Hi all,

I'm trying to figure out if there's an easier way to make selections that have a fixed width, but are at an angle, for comic book panels.

Currently I've been drawing panels following this old guide (http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=9812). Basically, make a selection, then remove fixed height/width rectangle selections, and assigning the resulting selection to a path. It works great, but really only works in straight lines as far as I can tell.

It looks like I can make a fixed height/width selection using the rectangle select tool, and then go to the rotate tool, and change it to transform selections, I can make the angled rhombuses that I want. BUT - I can't rotate a selection that is being added or removed from a selection.

For example: I select my whole page. I draw a new selection, that is set to remove from the current selection. Once I draw it, I have the ability to edit it - make sure it's in the right position, make it a little bigger or smaller, etc. But if I try and click on the rotate tool, Gimp finishes the merge operation and only lets me rotate the new selection shape.

I could draw all of the angled rectangles separately, save them as paths, and then remove each one from my selection, but that seems very cumbersome and hard to work with since I can't see the other selection areas.

Is there a better way to do this? I wish I could just draw a rectangle selection and then rotate it before I commit to it right there.

Hello,
I would like to remove the greyish background from this scanned document. The difficulty is that this background is made up of pixels in different shades of grey, some of which are found in the elements to be kept. In this case, the colour selection tool does not give good results.
This is why I am looking for ideas on this forum. So thanks for any suggestions.

GT

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Often when I switch to the free select tool, I find it has switched itself into intersect mode.  This appears to also be the case for the rectangle select tool.  This may be more of a general problem with tool options automatically changing over to the right most position, as the move tool is switching into path mode on it's own too.  I've tried setting them to the left most option, going into edit>preferences and saving the tool options.  It didn't help.  What could I be doing that would change the options on multiple tools that aren't selected?

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Hi everyone,

someone asked me to remove a person from the background so I did my best. Used clone and healing tools to get rid of the person but still have a bit of a "streaky" effect.

Should I have done something different? Use other tools? or just keep on working on it to smooth things out?

I am not to worried about the reality check under the arm as I had to make the background up.

In 2022, the problem is still here.
On Gimp 2.10 and Ubuntu 22.04 (4K screen), the icon them is well installer on /usr/share/gimp/2.0/icons/Color-48, but icons are not found.
And it seems that customizing and increasing the icons size fails in huge mode (size 3 and 4 go back to the size 1)...
Any ideas?

Im modding DarkSouls right now and have custom icons for custom items.
 
The problem is for the icons:
DDS files can be saved with paint.net - but wont open or be displayed in the game
 
DDS files cannot be opened in GIMP.
When this occurs Error message reads: "DDS Image Message / Unsupported DXGI format (98)"

earlier today, I clicked on the blur tool, clicked on my picture, and it blurred that part of my picture. (size depending on size)

I would like to do that again, but it doesn't work -- no blurring occurs. (I do get a "convolve" added to the left of my screen.) I have tried, well, starting with a no picture with no layers, adding layers, using picture select, using other pictures, google, the search engine here, turning Gimp off and then back on, holding the shift key, getting to blur from the menu and reducing opacity at the top. I guess I could try pushing all the keys at once and turning my whole computer on and off, but I will send this first.