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I'm a web developer but I don't really use image manipulation software much as most of the images are provided by designers so the Gimp tool is very unfamiliar to me. I've looked through all of the tutorials and help guides on the Gimp site but I cannot find the answer to the simplest of questions: How do you resize a layer to fit within the current canvas whilst maintaining the aspect ratio? I'm essentially setting a fixed size on my Canvas and importing an image as a layer into my project. What I then wish to do is scale this much larger image down so that is can fit within the Canvas with the aspect ratio preserved. I have found a way of scaling the Canvas to fit a layer but this is not what I am looking for. Any help would be greatly appreciated.  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An alternative without any scripts is: Layer -> Scale Layer     (/a/32231444) (Short permalink to this answer) Share  Share a link to this answer     Copy link (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) (The current license for this post: CC BY-SA 3.0) CC BY-SA 3.0     (/posts/32231444/edit) () Improve this answer  Follow (70:3:31e,16:10c3df00f681e908,10:1738481877,16:628e8c39d4507d12,8:32231444,af0110fd7d351a3342e6f24aa1c74180985a8cb4b41ff347889700291ca7717b)  Follow this answer to receive notifications       answered (2015-08-26 16:02:36Z) Aug 26, 2015 at 16:02   (/users/3068360/weston-ganger) (Weston Ganger's user avatar)    (/users/3068360/weston-ganger) Weston Ganger Weston Ganger (reputation score) 6,702 (6 gold badges)  6  6 gold badges (43 silver badges)  43  43 silver badges (39 bronze badges)  39  39 bronze badges        1   Upvoted, but noting that using (https://stackoverflow.com/a/72880508/5362795) imagemagick convert on the CLI is much faster than GIMP. – (/users/5362795/nagev) (13,207 reputation) Nagev  Commented (2022-07-06 08:57:25Z, License: CC BY-SA 4.0) Jul 6, 2022 at 8:57        (Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. Avoid comments like “+1” or “thanks”.) Add a comment |  (Expand to show all comments on this post)             This answer is useful  (70:3:31e,16:a424e62e5988c134,10:1738481877,16:9061a6862e87de65,8:21033293,cb702ac4fca8001d6a1f6d73ffb6eba51df631b7a5e9fed36a5ffcb08ad1eae0) 14  (This answer is not useful)    (70:3:31e,16:4fa046f91de67df4,10:1738481877,16:e3624cbe40ad6c1f,8:21033293,bf58da4094d3ad9273cba9112c5376c7a10fefa0885cbd4763b5ae479fa2b6fd)      Save this answer.  (Loading when this answer was accepted…)     (/posts/21033293/timeline)    Show activity on this post.    This is easy to do, but among the hundreds of possible options to be put on the program UI, it was not "elected" to be there. The way out is to use the program's scripting capabilities to perform the action:
what have to be determined programatcially is whether the ratio of the image/layer is larger
on the width or height, and use this ratio to scale tha layer, and then center the layer. For your convenience, I wrote some Python code for this in a single line, in a way you can just copy and paste on the python console (filters->python->console) to apply the effect
on the top layer of the most recent open image. img = gimp.image_list()[0]; layer = img.layers[0]; factor = min (float(img.width) / layer.width, float(img.height) / layer.height); layer.scale(int(layer.width * factor), int(layer.height * factor)); layer.set_offsets((img.width - layer.width) / 2, (img.height - layer.height) / 2)   Since this can be done, but is not practical, even more because it does not allow you to 
pick the image or layer to resize, I formated it as a python-script for GIMP as well.
Just check your edit->preferences->folders->plug-ins for your plug-in directory,
paste the contents bellow as a file there (if on Windows, the file must have the ".py" extension. On Linux and Mac OS, any extension would work, but you have to give the file
the "exectuable" property" ). After restarting GIMP, you will have the new command conveniently located on your Layer menu: #! /usr/bin/env python
# coding: utf-8

from gimpfu import *

def scale_layer_to_canvas_size(img, layer):
    pdb.gimp_image_undo_group_start(img)
    factor = min (float(img.width) / layer.width,
                 float(img.height) / layer.height)

    layer.scale(int(layer.width * factor), int(layer.height * factor))
    layer.set_offsets((img.width - layer.width) / 2,
        (img.height - layer.height) / 2)
    pdb.gimp_image_undo_group_end(img)

