On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 09:12:37PM +0000, jim@okgeosurvey1.gov wrote:

SuSE 8.2, 9.3
Gimp 1.2.3, 2.2.4

Does Gimp have a CHOP tool similar to ImageMagick? Magick CHOP chops
a vertical or horizontal bar from
an image.

does it make two or several images or does it leave a big transparent hole in the middle of it?

the first can be accomplished with guillotine or perltine or pyslice or i think there is a scriptfu-slice floating around.

the second can be accomplished by defining a selection and Edit/Cut.

carol

On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 01:19:59AM +0000, jim@okgeosurvey1.gov wrote:

On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 09:12:37PM +0000, jim@okgeosurvey1.gov wrote:

Does Gimp have a CHOP tool similar to ImageMagick? Magick CHOP chops
a vertical or horizontal bar from
an image.

does it make two or several images or does it

leave a big transparent

hole in the middle of it?

the first can be accomplished with guillotine or

perltine or

pyslice or
i think there is a scriptfu-slice floating around.

the second can be accomplished by defining a

selection and Edit/Cut.

A single mouse drag defines the
slice. The slice disappears and
the image strips above and below
or left and right of
the slice join together as one image.

An example of use: we photograph visiting groups against a white
wall with a sign several feet
above their heads. A Magick
vertical chop drops the sign
to about one foot above their
heads. Without carefully examining
the mortar joints in the wall
I can't see the chop.

to the best of my knowledge, gimp doesn't do this; although there are probably scripts out there that i don't know about and maybe something like this exists.

maybe i will write one even....

sorry that it is not part of a basic gimp install for you though,

carol

After a long break, I've put a new version of DBP up on my site at: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~hodsond/dbp.html Source only at this stage, no Windows binary available.

DBP is a batch processing plugin for the Gimp, that performs a number of common operations (rotate, blur, colour correct, resize, crop, sharpen, rename, move, and save in new file format) on a collection of images. It is all gui-driven, no scripting, and the operations can be previewed on a single image before applying them to the whole batch.

This version (1.1.2) fixes a few problems with the Sharpen control, adds Saturation to the colour correction page, and might fix a bug that appeared on 64 bit systems.

I have written a script that will do this. If a horizontal selection is made across a layer, the script cuts out the selection and joins the top and bottom. If a vertical selection is made across the height of a layer then it joins the left and right unselected regions. The script is located at http://www.postbrickfilms.com/saulgoode/GIMP/anti-crop.scm

IMPORTANT NOTE: If the selection is other than a horizontal or a vertical "strip" across the entire width or height of the layer, this script will behave in the following manner (much harder to describe than to use)...

If the layer is considered to be the combination of 9 rectangular regions:

123 456
789

The horizontal strip case could be described as "456" being the selection. Performing "anti-crop" on the horizontal selection ("456") leaves

123 789

Similarly, for vertical strip selection ("258"):

13 46
79

Left half selection ("124578") leaves:

3 6
9

Central selection ("5") leaves:

13 79

Corner selection (such as "1245") leaves:

9

Center edge selection (such as "25") leaves:

79