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Re:FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations by szvsw on Monday June 17, 2024 @08:39PM (#40712854)
Genuinely don’t know: can you do scripting/batch processing with GIMP? I have set up some complex workflows in photoshop using JS to manage the batch sequencing IIRC, though it was quite a while ago.

Another one I don’t know: can you embed a gimp file into a layout editor? A common workflow is to embed a photoshop file into an indesign file; you can then edit your photoshop file and have your indesign file updating automatically. This is a common workflow in several adobe products, eg I believe after effects sequence embedded into a Premiere timeline is possible/common.

Re:FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations by johnnyanmac on Monday June 17, 2024 @09:46PM (#40713277)
>can you do scripting/batch processing with GIMP

You sure can. I'm not even an artist and that's the one part of GIMP I can speak for. It has its own Python library, so almost anything you can do in editor you can do programmatically, but I made a few scripts for batch processing an entire album of images.

(documentation is about as awkard as the GUI, though. You will eventually find what you need after putting in 3-5x more effort than what should have been necessary, but it's somewhere in the docs)