(08-20-2022, 01:00 PM)rich2005 Wrote: Means the same as say, a word processor, where backups are made at designated intervals. In Gimp it might look like this:
I meant what it implied by autosaving. Is it like you said, the same autosave than on a word document? If so, it's exactly the same as manually overwriting/exporting (but it would be automatic). It will erase the previous version of the image. I don't want to overwrite the previous version.
Let's say you edit a picture and you change background to 3 different colors. You change background once, you save (without overwriting the original image),you change background to a second color, save (without overwriting the previous versions) and a third time with the third background.
You're left with the original image, and 3 versions of it with 3 different background. You can keep them and later choose the one you prefer or whatever.
How would you do that in the most efficient way with Gimp? without renaming anything manually or select manually the folder to save in (make it save inside the same folder as original image). For now, it's been an extremely long process when i'm in this kind of situation, and it's a been frustrating to spend so much time just to save a file. And it completely throws off your work flow too.
Just to be clear i'm never talking about the .xcf files in my thread. I don't mind having to save those manually. No matter how long it takes.
(08-20-2022, 01:00 PM)rich2005 Wrote: If a single layer edit, I use a homemade plugin, dumps the image to a designated folder but only as a jpeg or png, adds a long index to the layer name (which is often the file name) As with most plugins a quick repeat Ctl-F is top of the Filters Menu. Might come in useful / or not. Looks like this in Windows. https://i.imgur.com/3mwZN0q.mp4
Erf, seems like pretty much exactly what i need, but i almost always have several layers. So i assume it won't work? But thanks a lot for the explanation and the video. I might still use it. But I'd have to remember to put everything into one layer before save and then undo it again. My workaround might save more time I think.