On 8/2/07, spammy wrote:
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I foresee myself having to do the same again, and was wondering if there was some fancy way to copy/paste/move all the layers at the same time, or if there might be an even better approach to this.

One way: duplicate each layer (button at the bottom of the layers palette), link all of the copies (toggle to the right of the "eyeball" next to each layer), then drag them over to the side.

There might be an easier way...

Chris

Hi,

On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 13:05 -0700, spammy wrote:

I recently found myself needing to append a copy of an image right next to itself, essentially doubling the width of the canvas and ending up with a "stereoimage" more or less. Unfortunately, the image consisted of many layers, and I had to copy-n-paste the content of each layer and then move it to the side, layer by layer. Well, at least I "had to" in the sense that I didn't know any better.

Do you actually still need the individual layers? Otherwise you could simply flatten the image or merge visible layers before you create the stereo image.

I foresee myself having to do the same again, and was wondering if there was some fancy way to copy/paste/move all the layers at the same time, or if there might be an even better approach to this.

You can link layers by toggling the chain icon in the layers dialog. Linked layers can be moved together.

Sven

If you are doing something like this repetitively you might want to consider using ImageMagick and its command-line tool, convert. It can be used to combine sequentially either horizontally or vertically multiple images. No more said as that is another user group. -Bob

Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 13:05 -0700, spammy wrote:

I recently found myself needing to append a copy of an image right next to itself, essentially doubling the width of the canvas and ending up with a "stereoimage" more or less. Unfortunately, the image consisted of many layers, and I had to copy-n-paste the content of each layer and then move it to the side, layer by layer. Well, at least I "had to" in the sense that I didn't know any better.

Do you actually still need the individual layers? Otherwise you could simply flatten the image or merge visible layers before you create the stereo image.

I foresee myself having to do the same again, and was wondering if there was some fancy way to copy/paste/move all the layers at the same time, or if there might be an even better approach to this.

You can link layers by toggling the chain icon in the layers dialog. Linked layers can be moved together.

Sven