First of all, this is my very FIRST attempt to actually try to accommodate myself with an existing script, namely the recent charcoal.scm (which me and Rod asked for leaving the original layer and working on a copy at the Registry). I'm sort of glad the author showed indifference because I knew eventually it would push me into trying harder to do it myself. So I did. Took me several hours, but I figured it out.

This script now gives you the ability to leave the original layer (tick new layer toggle) and to max the original layer to the new image size (tick Max original layer toggle) should you tick the Resize for optimum effect toggle.

I've added Saulgoode's suggestion to the script and resubmitted the zipped file. It will no longer require the extend layer script to work.

The Max Original toggle calls up Saulgoode's sg-extend-layer.scm script, so grab that if you don't have it.

http://chiselapp.com/user/saulgoode/rep ... tend-layer

Lovely, thanks mahvin.



I think if i were to select all the black in several dif layers i could color it nicely.

Do you maybe knows what the script does?
i may see the effect, i mean do you know how does that, which steps automatize ?

I like having the original image preserved. Nice job, mahvin.

great on the tiger !

I like this Mahvin. Thanks

It appears that whenever your version of the charcoal script calls the Extend Layer script, there is no selection present. If this assessment is accurate, it would be quite easy for your script to rescale the layer by itself, without calling Extend Layer (if there is no selection when Extend Layer is called, the script merely scales the entire layer to match the image size).

Saulgoode:

Couldn't you then tell it to unselect the image before scaling? I mean, I looked at different ways to make it scale, but wasn't sure what was involved in the procedures. But I knew your script performed the task. So, if I wanted to remove all selections first, then perform the code you have above, would that need to include:

(gimp-selection-none image) - ?

I may have missed something, but from my cursory examination of the (charcoal) script, there doesn't seem to be a selection active* at the time you perform your scaling. Performing a 'gimp-selection-none' would not hurt anything, but I didn't think it necessary (and if it were necessary then I should feel compelled to re-examine my understanding of what is supposed to happen).


* The preceding operations entail a Select By Color, followed by copy and paste. When the paste occurs (creating a floated selection layer), there is no longer any selection present (even though the display may show marching ants around the original selection), and there is still no selection present after this floated layer is anchored.

When I can, I will try it out! I like the results! If you keep your original color layer, you can experiment with blend modes and see what sweet images you get!