Could this script be modified to work on the image and not the active layer?

I have a shortcut already for crosshairs per layer, but would like to add a shortcut modifier to work on the image and not the layer. I poked it with a stick for a while and couldn't get it to work.

Attached Files

  Gregs Crosshairs.scm.zip (Size: 588 bytes / Downloads: 630)

I'm looking for a way to use the crop tool (or similar) to only crop the canvas size and not the image itself. 

To explain a bit more, I have quite a few crop presets that have all the aspect ratios of the artwork I create. Most of the time I'm trying to compose an image to fit within the restraints of a ratio. If I use the crop tool and I don't get it exactly right on the first crop, I have undo and try again. Or I can use the better solution of dropping another copy of the image as another layer and then I can move the full image around as needed with the correct canvas ratio acting as a viewport.

I think it would be incredibly handy if you could use the crop tool to just crop the canvas to create a viewport at the preferred ratio, and leave the existing layer/s as is. (A modifier key for instance) I think this would go hand in hand with the new Out-of-canvas viewing and editing features.

Am I overlooking an easy way to do this already? 

I have already requested a feature to mask the canvas padding and might help to visualize what I'm trying to say.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/4833

Just wanted some feedback before requesting another feature.

I've seen it mentioned about how some settings will break compatbility with older programs but can't remember where that was.  I'm missing the jpeg configuration options in the export as dialog.  Is the option under image?

Thx
Masteratarms

I've got an original image of my 1850 great great grandmothers photo. I made a layer copy of  it, made changes on that Layer(2) and made another copy of that layer(3) and made even more changes on the third Layer.
When I  cleaned up the third layer, I took a bit more than I needed to out of it. I want to go back to the second layer and copy a section of it and put it onto the third layer.

I've tried this which I found somewhere:

1. Select what you need - I did this with Free Select on the second layer
   
2. Select - Save to channel. I did this on the second layer
   
3. Ensure the newly created channel is selected and Edit - Copy (Ctrl+C)
   
4. Go to the image where you want to insert the selection (I clicked on the the third layer)
   
5. Open “Channels” and create a new channel (a button at the bottom or via the context menu) - did this on the third layer
   
6. Ensure the newly created channel is selected and Edit - Paste (Ctrl+V)
   
7. Open “Layers” and anchor the floating layer (a button at the bottom or via the context menu)
   
8. Open “Channels” and replace the selection with this channel (a button at the bottom or Channel to Selection in the context menu)
   

Hi guys,

I am really struggling to get rid of the yellowish tint across this scanned image - seen as vertical bars going through different areas. I was trying to use Fuzzy select tool, Free select tool + all options under Colors (Temperature, Curves...) but I need more knowledge. What is the way to sort of replace certain color spectrum (in this case yellowish pixels) whilst not affecting the other parts of the color spectrum - I mean so that I do not end up with areas contrasting with the rest of the image. Basically how to get rid of the yellowish part of the color space in those vertical bars and no more?

Thank you.

https://i.imgur.com/LG5UDkO.png
https://i.imgur.com/R7cg4k9.png

Has anyone used this extension on a Chromebook? I am now doing remote teaching and my students have Chromebooks at home. The app has a very narrow canvas window. If I make the toolbox and layers panel visible we don't see much of the canvas. Any solutions? Thanks.

I have discovered that in the most current download - 2.10.14 version - for Mac OS - many of the Fonts are no longer available as they were in the former versions.  For example Mistral and Curlz MT, which in particular I used often in the past, are showing strange symbols instead of the appropriate lettering in the text tool listing and in text boxes I create on images.  Can these Fonts be recovered and if so how can I do that?  Thank you for your kind attention and response regarding this disconcerting snafu. 

I have a .png file, of a white t-shirt, with background removed. I have opened another image into Gimp, a jpg, and want to put this as a new layer on the t-shirt. The problem is, when I do, the new layer is greyscale. I've done it before, and it's been ok, I just don't know what's happening, or how to resolve it. The original jpg is in colour, it's only when I paste it into the t-shirt png, that it goes wrong. I've noticed that the forground colour on the t-shirt, has a pink triangle in the top left corner?

When trying to select the font:
   
Error message:
   
 Thanks!

Hi, I have an XCF that looks right while viewing, and comes out okay as a JPG, but when I export PDF, some layers look very wrong.  I have a drop shadow and two "soft light" mode layers, and one or all of them are coming out as an ugly flat brown color instead of the shadow/texture I see while editing.

This is on 2.1.  I was using an older version to author the file, but PDF export started *crashing* there, so I upgraded to 2.1 today.  That exports, but has this bad artifact.

XCF is here: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AlV7bW7zx2N8ps8QXG-4...Q?e=RVFQtA
The problem is the "bird" image inside the necklace.  It comes out flat brown.
The incorrect PDF is here: https://1drv.ms/b/s!AlV7bW7zx2N8ps8cP2eD...A?e=3hFGqV

And I export with "Apply layer masks before saving" plus "convert bitmaps to vector graphics" plus "omit hidden layers" checked.

Thanks for any help you can offer!