Using Gimp 2.10 (April 2021).

I successfully decomposed a jpeg to RBG, adjusted one of the 3 layers (and neither of the 2 channels), then requested 'recompose'. The resulting jpg has no color.

Suggestions?

Just curious if any of you have  personal preferences in one vs the other?  I just tuned in to realizing that gimp can author Webp images, and that Webp is a more likely heir than animated PNG for web based animations. 

From my initial exposure, the Webp seems to excel in not having such a limited palette, and I guess partial transparency, but unfortunately the common free image hosting sites that I normally use (imgur) does not support them?

For a 2 frame animation I just made using movie stills as source, the Webp export  was twice the size of the GIF export.

Other impressions?

In a perfect world, I am scanning large numbers of recipes.  I then crop the images.  Sometimes there is more than one recipe on a page.  Sometimes one recipe is spread over more than one page so I have to stitch the parts together.  I then export, usually as .jpeg to the desired folder on the HDD.

In the real world:
1     I use File/Create/Scanner-Camera to open the Select Source box
2     I select the scanner I wish to use
3     I set the scanner parameters and start the scan
4     When the scan is done, I select <save> to transfer the scan to GIMP
5     I crop, rotate, edit as needed
6     I export the finished file to Recipes/one of several folders acting as categories
7     Go back to step 1

I am looking for something that can automate steps 1 to 4, wait for me to finish step 5 and reduce manual input on steps 6 and 7

I have been trying to look at plugins that may do part of the job and also for tutorials that can help me achieve doing the job myself.

I know the registry is currently dead and it is recommended I google search.  I have not found anything that is of practical use.

Any pointers?

Why General questions (here is a Gimp forum?) + Gimp 2.8 +Gimp 2.10 ???

I used to get the "ofn-layer-aligner"-Plugin to run on Debian Buster, but "gimp-python" is not available on Bullseye, and it looks like it doesn't need it anymore? I don't get "ofn-layer-aligner" to show up in GIMP on Debian Bullseye. Did something change so it is not compatible anymore?

Thanks for help!

The 'follow-path5.py' plug-in, used it in GIMP 2.10.22 the other day, no issues... today it's not even showing there, i.e. Vectors ➤ Tools ➤ Follow Path
It's definitely in the plug-ins folder (App Data\Roaming..) and the folder preferences are pointing to the correct directories so... ??
Any ideas ('cos I'm stumped!)
Thanks.

There are two ways to manage tool options in Gimp:

1. Always start with the same settings. This is best if you work on various projects, and also if you are a beginner, because you can then reset the options by restarting Gimp
   
2. Saving your settings between Gimp sessions. This can be useful if you work on a few big projects
   

   

• Click the Reset Saved Tool options to default values  button:
  

   

• Make sure that the following are as you want them:
  • All options in all tools (for instance font and font size in the Text tool, or the "corrective" flag in transforms)
    
  • The current brush, gradient, pattern, and the foreground and background colors
    
  • The active tool
    
• Click the Save Tool Options Now button:
  

   

   

   

Is it possible to use VDF plugin video effects as picture effects in GIMP, and if not, could you add the feature? Could I convert a VDF to PY somehow? Could I download a plugin and open as an effect, and type the path and open VDF in GIMP?

Yes, I know, videos are in motion. At least applying as 1 frame might work... Right?

Hello,

I have 1500 png to process so I'm searching a script/plugin to do this.

Given a png, I would like the script to do the following:
- do a magic selection (wand/fuzzy) with starting point coordinattes 1,1 (I know this pixel is the background color)
- remove this selection and have transparency instead

I tried this script in a plugin via BIMP:

I have installed V2.99.4 flatpak and can run this or V2.10.24 as I wish but not quite in the way suggested where you have to use a flatpak command to select the version that is to be run (beta or stable). If I use the command to select the beta version the Menu/Graphics/GNU Image Manipulation Entry always starts V2.10.24. To start V2.99.4 I have a bash script. I'm not sure that this is relevant to the issue noted below.

When I start V2.99.4 in a terminal window I see the following error message:

Gtk-Message: 17:32:23.772: Failed to load module "xapp-gtk3-module"

So far as I can tell I have this module installed (file usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/modules/libxapp-gtk3-module.so exists)

I have also taken the text for the Python Goat exercise and renamed all occurrences of 'goat' to 'goatee' and placed the file in a subfolder of the user plug-ins folder but it doesn't appear in the GIMP menus. Initially I made the mistake of placing it directly in the plug-ins folder and received a warning from GIMP - so it is looking in the user plug-ins folder.

The latest version of the python goat exercise script, as downloaded from the gitlab site, contains statements that it relies on Gimp 3.0 and GimpUi 3.0 - I have tried changing these to 2.99 since that is the beta version - this had no effect.

Has anybody else had more success in this respect?

I thought I would go through the scripts that I have written and those that I have downloaded from elsewhere and update them for GIMP 3 if I could (starting off by running them in V2.10.24 with the --pdb-compat-mode=warn option to report deprecated scripts). I have successfully updated all the .scm files - some run without a problem but many fail with the (known) error message about GimpObjectArray being an unknown return type - I think I just have to retest these when V2.99.6 becomes available. However, as noted above I have hit a problem with the .py files.