So I really love the amount of creative power and complexity that comes with GIMP, however it doesn't seem like this software was meant to be used for book art design.

So in order to submit a cover for printing, i need an image file that's exactly the same size as the pages within. I've found some nice high-resolution images (which took care to make sure are exempt from copyright infringement) to be used on the front and back of the book, yet when i scale images, the program seems to want to stick to the exact same aspect ratio as was used by those who originally put the picture up online. However, this shouldn't be a problem if the image is larger than the book size i want to create...

For example:

the image is 18.375" X 12.250", the image is pretty and high resolution, and am happy to put it on my book cover/back, but i need to shrink it down to 12.250" X 9.250". If i for example manually change the width in the image to 12" (from 18.375"), gimp automatically changes the height to 8", and if i were to change the height to 9", it would change the width to 8"...

I understand that i could use the crop tool, but if i can't manipulate the image to specific size, then the program is not useful for this purpose.

First it was with the Ofnuts ofn-hatching plugin that does not appear in: '<Image> / Filters / Render / Pattern /'

Today, two other installed scripts have also not appeared in the expected menus;
Rod's script: lizard-breath-v-2.0_RD.scm which should appear in: "<Image> / Script-Fu / Text Effects / lizard-breath";

And the Graechan Snow Cover.scm script that should appear in: "script-fu-snow-cover-alpha" "<Image> / Script-Fu / Alpha-to-Logo"

The only different thing that comes to mind is that to use the new version of the Logo Toolbox script V2.4 and Script-Fu Scrolling Interface V1.1 For GIMP 2.10.20 Win10_64bit it was necessary to install a new version of the script-fu. exe.

If anyone can unravel this mystery, thank you.

Hello,

I've upgraded my Ubuntu to Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS which comes with new GIMP 2.10.20. My scripts used to work fine with older version of GIMP, but I can't make them work anymore on new GIMP 2.10 no matter how much I try and look on internet.

These are the steps taken after I made a very plain script-fu just for sake of simplicity:

FIRST EXPERIMENT
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1) These are  my script-fu folders:

~/snap/gimp/292/.config/GIMP/2.10/scripts 
/usr/share/gimp/2.0/scripts
~/.config/GIMP/2.10/scripts
~/gimp

2) I add test.scm into  [i]~/gimp [/i]folder with full 777 permissions. Content of test.scm is:

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Hello, sorry if my english is not very good but I'll try.

I can't find any tuto for GIMP to introduce an internal shadow on a picture with frame, see image.
Many thanks for any result.

Hello! I'm rather new to GIMP and have no prior experience in these types of programs, so do forgive me if the solution to this problem is glaringly obvious.
Anyhow, I have installed a ton of brushes for GIMP, all have been working perfectly...Until today. I open the program to practice some illustrating, and the paintbrush tool is doing this:

[img]file:///home/mochisuke/Pictures/Windowshot_2020-09-04_13:25:25.png[/img]    

It's turning all of my brushes into a big weird chunky block with no definition! Does anyone know the cause of this, and the solution to fix it? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Can't figure out what I'm missing here, but I'm selecting just one part of a layer and what to rotate just that (ie. not the entire image or layer); however, after making the selection, the only thing that rotates is the selection outline. The actual image remains unaffected

A first shot at the script discussed here, to render all kinds of hatchings.

Code is still wet, expect bugs, misfeatures, etc... but read the doc before asking questions.

This is a first shot, more features could come later, dash ends, colors, more complex dash patterns.

The script is here.

Enjoy. And read the doc.

I installed gimp appimage 2.10.21 in ubuntu 20.04 having extracted it following Rich's advice. Again thanks to Rich I am able to run it from the terminal and by clicking on its icon in activities.
The cherry on the cake would be if I could have it appear as an option in "Open with".

I have searched the net and the advice I have found suggests adding %U at the end of the Exec= line and adding the MIME types to the .desktop file which I got from Rich.

Both of these I have tried without success. Any ideas would be appreciated.

david.

A really old little java program that applies a painting effect. A small choice of four styles. It does come from an earlier era when images where much smaller, so it can look as if nothing is happening, be patient it does not break any speed records. Change any of the settings, remember to click on the Apply Parameters  button to update.

   

Not that small    it does require the jre runtime : see: https://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp  Linux users can get it from their repo look for OpenJDK Runtime Environment

Unzip the attachment somewhere: Then to run a java application

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  Painterly.zip (Size: 378.46 KB / Downloads: 448)

I made a script that creates xcfs, does a few things and saves them. Problem is, it gradually fills up my memory when I execute it on many files.

The last command of the loop is pdb.gimp_xcf_save. So I wonder if I need to add a command to close the xcf of somehow clear the memory, but I didn't find such a thing.
Any idea?