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Color Picker outside the Gimp Window? |
Posted by: Finn Jierdon - 07-17-2020, 02:54 PM - Forum: General questions
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Hi, I'm new here and just installed Gimp 2.10.20. I used PS for years...
I like what i see and want to transfer to Gimp. But I ran into a problem now: How can I use the color picker outside of the Gimp window, eg to pick an original color from my web browser to get it as a foreground color or its hexcode? I couldn't solve the problem with YT tutorials. So I try, if maybe someone in this forum hopefully knows an answer.
Ok, I could import a screenshot and use the picker inside Gimp, but I need this so often, that I think maybe there's a trick cos in PS I just moved the eyedropper to an open browser and I had exactly the color of the pixel under the cursor, no matter where ever I clicked. If I try this in Gimp, the picker turns into a standard windows picker, as soon as it leaves the Gimp area, what normally makes sense, but not, if I need a color from my desktop window. Sorry for still being a noob, but maybe someone is so nice to help me. 
Thanks, Finn
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Gimp fills up memory |
Posted by: ChameleonScales - 07-17-2020, 01:26 PM - Forum: General questions
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On my Debian 10 system, Gimp's memory usage builds up as I open/close files and never goes down until I quit Gimp, leading it to fill the memory and use the swap even though I have 64GB of RAM and each xcf file is less than 1GB (and I only open one at a time).
Is there a setting I can change to make Gimp free memory when an image gets closed?
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Long shadow with shapes |
Posted by: quickfade1 - 07-16-2020, 12:17 PM - Forum: General questions
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Hello all,
I am a new GIMP user, with very little editing experience. I've used GIMP off and on for a while, but some of the concepts/terms still confuse me. I've mostly followed tutorials online to get my results.
I'm trying to use the Long Shadow light effects on some star shapes but can't get it to work. I have gotten it to work on text from a video I found, but I can't get it to work with the star brush. Unsure what I am doing wrong. Effectively I am re-creating this old Wonder Woman graphic
Thanks for any help you can give me!
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e...logotv.jpg
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measure/record pixel coordinates |
Posted by: fotomax - 07-16-2020, 06:01 AM - Forum: General questions
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I was expecting that somehow when using measure tool I would be able to right-click on a pixel and have single pixel coordinates stored in the clipboard as a numeric string, so I can copy it to a text editor in order to create input for some other program. Is there a way to do this? Is there any other tool with the precise cross cursor that can be used in this mode?
TIA
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Sudden crashes when opening file |
Posted by: Need-support-1976 - 07-16-2020, 12:47 AM - Forum: General questions
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Came across a strange problem that just started today. After I open Gimp, if I try to open a file to edit from one particular folder, it crashes. If I try to open files from other folders, it works fine. I've always used this one folder to store files I want to edit, so not sure what the problem is. I deleted my Gimp user folder, then re-booted Gimp but that did not help. I'm using Gimp 2.6.11. Any ideas why this could be happening or how to fix it?
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