On 11 March 2015 at 18:05, Ofnuts <ofnuts@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/03/15 14:26, Elle Stone wrote: >> >> >> 3. Scaling upon export: >> >> When exporting an image for display on the web, the image usually needs to >> be resized, and sometimes you might want to make some additional edits at >> the reduced size before the final export. But not always. It would be >> convenient to have the option to scale the image as part of the file export >> dialog, leaving the GIMP XCF file at the original size. >> > > For current Gimp there is the "Save for Web" plug-in that lets you > crop/scale the image. However it's not uncommon to do a little bit of > sharpening after a downscale, or maybe add some watermark... Better take the > habit to use Image>Duplicate. This creates an "untitled" image to there is > little risk to overwrite the original image with a scaled down version(*). > > (*) in the "belt-cum-suspenders" series, shouldn't Gimp issue a warning when > saving an image if it detects that the image has been scaled down/cropped? > This is another case of potential accidental loss of data. **ducks for > cover** > IMO, the medium term solution for all export-workflow problems is to have an in-gimp way to manipulate a set of transformations to be applied to an image on export. Thinking on an UI for this now is up to us - so, why not bring the idea to the list? Currently, actually most export plug-ins do perform a image-duplicate, image-flatten (or merge visible layers) and save the resulting layer. Indexed formats do a "image-duplicate, image-flatten, image-convert-to-indexed" sequence. Having this in an UI would allow one to have several presets like: image duplicate, image-resize(max-width: N, preserve-aspect: True), image-sharpen, image-flatten, image-convert-to-precision(8bpp), gimp-pause-for-review, export-to-desired-file-format ) That would allow presets for example, that could at once save for the various icon-sizes needed for icons in mobile projects bound to a single keystroke. (and having a "mark as clean" node available for these presets could also give an option to the "I do only jpeg exports" shouters) _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
