I recall reading discussions on converting text to single stroke paths, most likely years ago, and cannot seem to find the discussion. Or perhaps I was dreaming it was possible and woke up and thought it was real. I am aware that text can be created to single stroke paths, and you can even buy such fonts, but...I seriously thought Ofnuts had already created this plugin. Getting old sucks, some days...

I recently read a tutorial where the procedure involved first converting an image to 32 bit floating point (FP) precision.  It now occurs to me that this might be wise/appropriate as a general rule.  In that, convert all images to 32 bit FP for the purpose of editing.  Do the conversion before anything else.  Then at the end of the editing pipeline the image can be converted to whatever precision is desired for the final product.

I have started experimenting with this idea but can NOT yet say I have much knowledge about the pros and cons.  However, I'm sort of guessing that one consequence of storing GIMP files (i.e., .xcf format) in 32 bit precision is that they will be larger (maybe a lot larger).  However, even if GIMP files are stored after performing editing operations in a lower precision format it might still make sense to perform edits in 32 bit FP precision.  Absent any real knowledge or experience I'd be thinking the benefit would be greater precision (? computational dynamic range) is the results.

Would love to here what real experts might have to say about such an approach.

How would you be able to change one text box and it change multiple other text boxes on the same layer or different layers? Ideally linking multiple text boxes together. 

Use case: I have a letter that sits on 12 places on an image. Every day I need to change that letter, instead of changing 12 different text boxes, could I just change one and it auto edit the rest?

Thanks,
Jake

Hi

So I downloaded Gimp and began to use it, primarily for cloning and smudge. I click on view and zoom in, click on view again and zoom in again, and I do what I need to do. Things work fairly well. At one point or another I swear I was looking through tool options and saw the program set up like a paintshop. There were brush sizes, adjustments that could be made, edit colors, etc... tools and selection options across the top of the screen... the tools were displayed on the screen much like a paintshop.

Suddenly as I was viewing and zooming in, using the VIEW button, I hit something. Now the screen is full screen, with the ruler running up the left side and across the top. I can't seem to set it back to display the tools or options, and I have clicked every clickable thing in the world. The screen remains full size with no option to adjust the size of the tool I am using... I even removed the program and re-downloaded it! How do I adjust it so I have a different working view of the screen?

And since I am here... I use Windows 10 a lot, and it's image viewer is ok, it does fairly well with light-duty basic cosmetics. It has one flaw: With the spot remover, you can't adjust the size of the tool. The one cheat there is you can zoom in on the pic, more, more, MORE... and the pic gets HUGE, which causes the tool to be smaller, to an extent. I had hoped to do the same with Gimp. I zoom in more and more and the cloning tool zooms in with me! It's like hunting flies in the house with a sawed-off shotgun! Is there a way to set the clone and smudge tools to be smaller and more user-friendly?

I suspect there is. Choose a smaller size. Which I can't do, as I seem to be stuck on the one full-view screen and can't set it back to get to the options! Does that make sense? I hope so...  

Any helpful tips would be most appreciated! Have a safe and happy holiday weekend! Thank you for your time and (hopefully) understanding.
Nicki ~

Dear Experts,
My gimp version is 2.10.22
For one of my project ,  I can see high contrast when I extract the "cmyk Yellow" component of the image.
I did this through colors-extract componet.

However if I try to recover this in other software or in programming,  the result differs.
For example, for one of the pixel value RGB= (150，136, 146) in my picture.
if I use gimp, the yellow channel gives pixel value 15.

But if I follow the popular formula here: 
https://community.adobe.com/t5/color-man...-p/1884317
or similarly follow the gimp github source code, gimp_rgb_to_cmyk
https://github.com/GNOME/gimp/blob/maste...lorspace.c
I got sth different:
CMYK percentage
0.0, 0.09, 0.03, 0.41
in 255 it is: (so yellow channel is 6)
array([  0,  23,   6, 105], dtype=uint8)
I tried to adjust the pullout but it seems not easy to get gimp CMYK results  matching with formula o

I do undestand there is no general formula between RGB to CMYK and sometimes icc profile is needed.
So the question is , what kind of algorithm is behind GIMP "CMYK yellow" channel extraction, is it by some icc profile? if so which? or if there is some gimp formula?

