Basically I want to make two outlines for an album text via making a text object -> Alpha to selection -> making two empty layers and use grow by 3 px and then fill the color for both outlines (one is custom, the other is pure black), then rotate all three layers by 15deg with NoHalo

Here's an image reference


10 images in and this process has gotten tedious and slow, so is there a way to quicken this process without making a plugin?
Making plugins sounds very intimidating and I don't know if what I want sounds complicated to translate in the code

I'm using version 2.10.38 (revision 1)

When I export as a PDF it always turns transparent backgrounds of layers to white, no matter what I try.

So I have three visible layers. I select Layers as pages (bottom layers first), i also select Fill transparent areas with background color. I also have the background-color in the little square on the left side of the screen set to black. I have a visible layer in the layers-dialogue filled with black and labelled "Background", and placed at the bottom of the layers stack.

Yet still, any transparent areas in each layer will be filled with white. Deselecting Fill transparent areas with background color will still fill them with white also, as though it's disregarding that option altogether.

Hi,

I've noticed a bias in the Select > Distort procedure such that the distorted selection drifts towards the center of the image, with more pronounced drift near the edges and in the top-left side of the image. Weirdly, the same thing happens, in the same direction, when I invert the selection and distort that instead. Has anybody else seen this? What could be the cause of it? Is there a way to correct for it, or another function that can achieve a similar effect without drift?

Attached is an image of three consecutive distorts at threshold = 0.5, spread = 3, granularity =3, smooth = 3. Threshold doesn't seem to affect the drift. It gets stronger as any of the other three increase, but it's noticeable even at 1, 1, 1.
   

Hello everyone, I'm new to the forum. I hope I can find (and even offer) advice and help.
I personally need to use GIMP because I want to publish a photography book (ebook and paperback) of about 40 historical black-and-white photographs of monuments and landscapes dating back to the 1950s, all taken with the same camera at the same time on the same day.
The photographs, measuring approximately 10" x 6" (20cm x 15cm), have already been physically "cleaned" and scanned into high-quality lossless TIFF LZW files at 600dpi, approximately 6000x4500 pixels each, about 40MB each.
I'm very familiar with audio-video editing programs, but I'm having some difficulty with photo editing, which is a whole other ballgame! :-)

I'm asking for your help in defining a workflow to apply to all the photographs. I'm personally capable of rotating, cropping, and using the Heal (H) command to remove scratches from photographs with satisfactory results, but I need your help figuring out how to correct contrast and brightness and improve the final quality of the photo.

Thank you, I hope someone can help me!

P.S. I'm attaching an example (JPG format, so really downscaled compared to the TIFF files). All the other photographs share the same attributes.

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Hi 

I'm learning Gimp working through the manual about 6 hours per day for a week now. My first goal is to be able to design a look for my music work online, and if possible, to be printed on paper as well.

I'm planning to press domestically my first album to CD (here in Japan) and I see that all companies have their own unique templates that only use Adobe programs. I understand this is serious professional work and Adobe is the industry standard but... still, I'd like to ask you guys:

Is there's any remote chance that one can have some autonomy and being able to do this kind of work in Gimp dealing with CD pressing companies requirements without using Adobe programs? 

OR, either you'll have to become an Adobe software user or you'll have to pay for the pressing company to design everything for you, which will increase the costs a lot for sure. 
Is this correct?

Please let me know what you guys think.
I need some reality check.

Hi,

This is a very simple problem, but when I try a bucket fill through a Python-fu call, I always get a "Fill similar colors" result when I need "Fill whole selection". I can't seem to find the relevant setting in the listed context setters for the procedure (I'm looking here). What am I missing?

Thank you!

How to reply the issue ?

Linux tested: Debian, Arch Linux, Manjaro, Ubuntu, Linux Mint
Version: Gimp 3.0.4
Monitor: 4k LG(3820 x 2160)
Gimp window size: 1920 x 1080

If I click on large image for opening it in Gimp,it will open it of course.
But Gimp window will immediately resize itself to the image size.

Thank you.

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I created a forum identity specifically to complain about a tiny problem with the interface which frustrates the crap out of me.

If you click a button on the toolbox (to change tools), then move the mouse off the toolbox button without releasing the button, the tool doesn't change.

So, I'll click, for example, the eyedropper button quickly, but move the cursor off the toolbox before releasing

Then click the picture and put down a dot of color - because the tool didn't change.

Essentially - the interface ignores attempts to change tools if you don't both click-and-release over the control button.

This nuisance is easily reproduced and with the small size of the toolbox controls, probably introduces a lot of bother to people's operation.
I can understand canceling the selection when you hold the mouse button down to bring up the context menu...

but even if you click on a control and then smear over other controls before releasing the mouse, the control and intent is definitely on the Mouse button down operation.
This nuisance seems easy to fix. Please deal with it soon in a future version.

Hello
i can't modify or create a MyPaint brush preset. As you can see in the picture i've created a folder on the user home for the main brushes of MyPaint with the rights to write but the editing buttons on the frame are still grey.
   
   
   

I have installed Gimp 2.10 on my Windows 11 on my laptop. 
I have installed several times, including once when I temporarily shutting down my avg system.
However I never have been able to get a 'complete' installation.
I can find this since when using Edit->Preferences->Folders I do not see all the folders that should be there.
I believe this problem is preventing things such as effective messages from the python 2.7 scripts I am working on.
How can I get a complete installation?