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  Cannot subtract from an empty selection
Posted by: HowardG - 01-24-2020, 09:24 PM - Forum: General questions - Replies (9)

When I try to draw a selection box on the image it says "Cannot subtract from an empty selection."
Why is that and how do I make it stop? Huh


I found the box to check in the rectangular select tool box. Problem fixed thank you.

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  Gimp 2.10 reducing photo size
Posted by: PaulEChapman - 01-24-2020, 07:48 PM - Forum: General questions - Replies (4)

Hi

Loaded a tiff image whose original size was 3914 x 5871 pixels (portrait mode). It appears in Gimp as a tiny image 168 × 252 pixels! When I try to scale it it loses quality which I cannot recover through any of the interpolation quality options. I must be doing something wrong when I load it! Any suggestions gratefully received!

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  Check out Gimp fonts
Posted by: rich2005 - 01-24-2020, 11:24 AM - Forum: Tutorials and tips - No Replies

It is possible to render the available fonts in Gimp to a file as a 'preview' or permanent record.

(1) Right click in the Fonts dock and select Render Fonts Map
(2) The default is a list of 'Sans' Type fonts
(3) One per layer in the image

   

(4) Leave the filter blank for all the Gimp fonts. Expect a very long listing
(5) ..or a specific style, bold / italic....
(6) A specific font, your text / font size / colour

   

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  Altering multiple files
Posted by: SteveB - 01-24-2020, 03:28 AM - Forum: General questions - Replies (3)

Hi all,newbie here. Searched for an answer but quickly became overwhelmed. I took a night lapse that came out ok but I would like to increase the contrast of all the photos before compiling them into a video. I have Elements 2.0 (yeah I'm a dinosaur) but don't want to do several hundred photos one at a time.  Just downloaded Gimp 2.10.14.  Can I do it? and how?  Thanks

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  Font size seems locked on one text box
Posted by: marigolden - 01-23-2020, 10:04 PM - Forum: General questions - Replies (2)

I was able to change fonts size, but on one text box it doesn't seem to work. I'm on the correct layer. The other text boxes have the same font as this one so it isn't the style being defective or anything. Any reason why it'd do this?

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  Is there a way to get it to preview a font just by hovering over the name?
Posted by: marigolden - 01-23-2020, 08:43 PM - Forum: General questions - Replies (2)

I'm having to click it each time to test out the look of it, just wondering if there's a way around it to preview without clicking

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  Photo Restoration
Posted by: Rob1955 - 01-23-2020, 02:23 PM - Forum: General questions - Replies (2)

I'm trying to restore a photo for a friend, and have come across a difficult area. I have attatched two images. In image one, part of the original, the arm, and the hand, are faded or damaged. In image Two, I have tried to repair the damage, but I am having trouble reproducing the darker areas at the bottom of the arm/hand. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.



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  wax seal script
Posted by: denzjos - 01-23-2020, 12:51 PM - Forum: Extending the GIMP - Replies (3)

Found on GC : wax seal script  (Diego) :


.zip   wax-seal.zip (Size: 3.37 KB / Downloads: 436)

   

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  Adding alpha to make a rectanglular image, square
Posted by: Summoner99 - 01-22-2020, 06:14 PM - Forum: General questions - Replies (3)

I'm fairly new to gimp, so this might be a really obvious question, and I definitely might have missed this answer during my internet search.

I have a rectangular black and white image that is taller than it is wide (but a solution that applies to one that is wider than it is tall would be great as well). I'd like to add transparent pixels on either side so that when I export it as a png, its size is square, but the original part of the image is still centered nicely. 

The best idea I have is to create a square image of only transparent pixels then select the entirety of the original image and paste it onto this new image and somehow keep it centered.

Again, I am a beginner so I'm pretty positive there is a better solution.

Thanks in advance.

Edit:
Turns out what I thought of was a fairly easy solution

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  Selective Gaussian Blur Aux Input
Posted by: QuinB - 01-22-2020, 02:30 PM - Forum: General questions - Replies (4)

Can anybody help us, please, with information on how to use the

Aux. Input

option on the Selective Gaussian Blur filter?


That you're meant to choose a layer as some sort of mask seems obvious, but basic experiments don't seem to get very far and the manual entry stating "Aux. input: If there is another image on screen, you can select it as auxiliary input." is not as informative as hoped.

There are some very informative articles on using Selective Gaussian Blur for Gimp 2.8 (or perhaps earlier), but nothing for the new option, so almost anything to help explain the how and why would be useful

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