Hi, I'm am a completly newbee with GIMP trying to remove the background of a picture.
THis picture is a shield . When I try to select the white border and delete it, the two heads and the bell are also selected since they are also white.
Thanks for your help.
Bernard

For adding a symbol to text in Windows Gimp 3.0 the previous unicode entry does not work (it is more-or-less ok with linux).

Two ways you might add a symbol

(1) Copy and paste into the Gimp text window, typically using a character map.

   

(2) One of the Gimp developers came up with this for Windows (must be in the MS documentation somewhere), putting a symbol straight into Gimp text.

The Windows key + . (the period / full stop key) brings up this.

   

There is a section for symbols, which narrows down selection a bit. Clicking on a symbol puts it straight into the Gimp text window, using the current font.

   

hi, i decided to use gimp for digital painting however when i import some abr brushes into gimp, they didn't behave 
like a brush at all. its like stamps forming a line 
myPaint brushes do behave like propper brushes but i can't find a way to convert my abr brushes into .myb brushes ( the format of mypaint brushes )
i can import them into png but that's it for now, i didn't find any way to convert them into myb

ASs is usually the case, the tutorials for this are wonderful if you want to something hard.  But not for something that I suspect is very easy.  Attached is a seal off my now ancient briefcase from when I worked on the Mariner Jupiter/Saturn project, later renamed as Voyager.  The seal has been abused in many years of use and moving.  I want to make the background (black leather) transparent or perhaps white.  The blue of space behind the planets should be a uniform dark blue.  A few smudges need to be covered over with other patches of color.

How do I select a region (such as the black leather) and bucket fiill it with some arbitrary color.  I managed to select similar colors.  How do I tell bucket fill to use some arbitrary color?

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Gimp does not create thumbnails for xcf images. How can I create thumbnails? Thank you.

Hi! Is there a way to change the new hand cursor to the previous text stick one? I found it very annoying, since it cover the values, and dont let me see exactly behind the slider when increase or decrease values. Thanks any input on this.

Hello, wondering if anyone has any insight into this problem. I've tried 2.x and 3.x Gimp.

See attached image, hopefully it'll still be here. On the left are common fonts, e.g. Baskerville, times new roman, etc. rendered in Microsoft Office and showing the correct apostrophe. On the right is how Gimp is rendering them. I know fonts have many forms of apostrophes (e.g. left, right, etc), but I cannot find any way for it to render apostrophes correctly. Any idea on how to fix them?

Note, this isn't unique to Gimp as I've found a few programs that also don't work so I'm imagining it's the font renderer mis-interpreting the glyphs properly?

If the image disappears it's basically the fonts have curved top heavy apostrophes (like a comma), i.e. with serifs, but in Gimp it is rendering them all as sans-serif versions.

Hi, I have version 3.0.4 and I offline help isn't available so I downloaded and installed it separately. It still says that offline help is not installed locally. I have looked in edit-preferences-help system-use locally installed copy and I get the same message. Any advise? Thanks

       

For some reason, GIMP 3.0.0 won't let me paste one jpg image onto / into another. It used to be a simple select, CTRL-C, open other image, CTRL-V. Now all that happens is that hideous checkerboard pattern shows up in the right side boxes. What am I missing? Both layers are fully merged down in the originals. Trying to scale the copies layer results in it disappearing.