I seem
> to recall having read that the settings are based on #layers/100% so, for a
> simple example, if there are 3 layers, then 3/100% = 33% so the top layer
> is 33%, the second layer is 66% and the bottom layer is 100%.
>
>
> No, the rule is that layer opacity is 100%/n, where "n" is its order in
> the stack (starting with 1 for the bottom layer). So that's 100, 50, 33,
> 25, 17, 13, 11, 10.
>
>
> If you have many layers, make sure you have only that image opened in
> Gimp, open the Python console (Filters>Python-fu>Console) and enter these
> two lines exactly:
>
> - - - - - - - -
>
> image=gimp.image_list()[0]
>
> for i,l in enumerate(reversed(image.layers),1): l.opacity=100./i;
>
> - - - - - - - -
>
> (strike enter twice after the second one)
>
>
>
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