I have make a few coin images, just for fun, but it does not look good, what can I do to improve it.

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I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or not, but when installing new brushes. For example, flame fire brushes, and I go to use them after installing they are just coming out as black or whatever color I have selected in the color options. However, I can't seem to figure out how to get them to look like flames, if that makes sense?

I tried searching online, but not sure if I'm just not typing it into the search engine correctly or not. But was wondering if anyone could point me in a direction of making a moon effect from scratch? Rather than using a photo... If that makes sense?

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!

Hello to all of the users

I have a question for webp gurus

I'm doing my first experiments with webp

Around the web you read pages where they say same jpg image same quality in webp will be significantly smaller

Well I tried with Gimp exporting to webp and the result is not smaller

Do you kindly have some suggested settings for the webp export form? Possibly having a really small loss in quality

I exactly mean "suggested settings for webpages" to satisfy google pagespeed requirements, thank you

Check google studies here https://developers.google.com/speed/webp...webp_study and here about methods https://developers.google.com/speed/webp...ompression

Thank you for any hint and TIP

   

I am trying to get my edges of my image to look smoother I'm using feathered edges by 2px and it looks like the the blue one. I want it to look more like the green image but feathering only doesn't seem to work. If I add more than 2px it just looks blurry and any less it barely even changes it. Any suggestions?

Hello,

I have been trying to use an image as a background for my drawing in pixel art but can't seem to find out whether it is possible. To specify my request: I need to use an image for a background, let's say the resolution is 900x500, for a drawing of which resolution would be 180x100. 
I want those two to overlap, pretty much being able to zoom in and out of the seconf picture with the background image staying still the same.

I hope I described it somewhat coherently. Thank you.

Hi everyone,

I am new to GIMP and would like to use it in future instead of the expensive Adobe PS. One of my important do´s is to alter the saturation of  part of an image. I am astrophotographer and as example want/need to increase or decrease the saturation of a nebula or part of it, but not of the entire image. In PS, I choose the respective icon and see three options - darken, lighten and saturation. Inside of those, I can select shadows, midtones or lights for darken/lighten and for saturation increase/decrease.
In GIMP, I have found the options like in PS but only for lighten/darken using a brush not for saturation.

Where is this function hidden? What do I need to look for?

I have attached an image of the NGC224, the Rosetta Nebula as an example of what I do.

Thanks and greetings from Austria,

Georg

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I am trying to make text effect, in the tut they show you must get this bevel in "Filters>distorts>bevel", but I do not see this in it
Where can Find it, did look thru all he menus

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I'm running GIMP on MacOS and attempting to use some custom fonts. If I try to ctrl-f (or rather cmd-f on Mac) while in the font dialog list it will bring up the little search bar but typing won't work, and then it will disappear after 5 seconds as expected. So I can't search for fonts at all. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?

After generating a text, I copied it. When I tried to change the font of the copied text, it didn't work. It literally changes nothing.
Is it normal in GIMP?
If yes, what is the solution? Should I generate the text one by one instead?