How to set up actions in GIMP?

December 9, 2006 10:01 AM

I'm a GIMP user, and I'm trying to figure out how to mimic the actions one can set up on Photoshop. Specifically, I'd like to set up a sequence that sets photos to a standard size (600 x ___), adds a standard black border, flattens the image, and saves the whole thing to a set folder. I'm not the most savvy GIMP user, so clear instructions on how to do this sort of thing would be greatly appreciated.
posted by lindsey.nicole to Technology (2 answers total)

I wouldn't know how to do that in gimp, but I bet you can do it with ImageMagick.

For example, to resize an entire directory to 600 width, I'd use something like:

mogirfy -resize 600 *.jpg

Versions available for unix and win.
posted by Leon at 10:45 AM on December 9, 2006

Script-Fu for the GIMP, to set up scripted actions in GIMP.

Or Imagemagick, which can allow you to perform actions from the command-line (that's mogrify, not mogirfy as the previous poster typoed).
posted by jellicle at 11:32 AM on December 9, 2006