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  Newby path question
Posted by: BCosell - 04-11-2019, 05:10 AM - Forum: General questions - Replies (6)

I'm using Gimp 2.8/64 on win7 [soon to be win10] and I'm a little baffled about what should be a simple path problem.   Simplified, what I'd like to do with the path tool is draw something like this;
                  ----------------------------------
                 |                 |                       |
                 |                 |                       |             

                 |                 |                       |
                  ----------------------------------
                  |                 |  
                  |                 |
                  |                 |
                   ---------------

After I do the first square I can't figure out to make a "connecting" path for the two side squares [so that each is a region I can color
and will stroke properly.

How can I make two or three or more "connected" closed paths.   Thanks
  /b\

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  Can we save custom brush settings?
Posted by: Ritergeek - 04-10-2019, 12:27 PM - Forum: General questions - Replies (4)

I'm working on a complex project that involves using a long list of brush settings for different sections. Since I'm keeping parts separated into thirty some layers and counting, I've resorted to entering relevant brush settings in a text document so I can redo sections or replicate. Is there a way to create a palette of brush settings within a GIMP file? It's tedious and time consuming to redo opacity, size, hardness and sometimes spacing each time I switch layers!

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Exclamation Can't click Template!!!!
Posted by: iZeus - 04-10-2019, 04:03 AM - Forum: General questions - Replies (9)

Hey there, as the title suggests, I can't click templates. Which is weird because it was working fine last time I used it (yesterday).


Now? I get this:
https://i.imgur.com/RRe4MWb.mp4

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  GIMP 2.10.10 error
Posted by: denzjos - 04-09-2019, 11:10 AM - Forum: General questions - Replies (3)

I've installed GIMP 2.10.10 and during the GIMP start up  following error appear on the screen :

   

What is the sollution ?
Thanks for the answer in advance.

GIMP 2.10.10
Windows 10

Denzjos

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Big Grin GIMP 2.10.10 Download Alert
Posted by: Ritergeek - 04-08-2019, 07:09 PM - Forum: General questions - No Replies

I downloaded 2.10.10 and started to install, hoping it will thaw a frozen file. When I saw the message that's it's a developer version, I stopped. The web page said it's stable, but the download link didn't work, so following instructions for links that don't work, I downloaded from https://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.10/windows/.

THAT IS NOT THE SAME FILE AS THE ONE ON THE MAIN DOWNLOAD PAGE.

Fortunately, the download link is working again, though it's going to take over an hour to finish. Obviously lots of us are excited about this and rushing to get it on board. 

Smile

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  Convert black and white photo to colour
Posted by: DearDeparted - 04-08-2019, 01:04 PM - Forum: General questions - Replies (9)

I have an old primary school class black and white photo which I would like to convert to colour.

It will be great for my whole class to see the good old day in colour!

How can I select a colour A (shirt) and then change all images with colour A to another colour?

Any other tips on B & W conversion to colour will be most welcome.

P/S Tried one apps to convert B&W to colour. Result is disappointing, not much change in the colouring.

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  Is there any link for download GIMP Installer with Resynthesizer for MAC
Posted by: Derice - 04-08-2019, 06:33 AM - Forum: OSX - Replies (1)

Is there any link for download GIMP Installer with Resynthesizer for MAC?

Appreciate if someone could share the light.

Any version of GIMP is ok as long as the Rsynthesizer is working   Big Grin

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  Background removal or replacement on text, logos and other computer graphics
Posted by: Ofnuts - 04-07-2019, 10:55 AM - Forum: Tutorials and tips - No Replies

On CGI (logos, text), the smooth edges are produced with anti-aliasing pixels. These pixels have a color which is a mix of the background color and the subject color.

The usual (and suboptimal) technique

When you use the color selector or the fuzzy selector, these anti-aliasing pixels are either selected fully or not at all, depending on threshold. If you then bluntly Delete, you either get a halo with the color of the removed background (Threshold 15) or a jagged edge (Threshold 100) or both:

   
   

A better solution

A much better solution is to replace the background color by transparency, in proportion of its contribution to the color mix. In Gimp there are two ways to achieve this:
  • Colors > Color to alpha
  • Color erase mode, as a paint tool mode, or since Gimp 2.10 as a layer blend mode.
   

