Hey there everyone, guest273 here!

How to make a good looking group picture from individual photos?

A short story of why and what I need:

1) I'm about to have my graduation ceremony in my university later this week.
2) Our university has a tradition that each year the people who graduate send their photos to one person and that person makes them into a "group picture" or rather a "group collage".
3) This group collage is given as a gift to the university during the ceremony.
And this year, since no one really wanted to be the person, I was tasked with doing this task.

So, after a weeks of bombarding people with emails I have 34 pictures, one from each student (incusing myself). They're all totally different sizes & I have to make this thing fit on either an A4 or A3 paper. (Currently I'm going for A3 size, which is 4961 x 3508 px.)

I want to make something cool looking. Any ideas?

So my current idea is to take a blank A3 page, make a hexagon pattern where each hexagon would potentially be able to fit a person with his / her picture + their name OR just their picture and fit their name + surname on the 2 hexagons directly below. I have no idea how to mathematically make this possible. Like I don't want to use the half-hexagons on the very edges + I probably want to put the universities logo and faculty name somewhere on the "top row" of the hexagons. After that I have an idea, so the background wouldn't be white to put this HD 4000X3000 image of our universities building front as like a 20-30% transparent layer. I think it would look cool. I could also color the half hexagons in our university color pattern.

Like, how do I do any of this?  Is there an 'easy' way to make each picture match each hexagon somewhat ok? Like is there simple masking in gimp? Because square images in hexagons would look whack.

I would really appreciate just a short description / clip of how to set up the background and how to mask said images so they'd only show in 1 hexagon at a time. Once I know how to do it once I should be able to repeat it 34 times.

Thanks for your help.

Hi everyone. I have a question about the best way to do color corrections. I have a 1965 pinball machine and the plastics on the playfield have faded, it looks like the red faded out a bit more than everything else, though pure red areas are still red. I tried just making it warmer and playing with the hue a bit but I don't seem to be getting close. Looking at a reference image the face is a lot more pink but the whites are white.

Its a relatively simple colored set of images (originally silkscreened onto the plastic) and I thought I could probably select areas by color and individually adjust, but I have 10 of these graphics to do, is there an easier way?

reference pic:    

scan of my plastic:    

Hey Gimp fam,

I need help changing the text in this image. Can someone please give me some advice.

Thanks,

Rick

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One week of the year the fair comes to town. Also known as the annual rain-making-ceremony. It has been surprisingly dry for once. I thought I would break out my mobile phone for more or less random photos. Still not mastered the phone, seems to capture / not-capture of its own volition

All very colourful, from the traditional to the higher tech stuff, whatever appeals.

A quick montage.

   

This has been a problem with GIMP for many years now (as long as I've been using it) but it seems like it might be a very minor problem.  If so I'd love to be able to print my edited photos using GIMP.

In my case the target printer is Canon Pixma Pro 100.  The interface works very much as expected.  In that the print dialogue has a Button labeled Preferences.  When this is selected the Canon driver setup dialogue is invoked.  On this photo printer there are lots of options that can be selected to prepare for printing.  This includes many options NOT commonly available on a typical office printer.  However, one of the options, which is very standard, is the need to specify the size of paper on which the image is to be printed.  As it turns out no matter what size paper is selected GIMP seems to insist on setting it to Letter (8.5x11) inch.  Fortunately, this Canon driver has a preview option, that still works, which displays what the driver intends to do.  This allows the printing operation to be canceled if something is amiss, which when using GIMP is always very conspicuous.

This raises the question, "might GIMP work correctly when printing on Letter size paper?".  While it is technically possible, GIMP still does something to mess up the options selected by the driver.  One of those has to do with the border.  The Pixma Pro printers are capable of "Borderless" printing.  In that, printing all the way to the edge of the paper.  Unfortunately, it seems that GIMP does something to negate this capability.  Interestingly GIMP does provide a "Page Setup" dialogue which is used to specify both paper and border size separately from the Canon driver.  When using the "Page Setup" dialogue it appears as though GIMP does NOT allow the border values to be set to zero.

Since GIMP does invoke the Canon provided printer driver software one might expect that it shouldn't be too hard to stay out of the way and let it operate as it should.  Instead GIMP is doing something, presumably unintentional, that essentially prevents me from using it to print photos.

Today I installed Samj's portable version 2.10.32 and after a few minutes of use I noticed a new behavior in this version that doesn't seem normal to me.

Whenever I delete either a layer, a channel or a path everything disappears for a fraction of a second (almost 1 second).

If I have 5 layers and I delete one of them, all layers disappear for a short time, not just the deleted layer. 

Same for channels and paths.

I still have Samj's portable version 2.10.28 installed and in this version when I delete something (layer, channel or path) the rest remains visible. In other words, normal behavior.

Is this a bug in this version (Samj's Portable 2.10.32)?

Are there any tweaks I can try to fix this problem?

Thanks!

How do you create registration marks on transparency film for screen printing, I have tried several times and am at my witts end,,,,is it that complex or I am that dumb  :/

GIMP 2.10.18

What will be an easy way adding date on photo ?

Performed following steps;
Open photo
Tools -> Text

It seems nothing happened.

Pls advise.  Thanks

Regards

Hi all,

GIMP 2.10.18

Pls advise how to display Toolbox on left top-corner similar to photo attached ?

on
-> Edit -> Preferences -> Toolbox
?

Thanks

Regards

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