Regarding backups I wrote a script http://registry.gimp.org/node/14246 that makes a backup xcf file with the same name and date plus time appended. If you bind it to a key (that is what I do) it is very quick to save a working copy every now and then.
-Rob A> On 5/20/10, Noel Stoutenburg <mjol...@ticnet.com> wrote: > Adam wrote: >> Hey folks! >> >> I've got a small mess of questions, and I do not mind being redirected to >> older threads. :) >> >> Here goes: >> >> If I have a bunch of text layers, how do I reselect them to move them >> and/or >> edit their content without moving backwards in the history? > > This will only work if you haven't merged the text dialog into another > layer, even another text layer: in the layers dialog, make the layer > with the bit of text you want to edit the active layer, and click on the > text to open the text dialog. Note that in a layer dialog, only the text > is in the layer, so if you are using a font with a large size, you might > have to click exactly on a character of the text. > >> >> Also, I have a smudge brush effect currently behind a text layer. The >> brush >> effect was a long time before the text layer. I need to remove the brush >> effect. How do I do so without going backwards in the history, thus >> eliminating the text (and any other previous work on the project after the >> smudge tool was used)? > > Activate the layers dialog, select the layer with the brush effect, and > delete it. Of course, if there is other content in the layer that > contains the brush effect you want to eliminate, that will be deleted, too. > > >> Is there any way to save projects "in progress" to continue editing later, >> with the history intact? > > I know that saving an image as an ~.xcf file will preserve the layers. > I've never tried to save a file with an intact history, so I may be > wrong, but I'm not sure you can save a file with the history intact. > I've never tried to do this, because I've never needed to, since my > standard workflow method is that when I work on a highly complex image, > where I anticipate that I might want to have access to the history, I > create this history by incremental back-ups; that is, after I have layer > 1 the way I want it, I save the work, then when I get layer 2 the way I > want it, I make second a back-up with a different name, and when I get > layer 3 the way I want it, I make a backup with a name distinct from the > first two. > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user > _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
