I'm using 2.10.24 Yesterday after importing 73 meg PNG file into GIMP the XCF file became really bloated -  698 meg and the PNG I exported from this was 397 meg. I think the reason this is occurring is sometimes some pics are too small so I need to scale the layer much higher, sometimes over 100,000 px. Does scaling increase the file size quite a bit? 

When this occurs GIMP is super slow at saving the file or exporting a file.  Recently when this happened I noticed that most of the files I've been creating lately, which are all similar faces swaps, are fairly small XCF files (5-100 meg) and small PNG's (1-35 meg)  are created from the export.

I use Photo Gallery to view my pics and want them to be about the same size for a slide show. After I make changes in GIMP I always open the pic in PhotoWorks, which is a program with some time saving photo correction and altering tools. I then save as a PNG and I open it again in GIMP for final fixes.

As a temporary fix I used the Snipping Tool to create a new PNG file from the  397 meg and it's a small 682 KB PNG file - 500x smaller

I think the PNG file somehow got corrupted. Is there a way to fix a file that opens in GIMP but is corrupted in some way?  or do I just need to use the Snipping Tool? Or can the export the scale the pic larger?

Lets say I have an image and I type a text on it. After I am done, Its box keeps appearing on the screen with dashed lines. How can I deselect it? Because after that when I draw a line on the image, I cannot, and I can only draw inside the text box, well I am done with the text box but I cannot deselect it. This is very counterintuitive. I even tried to select all with the hope that I will select everything but the text box still keep appearing with its nice dashed lines, and now in addition I cannot deselect what I selected. And escape button seems to do nothing in GIMP. I just started to use gimp and so far it is counterintuitive. All I want is to type a text, deselect it, and draw a line on the other part of the image.

My son and I are keen to try and make a comic strip. The only problem is that neither he nor I are very good at drawing (even though he is better than I am).

I thought that maybe we could use a filter of the type seen in Snapchat to turn photos into cartoons, then to use those images to create a comic strip using GIMP.

Has anyone tried to do anything similar or have any tips as to how it can be done?

Hi everyone,

A colleague has convinced me to test GIMP instead of my old Paintshop Pro.

I am a casual user, usually just removing an odd frame, blurring the background or layers to create thumbnails or backgrounds for videos, which means opening a file, adding some brushes, using clone brushes and retouch and saving it. That's all.

I just realised I can't do that in GIMP. It always saves the file in a different format, the internal one. I found I need to export the result and can't use png or jpg depending on what format the original was in.

So I read up on this issue here, managed to find the folder and tried to install jpeg.exe and png.exe where both failed due to some other file missing.

I am now at a crossroads whether to upgrade Paintshop Pro or dive into GIMP, where I am unsure whether GIMP is actually the right tool for an infrequent and simple user like me. Will GIMP lead me down a rabbit hole which will require a rethink and redoing my pc to suit GIMP?

I've gone and skimmed through a tutorial and watched a few Davies videos. The scope of the program is impressive, but might just be too much for me, which is why I'd love to hear some users provide user-level feedback what they think.

Thanks a lot for your help.

Hello all. I used GIMP 2.8 for my pixel art hobby for about 7 years, but I got a new computer yesterday (MacBook Pro M1, 2020) and decided I should make the switch to 2.10. Despite my longtime use, I only use a handful of tools and, as I'm not super tech-y, I'm always very nervous to mess around with any advanced settings.

One tool I use a ton is Color Exchange, and I never had problems with it on 2.8 using whatever the default settings were. However, now I'm running into a problem where the built-in color selector tool is seemingly coming up with random colors when I click on what I want to change from/to (I haven't messed around with any settings, at least not knowingly). I'll include a screenshot to illustrate the issue. You can see the color it came up with when I clicked the bright yellow is a much more muted yellow. This has happened to multiple colors on multiple layers (though weirdly it sometimes gets it right – it's a crapshoot). I'd really appreciate any advice you could give. Thanks so much!

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Hi,

Can these be done in GIMP?  Is there a way to widen or narrow are line in part of it but not all of it to create images like I've put in below?

Thanks!
Deanna

GIMP 2.8.22
OS Mojave

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I'm using Mac OS Big Sur and use GIMP 2.10. In spite of all the tutor video's I can't create a background to remove. After selecting Foreground at the end of the process, nothing happens. There appear no lining around the foreground. Does anyone recognise this problem? If yes, can it be solved?

When you have an image that is in indexed color (so it has a palette that contains a set numbers of colors, example 10 colors only).
Then when you bring in an RGB full color image (by pasting it in I guess).
GIMP will turn your your RGB full color image into indexed as well, while trying to match colors of your RGB to indexed as best it can.

What is their formula/algorithm for doing this? I want enough details to replicate GIMP's color-matching functionality.


How can I find it in code in GIMP's source code?

Why do I want to know this?: I want to add a color matching method for my cross-stitching plug-ins called "GIMP's method" instead of Delta-E and Perceptive as these are sometimes off as well...and GIMP's seem to do a great job at keeping the RGB image looking very close with those limited indexed colors.  Just curious to find out if GIMP's method is superior compared to Perceptive and/or Delta-E.

Thank you in advance.

Hello, I didn't find how to cross-link a path. Is it possible in Gimp and how to do it. I need it as i am using the path tool to create something like a map of countries with their borders. Thanks !