On Thursday 12 June 2008, Helen wrote:

-I thought that with Gimp, one could save a layer as a new file, new picture.
But when I click on the layer that I want to save as a separate picture, I don't
see that option.

I went googling for this before asking here, and I found a place that says you can add
a plugin for this, but I don't know how to add plugins.

So, do you knkow of a way I can just take a layer and turn it into a separate file?

I'm using Gimp 2.2.10, and have already ordered SuSE 11, which will come with
the latest gimp.

Hi Helen -

This discussion is exactly going on the developer list right now! The feature is tehre, but it is imossible to find. If you tell gimp to "save as", select a single-layered file format (like.png or .jpg), gimp will pop a dialog warningyoiu the image willbe merged or flattened, giving you a choice to "ignore". I fyou coose that("ignore"), teh active layer is saved.

There is no feedback to this, and it is indeed starnge. The way I prefer toing it is:
- pop up teh layers dialog
- drag the desired laer thumbnail to the toolbox (gimp then creates a new image which content is the dropped layer)
- save this new image file
- close it.

Regards,

js ->

Thanks much for any advice.

using Linux, SuSE 10,

Hi,

On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 17:29 -0400, Helen wrote:

So, do you knkow of a way I can just take a layer and turn it into a separate file?

You can turn the layer into an extra image and save that. There are several ways to do that. You can for example drag the layer preview from the layers dialog and drop it onto the toolbox. Or you can select the layer, copy (Ctrl-C) and paste as new (I don't quite remember how exactly that was done in 2.2).

Alternatively, if you are saving to a format that doesn't support layers, you can just Save. Then in the Export dialog hit the Ignore button. This will skip the export and the save plug-in will only save the active layer then.

Sven

Oh, in that case there's another way. Just enter

gimptool --help

in command line. It gives options for script installation or plugin installation. The py script is a bin plugin, I think.

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Helen wrote:

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Jan Snyder wrote:

So it worked all right? Cool. I was worried it wouldnt work on windows and was hunting for windows installers for python and gtk. All I found was:

http://hans.breuer.org/ports/

But then maybe you weren't using windows.

Yep, worked fine. I don't know whether it works w/Windows. I use Linux, SuSE. Thanks again.
Helen

--
using Linux, SuSE 10

save a layer as a file is quick in gimp 2.4 (that should be available also for suse ,why you use a such old version as Gimp 2.2 ? )

For gimp 2.4 is needed Ctrl-C (or Edit/copy )is the layer to save is the active layer, (or Edit/copy the visible if correspond to the visible)

Edit/paste as new/ image/ and then save If you install gap you may use Video/split image into frames. (as name will use image name add a progressive postfix number for each layer

Layers will be saved in same folder whrere the original is saved (no option to chose a different place )

gimp-user-request@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU ha scritto: Send Gimp-user mailing list submissions to gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU

To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to gimp-user-request@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU

You can reach the person managing the list at gimp-user-owner@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU

When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Gimp-user digest..."

Today's Topics:

1. save layer as file (Helen) 2. Re: save layer as file (Sven Neumann) 3. Re: save layer as file (Joao S. O. Bueno) 4. Re: save layer as file (Helen) 5. Re: save layer as file (Helen) 6. Re: save layer as file (Jan Snyder) 7. Re: Plug-in to set the visibility of a group of layers (Pere Pujal i Carabantes)

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Message: 1 Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:29:32 -0400 From: Helen
Subject: [Gimp-user] save layer as file To: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Message-ID:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

-I thought that with Gimp, one could save a layer as a new file, new picture.
But when I click on the layer that I want to save as a separate picture, I don't
see that option.

I went googling for this before asking here, and I found a place that says you can add
a plugin for this, but I don't know how to add plugins.

So, do you knkow of a way I can just take a layer and turn it into a separate file?

I'm using Gimp 2.2.10, and have already ordered SuSE 11, which will come with
the latest gimp.

Thanks much for any advice.

using Linux, SuSE 10, -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: /lists/gimp-user/attachments/20080612/a2ca92e9/attachment-0001.html

------------------------------

Message: 2 Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:45:27 +0200 From: Sven Neumann
Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] save layer as file To: Helen
Cc: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Message-ID:
Content-Type: text/plain

Hi,

On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 17:29 -0400, Helen wrote:

So, do you knkow of a way I can just take a layer and turn it into a separate file?

You can turn the layer into an extra image and save that. There are several ways to do that. You can for example drag the layer preview from the layers dialog and drop it onto the toolbox. Or you can select the layer, copy (Ctrl-C) and paste as new (I don't quite remember how exactly that was done in 2.2).

Alternatively, if you are saving to a format that doesn't support layers, you can just Save. Then in the Export dialog hit the Ignore button. This will skip the export and the save plug-in will only save the active layer then.

Sven

------------------------------

Message: 3 Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:44:53 -0300 From: "Joao S. O. Bueno"
Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] save layer as file To: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Message-ID:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

On Thursday 12 June 2008, Helen wrote:

-I thought that with Gimp, one could save a layer as a new file, new picture.
But when I click on the layer that I want to save as a separate picture, I don't
see that option.

I went googling for this before asking here, and I found a place that says you can add
a plugin for this, but I don't know how to add plugins.

So, do you knkow of a way I can just take a layer and turn it into a separate file?

I'm using Gimp 2.2.10, and have already ordered SuSE 11, which will come with
the latest gimp.

Hi Helen -

This discussion is exactly going on the developer list right now! The feature is tehre, but it is imossible to find. If you tell gimp to "save as", select a single-layered file format (like.png or .jpg), gimp will pop a dialog warningyoiu the image willbe merged or flattened, giving you a choice to "ignore". I fyou coose that("ignore"), teh active layer is saved.

There is no feedback to this, and it is indeed starnge. The way I prefer toing it is:
- pop up teh layers dialog
- drag the desired laer thumbnail to the toolbox (gimp then creates a new image which content is the dropped layer)
- save this new image file
- close it.

Regards,

js ->

Thanks much for any advice.

using Linux, SuSE 10,

------------------------------

Message: 4 Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:57:47 -0400 From: Helen
Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] save layer as file To: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Message-ID:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Thanks! That was so easy, once you all showd me how!

Helen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: /lists/gimp-user/attachments/20080612/18acfbe1/attachment-0001.html

------------------------------

Message: 5 Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:12:25 -0400 From: Helen
Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] save layer as file To: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Message-ID:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Jan Snyder wrote:

So it worked all right? Cool. I was worried it wouldnt work on windows and was hunting for windows installers for python and gtk. All I found was:

http://hans.breuer.org/ports/

But then maybe you weren't using windows.

Yep, worked fine. I don't know whether it works w/Windows. I use Linux, SuSE. Thanks again.
Helen