Ok, I'm trying to do a simple project, not get
a college degree in how to use GIMP.

I have ZERO knowledge of computers or
software.

After this, I might never use GIMP again.

If this forum allows it, I will upload the image
in question.

What I am making is an image that I will then
pay Office Depot to print out as a poster.
I will then cut it up and construct a game board to give as a gift.

This link below shows what I want the finished game board to look like.

https://boardgamegeek.com/image/20548/troke

So, I began by hunting on google for a nice crisp image of the texture and shade of the background, sort of a woodgrain.
I could not find what I really wanted, and settled on an image of corkboard.

I pasted this into GIMP.  The board has got to
be 16 inches by 16 inches total.  

I begin by changing the ruler in GIMP to inches, and it shows that my pasted image is too small.

This is where I'm running into trouble.
I have "re scaled" it, but then two things become problems.

Number one, the ruler stays exactly the same.
This is confusing, so please be patient with me. What I mean is that the ruler does not fit the enlarged image.  Even though the image is larger, the ruler isn't changing.

Another problem is that now the cork board image I got off Google is so blurry that it looks awful, it is worthless.

After I get the background, I have to understand how to draw the colored rings and circles and lines and dots and the corner decorations.  I will probably have to find some clipart for the corners, and have to learn how to insert that clipart.

Kind of desperate here.  I have only a month to finish this birthday gift.

I hope you can see my screen shot.  The ruler says the image is only a tiny bit more than 4 inches by 4 inches.
The Scale dialog box says that it is 40 inches by 22 and a half inches!

I mean...does it HAVE to be hard, confusing, frustrating, punishing? It can't be intuitive, friendly, easy, nice, useful, pleasant?

Hi, I'm working hard to traslate the many tutorials I wrote for my italian website in english and update the one I've already wrote to the new version of Gimp.
This is the newest one I fixed, and I really think it could be useful for the community.

Perfect black and white with Gimp's Mono Mixer
https://www.mora-foto.it/en/tutorials-gi...white.html

I really hope you will appreciate, if you like it, I'll keep you updated with the new tutorials I'll write in the future. Best things.

I have used GIMP for years and saved my art as jpg's and then succesfully uploaded them to Canva for printing.  I got a new laptop and installed the new GIMP and now when i export as a jpg it works, but when i export it to Canva the files say "We are unable to upload this file as it is incompatible with Canva or it has been corrupted".  
My old jpg files i saved on the previous computer still work to upload no problem.  I have double checked that Gimp is still exporting as an RGB format, and have tried all sorts of other stuff to no avail.  The exported files are definately a .jpg but they are no longer recognized in Canva as compatible.  I have also updated my browser as well.  Does anyone have any ideas on how to get this to work?  I work with Canva all day long and now can't upload any of my files, I have no idea how to fix this.  
I wonder if i should download the older version of GIMP, since it still works on my old laptop but not the new version on my new laptop.  What could have changed?

I am not an advanced user but would like to ask this. I used some command to install Gmic and MyPaint brushes as suggested by @rich2005 on another thread. But looks like there is no MyPaint brushes in my GIMP brushes tab. What should I do ?

I just loaded GMIP and am trying to see if I can use it for stacking up many pdf layers of a map.
I'm using white as the transparency color for each layer and have not found a way.
Can anyone help point me in the right direction?

Hi, I have a new install of Windows 10 Pro x64. I installed Gimp 2.10, but when I go to launch it, nothing happens. I started the gimp console and I got these error messages:

Hello. I am currently trying to make a Gimp 2.6.8 install to work on another Linux distros. First I copied the gimp binary file. It complained about not having a gegl lib. I copied it from my distro. It worked, nonetheless, Gimp continued to complain about other library files. I continued to copy all the necessary files until the executable Gimp file worked.

However it was seriously handicapped. I then copied the .gimp dir that was on my home/user. It may improved it in someways, but not enough. The brushes still were not working, even though they were on .gimp as far as know. Somehow I figured out that there was a /usr/share/gimp directory full of files and subdirs. Copied it to the newer Linux distro. The brushes started to work. Now Gimp was close to reach a functional state.

Despite that, there still are two issues. The first is that, since it was not properly installed, I cannot click on a image file and select it to be opened by Gimp. I tried to understand how to select a random program to open a certain file type, but at least until now, was not able to do so. However, this is a distro specific issue and so not to be treated here.

The second is that the menu (file,edit,etc) is not showing up. So I believe that there still are some configuration files that I did not copy to the newer distro. Hence, I would deeply appreciate if someone can point the files responsible for such part of Gimp. Or whatever is necessary to solve this issue. If one does not know the specific files, yet has a good idea of existing gimp config files, it copy all at once.

Thanks for reading all that.

Hello, I have installed gimp 2.10.12 (I have the same problem for 2.10.14) on Linux (Kiss Linux). When
I try to add some text on a picture, I get:

• dejavu
  
• liberation
  

I have been using the ofnuts dialmarkers to generate square markers.
Is there any way i can generate a rotating arrow in multiple layers, maybe with similiar concept of the dialmarkers ?
Arrows as such:
https://i.imgur.com/a/4neC9zO

Only tutorial i found out there to create circular arrow is from inkscape: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGFp4EoJi9g

Hi All,
I uninstalled/ reinstalled (clean install) of 2.10.14, following the forum advice.
Using 2.10.8, I had no problem having lots of images and going through them one by one, choosing, editing etc...
I had the "too mny GEGL exceptions error" fault when using the 2.10.14.
This is when I followed the forum advice and installed it clean, instead of the upgrade I made before.
The problem persists.


Any targeted specific help will be greatly appreciated.