Tiles

That is a great effort at a first script! It works well, and is useful. I would suggest the biggest area for improvement is in speed. This is where leveraging features of gimp come into play. For example, if you created your initial image as xtiles by ytiles then used gimp-paintbrush-default to paint 1 pixel at a time, then resizing the entire image by the x/y tilesize with no interpolation, it would probably be faster than making the rectangular selections and filling. This will lstill be fairly slow, as ccanvas access in script-fu is slow. Even more outside the box, the fastest way I can think to do it would be to create a white image xTiles by yTiles, then fill it with HSV noise completely maxed out. Convert the image to greyscale, then convert it to indexed, specifying the number of colours and no dithering. Get the colourmap using (gimp-image-get-colormap) then change the values to the colours selected, then change the image using (gimp-image-set-colormap). Scale up the image and paint your grout lines. Also, it would be faster to use the render-grid filter to make the grout lines than stroking lines in a loop. Hope you find these comments constructive and give you some good ideas! -Rob A>