When i want resize image to format 800 x 800 px from 16 x 16 px what do i must do? I opened image that naturally is 16 x 16, and i just want to make it bigger and keep resolution. I tried to make minecraft dirt block to be in 800 x 800 format. 
And when i resize it to 800 x 800 this happens: 
What i need to do is to have same image in 16 x 16 and sam image in 800 x 800. Im sorry for this coplications but im starting with gimp.

I wonder why a do not get a sharp result when erasing with a brush and get a dark contour when turn the brush 90 degrees. The working layer is transparent. In the middle there are two brushes drawn with the pencil tool. On the left the one brush is turned 90 degrees and there is a dark boundary around it. When I use both brushes to erase a line, then erasing is not pixel sharp.Do I miss something or is it a bug? Thanks for your answer in advance.
 
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I am trying to add an arrow pointer onto a picture (and plan to do a lot). I have added a png of the arrow, which I know has a transparent background, to a second layer. I have tried to set it up as a mask, but dont understand the finer details - it just stays as a complete rectangle. NB: Have successfully re-sized it & am trying to rotate it. I am new to GIMP, but IT competent.

Greetings Folks, 

I just re-installed GIMP 2.10.22 (rev 3.0) on brand new Mac M1 Mini. I've noticed that when I use the rectangle or ellipse tool, - I draw the shape. Then I attempt to use the "bucket fill" to colour the shape in, but the outline of the shape that was once visible is now INVISIBLE. So you can actually see where the shape is on the canvas, and your guessing as to where it went. 

I'm not sure if this is a setting somewhere, or a bug ? or ? 

Anyone have any ideas ?  - I'd greatly prefer not going back to illustrator. 

Best Wishes, 

-scatterbrainz

I wanted to paste some image from google with invisible background (like this) onto another image, but it just doesnt work, it isn't transparent. [url=https://previews.123rf.com/images/kolibrico/kolibrico2002/kolibrico200200005/139369246-vector-empty-transparent-background-vector-transparency-grid-seamless-pattern-.jpg][/url]

Want some weird shapes on your artistic drawings, supershapes can help you :
http://andrewmarsh.com/apps/releases/supershapes.html

   

Hi, i'm using Gimp 2.10 on ubuntu-based linux.

I'm trying to follow this guide on how to get started with GIMP scripting, but when I save the .py file in the scripts folder or the plug-ins folders nothing happens.

When I restart GIMP I don't see the option to run that script in the menu.
I've also tried downloading other scripts from the internet, put them in the scripts folder and plug-ins folder, and same thing, they don't appear in the menu.


Am I doing something wrong?
This is the script's code, which I copied from the tutorial:

On a layer in my Layer Group, the Foreground Select tool rough-selects, Draws, but on releasing the mouse button nothing remains drawn on the layer.  (Foreground Select does work if I select the Layer Group rather than the layer.)

If I drag my Layer Group to a new image, Foreground Select works fine.

Since I had been experimenting with filters on the layer, maybe GIMP 2.10.22 lost its way somewhere.  Is this likely a bug or am I missing something?

is this possible to do in gimp?

after scanning a pencil drawing or taking a photo with a cell phone

1. open the scanned drawing, which would take a layer on its own
2. create another layer, which should be transparent by default; then else it would make no sense to create a layer that by default covers whatever is in the previous visible layers that were placed there for a reason
3. lock the background layer that contains the scanned pencil drawing
4. draw in new layer the color and textures for the drawing
5. delete or hide the background layer
6. end up with a nice colored picture based on a pencil doodle drawn in paper and then scanned

This could have been made in licensed tools, I am asking if this can be done with those steps and without any extra-hassle in Gimp

Following is a screen shot showing my gimp/preferences/folders/plugins set up utility (lower left), as well as open shots of the two folders specified.

Perhaps I am just confusing myself unnecessarily, but most of the time when I read instructions of how to install a plugin, the instructions are to add the plugin to one of the directories specified in preferences.

But, when you look at my screen shot, you can see that there are only two "free standing" files in my usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins folder, with all other contents being in sub-directories.

This is the as-installed configuration that came in the *.iso that I created my Knoppix 8.6.1 live system from, so I am asking:

1.)  Is this the way things are normally supposed to be? Or is there a structural problem that I should be thinking about correcting before I add new plug-ins and create a new install onto USB flash drive?

2.) Can gimp "read" the contents of subdirectories that are not explicitly mentioned in the paths as specified in the preferences/folders set up utility?