I recently installed gimp to edit my photos. I end up having to blur a lot of licence plates with the smudge tool. however, every so often, the smudge tool stops smudging, and seems to do nothing instead. I was able to fix this issue a couple of times by resetting the smudge tool, but this time it still isn't working. The only setting I adjust on the smudge tool is the size of it.
Any advice would be much appreciated. For reference, I am using gimp 3.0

Last year I switched from PC to Mac for a variety of reasons, but that's irrelevant. One of the most annoying things I've encountered with GIMP since switching OS is the Fonts dock.

No longer can I search within the dock for a font, I either have to input into the tool options spelled exactly correctly or scroll endlessly through all the pre-installed system & language fonts I'm never ever ever ever going to use.

I want to... 1) get all these pre-installed system fonts out of this dock, period. They are useless me, there is so many they take up like at least 2/3 maybe 3/4 of the list, they just cause me to waste several minutes scrolling through them constantly if I'm browsing for the font that feels right, and clutter up the list in general. I also am wondering 2) why can't I search in this dock? Am I doing something wrong? The input fields above and below the list appear to not do anything at all, but that can't be the case or they wouldn't be there.

Plz halp thx

This is a serious problem!

XCF error: unsupported XCF file version 19 encountered

If you’re developing Python plug-ins or Script-Fu scripts for GIMP 3, you’ll know the frustration of tracking down correct enum values. The official API docs are written for C developers, leaving Python authors to piece things together from source code, forum posts, and trial and error.

I’ve put together what I hope is the definitive reference: every enum available in GIMP 3.0, compiled directly from a live GIMP 3.0.8 instance using a Python-Fu console script. That means the values are guaranteed accurate for that version. And the script is available as a free download so you can regenerate the complete listing for any future GIMP 3 release.

Each enum includes:

• the Python form you actually use in your plug-ins (e.g. Gimp.LayerMode.NORMAL)
  
• the uppercase PDB identifier, most useful when cross-referencing with the C API docs or porting code from GIMP 2.x Script-Fu scripts
  
• the raw integer value for legacy Script-Fu work
  
• the GEGL nickname for serialisation.
  

An easy way to remove graffiti online
https://notegpt.io/remove-text-from-image
Choose  'Remove Text'

Original part of an underexposed photo (left original / right graffiti removed):
   
After using gimp 'levels':
   

I've noticed a strange new behavior with perspective transformation under GIMP 3 -- something I never saw using GIMP2.  Note that while I've seen this on multiple occasions, it does not occur every time I use the tool.  I am having trouble attaching images so I will provide URL links:

Here is an example picture:

Original Picture

Here the perspective tool is being used:

Using the Perspective Tool

And here is the result after applying the perspective transformation:

Results

Notice that after dragging the lower left corner to the left, the right edge of the image has now been deleted even though it was not touched.  As I said, I see this frequently but not always.  Is this a bug needing to be reported or is it the result of some new tool setting that has changed?  

Any help better understanding what is going on is appreciated.

hi all,

I've been at this for days, trying to figure this out for hours and hours scouring all over the internet and I cannot for the life of me figure out what I am doing wrong. 

Basically, I am trying to create a silly gif with an image of a cat and two wings attached to either side of the image. The wings are animated (gif), and are both part of a single gif, so not separate. When I first tried doing this I quickly found out that whenever I export the cat only shows up at the very end, so I tried to figure out why. It's got to do with the layers, and every step of the way I found a plugin called ofn interleave layers being linked but at first I tried to avoid it since I couldn't figure out how to download it. 

The cat in the middle is the image, the wings are the gif/animated part. 

It quickly became apparent that I did need it, so I relented and downloaded it and put it in my plugin folder according to the instructions given (Filters->Development->Python-fu->console and then got the plugin folder.

I then pasted the contents in the plugin folder it gave me like so  

Restarting Gimp that didn't do the trick, so I then created a subfolder, which also did not work. I then saw that gimphelpers.py might be needed and installed that, which also changed nothing. I use Gimp 3.0 and Windows 11.  

What I thought was a very simple and quick creation has turned into a multiple days long affair, and at this point I'm more frustrated that I can't seem to figure out how to make this work rather than actually getting the result. I am sorry if this isn't the right place but I truly am at a loss of what I am doing wrong at this point. 

Please don't assume I know anything when you reply, I am very new to Gimp and I know like nothing about Python. Assume I am an idiot (I am) 

Is there any way to deal with this?

Here's an example, resize to 25%.
Gimp - blurry. (if choose None, will get terrible aliasing)
Windows Paint - not blurry (but not support alpha).

Original image (cannot attach, said too large): https://1drv.ms/i/c/cfd39d12afb55641/IQB...Jss9bfcMkA
Result-Gimp: https://1drv.ms/i/c/cfd39d12afb55641/IQC...ceDmBBTfrU
   
Result-Windows Paint: https://1drv.ms/i/c/cfd39d12afb55641/IQA...EO4nLDEi9Y
   

Look at the face and hair.

edit:attachment seems didn't display.

I've released version 1 of my Contact Sheet plug-in for GIMP 3:

https://www.chuckhenrich.com/contact-sheets-in-gimp-3/

Details are in the blog post. Here's a screenshot of the main dialog:



Supported languages are:

Nederlands (Dutch)
English
Français (French (Français)
Deutsch (German)
Italiano (Italian)
Magyar (Hungarian)
日本語 (Japanese)
Polski (Polish)
Português (Portuguese)
Português (Brazilian)
Español (Spanish)
Українська (Ukrainian)
简体中文 (Chinese (Simplified))
繁體中文 (Chinese (Traditional))

Many many thanks to Joe over at pixls.us for the inspiration, ideas, and robust testing!

Please let me know what you think. And if you have any suggestions, I'm all ears.

Using the pencil tool I created 10 big dots with the same Green en Blue value but with the Red value ranging from 10, 20, 30 etc to 100%, I used the Color Curve tool to modify the Red component only. While the colors on the screen truly reflect the changes, the Color Picker tool still shows exactly the same color as before applying the Curve Tool. I have to export the image and reload it into GIMP before I get the actual colors in the Color Picker tool. Am I missing something, or is this a bug?