--- Matthias Julius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Simon Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm trying to put a bunch of photographs together as a collage. As > I do > > so, I want to be able to resize and reposition each one repeatedly > > until I'm happy with the overall layout. So far what I'm doing is > > pasting each image into a new layer, however, this isn't very > > satisfactory because the layers are all the full size of the image, > so > > when I resize them, I can't really see what the effect will be on > the > > image itself. Similarly, repositioning the layer is a rather hit > and > > miss way of repositioning the image that it contains. > > In the Layer menu is an item "Autocrop Layer" (at least in The Gimp > 2.2) that will resize the layer to the size of the pasted image. > > On the other hand when I paste an image and then right click the > Floating Selection in the Layers dialog and click New Layer the new > layer has just the size of the pasted image. GACH! How did I miss that! Many thanks, this is exactly what I needed. Cheers, Simon "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." Naguib Mahfouz __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
