Greetings,

New forum member here.

I've been using GIMP, mostly on Windows and at work, for a number of years and am a faithful disciple.

My profession life ended on May 5th with my retirement and I'm now officially a "free man" and old fart....

We are in the process of building a new retirement home, so my focus of late is trying new things computer wise, with one of those things being Linux.

After some looking around, Elementary OS was chosen (don't ask me why, I couldn't tell you) and It's been an interesting experience for this old man to wrap his head around after so many years of Windows-dom. EOS is an Ubuntu variant BTW.

It took some doing, but I've gotten EOS where I wanted.  One of the interesting things I came across was the myriad of ways to install applications.

EOS is fond of flatpaks so initially I installed flatpak applications.  Some of the other applications were snap packages, some where apt packages and a couple were just executables.

What I found was this unholy mixture of install types lead to some very interesting file access issues. Some flatpaks would see folders while the snap packages wouldn't, etc, etc, etc.

After a bit of to-ing and fro-ing, I decided to throw flatpaks and snap packages to the curb and just install stuff via good old apt install.

This has solved my file access issues, but I'm finding now that GIMP is stuck on v2.10.30 vs the latest v2.10.34.

Is there any way to update my install without going to a flatpak?

Thank you!

chris

Hi, I am new to this forum so if I my question is in the wrong section, well, sorry I guess!

I have a pdf form to fill like 500 times and I thought using a gimp python plugin is the way to do it. I have developed the said plugin and I can successfully fill the form except that the text layers I am adding are too sharp. Before I save the file manually, I usually use the blur tool to make the text look like it was filled with a pen. I have tried to do this in the plugin but I can't get i right. I am using the gimp.convolve() function. I guess my problem is obtaining the stroke points of the text layer. Can somebody please help me. Thanks.

A sometimes problem. A Windows user annoyed that Windows Explorer only shows Gimp .xcf files with the default Gimp icon.

Does anyone know of a fix ?  

As an alternative there is XnViewMP. Download from the xnviewmp forum: https://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?f=82&t=45755

You can use it to browse a folder of files and view any that interest you. Set up to edit in an external editor, that is Gimp. It can make the workflow a little smoother for Windows users.

A 4 minute video https://youtu.be/G_sRRvayw6U  

Hey guys! Please what are the names of thee fonts.

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I seem to have lost the tool to select a sample from the picture. 

I think I might have accidently clicked on the wrong thing or touched a key on the keyboard.

I'm a real novice with PC's and IT so don't know much.

Before when it was working I would click on the area i wanted to select from then press the trl key on my keyboard and a circle would appear which could then use as my source for cloning and healing. Now i get  four corners and a cross in the middle and the cross stays where click but doesn't work .  


windows 10 pro version 22h2

Gimp 2.10.34

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Hi,
I'm working on a script that takes some time to execute because it sends a list of online requests. It can last up to few minutes. During the process, the window "gimp is not responding" with the options "force to quit" and "wait" appear. Is there a way to prevent it ?

I've always been marveled at GIMP and very happy that it's so accessible.

I was wondering if I can ask, I'd like to know how indexing works and creation of a palette, it happens so quickly that I was wondering if anyone could tell me (even if roughly) how this indexing works. Or even point me to a an article or the name of the creator of this particular algorithm.

I attach an image of what I am talking about.

   

Hi,

We obtain the secondary colors by superimposing the primary colors, such that:
Red + Yellow = Orange
Blue + Red = Purple
Yellow + Blue = Green

Is there any way to produce this with The Gimp?

   

I laid each color in a layer and tried to get the secondary colors, I tried the layers modes and the composite mode, but without getting the expected results.

Thx!

I am doing a script that I want to execute very quickly with a shortcut, or more slowly with a option window. Something similar to "save" (quickly executed with ctrl+s) and "save as ..." (with a window to precise options). How should I do ?

1. Should I do two completely separated plug-ins ?
   
2. Or one plug-in with two python files in it (one importing the other I guess) ?
   
3. Or can I put several register function in one python script ?
   
4. other ?