Good afternoon all.

God I love GIMP!  Congrats to everyone involved who designed it.  Just love it.  Use it hours a day.  I've used it solidly for about 6 months now.

I've included a pic that highlights what I'm trying to do.  Not mine, but it's a good example.  I'm trying to achieve this effect. ie:  I'm taking a google earth map.  I've drawn around the US so, there's a (aqua) line around the borders of the US.  I'd like to take everything else (but US - which i'd keep as is) and change it to a slightly faded mono color.  So ideally as I'm trying to present the picture of the US, it (and it alone) POPS out.

I'm having trouble pasting my selection. (as I say I've got an aqua border around the border of the US). So I can use fuzzy select (of aqua), or select by color (aqua), and create a PATH of the US no problem. 

I want to copy and paste (just the US) as another layer by itself (so it can stay it's color, i can manipulate the color of everything else but the US).  That's my approach to creating it.

When I select the path I've created (of just the US), it'll only copy the outlilne - NOT the contents within.  I essentially want to pick JUST the US out of this picture (via the aqua border i've created, and the path).

As I've said I've tried creating a mask with the  path, select by color, fuzzy select, whenever i copy/paste it just copies the aqua border outline I've created, not the contents within.

So frustrated.  I know i should be able to do it.  Just can't figure it out.

If you could suggest a way, please let me know.  Thanks in advance.


SUMMARY: Extract just this pic of the US out this picture, paste as a new layer. (again i have a pre drawn aqua line border around the US)  You'd think it'd be easy.

I made a plugin which, given a path as input, creates a smooth path through its anchors. You may remember that I already made one such simple plugin:

https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-Smooth...ple-plugin

but now I have a better algorithm. Instead of that simple plugin, this new plugin (named "G2-continuity") should be compared to the old smooth-path.exe:

https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-Rich-I...0#pid28230

That old plugin makes C2-continuous paths. The new plugin does that too, but it makes also more general G2-continuous paths.

To get the plugin, go to

http://kmarkku.arkku.net/Path_modify_fil...aster.html

scroll to the bottom, and click the right download button ("G2-continuity"). You get a zip file. Unzip it and place the one file it contains (G2_continuity.py) in your user's plug-ins folder. Then (re)start Gimp. To use the plugin: in the Paths tab, right-click a path and follow the links Tools > Modify path > G2-continuity.

A picture using the default values:

   

The blue path is the input path, and the red path is the path made by the plugin. So, this is another method to draw a smooth path through some given points.

We had some discussion of C2-continuity with Ofnuts in:

https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-Rich-I...6#pid28246

C2-continuity is about derivatives of the parametric representation of the curve. So, it is very mathematical. We use now another concept, G2-continuity (the 'G' coming from "geometric"), which is more directly connected with the visual appearance of the curve and independent of the parametric representation. It means that the curve is smooth and has continuous curvature. For paths G2-continuity means:

1. At every anchor the two tangents are parallel (the same). But the handles need not be symmetric, that is, of equal length.
   
2. At every anchor the two curvatures are equal. This means that the two circles of curvature at the anchor are the same.
   

Hi there.

I import a Splatmap as a TGA into Gimp. The TGA has a Alpha Map. I want to Copy the Layer of the TGA and save the Image as a JPG, but Copy and Paste does not work.

If i just export the Tga as a JPG i got a Blanck Image in Photoshop Elements. I have to use Gimp because of the Image Size. It is 8k and later 16k.

Why cant i just copy the Layer and put it in a new Project ? It allways paste the Alpha Map as well. I just only need RGB.

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Hey everyone! Can someone tell me in what Gimp version i can find filters Plastic wrap and Sketch? I need to make this collage

Hi everyone, In the screenshot you can see that the first brush (Clipboard Image 17 x 17) is empty and 'Delete Brush' is not available. The next brush is from a clipboard mask and is also empty and unable to be deleted. Is it possible to remove them?

   

Hi everyone, I usually add text to images in gimp and often need it to be outlined (with a border of a different color), but it's quite boring everytime to write the text, select the layer, expand the selection, create another blank layer, fill with the other color the selection on this layer, and then merging those two layers into one
there are tons of plugins that do this process automatically, but there is always a problem: I can't edit the text after it has been outlined. 
so I was wondering... is there a plugin or something to add this feature to gimp? I think it would be really helpful and very easy to implement

Hi Everyone

I have just had my new version of Linux Mint 20.3 installed and in the process acquired Gimp 2.10.  Can anyone remind me what was on the bar at the top when you opened a pic in Gimp 2.8 which I had before. There was something called Script Fu, and to the left of that was another program that I used to use which I just cannot remember the name of. When you opened it up it had a list of options, one was Photos, click that and about three options opened, one offered two types of sharpening - intelligent sharpening was one of the two. I used to use this quite a lot and would like to see if I can get it for 2.10. I simply can't remember the heading that this option came under.  Getting old and not very technically minded! Any help would be really appreciated!  

Jude 

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I have this icon that I have downloaded:


https://ibb.co/KmXt230

Now I want to change the color of the bread to dark blue (#05192d).
In Photoshop I would just double click the layer and click "color" then select the color I wanted.
How can I do this using Gimp?

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