DBP for GIMP - Easier than learning a new Scripting Language!
Had to do some batch processing in the GIMP today. I looked over the scripting tutorials on the GIMP website, but as a fast and dirty approach this wouldn’t work for me (went right over my head). It took some digging around Google to find an easy to follow, automated way of doing it. What I found was a handy little plug-in from David Hodson [poor fellow, missed out on being a MST3K (here and here) cast away by one letter] .
While not performing every task I needed (I was resizing some images and I wanted to not only re-size but also change DPI), it did speed things up enough to make it worth while having. It also has quite a few built in options for commonly repeated processing; like rotation, color adjustment and cropping.
From DBP’s webpage:
“DBP (David’s Batch Processor) is a simple batch processing plugin for the Gimp - it allows the user to automatically perform operations (such as resize) on a collection of image files. Its main advantage is that the user does not have to learn a scripting language. Like the Gimp itself, DBP relies on a graphical interface. The user creates a list of images, and sets up the processing required for each image. The results of the current settings can be displayed. Once the required sequence of operations has been set up, DBP performs the same processing on each image in turn. The images can be colour corrected, resized, cropped, and sharpened, then renamed and saved to a different file in a specified image format. All the steps (except loading and saving the image!) are optional; so the simplest use of DBP is just to convert a number of image files from one format to another.“
Has anyone out there ever found any easy methods for scripting with the GIMP (outside of actually taking the time to learn yet another script’s syntax)?
