This seems so simple, and it should be.  

It's not.

Once again, I have created an (irregular) selection in Gimp.  [[It is not a square, or circle, or rectangle, or anything 'easy' to work with.]]  I cut it out with the free-select scissors.  I have the 'marching ants' to confirm that I completed the selection.

Once more, I have copied the selection (both Ctrl+C, and from the Edit menu).  Once more, I have attempted to paste the selection into a new layer.  Once more I have created the Floating Selection.  Once more, I have attempted to anchor the Floating Selection into a new layer.

It simply does not work.

I've seen and read maybe a dozen tutorials on this.  I have followed to the letter the steps illustrated or described in the tutorials, over and over.  

I always wind up with one of two results:

(1) An 'empty' selection in the new layer -- the 'marching ants' outline is there, but the content inside them is not.  Or,

(2) A visible selection which cannot be operated upon, or moved, or manipulated in any way.

Is it possible for someone, anyone to provide ONE (or two) method, which will (1) successfully paste the selection onto a new layer, and (2) allow me to work on that selection in the new layer?  Something that will work at least 80% of the time?

If I sound frustrated, it is because I am.  I apologize if that comes through.  

I'm merely seeking something that works, and something that is (mainly) reliable.

I thank everyone in advance for their answers, and for their patience with me.  It is appreciated.

-- Tyler Rupp

HI,
I am trying to apply some filters from Gmic, but I get error like these. These errors mostly occur on color filters. Most other filters work fine. Any suggestions for solving this?
I have working network and when I try to acces given url on browser, I can access the files just fine.

I am using Gmic that comes with Krita. Is there an additional step to install/use Gmic?
I am on Windows 10. I am using Krita 4.3. I even tried it with Krita 4.4 alpha, but still got error. Honestly, This error has always been there for me since I started using Krita few years ago. I always thought maybe these filter are discontinued or something.
But I saw people using them on youtube tutorials, and I couldn’t access it.
Is it something to do with my hardware? I have very old laptop. 4 gb RAM and nvidia geforce 820m 2gb.

I posted this on Krita forums and was directed here.

   

   

gimp give me this log file after many crash


GNU Image Manipulation Program version 2.10.8
git-describe: GIMP_2_10_6-294-ga967e8d2c2
C compiler:
    Using built-in specs.
    COLLECT_GCC=gcc
    COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/8/lto-wrapper
    OFFLOAD_TARGET_NAMES=nvptx-none
    OFFLOAD_TARGET_DEFAULT=1
    Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
    Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Debian 8.2.0-13' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-8/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,brig,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --with-gcc-major-version-only --program-suffix=-8 --program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-vtable-verify --enable-libmpx --enable-plugin --enable-default-pie --with-system-zlib --with-target-system-zlib --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-multiarch --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-abi=m64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --enable-multilib --with-tune=generic --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none --without-cuda-driver --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu
    Thread model: posix
    gcc version 8.2.0 (Debian 8.2.0-13)
    
using GEGL version 0.4.12 (compiled against version 0.4.12)
using GLib version 2.58.3 (compiled against version 2.58.1)
using GdkPixbuf version 2.38.1 (compiled against version 2.38.0)
using GTK+ version 2.24.32 (compiled against version 2.24.32)
using Pango version 1.42.3 (compiled against version 1.42.3)
using Fontconfig version 2.13.1 (compiled against version 2.13.1)
using Cairo version 1.16.0 (compiled against version 1.16.0)


> fatal error: Aborted

Stack trace:

/lib/libgimpbase-2.0.so.0(gimp_stack_trace_print+0x397)[0x7fc8fc031e27]
gimp(+0xd14a0)[0x564a15aa74a0]
gimp(+0xd18d8)[0x564a15aa78d8]
gimp(+0xd2037)[0x564a15aa8037]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0(+0x12730)[0x7fc8fb339730]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(gsignal+0x10b)[0x7fc8fb19b7bb]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(abort+0x121)[0x7fc8fb186535]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x2240f)[0x7fc8fb18640f]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x30102)[0x7fc8fb194102]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6(+0x436bb)[0x7fc8fb0606bb]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6(+0x43760)[0x7fc8fb060760]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6(_XEventsQueued+0x5d)[0x7fc8fb060a5d]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6(XPending+0x57)[0x7fc8fb0527b7]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0(+0x588d5)[0x7fc8fc0f28d5]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_check+0x1d1)[0x7fc8fb51db11]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0(+0x4e0e0)[0x7fc8fb51e0e0]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_loop_run+0xb2)[0x7fc8fb51e4c2]
gimp(app_run+0x357)[0x564a15aa6cb7]
gimp(main+0x395)[0x564a15aa65b5]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xeb)[0x7fc8fb18809b]
gimp(_start+0x2a)[0x564a15aa673a]

I've scaled images in GIMP 2.10 and imported them into an Internet Webdesign program called BandZoogle without any problems before.

