How to copy and paste selection paths?
Fr@nk Stef@ni
couldn't find a solution for the following need:
I defined a selection of 30 to 50 small circular regions
on an image. The positions and sizes of all those 30 to 50
regions are identical to all images. This very selection
has to be reused on tens of images, thus I want to copy
the selections path (not the current content) to a
different image (same image dimensions btw).
Currently, I have to redefine the selection for
each and every image over and over again which is
time consuming, error prone and rather annoying :-/
Every hint/help/solution is greatly appreciated.
TIA,
Frank
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> Currently, I have to redefine the selection for
> each and every image over and over again which is
> time consuming, error prone and rather annoying :-/
>
> Every hint/help/solution is greatly appreciated.
Open every image as new layer?
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Fr@nk Stef@ni
> On Sun, 29 May 2011 16:45:31 +0200, Fr@nk Stef@ni <f...@despammed.com> wrote:
>
>> Currently, I have to redefine the selection for
>> each and every image over and over again which is
>> time consuming, error prone and rather annoying :-/
>>
>> Every hint/help/solution is greatly appreciated.
>
> Open every image as new layer?
Good idea which would work and be handsome for small images.
The images in question are 120 MB each which would need
a lot of Gimps (undo)cache and calculation time for the
layer manipulation. Also, I have to filter and resynthesize
the selection per image/layer after having applied the
selection mask which would slow down the process dramatically.
Thanks,
Frank
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> The images in question are 120 MB each which would need
> a lot of Gimps (undo)cache and calculation time for the
> layer manipulation. Also, I have to filter and resynthesize
> the selection per image/layer after having applied the
> selection mask which would slow down the process dramatically.
1)
Open image
2)
Create paths (Tools - paths). New paths will be off by default, turn them
on.
3)
Right click on path and "Merge Visible Paths".
4)
Right click - "Copy Path".
5)
Open second image.
6)
"Paste Path"
7)
"Path to selection"
8)
Close first image.
Fr@nk Stef@ni
> On Sun, 29 May 2011 17:10:16 +0200, Fr@nk Stef@ni <f...@despammed.com> wrote:
>
> 1)
> Open image
> 2)
> Create paths (Tools - paths). New paths will be off by default, turn them on.
> 3)
> Right click on path and "Merge Visible Paths".
> 4)
> Right click - "Copy Path".
> 5)
> Open second image.
> 6)
> "Paste Path"
> 7)
> "Path to selection"
> 8)
> Close first image.
>
Thanks so much, this is extremely helpful for my needs,
You saved me a lot of work!
Frank
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> Thanks so much, this is extremely helpful for my needs,
> You saved me a lot of work!
>
> Frank
Glad i could help :-)
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ofnuts
A bit late in the discussion, but if you are using the same path on many
images, you can save the path as an SVG file, and import it as a path in
other images (Import & Export in the right-click menu in the Paths dialog)
If it's a selection, you can save it to file, as a B&W PNG:
- Save to channel
- In Channels dialog, select saved selection channel
- File/Save as (you'll get a warning that you are saving a Channel and
not visible layers)
To load in another image:
- File/Open as layer and load your PNG
- In channels dialog, right click any of the color channels and "Channel
to selection"
- Discard layer
If anyone knows a way to directly load the PNG as a channel, please post
here.
Jim Lekas
> On 05/29/2011 04:45 PM, Fr@nk Stef@ni wrote:
> A bit late in the discussion, but if you are using the same path on many images, you can save the
> path as an SVG file, and import it as a path in other images (Import & Export in the right-click
> menu in the Paths dialog)
>
> If it's a selection, you can save it to file, as a B&W PNG:
> - Save to channel
> - In Channels dialog, select saved selection channel
> - File/Save as (you'll get a warning that you are saving a Channel and not visible layers)
>
> To load in another image:
> - File/Open as layer and load your PNG
> - In channels dialog, right click any of the color channels and "Channel to selection"
> - Discard layer
>
> If anyone knows a way to directly load the PNG as a channel, please post here.
Thanks for the technique for saving a channel as a PNG.
I don't know a way to load a PNG directly to a channel, but one can (in MS Windows anyway) drag the
PNG file from the file manager (Window Explorer) to the Layers dialog, then drag the new layer to
the Channels dialog, then delete the layer. (It even acts like the PNG could be dropped directly
into the Channels dialog -- the cursor changes to the "drop OK" shape -- but the drop does nothing.)
ofnuts
Also works with Linux...Good to know. Thx.