I was wondering if there is a feature or addon in gimp that let's you use a paintbrush with more than a single color. For example have a lighter and a darker green alternating while painting with the same brush.

Dear GIMP user under MACOS Big Sur
Could you tell me please if exists GIMP version(s) where is the Tool "Select by color" does exact what does it should (yes, and successfully starts under Big Sur 11.6 of course)?
In general, it is problem with GIMP under Big Sur or it is problem of Big Sur at all?

P.S. It "works"... When mouse button is pressed selected area exist (with pink color) but when button released selection disappear.

P.P.S. Selection by color is my favorite and most useful tool.

P.P.P.S. By the way, 2.10.28 under Windows 10 works fine. At least, this tool. I have to use Windows

   
Does anyone know how to change the size of the color pick / color swap icon?

Not mad at GIMP, the forum just ate my earlier post. lol. Probably too many image examples. I will try to be more concise.

Found this post: https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-Roofto...p-building

Rich made a video on that one that was excellent and just wanted to shout out to Rich for doing these, they are a life saver.

So I build maps, different kinds depending on needs for gaming. At the moment, I am looking to texture, pattern or stamp buildings for about 70 cities. These were generated using the Watabou generator and thus the angles of the buildings can be quite varied. I am looking for a way to align the rooftop patterns to the angles of the roof, essentially, in a quick manner. Here is an example city:
   
Here are some examples I have done, which work because I played with each of them for 10-15 minutes to figure out a pattern that worked with the angle of the building. I am using filters to apply the textures right now because of speed, but I would ideally like to use real pattern images or a brush.
   

Hopefully I have been clear on what I am trying to do, but in summary I'd like to find an easy way to apply textures to roughly rectangular areas that align to the angle of the rectangle, rather than to the X-Y axis of the image.

Thanks for any thoughts.

- E

I've been using Gimp for a very long time and seen it go through a lot of changes. This recent version has some nice changes like the unified window. So glad they fixed that. But some other things seem to have gotten truncated or maybe they were add ons? I seem to remember that I was once able to search brushes and actually find them easily. No longer can I search effectively, and the dropdown is so small now (not the icons, the dropdown on the brush toolbox) that I cant find anything without a hassle. I have a ton of brushes too. Is there a way to edit this somehow or resize the dropdown so i can actually read the brush names? What happened to grouping? maybe I'm remembering an add on or something, but since Gimp was updated there's a lot of functionality I'm missing and its killing my workflow because I have to troubleshoot things I shouldn't have to when there's an update. This is exactly why i work mostly on my tablet and import the psd to Gimp

Can anyone help me figure out how to fix this? I want either the brushes to be completely searchable, or the dropdown to be wider so i can see the full brush name 

been trying for hours just make a simple rectangle to carve out an area
for visual reference to the whole project or it might remain for a reference
when the project eventually gets exported for printing 

please see attached

I would think the rectangle isssues would apply to any shape so that helps to 
tone down the big frustration here trying to do something which I would have
thought to be really simple considering all the sophisticated image manipulations
available in gimp

Attached Files

Thumbnail(s)
   

I recently installed the most recent version of GIMP on a new computer (HP Envy 360 15 with AMD Ryzen 7) with Windows 11 on it. I've been having some trouble with it. When I try to ctrl-scroll to zoom in and out, it doesn't work sometimes. It doesn't show me where the mouse is when I ctrl-click with the paint brush sometimes. I have to click some things several times for them to work sometimes (it's like it knows that the mouse is there and where it is, but doesn't know that clicking is an option). I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling. I've also tried installing an earlier version of GIMP. I've tried another mouse (even using the trackpad) and these issues still persist. Does anyone have any ideas that could help me with this? Thanks.

Hi, I downloaded gimp 2.10 from gimp.org/downloads, but every time I click on the icon, it does not open up, it just installs again, which I have done 3 times. I have operating system windows 8.1
The files are on my computer, when I look in c drive.

Newbie here. I'm interested in creating a sort of 'cocktail hat' with a veil pattern as in this picture. Any advice or suggestions?

Hellois.
I'm on a mission to make an 'text atlass or sprite' ish plugin which will make the number of input characters to the power of two; combination 'sprite image'.
At the moment the code can generate one image atlass with n combinations. As a image has a limited combination spaces it will later add images as needed to make all the combinations over multiple images. But first i must understand how to set text which i hope someone would help out with.

What im struggling with is applying text. Im not able to set text on multiple layers. No matter what i do it seems like the ..WriteToCanvas() funciton only sets text to the original background layer. I'm unable to make a new layer and apply text to it. 

The function ..SetAndAnchorText() is where you would modify the code to help me out if possible, or give me some good pointer as i'm been struggling for a few days to many. 

Starting point:
The code works and can produce an image so you can see what i mean by atlass/sprite. Create a new 256x256 RGB_Image and run the plugin to se results. Then make a new same image and add the letter i to the end of .."Text for atlass" of the plugin. The expected result should be a whole image with text combinations in stride of two and the second should be roughly half the image with text. At the moment the code creates and error instead.