I doubt you've ever tried doing a selection rectangle to that size and getting it exactly the right size and boundaries. It is a very slow and fiddly operation.
>Layer groups internally create a virtual layer representing their >entire composited contents to speed up overall rendering of the image >(at the topmost levels); a similar thing already occurs when you have >a project containing text layers. > > >Alternatively, you mentioned your process involves resizing the image >canvas as a means to 'crop' a given portion of the image out to a JPG? >If this is your only performance bottleneck then finding a way to >avoid that step should work around the issue entirely. How about >trying these steps instead? > >1- Create a rectangle selection of the desired export size (e.g. >4800x7200) at the desired location in the image > >2- Edit > "Copy Visible" (copies from all rendered layers) > >3- Paste as New Image > >4- Export > > > >-- Stratadrake >strata_ran...@hotmail.com >-------------------- >Numbers may not lie, but neither do they tell the whole truth. -- BWK (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
