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Automate Editing | Motivation - Lesson 1

Motivation

This tutorial will describe and provide examples for two types of automation functions. The first function is a tool to capture and execute “Macro” commands. The second function is a set of Automation Tools to capture and run a “Flow” or “Process”. The code for this tutorial is written using Gimp-Python and should be platform portable – able to run on either Linux or Windows operating systems. *

The goal of these functions is to provide tools that speed up the editing process, make the editing process more repeatable, and reduce the amount of button pushing the user has to do. Taking over the button pushing and book-keeping chores allows the user to focus on the more creative part of the editing process.

These automation tools are examples so please modify them to suit your needs. The goal of the tutorial is to provide and explain a working example. If the coding style seems a bit rough, I apologize, I am not a programmer.

The main body of this tutorial will be discussing the ideas behind automating the editing process. Hopefully we can keep the focus on the concept without getting lost in the details of the included example. The details of how to setup and run the example code and what the automation example is supposed to accomplish will be covered in appendices to the tutorial. We are not going to cover python programing as it is already well documented.

This tutorial will use some of the concepts covered in an earlier tutorial “Automated Jpg to Xcf”. It would probably be helpful to read through the earlier tutorial for introductory example.

* Hopefully it is easy to adapt it to Apple OS as well.