Batch converting images as brushes

[Espermaschine]

*sigh*  

[rich2005]

Sigh as much as you like.

I also find it strange that there is no Gimp procedure equivalent to the remove alpha menu entry.
Only flatten the image and there IM is a winner.

Ask the Gimp developers about that one. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/issues/

[Ofnuts]

(10-05-2019, 07:14 AM)rich2005 Wrote: Sigh as much as you like.

I also find it strange that there is no Gimp procedure equivalent to the remove alpha menu entry.
Only flatten the image and there IM is a winner.

Ask the Gimp developers about that one.  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/issues/

There are many GUI actions that do not have a direct API equivalent. In this particular case, there would be at least two ways to understand "remove alpha channel":

• merging in a default background (so the RGB content of transparent pixels is lost)
  

• setting A to 100%.
  

[rich2005]

This has become an interesting discussion In the context of the first post
I have Bimp installed but that doesnt seem to do what i want.

Bimp will flatten an image to give a white BG. It also has a list of reserved terms which can filter out some function and external scripts / plugins. "Save" is one of them ( and "gimp-vectors" ) which renders it less useful. It does permit Users, who for whatever reason, cannot concoct a bespoke script or plugin to do some simple batch operations. It has its uses.

Comes back to the sometimes requested simple macro language, kicked down the road by the developers due to lack of resources, which I can appreciate. The upcoming (sometime,) extension to other programming languages (perhaps in Gimp 3) might help. Will that be an improvement for the average user? Probably not.