Re: [Gimp-user] How to optimize this workflow

2019-10-19 Thread Helmut Jarausch via gimp-user-list
Many thanks to you all - Scott, Robert and "Ofnuts" - for your very help hints. I didn't know about Image>Canvas size and that Gimp is so cool as to accept expressions in height or width fields. Helmut. ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:

Re: [Gimp-user] How to optimize this workflow

2019-10-18 Thread Ofnuts
On 10/17/19 6:29 PM, Helmut Jarausch via gimp-user-list wrote: I copy paste my image into this new image, move the floating selection exactly to the left (which is quite tedious to do exactly) Use "File>Open as layers" to load the image over the grey background image. This will likely be

Re: [Gimp-user] How to optimize this workflow

2019-10-17 Thread Robert Bryett via gimp-user-list
> On 18 Oct 2019, at 03:29, Helmut Jarausch via gimp-user-list > wrote: > > I have a dumb photo lab (which offers very good prints with a new Canon > printer). > They offer prints of size 7in x 5in. > I have several images which are quadratic in size. Now I have to "fill" my > image with a

[Gimp-user] How to optimize this workflow

2019-10-17 Thread Scott Jacobs via gimp-user-list
When I go to the drugstore to their self-print stations, I know that their paper sizes are not the same ratio as my image sizes. If I don't create special versions of my images, I know that they will have their ends cut off. This displeases me. Before I go, I create special versions of the

[Gimp-user] How to optimize this workflow

2019-10-17 Thread Helmut Jarausch via gimp-user-list
I have a dumb photo lab (which offers very good prints with a new Canon printer). They offer prints of size 7in x 5in. I have several images which are quadratic in size. Now I have to "fill" my image with a (say) grey area left to it. Currently I do I create a new image (filled with grey