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<dt><b>Download:</b> (after the page appears, click on the "Download"
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<dt><b>Description:</b> <dd>This script will save a snapshot of the current state of the image as a PNG file. Just the visible projection is saved, not the image itself.

The PNG file has a timestamp appended to its name and is saved in the same directory whence the original image came. For example, the file will have a snapshot such as The time stamp is derived from the number of seconds since 1970, but rolls over every 24 hours.

If the original image has not yet been saved to a file then the snapshot will be placed in the GIMP startup directory with the basename of "Untitled" (e.g.,

The purpose of this script is to facilitate creating animations of the process of editing an image. Typically, a user would use this script by going through all the steps of editing his image -- painting, filtering, applying transforms, etc -- and then going back to the start of the image's UNDO history (either by repeatedly performing "Edit->Undo" or by navigation in the Undo History dialog). The user would then execute the script, perform an "Edit->Redo", and repeat these two steps until finished. Note: if a keyboard shortcut is assigned to the Snapshot command -- such as CTL-d -- then this process becomes quite trivial (i.e., CTL-d, CTL-y, CTL-d, CTL-y, CTL-d, CTL-y, ...).

After all of the snapshots are saved, "File->Load As Layers" can be used to create a single, multi-layer animation of the history steps. Alternately, GIMP's GAP plug-in could be used to create videos of the process.

The following animation is a crude example of what can be accomplished.

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