I improved the animation I posted on the other forum




Started with a rectangle select of a fractal. I used mathmap flag chained to animated sphere. This makes a continuous animation. The sphere has an alpha background so it's a virtual sphere.

That makes the front animation. The back animation is the front reversed and made to look like it's on the inside of a sphere with G'MIC Distort lens. (not ideal because the front is alredy distorted)

Gimp has a tool called Script-fu Spinning globe. I checked it out because I'm looking for something that maps an image to the inside of an object. I was surprised to see that it was written in 1998. It makes the back and front similar or identical but I don't understand how it does the back. It feels like it was made in the 1990's

I packed the 90 layers of the back and scaled them to meet-up with the 90 packed layers on the front. I think the back is more of an optical illusion than a properly mapped object.

If anyone knows of a better way of doing something like this I would like to know?

Hello everyone. I am using GIMP for a project of mine and I need to facilitate the implementation of small pictures/icons when using them in the middle of a text, like you can find in card games.

Let's say I write a text as "This is a [heart] wow", could GIMP interpret [heart] as a symbol/picture and automatically replace it as follow : "This is a wow" ?

Is there a way for GIMP to "translate" a custom text code into an image ? Is there an option or plugin you guys know ? Thank you for your help and sorry for the weird question, google hasn't helped me.

HI, I think I used to be able to paste an image - be it a copy of another open image in GIMP or from a Windoze snip and then immediately move it around.  I'm no longer able to do so and find it very frustrating. Can anyone help, please?

The forum won't let me post images despite allowing me to paste them in, I hope I can describe what is happening.  I'm using GIMP 2.10.36 on Win 10.

1) I create a new image


2) I then open another image (or copy to my clipboard from another source):

3) I Control C the above and then paste in the new image.  Dang if I can't move it at all.  All I get is the cross hair with a crossed circle?.  How am I messing this up?

Thanks so much.

I'm about as new to Gimp as I am to this forum. While browsing the forum I've noticed that several plugins have issues with the latest versions of Gimp on OSX. That's a bummer of course, but I'm sure there are plenty of great plugins that do work. For the OSX users with Apple chipsets, what would be the most useful plugins to install and experiment with in Gimp?

Hey everyone, nice to meet you.

It took me a while to switch from Photoshop to GIMP. I'm trying to please with what GIMP can do. To speed up my work, I'd love to hear from other GIMP users who have successfully switched from Photoshop to GIMP.



Here are some specific areas I'm looking for guidance on:

Customizing the GIMP interface: Are there any plugins or themes that mimic the Photoshop layout and tool placement?

Mapping Photoshop shortcuts to GIMP: Is there a recommended way to replicate my familiar Photoshop keyboard shortcuts within GIMP?

Emulating Photoshop features: Are there hidden gems or workarounds within GIMP that achieve similar results to popular Photoshop tools like brushes, layer masks, and adjustment layers?

I'm eager to learn and unlock the full potential of GIMP while maintaining my existing workflow efficiency. Any tips, tricks, or resources you can share would be greatly appreciated!

I am working on my first script-fu project on gimp 2.10 and have a problem using the gimp-item-transform-rotate procedure.

I can use this directly in the Script-Fu Console and it works correctly: (gimp-item-transform-rotate 2 -0.009593 0 907 73 )
When I try to use this same command in my script, the script will execute and I can see the status bar showing it do the rotate calculations, but when it finishes the layer is not actually rotated. What's odd is that once I manually click anywhere on the image with the fuzzy tool ... then the image will rotate correctly.

I tried putting a fuzzy select and bucket-fill command after the rotate command in my script ... the script finishes, but I have to manually click on the image before it does the rotate and bucket fill.

So my question is, what do I need to do in the script to apply the rotate command directly (and rotate the image without waiting for me to manually click on the image)?  Again, this is my first attempt with script-fu, so I am probably missing something pretty basic

Note: I also tried a (gimp-image-rotate image 0) command. It works correctly in the Script-Fu Console. When I run it in my script, it acts similar to above: the layer rotates correctly, but the photo does not rotate to fit the layer until I manually click somewhere on the image.

Gimp 2.10 on Windows 11, What i'm trying to do is save my eraser as the hardness 100 brush and shrink it so every time i pull up the eraser i have a circle for cleaning up lines instead of a pixel, but i don't want to change the paintbrush specs. I tried the Save Tool Presets option at the bottom of the tab and that brings up the preset thing on the right-hand side of the screen, then i click save there and nothing seems to happen. I right clock the eraser tool and there's no additional options, it looks like when i try to save again there's an eraser # 1 now (i tried a few times so I might have made the same thing over and over again by accident) and when i switch back to the drawing tool the brush size and settings keep from the eraser.

Tl;Dr I want to customize my eraser and save the brush size to just being the wider eraser and switch back to the thin pen without editing settings each time. Kinda new to GIMP here and this is my first forum post also so I'm doing my best and want to improve as much as I can 

Hi all,

I'm trying to set up a Python-Fu script that will get the file path of the current file, save the file, and then return the folder and file name of the file. For some reason, though, the os.path operations that I'm including don't appear to be working. Here's the code:

Hi all,

I've been trying to figure out how to set up a script that will do a drop shadow with the GEGL drop shadow filter. This is something I've wanted to do in the past, but didn't get any traction on it. Since then, I've found what seems like a possible solution, but I'm having issues actually implementing it.

I did this thread with a way to use GEGL with Python-Fu (is there a more current way to do this?), and I also found this set of scripts that transcribe the various GEGL operations into individual Python-Fu scripts (again, is there something more current than this?). I have both scripts in my Plug-Ins folder. If I use the drop shadow script from the "GEGL as Python" toolbar in Gimp, it works great. My question is how to properly code that into a script.

Here's the drop shadow script from MareroQ:

Hi,


I am looking for a tutorial or a procedure allowing you to position an animated image (.gif) on a jpg image.
I use version 2.10 of Gimp

Thank you for your answers