On a website I saw some color sandwich text and here is how I made it :

- File / New (400 px X 400 px / transparent layer)
- set color foreground (here blue)
- Text Tool  (here font Ignes et Glacies Sharp Bold / 400 px)
- Type character 'G'
- Filters / Light and Shadow / Long Shadow (lenght 6.0 / angle 45.00 degrees)
- set color foreground (here white)
- Text Tool  (here font Ignes et Glacies Sharp Bold / 400 px)
- Type character 'G'
- Filters / Light and Shadow / Long Shadow (lenght 6.0 / angle 45.00 degrees)
- paste white 'G' over 'blue 'G'
- move blue 'G' 5 pixels down an 5 pixels right
- layer merge down 
- Image / Crop to Content
- Select / All
- Edit / Copy 
- File / New / (500 px X 500 px / transparent layer)
- View / Show Grid
- Paths tool
- make path from one grid intersection to one grid intersection right/down (path is 45 degrees)
- Paintbrush tool (select the 'G' brush, the one you copied) / spacing 6.0 / hardness and force 100.0 / Angle 0.00 / Aspect Ratio 0.00)
- right click mouse / Edit / Stroke Path
- select 'Stroke with a paint tool'
- the blue 'G' front character is disturbed by some white stripes and can be corrected bij selecting the 'G' (fuzzy select) and fill it (here) with blue  (any other suggestions ?)
- done 

   

Is there any method to convert a layer and its contents to grey scale ? I had to turn image > mode > grey scale to achieve that.

Colours > Desaturate > Colour to grey is not working for me. It makes the whole layer white that shades of grey.

The original image had a white background. I chose " select colour " option and then deleted the white. But even then there is some burr of white on the edge as seen in the attached image. Is there any method to avoid it ? It is somewhat better with Magic wand tool, but not perfect.

   

PS : Not visible with white background. Perhaps download the image and see.

Hi everyone. 

I am having trouble with some basic things in gimp. 


I can open two separate images in gimp separately. Then i drag one (it is a photo) on to the other. 
What used to look like a normal or small sized image covers the entirety of the other one. And it seems like a very high resolution. A small piece of the new image covers the entire first image. 
I would think that "scale image" would reform the image to a small size but it changes both images. How can i rescale only one layer or one image??

Also what are the best ways to open up 2 images in two separate layers? 
I can choose "open with" and then select gimp from two images and then try to combine them. 

Is there another way? If i choose "open with layers" and select an image, the images are sizes that don't work together. So, i try to scale the image, but like i said before, both images change sizes instead of just the new one. 
thx. zack

How do I make these gridlines disappear
I don't know if they're called gridlines

Hi,

Thank you in advance for reading my question. I am trying to edit the cover of a vinyl record mockup (https://graphicburger.com/vinyl-record-psd-mockup/).

The file contains several layers - one being the "Cover." Is there a way to import an image into GIMP such that it only fills the space of the Cover? I've attached some screenshots for reference.

Thank you for your help!

   
   

A little more than a year ago I posted this topic regarding tif files created by GIMP.

I've now noticed something else about such files which I find strange.  It seems possible that this could contribute to some compatibility issues discussed therein.  However, compatibility is NOT the only issue.

It now looks to me like GIMP is adding an alpha channel NO matter what I do.  For example, I can open a tif format file created by another program and according to GIMP there is no alpha channel.  Then I do nothing but export that file from GIMP in tif format.  When I subsequently open that file in GIMP it says there is an alpha channel.  Furthermore, the newly created alpha channel does nothing.  It appears to be completely opaque (i.e., complete white, no transparency).  Obviously I don't know what is causing the compatibility problem but I do think I should be able to create a tif file without said alpha channel which would be a format more like what other image editors I'm using do.

Another problem I've noticed with tif files created by GIMP is that they are much larger than what other software would produce for the same image.  The tif file created by GIMP is approximately 1/3 larger than it needs to be.  The experiment mentioned above where I just opened (input) a tif file and exported it in tif format  is that the file grew from 60MB to 80MB.  Given that it went from 3 channels (RGB) to 4 (RGBa) that seems like this explains the phenomenom.

What I've been doing for some time now which is quite annoying is opening the files I produce with GIMP using some other editor (typically Rawtherapee), which fortunately is able to open them, and then exporting them again without doing any editing and the resulting file turns out to be about 75% the size of the GIMP produced input file.

It seems like GIMP should be able to omit the alpha channel.  I'm hoping I just need someone to explain how that can be done.

For some reason unbeknownst to man or common sense, GIMP insists on export images to the Document folder in windows instead of the Pictures folder. Is there any way to set a folder to be the DEFAULT for exporting.

I hope I can explain this without being confusing. On the old win paintbrush 3.1, it had a great feature which I always wanted to get. Not sure if possible with Gimp 2.10. Win  PB 3.1 had an eraser feature that would change one color into another color. Example. let's say you have a checkerboard with all green and all blue squares. using that eraser tool dragging it over the checkerboard ONLY the green squares for example will change to another color you want like red the blue would be untouched. Can that be done with gimp 2.10 or even gimp 2.8? If you still don't get what i mean check out this vid at 1:50 into vid it shows what I am looking for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk4WYfq_eVg

Hi,
Im hoping someone can help me. I have a color photo I need to turn into a coloring book page.
Im using gimp 2.10.14
I have tried everything I can find about doing this with older versions of gimp but when I use those directions they don't work as the menu has changed. There doesn't seem to be any documentation on how to do this in this version. Can anyone do me a favor and walk me thru this? When I try it the old way I just wind up with black and white blobs. 

I am starting with a color photo that is a jpg.
I turn it into greyscale.
I need to make a duplicate to work on.

now what? It needs to wind up a lined pic suitable to use as a coloring page.

Thanks so much!