Christian Deschodt wrote on 26/04/17 15:44:

Dear all.

Hopefully I can be helped here.

I have about 550 GIMP (xcf) files in lots of folders and sub-folders. The editor where I have to send my work to needs them in Photoshop (psd) files. Is there any way I could do the conversions in bulk while keeping them in the same file locations?

Thank you and Regards.

Not GIMP itself, but have a look at http://www.imagemagick.org/script/formats.php

It says it reads XCF and writes PSD.

You'd use the command line "convert" tool.

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/convert.php

You'd have to "batch" the command some way depending on your operating system and how your files are stored.

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On April 26, 2017 8:15:19 AM GMT+02:00, Bob Long wrote:

Christian Deschodt wrote on 26/04/17 15:44:

You'd use the command line "convert" tool.

Use ImageMagick's mogrify instead

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/convert.php

You'd have to "batch" the command some way depending on your operating system and how your files are stored.

mogrify has batch support built in.

Regards,
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And always keep in mind that ImageMagick shall have support to GIMP's 2.8 XCF files - if you do have newer XCF files generated by GIMP devlopment version which can handle features like, higher color depth, ImageMagick won't be able to handle them.

In that case one has to resort to scripting the conversion with GIMP itself.

On 26 April 2017 at 09:22, Michael Schumacher wrote:

On April 26, 2017 8:15:19 AM GMT+02:00, Bob Long wrote:

Christian Deschodt wrote on 26/04/17 15:44:

You'd use the command line "convert" tool.

Use ImageMagick's mogrify instead

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/convert.php

You'd have to "batch" the command some way depending on your operating system and how your files are stored.

mogrify has batch support built in.

-- Regards,
Michael
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On 2017-04-26 08:22 AM, Michael Schumacher wrote:

On April 26, 2017 8:15:19 AM GMT+02:00, Bob Long wrote:

Christian Deschodt wrote on 26/04/17 15:44:

You'd use the command line "convert" tool.

Use ImageMagick's mogrify instead

Be careful of using mogrify instead of convert. IIRC, mogrify modified the original file. The convert program generates a new file from the original.

Cheers!

Kevin.

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On 04/26/2017 05:31 PM, Kevin Cozens wrote:

On 2017-04-26 08:22 AM, Michael Schumacher wrote:

On April 26, 2017 8:15:19 AM GMT+02:00, Bob Long wrote:

Christian Deschodt wrote on 26/04/17 15:44:

You'd use the command line "convert" tool.

Use ImageMagick's mogrify instead

Be careful of using mogrify instead of convert. IIRC, mogrify modified the original file. The convert program generates a new file from the original.

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-options.php#path

Regards,
Michael
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