Hi everyone,

I have downloaded GIMP, and know nothing about it yet, except it supports scripting. Can anybody tell me if it can be used as a tool for my specific purpose?

I am thinking about developing software. Users of this, can load photo's, each of which are (optionally scaled) placed somewhere in the result, which will be a photo collage. To figure out if such software is of any use, and to test in practice how it would "feel", I was thinking about setting up an experimental quick&dirty test set-up. 

I will run my own program, written in C, having its own UIF to let the user define the photo collage. It generates a GIMP script file. I just read this should be in Scheme/Script-Fu, which I figure will be in ASCII format? After this, GIMP should load the script and execute it, to see the final result. If all this is possible, it wil be very unworkable, however my goal is to setup a quick&dirty environment, only to orientate myself about developing software for the photo collage. 

I only need three script commands: load photo (name), scale it (width, length) and place it (x, y). These will be repeated for each photo. (after learning GIMP, maybe GIMP can do the full job all on its own without my external C code?)

My two questions:

- Do these three script commands exsist? (I also might need "new": erase all previous content)
- How to load the script file in GIMP and run it?

very many thanks for any feedback!

I want to crop objects which have transparent parts from the background of some images, but I don't know how. Every tutorial I have found has only been for cropping out fully opaque objects from an image. Does anyone know a tutorial or any tips for how to do this?

Hello folks

thought i would take the time to come and say hi and introduce myself

My names Neil and from the UK and have previously used photshop but couldn't afford it no more so decided to give gimp a try.

I used to make sigs and cool things with ps so am hoping to learn all new things with gimp

is there anything i need like plugins etc that will help in future and wheres best place to look to learn things

thanks in advance
neil x

Hi I have a Surface pro 4, which runs windows 10 which is all updated and I am attempting to use the surface pen with no clip with Gimp. When in Landscape mode the surface pen works fine with gimp but when the display mode is changed to portrait I get an offset from where the pen cursor is and where the draw mark appears in gimp. I have set the input to screen on the pen, using Gimp 2.10.12. Any suggestions on how to fix this (I have reported the issue to windows)?

Hello there !


I am begining with Gimp and have both 2.8 version (at work) and 2.10 (at home).
This is what I would like to do:
- I have an existing GIF created in Gimp (a sphere revolving on itself)
- I would like to add snow falling on this animation

I have tried to use a script I found online "Animatedsnow". It works on a static image but I can't find how to make it work with the animation.
Either I get an error or it simply doesn't work depending on Gimp version...

Then I tried Gim'c rain and snow effect but it looks more like rain thann snow ..

Could anybody help me please ?

I mean, for example, I want to diffuse my face into the president or a soccer player or a celebrities
, how to do it? I don't need very professional skill and it's just for fun, not for any fake

Do I need any particular plugins?

Hey all...

So I was wondering if anyone had some advice.  I have files with something on the order of 2000+ brushes I like to have the option of using.  I moved the files into Gimp and organized the brush folder with subfolders.  Unfortunately I started getting errors and Gimp won't start up.  Through trial and error I have discovered when Gimp loads up it seems like it loads into the available brush tab every single brush in all the files and sub-folders in the Brushes folder.  So no matter how I organize the folder I get an error and it locks up.  This seems like some sort of glitch.

Am I missing something or is there a plug in that can manage the brushes?  Right now I am manually switching brushes out in the folder when I need them and it is a bit of a strain.

Thanks so much for the help

Hi,

when i hold left control and draw line it is 15 degree per increment. How can I modify this value to other one?

I have found the solution but this may be useful for others

I've just installed 2.10 on Xubuntu 18.04LTS; previously using 2.8, This was the version available from the 'Software' application. It installed and ran without issue but would not show a particular folder.
On this machine I have a partition mounted as /other with sensible permissions (r/w for my user and r otherwise) and 2.8 has no problems with it. However with the snap 2.10 it simply did not show the /other at all and I was also surprised that for many of the other folders the date last modified was very different from that shown by the file manager itself (thunar 1.6.15) and also added a folder named 'writable' for some reason.
I did search but couldn't find anything specific but I did find several comments about things not quite working with the snap version.
So I removed that version and set up the ppa as per
https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-Gimp-2...-18-04-LTS
installed that version and it is all back to working....


Very irritating

graham

Hello people,
I am trying to add symbols through the Alt + number keys, but simply nothing happens. 

I already noticed that only in Gimp this is happening, in other interfaces, I can type these symbols without problems - ñ} ¿ãª etc.
I tried with several fonts but in all the problem is repeated.

Was it always like this and I hadn't noticed? Or what am I letting go? 
Thanks in advance.