Perhaps GIMP is not the right tool for me, but people say you can do anything in GIMP so I'll at least try.
Programs I do feel home in is MS Paint, Deluxe Paint IV for the Amiga and MacPaint. Yes, I'm old.

Whenever I look at a tutorial, they say "select X from your toolbox". I don't have X in my toolbox. Did I miss some step somewhere? The toolbox is there but has no (to me) useful tools in it. Screenshot attached. Do I need to activate or bring up something?

More things, where can I choose colors and shapes to draw with? How can I draw circles, rectangles, triangles and the like? Is there a skin or something to "dumb down" the interface to appeal to MS Paint users, but with more tools available IF you need them? For example, in MS Paint I can't make a rectangular selection and scale it on the fly (WYSIWYG), whereas in GIMP, this is possible and I did succeed with it, once.

I upgraded from some older version to 2.10.28, but it looks identical.

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Hi.  I'm brand new to GIMP and am pretty deep into a project.  I just realized that I've got a problem that occured about 40(!) exports ago (I'm saving each step individually) and I really don't want to have to go back to where it first happened.  I'm operating with an image saved as .png, and realized that at some point I moved the original layer when I meant to move a new one.  It was exported this way, and now has the grey checkered background on the left and top sides.  If I move it around the whole image seems to still be there, but I can't get it recentered.  I've tried the alignment tool, but it doesn't seem to do anything.  Here's a picture (not the one I'm working with since it's private at the moment), showing my problem in case I'm not describing it correctly.  Does anyone know what to do?

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Suddenly figured out that we are past 5 years of existence...

I have a file with around 30 emojis with space all around them. All other areas are transparent. Is it possible to export them as individual emojis ? They are currently in a single layer now. Thanks.

I was wondering if there was a way to make it so that a layer is completely transparent, and every pixel behind the layer is inverted, no matter where it is dragged. Kinda like they did in sonic mania, if anyone's played that. I want to be able to drag the mask around and take the effect with it. Can someone help out?

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GIMP can convert formats, e.g., from HEIC to JPEG, and it can perform bulk operations from the command line using the -b switch, but I have found no listing of all possible CLI commands or of the specific command or syntax to convert the file format. How would I go about converting a directory's set of HEIC files to JPEG files from the CLI?

I have created a small script which fills a transparent layer with a colour. If I carry out the procedure manually I get the correct colour, but when I do it in Python the colour is incorrect. The example detailed below the colour is D37518 Hex - 211, 117, 24 Decimal.


The relevant piece of the code is:

   Tone = pdb.gimp_layer_new(image, width, height, type, "Tone", opacity, mode)            #new empty layer
    image.add_layer(Tone, 0)
    
    if colour == 0:
    
        sepia = gimpcolor.RGB(211,66,20)
        pdb.gimp_context_set_foreground(sepia)

    pdb.gimp_drawable_edit_fill(Tone, FILL_FOREGROUND)

If I run the code then check the inserted colour with the eyedropper I get the result in the screenshot.

No doubt something silly I am doing!

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How do I customize the toolbox in GIMP these days?  I recall doing this in older versions but can't find the options I need now.

I want to change what tools appear in the toolbox.
More to the point I want to disable this counter-productive layout where the tools have other tools hidden inside them.  I just want to put the tools I use frequently in the toolbox so I can get them with a single click.
But as I said, I can't find the option to customize it in any place I'm looking in.

see attached, the curved text along a path has voids,
there seems to be no way to stop those voids 
I would like to fill the voids with an intelligent fill,
where the tool would build an outline around the text
and fill in the voids while staying inside the outline, so all
the edges would be smooth along the text contour lines.

I've tried just painting with a small brush, etc., but there's
always jagged strays. the resynthesizer plugin tool looks like a
possibility or some version of a heal tool

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this is a scan from an old photo.
   
the original photo had this pattern of dots throughout, i'm guessing that this was a 'feature' at the time.

does anybody know how I might reduce or eliminate the effect ?

many thanks

Tawe