Hi,

I have a 32x32 image that I'm trying to export as an .ico file, but the result doesn't look like the preview during the export process.
Why would that be?
I have merged several layers into one layer, and I'm simply choosing that single, merged layer to export. (Not even trying to do the multi-size thing.)
The resulting file looks like a different layer that I didn't even specify during export. ???

Very confused.
thanks for any help.

hello everyone, I'm a newb at gimp and
have no clue what I'm doing!
I’ve been trying to crop a picture I have of my little ones feet and handprints to
make a collage round a poem in libre office.
I managed to crop the handprints without changing their size, and set alpha then exported to PNG which took me an age to figure out! but when I open the image it has a big white background the size of A4.
I’ve tried cropping to selection/content but then this changes my handprint size. I’m new to all this and would love some advice on what I’m doing wrong!

我选择了部分图像，但按“删除”，整个图像的内容被删除。
为什么？

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.