Thank you very much!

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Changed the style for inline code (which until now was shown with a small border) which you can enter by bracketing your text with backticks.  The border didn't do much good for readability, so I removed it, and found other ways (technically: font-family:Monospace; font-weight: bold; filter: contrast(50%);). Tell me how it looks (especially people using the dark theme).

Since this is applied at presentation time (the text is kept with backticks in the database), this change applies to all existing posts.

Spam... I see them more and more often.

The Report button is not enough IMHO, from my time zone it can happens that I still see a spam in cyrillic promoting porn or an idiot titling about taxes and spamming a snorkeling website and pretending that our "knowledge concerning the things" thus showing no idea what GF is about... I see them for the next 6/8 hours or more until an admin wakes up from its time zone, it hurts my eyes  

Two suggestions if I may:
Cyrillic...
- As no one here write cyrillic, and russian spammers are very-very stubborn, why not detect a first post from new member (less than 3 messages) in cyrillic, if cyrillic, unsubscribe him, delete session and redirect the spammer to example.com

English and other Latin characters...
- If a long term member or a well known member, or a member above a certain number of posts,  report a spam with the report button, the spam post goes into a "garage" and does not appear on the forum, Admins will decide if spam or not when they wake up in their time zone.
- If multiple short term members (members who have few posts and/or few months on GF with few messages), report a spam, like 3 members report the same spam, then same as above, the spam goes in a "garage" and does not appears until an Admin decide if spam or not
- Or a mix of both above.

Lovely Admins, what do you think?

PS: A good add-on, If a member has reported 10 true spams, s/he has the right to change the "title" under their avatar for what s/he want ("Obsessive Gimper" for the rest of my life? I want to cry )

I've been working on GIMP 2.10 (On Windows 10) for quite some time. For a few months I have had no problem overwriting images for a Spooky's Jumpscare Mansion retexture mod, but over a month or two ago I started noticing this message appearing when I try to overwrite images

   

I have no idea what this means, and this could be a problem outside of GIMP. Any ideas on what might be happening/How I can fix this? 

Hello all,

I have just learnt to use gimp in batch processing mode to autocrop a directory of JPG images which are scans of documents (music manuscript paper). I've used this in a Windows cmd shell.

I have A LOT of these directories of scans. A lot of them will crop nicely with "plug-in-autocrop" if the background from the scanner is white: the result is usually a remnant border of about 15 pixes of white around each edge of the image. That's fine.

However, when some of the smaller documents are scanned, within the thin white border around the JPG image there are also areas of black, grey-blue or off-white, presumably depending on how the scanner was setup and what was behind the document. Sadly, the scans do not conveniently provide a clean, autocropable background.


The manuscript papers are all a typical beige hue or off-white, and some (we're talking 1930s) are a richer, more orangy-beige than others.

Is there a relatively manageable way of detecting where the off-colour border ends and where the beige/orange/off-white paper begins so that I can automate this cropping using gimp-crop-image?

Perhaps sampling for a range of beige colours expected for the paper and thus intelligently detect the edge of the paper? Or would that be a total nightmare?

I am attaching an example JPG (one that doesn't have any music written on the manuscript paper).

Working this out from scratch, if it's even doable, would probably take me weeks of learning. Maybe someone has some similar scripts which could be adapted?

Michael

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When I select the clone stamp or heal brush I do not have any options to modify the brush such as: Size, Angle etc. On the other side of the window above my Layers pallet I do see a parameter for Spacing crammed in there, but this is the only thing that is available and I'm not even sure its related to my clone or heal tool. Is there a way to get these options to show up? I have checked online and have found nothing yet that works, like resetting the tool, which doesn't appear to do anything.
 I'm on a Mac M1 Pro running MacOS Moneterey 12.4. 
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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