Hi,

I have my default quality saved as 80% on Export Image as JPEG window. But whenever I open some images to make edits and then export, the slider on Quality option always appears at a different value, like 90%, 93%, 100% etc. It doesn't keep my saved default value selected. Every time, I have to click Load Defaults button.



Any ideas how to fix this? I'm on GIMP 2.8.20, if it makes any difference. Thanks!

Is there any way to rename the layers in gimp? Preferably if there was some way to rename only visible and/or linked layers.

I know there is the plugin under Filters-Animation-Rename Layers....

But this filter is for animation, and only renames the name of the Prefix, determines the Delay and allows whether or not to include "Replace" in the layer name.

I'd like to be able to rename the layers indexed by adding a prefix of my choice (not just 'Frame').

Something like the Export All Layers plugin (ofn-export-layers), but without having to export the layers (Renaming them directly while editing).

Thx!

Sick of changing the appearance of the transparency always by opening Edit > Preferences > Interface > Transparency.

As I'm often changing appearance of the transparency by using the background mid-tone checks, black, gray or white,
I'm looking for a hotkey to open this setting option faster than walking through the preferences menus.

Thank you

I have a HP laptop running Windows 11 and using GIMP 2.10. 
I was able to print photos to my old printer.
I am unable to print photos on my new photo printer CANON imagePROGRAF PRO-300.
Other photo software can print to my PRO-300 just not GIMP 2.10. 
Any suggestions for getting GIMP 2.10 to print to my new printer? 
Thanks.

Hi everyone, excuse the newbie question and apologies if it's been asked before. Can someone please explain to me how the fill option works with crop allow growing? I thought it was going to be a kind of alternative way to resize a canvas but I'm sure I'm misunderstanding something. This is what I'm doing:

1. open an image
2. activate the crop tool
3. check allow growing
4. choose a fill for the extra canvas
5. make a selection that goes outside the image boundary
6. press enter

But, no matter what fill I choose, the extra canvas is always transparent. The GIMP docs aren't really any help but they do say "Transparency will be used if there is no material to crop". If that's the case then what is the fill for? I assumed "no material to crop" was the extra canvas and that's what gets filled.

Hello! I do a lot of image work for my job and my little team really appreciates all the time and effort you all put into these plug-ins. Countless hours have been saved thanks to the work you all share and upload.
I was hoping I could find someone who could help write a small QOL edit a plug-in.

The plug-in is the Center Resize All Layers to Image Size created by Tin Tran over on http://gimplearn.net.

Would it be possible to have the code loop until it's Centered/Resized all layers and then delete the "Background" layer?


First I need to say: None of my team, myself included, is very good with GIMP. I'd still classify us all as novice, even after years. Some of them can barely understand what a "brush" or "layer" is and just follow a very basic step-by-step-with-pictures guide to get their basic edits done. I swear they're smart. Just... not with image work/programs.
We work with hundreds of images at a time. For the scaling/size, we typically open a new canvas with our desired size/dimensions, upload a ton of different sized images as layers, use that plug-in to center and resize all of the images to the canvas size, and then use another plug-in to export all layers as individual images. We export to a lot of different folders. Unfortunately, this means they also export the white Background layer to every folder as well. They will then go to every individual folder (sometimes a couple hundred) and delete the white background image.

It would be so much less of a headache to just have that layer deleted automatically before exporting.

What if there was Undo History specific to each layer in addition to the standard global undo. Does anyone know if this exists already? Currently for pretty much every program in the world "CTRL + Z" is the hotkey for "undo last modification/action", but what if GIMP, or some 3rd party developer, made it possible for each layer in GIMP to log its own independent history? I am far from a programmer, but is it feasible to make an addition to GIMP that allows users to click on a layer and only undo the history of changes made to the specified layer?
Keep global undo "CTRL + Z", but add in a modifier for layer specific undo like a "CTRL + ALT + Z"

Would be pretty dope. 

Example: I'm sure you get it already, but every so often I will have made changes to a layer, moved onto another layer, then wanted to undo some changes I applied to the previous layer, but Undo isn't layer specific, it can only go backwards chronologically, so I'll have to erase the work I want to keep on the layer I have been working on in order to undo the work I've done on a previous layer. 

*of course in this case, in reality, I will not use Undo, I will delete the layer I want to reset so I can keep the work I did after making changes to this previous layer. But, also that sucks. would love something like an Advanced Undo.

I'm new here.

Thanks for the warm community.

I know about the "Export Layers As..." plug in. It has saved me many countless hours.

However I'm wondering about something else in that arena.

I have a folder with 48 PNG images, all the exact same image, each with a different color variation:

Image 1

I have opened each of these files as its own layer. I would like to type the same text ON ALL OF THEM:

Image 2

I then want to export each one as a PNG with that text on it.

Is this possible? I'm kind of a newbie here...any way that this can be done or any advice would be helpful. Thanks so much!

Over the past several months, I've grown amused over how updates for one program can adversely impact  another.

Especially in context with internet browsers Firefox, Chromium, and Konqueror.   Won't go into specifics there because I appreciate this is not the place for "that", other than to say I've been watching a ping pong game where updates to "A" introduce problems to "B", breaking specific functionality...which inspires a fix, that in turn the fix to "B" wreaks havoc upon "A", and the cycle repeats.

I guess that "independence" of the open source model has it's own unfortunate consequences?

Specific to graphics software. I've been installing on separate machines,  various vintages of Krita, versions 4.4.2.   4.4.8,   and 5.0.2 without major difficulty ( other than the Gmic issue with 5.0.2)

When installing those,... I always notice a transaction listing claiming to remove an inkscape file.   evidently it replaces said file with an updated equivalent, because my old inkscape app continues to function.

However just this past weekend, I noticed that an update for inkscape was being offered. I believe the update was from my  original install of version 1.0.2-3 to a new offering of 1.1.2-3+b1

So, I updated Inkscape, and thereafter the synaptic package manager refused to install Krita (any vintage) on my machine, citing that I must fix broken packages, before proceeding.

So, clearly the inkscape update fluxxored my system in some way to prohibit the install of Krita (on new media that had never previously had Krita as a resident program)

And attempts to fix broken packages were stonewalled. I eventually ended up having to reformat, and do a completely fresh install, forgoing the update to inkscape in order to install Krita 4.4.2   Which worked fine

But my questions, is this type of  conflict between programs common place?   Is this the reason many of you have become advocates of "flat paks" and "AppImages"....to put an end to such hijinks?  I think I'm about to become a believer

GIMP 2.10.28
Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS snap installed

I am trying to install the Photolab CurveBatch plug-in, does this plug-in work with 2.10.28, I know you have to edit a if statement but I cannot get it to show in the filter menu, even after creating a folder in the plug-in folder in preferences.