I'm trying to tint the merged image of the couple in this screenshot to be shades of the main color of the background.
I have the hex code of the background red color (94151a), and with it, the RGB and HSV numbers. I've tried everything I could find under the Colors menu to plug these in to get the color I want, but with no success. The RGB numbers just make the faces look sick. I tried using Sample Points and Curves and tried matching the HSV there, but the result was the same.
The closest I get is when I use Colorize, but I'm just doing it by eye and the results are chancy at best. The cover, front and back, will have four or more images that need to match, and I'd like to do it scientifically if I can.
Am I missing a tool somewhere? Will using the HSV numbers do me better, and if so, where can I try?
I had to do the same thing with the cover of the first book in the series, and somehow managed it. But as I said, it was by sheer dumb luck.
EDIT--- I also want to apply the same sort of "glow" to the background of the red cover that the blue one has, but that'll be a separate question.
I'm new to Gimp, and I was prompted to try it due to Paint no longer working.
Some backstory: I create 1/6 scale dioramas and, as a graphic artist, I create them all digitally, as the size they need to be, and then print them out and glue them to cardboard. For years (10+), I have created the files and then used Paint to print them out. I simply instructed Paint to print the files at 100% and they printed out at the exact size I made them as.
This past March, Microsoft released an update that has rendered this impossible, as a file that usually spans 6 pages now spans almost 40. It makes the file way too large. Adobe programs, despite my printer settings being set to 100% and scale to fit being deactivated, print the entire image on one piece of A4 paper. Acrobat, with its splicing tool, also prints too large and not to the size the images are made in.
I've looked up how to print true to size on Gimp, and while the size and resolution are just what I need them to be in the program, I still cannot get them to print properly. There is no longer an Image Settings tab in the print dialogue box, so I'm unable to adjust anything further in Gimp. All the other settings come directly from my printer settings, which are already set to print at 100%, but the same issue persists - what prints out is not the size I made the file as.
What can I do? I'm desperate... I need to be able to print my hard work in 1:1 scale, true to the size I made them in. I can't believe how difficult such a request is being. (I'd upload photos to show all my settings/issues but the forum isn't letting me... I click Insert Image and it prompts me to put in an optional size, then I click Insert and it does nothing...)
I routinely hit export to instead of export as and end up overwriting my work. I have never needed the ability to overwrite an image directly from gimp, so I'm wondering if there's a way to completely remove/disable that option, maybe an extension or setting?
There is an ERROR: The Label Color Scheme in the Welcome screen does not list the 2 Color Scheme. It lists the 4Color scheme variants, Light Colors, Middle Gray, Dark Colors and System Colors
This Label should be ammended
Add a section for the, missing Color Theme, which will list the 2 Color Themes, Default and System Colors and also update with downloaded and installed color themes that the user adds.
During the past weeks, I spent a lot of time on learning how to use this software and on working on my first projects. I'm a comic drawer and create different sorts of printed products with my images.
It wasn't before yesterday that I opened a file to realise that one of its layers had disappeared - the most important one I had spent many hours of work on. I opened a backup file just to see that the same layer was gone there too. I was extremely lucky to have created a third file where I had put all layers together just for a mixed demo print; so the visible data in it allowed me to restore the missing layer.
I had no idea what could have led to that incident; but I've ended up creating dozens of backup files on different drives.
However, this morning, just the same thing happened again with two other files on an external HDD. In one file, the main image was gone, in another one, a text layer. Now I'm scared even to open any other files with GIMP because I never know what it would do to them! It's dozens of hours of work that are at risk.
Is there any obvious reason for that problem to appear?
In this forum, I've read that somebody who had had the same issue had made a mistake by messing up invisible and visible layers or groups of layers. I'm not sure what exactly he has done; but I never created groups of layers; and all of my files' layers are visible. I've created raw files that contain basic elements such as textfields, backgrounds and borders; and I use to integrate my drawn and scanned pictures into those files as layers (by "open as layer"). Then I use to colorise the black/white images in there and leave the files the way they are structured, with all their layers.
Such a file's layer tree may look like this:
Text
Logo
Border
Background
Cutting additive
Signature
Image
I use GIMP 3.2.4 on Windows 11; and I've got my files saved on a USB stick and an external Backup HDD.
I'm quite sure that the problem is a bug and not due to wrong usage as I haven't made any obvious mistake; but I'm wondering if there's a way to work around it. Maybe I should transfer the files to the system HDD before opening them?
The Color Scheme in the Welcome screen is not the Color Scheme. Note there is no Default Colors an installed theme in the list. It is the Color scheme variant (if available), and the Label should be ammended and a Color Theme section added to the Welcome>Personalize window.
Although labeled wrong it works correctly at changing a Color scheme variant on newly installed Color Schemes that are selected in Edit>Preferences>Theme>Select Theme
Steep learning curve as with most graphics apps If you want to add the graph to an image gephi suggests using Inkscape but editing is very tedious. Gephi will export svg files.
The new version of my python plugin for drawing hexagonal grids has been released.
The plugin should now be more useful for general use: the hexagons centers alignment with the pixel grid can be bypassed if pixel-perfect rasterization is not needed. Vertical/horizontal lines are still always perfectly aligned to pixels, to avoid annoying blurriness.
As in previous versions, it offers the option to create nicely formatted sample sheet, if you need to choose visually the ideal size, along with the output of useful parameters. A new output is the number of contiguous hexagons and lines the current image can contain.
Anecdotally, for the mathematically inclined, these parameters output, and the filtering ability, can be used to search for the optimal discrete fractions which approximate square root of 3! ;-)
Download by clicking on https://github.com/Scallact/gimp-plugin-hexgrid, and the link under "Releases". Download the Source code at the bottom, and install it according to the description at the bottom of the Readme.
I invite you to read the documentation, as there are a few non trivial concepts and parameters.
I'm not a frequent and wel educated user of Gimp and do have a question. Next to layer name in the Layers view ther is a small scissors symbol. How did I get it there and what does it mean? Furthermore, I was using the Difference function of the Path menu in that layer. This is the function I want the use in another layer, how tp proceed?
