What is the best way to minimize screen space occupied by tools / icons / command windows / etc.?

When working on my laptop with its puny 13" screen I want to see as much of the image as possible. Which means hiding various icon/command/tools windows. What is the best way to do this.  Note: I do not want to get rid of essentials such as the menu and the status tools. How?

During a GIMP upgrade;... are my settings, added scripts, & and added paths kept?

[currently Win7 Pro 64bit, GIMP c 2.10.14]
thanks!

Hi, 

I am having trouble making the Wheel/Rotation work for dinamic brush settings. 
I can see the tilt is recognized well but using the air brush pen, the one that has the wheel, there are no changes when for example I wish to change the brush size with wheel/Rotation. 
The Wheel/Rotation ( wheel on the air brush pen and rotation on the art pen ) are rocognized in other apps like photoshop.

Is there another option that needs to be enabled for this to work ?


Help 

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

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?

I wanted to post a thread in Gimp 2.10 section, but I don't see an option for posting a new thread there.

I would like to create a layer from the below image that goes from full opacity in the centre of the clock to transparent at a certain radius. I guess this is a sort of "radial transparency fade selection". So I would like a circular image which is 100% opaque in the centre, and completely transparent around the cirumference.

How would I go about doing this in GIMP? I've tried using the Gradient tool on a white transparency mask, a FG to Transparent gradient but I am getting absolutely nowhere.

Can somebody please help me or point me to a good tutorial that does this?

The paint bucket in Gimp 2.10.20 is not adding color correctly. As you can see from the attachment, colors in two of the three rectangles are faded. The bright gold one is pasted in from elsewhere and the paintbrush strokes do properly show color. Same thing with the blue. For whatever it may be worth, I'm running GIMP on a fully updated version of Win 10.

Any idea what might be causing this and how to fix it? The color setting is exactly the same for the brush strokes and corresponding box.

Thanks for you help.

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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

I try to erase some things from an image using the erase tool. I want to erase pixel sharp, no blurred edges. Hardness and force are set to 100%. I've set up a grid to 1 pixel and also set snap to grid. The result is that the eraser snap to 1/2 pixel so the result is an erased area with blurred edges. Can anyone tell me how can I prevent that? 

   
   

I found the solution : I must set the dynamics to 'hard edge', so problem solved.