I just received an image from a graphic designer that I need to scale down and the scale feature works in GIMP but does not transfer properly.  In other words, the image remains the original size once it's imported into BandZoogle.

What am I missing?

Found on GC : http://www.gimpchat.de/logo-toolbox-gimp...10-filter/
For text use, I only installed logo-toolbox.scm in the (C:\User\Name\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10\scripts)
Tested with windows10, gimp 2.10.20
Have fun

Hello,

Does anyone know of a script or plugin that can take the text entered into a single text frame (in this case a large horizontal rectangle) and automatically divide the text into multiple columns (like a newspaper)?

I can of course create the multiple text frames (columns) individually and then copy portions of the text into each frame individually if need be, but it would be so much easier to make edits to the text if all of the text was contained in a single text frame.

Not the end of the world if this doesn't exist, but if it does then it would be a huge time saver.   The other option of course is to just make sure that I get all of my text right the first time, and not have to go back and edit it again after dividing and copying into the individual text frames.  

Thank You!

I've reinstalled the printer-scanner  and connected it to the wifi again.  Twice.  Driver is up-to-date.
Canon mx490
Gimp still sees the printer, but not the scanner.
It was working fine yesterday.  My wife's computer sees it.

My device manager now calls the printer-scanner "Unknown Device"
IDs it as a printer, locates it on the M490 series with a long number after it.
Says it is working properly.

Any help?

Thanks

Help! My brush tool is dotting. Instead of a smooth stroke, its leaves dots evenly spaced. I cant figure out why its doing this. 
Thanks!

Hello everyone !

I am a new user of GIMP 2.10 and am facing a weird problem while using the Gradient tool to apply a gradient to a Layer Mask.After the usual procedure,when the Gradient type is selected,the cursor is not changing to the usual Gradient tool selector(square with a horizontal line).Instead ,the cursor displayed is the one last selected from the ToolBox.

No matter what I do,the Gradient tool cursor is just not displayed.

Please help !

Esteemed Colleagues:

I just built Gimp 2.10 from source and it crashes upon startup, as
soon as it tries to load the pagecurl plugin.  Sometimes the crash
appears to occur upon loading the screenshot plugin, but I think that
is because screenshot is the last plugin that is loaded before loading
the pagecurl plugin.  I think pagecurl is actually the plugin causing
the crash.  Gimp is multithreaded so the exact moment when the main
window is unmapped and the error message is printed is indeterminate.

The error message is

  g_param_spec_internal: assertion 'g_param_spec_is_valid_name (name)' failed
  /gnu/bin/gimp: fatal error: Segmentation fault

and it seems to be coming from gimp_wire_read().  There is nothing
weird in my environment to which the crash can be attributed; the
crash still occurs when gimp is invoked after "env - DISPLAY=$DISPLAY".

(Parenthetically, building gimp from source was a nightmare.  Gimp
2.10 required newer versions of, inter alia: glib, gtk, babl and gegl
than I had available thru my package manager, so I had to build those
from source too, and, in several cases, the libraries on which they
depend.  The gegl build kept failing until I built a newer version of
gobject-introspection than the one I had, and then rebuilt babl using
the newer version of g-ir-scanner.  This was, of course, completely
undocumented.)

Segmentation faults are common when you build software with a
PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable that does not correspond to your explicit or
implicit LD_LIBRARY_PATH when you run it, since you are linking
against different subroutines than the program was built to expect
(proper "-rpath" arguments in the pkg_config .pc files would fix that,
but the .pc files only contain -L arguments and not -rpath arguments,
I have no idea why).  This seems, however, not to be the case here.
When gimp crashes and the debugger window pops up, it reports:

   using GEGL version 0.4.26 (compiled against version 0.4.26)
   using GLib version 2.65.1 (compiled against version 2.65.1)
   using GdkPixbuf version 2.36.5 (compiled against version 2.36.5)
   using GTK+ version 2.24.32 (compiled against version 2.24.32)
   using Pango version 1.42.3 (compiled against version 1.42.3)
   using Fontconfig version 2.13.92 (compiled against version 2.13.92)
   using Cairo version 1.14.8 (compiled against version 1.14.8)

So -- at least with respect to those seven libraries (all of which I
had to build from source in order to be able to build gimp 2.10) --
gimp is using, at run time, the same version of the library that it
was built to expect.

How do I build a Gimp 2.10 binary that I can get to actually function?

I have no idea what the pagecurl plugin does, but I suspect that I
would be happy to live without it.  I do not, however, see a configure
option for declining to build it.

As always, thank you in advance for any and all replies.

            jay at m5 dot chicago dot il dot us