Hi everyone

I'm new here; have been trying for a couple days to get this to work properly, and I've finally given up and decided to ask for some help, haha.

Basically, I'm attempting to curve an image (not a path, just an image) along a path. Curve bend seems to me to be the way to go, but I'm having all sorts of trouble actually using it...mostly because the grid with the points in the dialog box is so TINY. Like...idk if it's meant to be so small, but the grid is like...an inch long maybe? And the mouse movements I have to make to adjust are absolutely infinitesimal. My hand-eye coordination isn't good enough for that! XD

Anyway...the ideal solution would be to be able to load the points data from an SVG or something, so I could edit my path in Inkscape. If there's no way to do that, are there alternatives that allow me to edit the points either like...with the arrow keys or something, or in another program, or even (as big a pain as it would probably be) in a text editor or something? Is Curve Bend even the best way to do this? Tbh I'm still finding GIMP a bit counterintuitive in a lot of ways, so I have a difficult time with it sometimes.

Thanks for any help you can give!

Oh, and so that you don't have to check my profile--OS is Windows 10, GIMP version is 2.10.20 (revision 1). 

Hi All,

Not new to GIMP but never use it because I always hit a wall doing things almost immediately.  I really want to learn this hench my question and not giving up.

I have an image, a .png file exported from Inkscape, that has the attached pics for 'Layers', 'Channels', and just a little of the actual image.  From what I see and I think is the problem is the layer is the 'Background' and the 'image data' is all in the Alpha Channel only.

         

Hey all! Recently got back into working with GIMP on Windows 10 after a PS membership ran out, as it's pretty much the best open-source alternative. I've been trying to load in some fun new fonts to work with but GIMP will not detect any new fonts despite my best efforts. What's weird is some older fonts I installed a while back do show up, but nothing new. Also, all new fonts DO show up in every other app I use. I've been reading up on it for a few days now and tried the following:

-installing fonts directly from the TTP/OTF file
-dropping fonts into the Windows/Fonts folder
-Restarting GIMP
-Reloading fonts within gimp
-Adding the Windows Fonts folder directly to the list of folders GIMP uses to source fonts
-Clearing font cache
-Restarting Computer
-Reinstalling GIMP
-Updating GIMP to newest version

Lots of restarting in particular. Does anyone have any ideas?

I'd love a way to "sign" my work with a quick shortcut for both jpg and png files.

Currently I just type something in the comment box when exporting a jpg. It would be nice if you could save your comment as part of setting your save defaults, but it doesn't work that way. This is still much quicker than writing a Title/Author in a png file. For that I have exported what I would like as my defaults and have to do Image > Metadata > Edit Metadata Select: Import Metadata from the drop-down and navigate to my saved file.

So my question is, would it be possible to script this at all to make it a bit quicker and easier? 
ie.. script the importing of a default set of metadata.

As my question to the developers mailing list got ignored: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-dev...00004.html I'll try asking our Resident GEGL expert, tmanni

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anything I try is crashing GIMP (issue #5607)

I am trying to correct the over exposure in this photo. I have tried method using levels, exposure, shadows and  highlights etc. 
Can anyone please tell me the best method to correct the exposure. I am interested in the dress and girl in the photo.

hello

what is '' alt-click on thumbnail in layers dockable '' meaning
https://ibb.co/0j0FQqG
i click any where but not work

Background set to Not Visible but still displays.

I have project made up of two gifs and two pictures set on a background that is set not to be visible. Every time it cycles through the stack the non visible and transparent background wipes the images and then they are re-displayed as it works up the stack.  This gives a nasty flicker that I need to get rid of.  Any ideas on what I am doing wrong or need to change?

Thanks
M

Using GIMP 2.10.20, and I want to export an image with a CMYK profile, for printing purposes. I downloaded CMYK profiles from Adobe and set in Preferences. I can use one of the profiles (Coated GRACol 2006) to soft proof without a problem. Using the same profile in the Image - Color Management - Convert to Color Profile option, I get the error message "ICC Profile Validation Failed: Color profile is not for RGB color space".  I tried a few of the other profiles from Adobe but with the same results. I know that sRGB is what GIMP uses, but why is the conversion not working? New GIMP user. And if I can't do it this way, is there an alternative? Thanks.

I want to convert series of grayscale textual pictures from JPG to PNG.  Because of large number of pictures, I am using batching with BIMP.

Starting with 262k JPG file
- if I change manually I get 196k PNG file,
- if I change by batch I get 292k PNG file.

The difference is huge and I cannot figure what is wrong.  The one logical explanation I could come up is that when I use batch, I cannot set pixelformat.  In manual change I use default "automatic pixelformat".

Is my conclusion correct?  Is there a way I could convert to PNG by batch and get the same result?

Best regards.