Hello,
Is there anyone willing to improove a old photo for me. I am in the process of doing a family album which i am going to call the living album as i have converted my old family photos to animation. I have a slight problem with my dads photo in that when i animate it his forehead as got a white patch on the left hand side of his head, the photo in general is slightly washed out. Im not experienced enough to improove this photo without making it look like its false. i realise i need to keep it as original as possible but im sure it could do with some very delicate work in the right hands. anyone willing to help me i will send a few pounds for drink.

I am wanting to post images on Instagram, which has the (in my opinion) ridiculous constraint that all images have to be square. The images I am posting cannot be cropped. Therefore, what I am wanting to do is make them square, with a coloured margin top and bottom, with the original image centered vertically and horizontally on the new canvas.

I have read load of guides about resizing canvases and adding borders but don't seem to be able to find any easy way to do this.

I would be extremely grateful of someone could explain how I might go about doing this, please.

Kind wishes - Patrick

Very few sensible people on reddit, except Ofnuts and a couple of others. There was a post about the various versions of Gimp. One is for people who think "Gimp" name is offensive.

All in the mind. This probably the original (and only) definition, from my Concise Oxford Dictionary (concise being one volume 1550 pages)

   

If you want to use other definitions, by all means, but as usual a nice old word hijacked for other uses.

When I zoom in to 2x zoom and draw with the mouse with the tool options as pictured, the quality of the stroke looks noisy and bad. In the long diagonal stroke, the centreline is noticeably darker in some parts and it makes the width look uneven. It's a little less noticeable at 1x zoom. There are sometimes 'bites' taken out of the line, when there's a light-coloured pixel where I'd expect one of the same grey colour as as its diagonal neighbours along the line. These bites are noticeable even at 1x zoom. As well as these issues, when I draw a nearly vertical line by dragging the mouse down and slightly to the right, it seems as though the brush dabs are jittering from side to side down the length of the stroke. Why do these things happen? In drawing programs such as Krita or Paint Tool SAI, I've not reproduced such issues.

The three dots are just for reference---they are single brush strokes in a pixel corner, a pixel edge, and a pixel centre.

At 4x zoom and showing brush settings:
   

At 1x zoom:
   

Hello,

I would like to know if there is a way to automate some repetitive tasks in GIMP 2.10.x ?

e.g. I have several photos and I always to the same few tasks in the same order in purpose to remove the background and I would like to know if there is a way to script all those tasks or a recorder for this thing ?

i.e.
- turn image to greyscale
- change levels
- copy a mask from obtained photo in BW
- create mask layer from previous step
- get person/object only while background is transparent
- save/export result in png file.

something like that :-)

thx

Hello, I was wondering if anyone knew how to, kind of like, raise an image closer to the screen, or give it more levels? I'm working on a patch in a video game and noticing the differences between a patch I found online and editing it versus a digital one, the real patch has a certain weight to it that makes it feel more real. I was wondering if there was a way I could do that to my digital one as well? Here's an imgur link for example of what I mean

Thanks to anyone that helps!

I noticed that Gimp does not have python-fu available (only script-fu), and from what I can tell this is because Ubuntu Studio 20.10 doesn't come with python 2.7 preinstalled.  So I installed python 2.7 and the necessary 'numpy' and 'typing' packages with pip, but am still getting an error when I try to install 'pip3 install pgimp' or even 'pip install pgimp'

Here is the terminal error message involved:

pip3 install pgimp
Collecting pgimp
 Using cached pgimp-1.0.0a22.tar.gz (140 kB)
   ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
    command: /usr/bin/python3 -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.arg
v[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-e4gzeesl/pgimp/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tm
p/pip-install-e4gzeesl/pgimp/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"
', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.clo
se();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp
/pip-pip-egg-info-9br474gc
        cwd: /tmp/pip-install-e4gzeesl/pgimp/
   Complete output (7 lines):
   Traceback (most recent call last):
     File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
     File "/tmp/pip-install-e4gzeesl/pgimp/setup.py", line 42, in <module>
       check_python2_installation()
     File "/tmp/pip-install-e4gzeesl/pgimp/setup.py", line 37, in check_pyt
hon2_installation
       raise GimpInstallationException(
   __main__.GimpInstallationException: At least one of the following packag
es is missing in the python2 installation: numpy, typing
   ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Chec
k the logs for full command output.

#####################

Even though I already have numpy and typing installed, it still gives the same error message.  Do I need to configure python2.7 after the initial install before it gets recognized properly?  Gimp on my other machine (Ubuntu plain 20.04) has python-fu working already, yet it only has python3 installed and not python2.  So I'm a bit confused as to what the actual conflict is, or what the requirements are for python-fu.

Hello,

I didn't see this subforum. So, I believed that to present oneself was not intended and I started to post.
I firstly went to gimpchat.com. There, I presented my "photo to cartoon" plugin.

Hi,

Sorry but i could not find an answer in the chat or in google. I am new and i am looking for a tutorial / Script or any advice of how to make a grayscale image like the one attached. My question is not how to convert an image or photo to grayscale (this is what appears when searching in google) but how to make this specific type of grayscale image a technique that is also some time used in real photos. Any advise / suggestion will be appreciated.

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