Quote: sorry I had to tidy up this post it was doing my head in - rich -
double sorry - I deleted too much. ;
Ofnuts post solved it for you
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An old script that might help you sometime. It will scale a layer up or down to fit into a selection. But...aspect ratio is preserved. The scaled layer is centered in the selection. example: https://i.imgur.com/2yGTQWY.jpg
Unpack the zip. Put sg-layer-fit-in-selection.scm in C:\Users\"yourname"\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10\scripts
Thank you for this map out ღ( ´・ᴗ・` )