Brand new to this.  This is basic, but I've been through several tutorials and can't seem to figure this out, everything involves manually tracing the image which seems impossible to me by mouse.  

How do I change the color from white to something else?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7mlmpig91tlnh3...M.png?dl=0

Thanks so much!

I am using GIMP 2.10.14 in Windows 10 64bit.  For whatever reason, GIMP will not open any png files.  This includes those I have created by exporting as png and then trying to open them back into GIMP.  Other packages seem to have no trouble opening them.  If I use other packages to convert png files to jpg, GIMP will open them.

I have tried completely uninstalling and reinstalling GIMP and I have tried to bring png files into GIMP with - Windows 'open with', and GIMP open file.  Nothing works.  It appears to be a permission problem.  See below.

Please help.    

I did this years ago, but I've forgot now

cutting the face of one person and merging it onto another one.


I remember that there was a plugin or something to handle the edge

Would anyone tell me??

Not sure how to word this right because google hasn't helped me at all. Basically, I have a peanut shape and I am trying to alter the word inside the peanut to fit, stretch it on the ends to be rounded and squashed in the middle. not sure if there is a way to do this but if so please help?

I made a new layer to trace part of the image with the path tool and fill it in with color to solve the blur on a simple cartoon eye as the wonderful akovia showed me in a message. Then I copy pasted (for the 2nd eye) I realized the boundary was as big as the image itself, meaning the dash-lined square around the item, is all the way out so it's harder to move around and resize. How do I bring it in to fit the item?

I'm trying to copy paste something but it becomes a faded version for some reason. The image has an alpha channel underneath, and I paste to a new layer after I copy it. I've tried with fuzzy select and the rectangle tool and the result happened both times. Why is this??
https://imgur.com/a/FKdHc2l

I pasted this mouth onto the cloud and resized it to fit but it's blurrier than the rest of it. All the videos I've seen on sharpening something seem so complicated like messing around with the color shades and I don't know why there are so many steps for something straight forward...is there any simple method of doing it?

https://imgur.com/a/x4y89r7

I tried to attach the .xcf file for reference but it says "Request Entity Too Large"

Nevermind, I was able to find this article explaining it in steps that seem appropriately basic..will fiddle around with the radius/amount/threshold settings to figure out what'll look best https://effectphoto.blogspot.com/2015/05...-gimp.html

I cut out most of an image, reduced the canvas accordingly, and now the dotted line (boundary I believe this is) around the original canvas size remains unchanged I'm not sure why the boundary didn't adjust naturally, how do I make it become smaller to fit the layer exactly?

need help python plug-in
I am trying to help someone on my forum to automate some steps
and one of the steps is colortoalpha
so I used
pdb.plug_in_colortoalpha(image,active_layer,color) but it isn't producing the same result as doing it from front end.

but if you do it through the front end there are two other settings one of which is the transparency threshold.

How do I perform the same settings as the front end specifying those 2 extra settings in addition to color?

Thanks in advance.

How do I set a default directory for saving work to? I looked in Edit > Preferences and I could not find anything about storage or default work directory.