register("scale-layer-to-canvas-size",
    "Scale layer to canvas size",
    "Scales the layer to canvas size, keeping the aspect ratio",
    "João S. O. Bueno", "Public domain", "2014",
    N_("Scale layer to canvas size..."),
    "*",
    [(PF_IMAGE, "image",       "Input image", None),
     (PF_DRAWABLE, "layer", "Input drawable", None), ], [],
    scale_layer_to_canvas_size,  menu="<Image>/Layer/",
    )

main()   Note it is the same code than above, but "img" and "layer" are now suplied by GIMP
when picking the action from the menu, and there are two extra calls so that
both scalignand centering are "undone" as a single action - 
the remaining code is justtheneeded boiler plate to register
the function with GIMP   (/a/21033293) (Short permalink to this answer) Share  Share a link to this answer     Copy link (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) (The current license for this post: CC BY-SA 3.0) CC BY-SA 3.0     (/posts/21033293/edit) () Improve this answer  Follow (70:3:31e,16:225e139f5a517613,10:1738481877,16:05112198c5b1b90f,8:21033293,00212f3bf38391c98b13dc48fc8cc86d9947a44a06f1e508845ba20fcf4ea490)  Follow this answer to receive notifications       answered (2014-01-09 23:22:23Z) Jan 9, 2014 at 23:22   (/users/108205/jsbueno) (jsbueno's user avatar)    (/users/108205/jsbueno) jsbueno jsbueno (reputation score 110,146) 110k (11 gold badges)  11  11 gold badges (157 silver badges)  157  157 silver badges (232 bronze badges)  232  232 bronze badges        0   (Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. Avoid comments like “+1” or “thanks”.) Add a comment |  (Expand to show all comments on this post)          This answer is useful  (70:3:31e,16:72b6782d887fe819,10:1738481877,16:319e637cf12f763b,8:34423699,9b8d976cc3466a8545ae1b7e4d1167e65a5764c5ccd8be981f7580bcf1e589d2) 9  (This answer is not useful)    (70:3:31e,16:ad4ccaeeed8f5d0f,10:1738481877,16:20df889c05e78de1,8:34423699,bb3e62ad5cd8c419c81e5a91a495148b2baabcc5d146a66583b5158c92efc8d3)      Save this answer.  (Loading when this answer was accepted…)     (/posts/34423699/timeline)    Show activity on this post.    After shrinking my canvas using Image -> Canvas (and centering the layers as desired), the Layer -> Layer to Image Size did the trick (without scaling the image).  This is with gimp 2.8.16   (/a/34423699) (Short permalink to this answer) Share  Share a link to this answer     Copy link (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) (The current license for this post: CC BY-SA 3.0) CC BY-SA 3.0     (/posts/34423699/edit) () Improve this answer  Follow (70:3:31e,16:67173f08da0ad404,10:1738481877,16:c734c512f9ef1b0a,8:34423699,67f07fa32413c72b330dda09245dd031b7e68e59f604e35daaf6298c9c8f84a6)  Follow this answer to receive notifications       answered (2015-12-22 20:08:27Z) Dec 22, 2015 at 20:08   (/users/1724577/duanev) (duanev's user avatar)    (/users/1724577/duanev) duanev duanev (reputation score) 964 (13 silver badges)  13  13 silver badges (17 bronze badges)  17  17 bronze badges           (Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. Avoid comments like “+1” or “thanks”.) 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(/a/66111328) (Short permalink to this answer) Share  Share a link to this answer     Copy link (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) (The current license for this post: CC BY-SA 4.0) CC BY-SA 4.0     (/posts/66111328/edit) () Improve this answer  Follow (70:3:31e,16:4ff9c42957d26721,10:1738481877,16:ab247dc785da666b,8:66111328,7288bf01ca005cd21655160bf41c83e4557b368f442557b44d02542123a98ac2)  Follow this answer to receive notifications       answered (2021-02-09 00:28:58Z) Feb 9, 2021 at 0:28   (/users/12380578/brent-raymond) (Brent Raymond's user avatar)    (/users/12380578/brent-raymond) Brent Raymond Brent Raymond (reputation score) 11 (3 bronze badges)  3  3 bronze badges        1 (number of 'useful comment' votes received) 1   A screenshot would be useful here I think – (/users/3073288/dilip-muthukurussimana) (709 reputation) Dilip Muthukurussimana  Commented (2021-02-09 01:32:16Z, License: CC BY-SA 4.0) Feb 9, 2021 at 1:32        (Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. 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