Can I take a screenshot and directly open it in Gimp?

Common use case for me and printscreen:

Hit printscreen and save .png
Open up Gimp
Find file I've saved
Edit file (crop and highlight regions)

It seems like the first three steps could be combined into a single key bind, e.g. printscreen auto opens Gimp, ready to edit. Is that possible?

Solution 1:

Quick version

Literally doing what you asked; in one action:

Take a screenshot
Save it in your preferred directory
Opening it with Gimp

The script

#!/bin/bash

picsdir=~/Pictures/out.png
gnome-screenshot -f "$picsdir"
gimp "$picsdir"

How to use

Copy the script into an empty file, save it as take_ashot.sh
Set your preferred directory to save the files in, in the line:
```
picsdir=~/Pictures/out.png
```
I'd leave it as it is if your system is English, else you'd need to change the Pictures folder name.
Test-run it by the command:
```
/bin/bash /path/to/take_ashot.sh
```
If all works fine, add it to a shortcut: Choose: System Settings > "Keyboard" > "Shortcuts" > "Custom Shortcuts". Click the "+" and add the command:
```
/bin/bash /path/to/take_ashot.sh
```

Note

Since you mentioned not to save the source file in most cases, I made the script overwrite previous files. If you don't want that, we'd need to build in a few renaming- lines.

Solution 2:

Why not just take the screenshot with Gimp? File > Create > Screenshot.

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This requires no intermediate storage at all.