Both methods replace the pixel by the most transparent pixel, which, put over the removed color, re-produces the initial color:
  • If you remove red from purple, you get a semi transparent blue, because semi-transparent blue over red produces purple.
  • If you remove white from gray, you get a very transparent black pixel and not a not-so-transparent dark gray pixel, because among several solutions Gimp picks the most transparent one.
Note for 2.10:

In 2.10, the Color erase paint and blend  modes do exactly what is required, while the Color to alpha tool has changed a bit and its result is not always exactly what is needed for reconstructing with alpha-lock and Behind modes as explained below.

For instance, using Color-to-alpha to remove the red gives this:

   
   

You will notice that in the 2.8 results, there are darker pixels that are due to Gimp 2.8 working on gamma-corrected values (the result is still vastly better than the jagged edges you get with simpler methods). Gimp 2.10 works in "linear light" and has no such problems.

Refinements

In the general case, the subject may have parts that are close to the color of the background. So if you apply the technique above these parts become transparent (or partially transparent). Avoiding this is simple:
  • Use the wand to select the background. The usual threshold (15) is fine.
  • Select ➤ Grow the selection so that it covers the anti-aliasing pixels. On a clean image (PNG, with no JPG history) you don't need to grow by more than one pixel. If the image is dirty (JPEG artifacts), growing the selection by two or three pixels can be necessary.
  • Apply color-to-alpha (2.8), or bucket-fill the selection in Color erase mode, in both cases using the color to erase. The pixels inside the subject, being excluded from the selection, won't be altered. Color to alpha/Color erase will be applied to the background and the edge pixels, where it matters.
Output file types
  • JPEG doesn't support transparency
  • GIF supports binary transparency (all opaque or all transparent) so your semi-transparent edge pixels are going to be altered. You can use Layer ➤ Transparency ➤ Semi-flatten to fill the transparency of these edge pixels with a new color (the color of the background on which the GIF will be used).
  • PNG has full support for partial transparency and is currently the preferred format.
  • WEBP is a new Google-sponsored format that can be lossy or lossless, and supports partial transparency. Gimp 2.10 supports it, but you have to ensure that it is supported where you want to use it (it is supported by all recent browsers, but some servers (including this forum's own software) don't consider it an image format).

Changing the color of the subject

At that point you may want to also change the color of the subject. But you cannot just apply paint because you have to keep these semi-transparent pixels. Enters the "alpha-lock":

   

When it is set, the alpha channel of the layer is locked, in other words, the opacity of the pixels cannot be changed, and painting over them will only change their color and leave their opacity as it is, which is exactly what we want. So, to change the subject color, we just

  1. remove the selection (Select ➤ None), since the alpha-lock will do the work (a selection is even harmful in this case),
  2. set the alpha-lock,
  3. fill the layer, letting alpha-lock preserve the pixels opacity. This "fill" can be the bucket-fill of course, but can also be anything that paints the layer: for instance the Paintbrush, Gradient or Clone tools, or a noise-rendering filter such as Plasma.
Replacing the background

Replacing the background is as easy as removing the old one as above, and then painting a new one, isn't it? Of course, the devil is in the details. How do we paint the partially transparent anti-aliasing pixels, or more accurately, how do we recreate the appropriate color mix in each of them?

A first solution lies in the definition of what color-to-alpha does: once you have removed the background you can recreate the initial image by putting behind it a layer filled with the removed color. So replacing the background is merely using another background layer.

A second solution that doesn't involve an extra layer is to paint the layer using the Behind mode. 

   

As its name indicates, if you consider layers as sheets of glass,  this is equivalent to painting the underside of your layer: you don't see that color where the top side of the layer is opaque, you only see it through the (partially) transparent pixels. In other words, it does the opposite of Color erase: it replace transparency with a color, in proportion to the transparency.  The nice thing is that you usually won't need a selection to apply it, since it will only apply where necessary, which is where Color Erase created the transparency.

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  Convert to greyscale green
Posted by: nikosb - 04-07-2019, 03:59 AM - Forum: General questions - Replies (2)

Is it possible to convert an image to a "greyscale" Green, that is all pixels are represented by a variation of green intensity going from black to full green?

Here is an example of "greyscale" green image:

[Image: 0F8ErD4.png]

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  How can I edit the brush?
Posted by: Hymer - 04-06-2019, 02:39 PM - Forum: General questions - Replies (2)

My brush tool is locked somehow in oval shape, and I should like to change it to circle again, but I can not, even if I open the brush editing. The numbers are locked on it. What can I do?

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