Hi, Firstly im sure this will be a simple setting I'm missing but hopefully you can help. 
Basic info Using 2.10.18 on windows 10, with a wacom intuos tablet.

Whenever I try to draw a small curved line with a brush tool the first centimetre is always straight, It look like it registers a 'start point' then no matter what route I take it draws a straight line to an arbitrary point a short distance from the start. So instead of a smooth curve i get a straight line leading into the curve.

Any ideas what i have missed or need to change settings wise to reduce or eliminate this?

I have not used any hardware or software like this before so forgive me if it's something basic I have missed. 

Cheers 
JD

I'm sorry, but I cannot seem to figure out how to attach an image. It's blue, circular with three lines coming off it, with a number next to it. One has a number 1 and the other 2. It doesn't change size when I zoom, and also doesn't disappear with any layer, and I can't seem to remove it no matter what I do. Thanks in advance to anyone who can figure out what I'm describing and how to remove it.

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Lets try again,

I have a photo to which I applied a filter 5 years ago. I need to identify the filter. Not close but the actual filter. All I have to go on is the photo itself, with the filter applied of course. Can anyone help me, I am new to forums, first ever post but in theory, I figured someone would recognise it. I don't know how to insert the image, when I click on insert an image, instead of browse where I could select and post the image, the dialogue box asks for a URL address. I may just have found the attachment command.

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Hello, how to create a perfect triangle aligned in the center of the image?

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I've got this image of a black sword outline on a white background. I want to remove the white background so that just the black outline of the sword is left behind. But when I do that there's a halo of white around the sword left behind from the original white background:



Is there a way to take the Sword and make every pixel in that layer black?

Or is there a better way of achieving this result?

I've been searching for ages but it's hard to find the answer to your question when you don't know the right terminology to search for.

I've just updated Ubuntu from version 19.10 to 20.04, and that has updated Gimp to 2.10.18.

One of the features that I regularly use is "Heal Selection" that appears in the Filters->Enhance menu, but it's absent from Ubuntu's Gimp.

I understand that the "Heal Selection" feature uses the Resynthesizer plugin, and in Ubuntu that is included in the "gimp-plugin-registry" package, a package that contains multiple plugins, and I do have that installed. The Resynthesizer's own menu entry is present in its usual place at Filters->Map->Resynthesize, but that doesn't include the "Heal Selection" feature.


On previous versions of Ubuntu (18.10 to 19.10), the gimp-python package also needed to be manually installed to make "Heal Selection" magically appear. This package is not in Ubuntu 20.04's repository. So this seems to be the core of the problem.

Anybody know why gimp-python has disappeared? Any ideas about what's going on at all, please?

As you can see from the image below, I have a sheet of horizontal and vertical dots (matrix). Then I have a shape. I am trying to create a " dotted " shape. ie, I would like to create an intersection of dots and shape so that the shape will look as if it is made of dots.




It will be great to have some help. I really hope that some of you are good with Inkscape as well.

I try to run a Filter (Distorts -> Newsprint) on two different CPUs

1. participant: Intel Core i5-4670K @ 3.40GHz, 4 Cores
2. participant: Intel Core i5-3320M @ 2.60GHz, 2 Cores

I was amazed that there was almost no difference in how fast the CPUs ran through the filters ??

I created three different lines using the paths tool and wanted to stroke each path with a different color.  Each time I try to stoke with a different color, all three paths change to that color.  How do I isolate the paths from one another?