Hi all. I am close to giving up on this one, and need help from you good people.
I have seen all videos and read all tutorials i can find, but i am still stuck.

A problem with these tutorials are that they use quality images. The one i have been given are most likely been taken with a toaster.
It is about the hairline. I can for the life of me not get a good selection. After trying freehand for i while, i realized that it simply is not good enough, Help!

I am using GIMP 2.10.18

I wanted to create a geometric object in GIMP but decided to do it in AutoCAD and plotted it as a pdf which worked fine. I did it white on black in Acad and it came out fine as black on white as a pdf.

I tried to import it to GIMP and rotate and resize it to suit the Youtube icon of 300x300 pixels.

I got what appears to be a transparency layer added but there is only one layer containing the pdf.  I am obviously missing something but if this workflow is fundamentally incorrect it would be good to know. 

Any tips would be welcome.

Tony

I had been working on an image for almost an hour when Gimp crashed.  It may have been a conflict with MS Edge browser because the browser greyed out and could not be accessed.  I was able to close the browser with task manager.  All the other open windows seemed to be ok.

Then when I restarted Gimp I was informed that there had been an unexpected closure and I was asked if I wanted to recover. I gave it a go and to my surprise most? of the open and unsaved images were recovered including the one I had been working on.  The ones that did not reappear were the open files that had not been worked on.

The smudge tool on my Windows 11 PC is not picking up colour.  On first opening it does so, but then stays with that colour ever afterwards.  In other words, it has become identical with the paintbrush.

I have reinstalled several times without being able to correct this behaviour.  

Also, the latest installation has adopted Spanish as its language and I've been unable to reset it to English, partly no doubt because I don't understand the instructions I'm getting in Spanish.

When I open my gif it seems to loose parts on every other layer but the "Background" layer. If anyone knows why this happens then I will be very greatful.

I made this last month and use the appimage for all Gimp projects. I find it reliable. Plug-ins and scripts go in '$HOME/.config/GIMP/2.10/'. The same place as a Gimp deb pack. That's because the appimage is made from an Ubuntu deb, part of the upcoming 24.04 'Noble' version of Debian to be released in April 2024.



There is an Ubuntu and an all other Linux version. They are on my github.

Tested on Ubuntu 22.04, MX Linux 23.1 and Linux Mint 21.2

So everything was working fine, but I needed to upgrade my Mac for some programs I run. So I upgraded to Sonoma 14.2.1 and Gimp stopped working. So I looked and I needed to upgrade Gimp... so I did. The program opens fine, but after I load in a project (any project I have tried several older ones) everything stops and the cursor just turns into an endlessly spinning ball. I attempted a screenshot, but the moment I do so the cursor goes away. Is anyone else running into this? Or is it just me? Gimp is a major workhorse for what I do and I would not want to lose it.

Hello everyone, I would like to use the AI plugins for gimp and I'm trying to install the packages (babl and gegl) and gimp from source following https://github.com/intel/openvino-ai-plugins-gimp 

Unfortunately I get to an error when building gegl. Below is the final part of the error:

Hi guys. I have gimp 2.10.36 running on a 2018 iMac. My image is 1024x1024. I made one multi layered image without issues. The second image I tried to create gave me some problems.  I right click on a layer in the layers window and create a new layer. I have it set and don't change the default. Most of the time, a new transparent layer appears and I can edit that layer and it won't affect the others below.  Today, I have 5 layers and I tried to make layer 6 but everything disappears from the screen. This is only for layers below the newly created layer. If I create the layer at the very bottom, the rest of the layers are fine. If I create a new layer on the top of the stack, everything under it disappears. I have no idea what's going on.   Can someone offer some insight as to what's going on and how I can fix it?

Thanks

Hello!

When I open up the font selection dialog in gimp, I see about 599 entries with the name "Noto Sans ... " and something or the other, with an interesting looking thumbnail to the left. However, when cycling through all these fonts, the appearance of the text never changes. It's an almost comically bad user experience. It probably has something to do with localization or whatever, but .. yes it needs to be fixed. I'm scrolling through a single list with 1000nds of fonts, all looking exactly identical. This is the wrong way. It could be so simple, just let the user put fonts in a folder, and browse the folder from within the font dialog...

I looked into hacking a way around this, like manually editing the tags.xml file but... not convenient.... If there are any  other options, I'd love to hear about them. (adding tags via the interface, makes the interface freeze up.)

thnx !

ps I'm running linux mint 21.2