I hope to be able to explain my doubt.

The situation is this:
Situation 01.
• I have two layers:
•• The bottom one with any color image;
•• The top layer with an opaque image
The visual result of this overlay is the one shown in the image below, where it is seen that there is no visibility through the top image.
   
Situation 02.
• By modifying the top layer mode, I am able to obtain certain transparency, and the visual result shows that it is now possible to see part of the bottom image, as shown in the image below.
   
Attempt 01.
So I close the visibility of the bottom layer and make new from visible for the top layer.
The result I saved as a .png file

Unwanted Result.
The problem is that the image saved as .png does not maintain the conditions that were seen while under the effect of the applied layer modes. Part of the image transparency (not the background) is opaque (matte) again.
   
If I open this image and put it on top of another, there is no more transparency obtained in Situation 02.
   

There is some way to do this correctly and preserve the image as it is seen before it is saved (as it is visible while under the effect of layer mode).?

Thanks in advance.

Hi I do content creating for my business and have started using GIMP to create some content.

I was wondering if someone can help me achieve the effect I am trying to create.

I am creating black text and I want to create the black text with a kind of glowing white outline around it.



So far I have just been creating one layer of black text, duplicating the layer and then on the lower layer making the text white and slightly bigger than the other text on the upper layer.

This kind of gives the effect of a glowing white outline around it but it is not perfect becasue the text does not always line up and it doesnt look totally neat.

Can someone please give me a quick tutorial on the correct way to create this effect?

Please see example attached. here is the link if its not working:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/giSDZTPoD73ZzxQm6

Can you help me with applying smooth texture to a logo as in Microsoft Fluent design ? When I use gradient in Inkscape, it is working to some extent, but not that close. Wondering if it is different with GIMP.

Hi

Is there a video or step by step on how to change text form one language to other language  on an image

Say it show Monday, I want to change it to Maandag, how do I do it.

Hi All,

I've just joined the forum and had a quick search but couldn't find the answer to my question.

I am using the select by color tool to map light intensities from different photos. I can select regions of different brightness and can adjust the threshold level to widen or narrow the selection, all this I'm fine with. 

When I make a selection, the luminance is plotted on a histogram which shows the range of values the current selection is in. My question is; is there a way of setting the luminance values to drive the selection? I want to copy the selected regions and compare them so I want to ensure I have the same luminance values for the photos I'm comparing. 

[edit]: I am using 2.10.14

Thanks in advance

Mark

More industrial   
Pulled out my old linux  Autopano (was an alternative to Hugin) & stitched 3 photographs for the top image. Otherwise touched up with Gimp 2.10.14 Bottom pair ? Just nice curves.

   

Want to see it working?  (not my video)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeww1dq_PTg

I run into images like this over and over and just curious if I'm overlooking a better solution to repairing them. I'm only dealing with anime images, so a heavy handed approach with filters can sometimes work without completely ruining the image, but I was hopping there might be a better combination of filters or techniques.

These images do not have the distinct moire dots that are able to be descreened with some measure of success. My guess is the original sources were scaled down before descreening and this was the result? In any case, has anyone else run into images like this, and how did you deal with it?

   

This is my quick and dirty heavy-handed approach. I'm not sure that any approach would be able to preserve the finer details, but keeping that to a minimum while smoothing out the hard specks is certainly the dream.

G'MIC:
smooth [diffusion]
smooth [bilateral]
smooth[guided]
sharpen [inverse diffusion]

   

These images are usually from very old anime, and there just aren't better sources out there. I'm doing my best to make some of these images somewhat presentable for media centers, as new artwork will never become available again. (and I certainly do not have the talent to draw something that could pass for the original) 

Any input is most welcome!

1. I'm on the right layer + nothing is currently selected
2. I have the fuzzy tool in "add" mode
3. Threshold is at the default of 15
4. I just reset the default values, closed the program and then reopened it and it's still doing this. 

It currently selects the image itself but not the background. Any idea what's going on?

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Hello everyone!

Dear rich2005, I really appreciate your previous help. Now again, I would like to know if the Beautify Plug-in has any problems with the texture-border? Every time I run it informs me that the texture was not found.

Since 2.10.18 (and I think this problem may have started in 2.10.16) the brush engine is constantly creating hot pixels in areas with transparency.

The engine now does mip-mapping I think.  This may be the cause.  I even tried making brush sizes in powers of 2 (like 16,32,64,128 ...) hoping it might fix the issue.  It doesn't.

I may need some help joining the bug reporting site instead of just posting here.  Having full color bit map brushes is one of the advantages that puts Gimp ahead of Photoshop, and it now appears broken.

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