Hi
I am brand new to GIMP and to this type of editing software generally.  I was doing a YouTube tutorial which was showing how to move the dockable dialog boxes around and I tried to move the layers box onto the desktop and it seems to go straight to the top left corner, covering even the red, green and yellow screen resizing buttons. 

I searched for a solution on the internet and found one from about year ago, saying it was a bug.  Im wondering if its a bug why it hasn't been fixed.  

I am running GIMP on MACOs Mojave.  

In the tutorial the layers box can simply be moved onto the desktop, no problem, but on my computer if I try to move any of the docks onto the desktop I end up with this problem.  


Has anyone else had this issue and if so is there a way to fix it so I can move my docks? Thank you in advance.

I am very inexperienced with GIMP and it seems like my problem is very basic, so I apologize if this is a trifling question. I am trying to draw a pair of bird wings. I used the Paths tool to draw my initial wing shape and it was fine. My plan was to take that shape, copy it, and use a few other tools to draw the opposite wing. I have attached an image of my starting shape and 2nd screenshot that sketches out the intent of my next step. From the history in that screenshot, you can see that I Selected the starting shape, used the Flip tool, and then moved the new shape into a position that would approximate the opposite wing. No matter if I used Paste (as various  methods) or anchor or what, I cannot for the life of me, figure out how to make the new shape appear in the layer as a permanent image/drawing/whatever. I've tried various methods with Paste, like As New Layer, and/or duplicating the layer, but when I anchor or merge down the layer, the new drawing disappears like it wasn't there to begin with, even though I have not changed the foreground color.

I have been at this particular task for 2 hours. I could have hand drawn the opposite wing (I could have hand drawn 10 pairs of wings) by now, but I am trying to learn a little about GIMP's tools and processes. It seems like a powerful software and knowing some basics seem useful. I thought I understood some basic concepts of GIMP, but I guess I don't. 

I apparently have no idea how to do what I want. What is the correct process for using a starting shape as a layer, editing it (like Flip or Rotate or Handle Transform), and pasting or anchoring or merging the new shape into the starting the layer?

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Hi,
I want to know how to blend the bottom of this image into the color of a black background.

It looks too abrupt at the bottom. I want to make it so that you cant tell where it actual begins and play on the silhouette theme.

Thanks!

   

I'm trying to move a dialog box onto the area that says, you can drop dockable dialogs here, but it just moves the box over that text.

I'm dragging the index tabs and not the box itself, but when I drag the tab over an area that it should be able to dock to the white border never shows up.

If anyone has an idea of whats going on I would appreciate it very much.

Thanks.

Hi,
I would like to combine 2 images using GIMP 10.
I find some tutorial  how to do it on GIMP8 but it was said that GIMP10 have some changing.
I want to put 2 image on the first make in the right size and  basically combine them.
What are directions to combine 2 images using GIMP10?
thanks.

   
I want to make transparent pngs of 128*256 of each of the battery load symbols. How to select and export in gimp.

I just changed from 2.8 to 2.10.12. I'm making montages from various photos and when I open them in layers they are quite jerky to move around and position and th zoom in and out is jerky as well. I never had this problem in 2.8, even with very large templates.

Any idea what the problem is?

Hi guys. I am new to GIMP. Today I was trying to balance the background of a scanned audio CD cover that had slightly different color tones (highlighted) on a folded side of a scan. Pretty much something like this issue presented on this scanned page:

http://i.imgur.com/aIU3zCH.jpg

What I used was the Select by color tool and then filled the area with Bucket fill tool with just one of the colours from the rest of the background using Color picker tool to sort of balance the overall background to get rid of that fold.

But I am wondering if you could actually fill the area with a portion of an image itself (something like cloning / healing). I can't see this option in Bucket fill tool. The reason is that I think it might look better being filled with actual scanned pattern rather than one strick colour all over.

Or is there a better way to get rid of fold shadows / highlights?


Thank you very much for your answers.

1) Filters>Render>Noise>Solid noise and increase the Y size to stretch the shapes horizontally

   

   

   

   

Hello,
I've  updated today  Mac to Catalina 10.15.1 but my GIMP stopped working....I could not open any files..
Error printed on GIMP:

Could not read the contents of Desktop

I've resetted  GIMP but no result.
How to fix error and be able to get images?

thanks.
Tatyana.