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How can I "default save" in Gimp 2.8 without exporting?
Wow, I'm seriously bummed out about some of the Gimp 2.8 features that I've been looking forward to since Gimp 2.4 was released. I used to be able to open 20 - 30 jpg files at once, do some minor adjustments, followed by saving each file immediately with the CTRL + S keys. When I try that with Gimp 2.8 the extension is added for me and I'm requested to save as a fresh file with that new extension ... tedious, annoying, and uncalled for since I create my own duplicates en masse if or when I need them.
Granted, I can by-pass that by exporting back to the old jpg file in the original archive ... but then I still have to initiate the export, verify the export, choose a save percentage, and finally close the newly created (???) image that's now appeared in place of my original, in my Gimp workspace.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong here, but I don't think so. It should be possible to tell Gimp which extension to use by default, as opposed to having an extension forced upon you whether you ever use those extensions, or not. Is there some way to make Gimp use the default .jpg or .png extension when I want to save an image, and if so, how? I'm using Gimp with Xubuntu 12.04 and CCSM.
Thanks.
This is the way Gimp now
This is the way Gimp now works. Of course you can consider this a PITA. But for other folks, losing work because they saved as JPG instead of XCF is also a PITA. The philosophy is that people that are impacted negatively by this change are people with very simple work-flows who would be better off using simpler software (XnView, Digikam, Lighttable...). OTOH I'm pretty sure will soon see on the Registry scripts to save files directly .
This reply was very helpful,
This reply was very helpful, thank you. I recently built a new machine and thought I'd give GIMP (another) try. It is clear I should (still) be using something else.
Bring on the registry scripts
Bring on the registry scripts!
I think GIMP is great. But if I load a JPG, touch it up, and press Save, and then email it, I am more likely to erroneously send the unmodified JPG, 'cuz that's the file I was working on.
Sure, LibreOffice will warn you that you are not saving as ODF, but it will at least allow you to do it anyway.
:-(
That's why GIMP has the
That's why GIMP has the Overwrite menu entry, to support these secondary workflows.
there is also a Save+ Export script
There is also a Save+ Export script, that is my favourite solution
I need to both save and export the images that i edit, so more then be forced to learn and use the correct English terminology i need to do both in the most efficient way
So a script that does with a single click:
first save the xcf then export (with the same name and in the same folder ) as jpg and or as png.
(and it even does respecting the correct terminology ..)
Not sure if was published on this registry , but was discussed here
http://www.gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=521
Nice
I don't get it. Personally I use a lot of the features of GIMP regularly but still have a "simple workflow" - i.e. I open an image, make a change and want to save it directly back to the original. Should I wish to export it to something else I will take those steps. The GIMP team has pretty much alienated a whole raft of users who will find this utterly unintuitive and a huge amount of excess work. It's a total deviation from a "normal" recognised workflow in just about any other application you can think of, and if you're losing work because you've saved to the wrong format you should take more care, not implement a whole different system so a large bulk of users now have a 600% increase in steps just to achieve a simple save. Suggesting people should use simpler software because their WORKFLOW is simpler is utterly misjudged.
If "this is the way GIMP is now" I won't be recommending it to anyone in future.
Nonsense
"... a "simple workflow" - i.e. I open an image, make a change and want to save it directly back to the original."
And how is this not supported by GIMP? If you open a JPEG file, the menu command "Overwrite yourfile.jpg" is immediately available. If you open PNG, the command is "Overwrite yourfile.png". Similarly for other file types.
This is hardly a "600% increase in steps" -- in fact, for your "simple workflow" there is often a reduction in the number of steps that were required in previous versions because you are no longer prompted upon each save as to whether you wish to merge layers, flatten the image, or save as an animation.
Worst case, there is one additional step: dismissing the changes that you've made to the image when closing. And this increase of one step is only if you save your file just once during your session and haven't added any alpha channels or layers/masks to the image.
There are scripts for this
just look around (some have been advertised on the Registry IIRC) ... and you can even change the keyboard shortcuts so that Ctrl-S brings out the Export dialog.