: Quickly resizing canvas using "border pixels" to fill up new space in Gimp I noticed that one of the tasks I often perform in Gimp comes down to making a different aspect ratio version of

@Vandalay110

If you have 6 - 7 repetitive steps, you could jsut script then all, and have then as a single menu action. Documentation is scarse, but if you look for my answers on GIMP here and over StackOverflow, I've approached the subject. Also, there is this nice article here: www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-autogimp/
Now, without resorting to scripting, you could assign easy to remember shortcuts to the functions you need - go to edit->preferences->interface and enbale the Dynamic Keyboard Shortcuts . From then on, while having a menu item highlighted, just press the desired shortcut for it (no need to go out of you workflow to set up the shortcuts).

SInce what you are doing depend on the gradient and drawing, scripting it would be the way to go. Try getting it done - if you can't code yourself, try asking someone to that for you.

(NB. I recently found out the dynamic menu shortcut feature does not work on the Unit menus of Ubuntu Linux - if you are running Ubuntu, you have to select GIMP Menus through mouse right-clicking in order to be able to pick shortcuts)

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@Holmes874

Assuming the gradient is vertical only (ie. uniform width-wise):


Select the vertical stripe to be copied
Copy and paste to a new layer
Scale that layer to full width of image
Move layer below original layer


Alternatively, once you've copied the stripe to GIMP's clipboard, you could just create a new layer and then drag the stripe from the Patterns dialog (clipboard is the first entry) to fill the layer.

If the gradient is not quite uniform width-wise, you will probably need to do the two halves separately, but the same idea.

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