I don't know what happened but I can't edit my posts anymore.

If the change is permanent, would someone edit and prepend the OP title with "[solved ".

Thank you

The "Freaky Details" effect has been around for a while(*), but it requires a "Vivid light" layer blend mode that was not available in 2.8 (until it was added in GMIC, but not everyone uses it). Since "Vivid light" has been added in 2.10 there is now everything we need.

The effect is quickly done:

• Make two copies of your original image (three layers total)
  
• Color>Invert the top layer
  
• Filters>Blur>Selective Gaussian blur the top layer (radius around 5 px, max delta around 0.2)
  
• Add a layer group at the top, and move the top two layers in it
  
• Set the color-inverted layer to Vivid light mode
  
• Set the layer group to Overlay mode
  

   

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Hello,

A playable character in a game was about to move so I took numerous screenshots then took the action then when I was about to save the file containing the screenshots, the power went out and I didn't have a Uninterruptible power supply (UPS) so couldn't do so. Now that the move is done, I cannot go back to retrieve the original data in-game.

I thought there might have been a temporary file for GIMP but I can't find anything large enough in %AppData%\GIMP\2.10 nor its sub-directories tmp nor backups.

Is there any way I can retrieve any version of the file I was working on? It doesn't need to be what it was when the power went out, it can be 2/3 - 1/2 (the earlier the less it contained).

Thank you kindly

Hello all,

Context: Am attempting to copy pixels from one layer to a new layer. To do this, with prior versions of GIMP, I would use the lasso tool in the original layer, select the pixels I want, hit the copy button and then paste to a new layer.

Problem: After upgrading to the new Gimp, the lasso tool no longer works. The pixels I selected lack the original 'glowing outline' and when I try to copy and paste the pixels in question, the ENTIRE layer is copied instead.

This is very frustrating, more so given that it is a basic function that worked great on prior versions of Gimp. I've tried resetting the toobox to default values, but that doesn't change anything.

I would welcome any assistance in this regards.

Edit: I think I have solved this by increasing the compression on the export. Sorry to bug you all. If I still have a problem by tomorrow I'll be back... otherwise don't worry about it, thanks.

Add the ability to make the cursor a color for greater visibility.
Sometimes it is hard to see.

Hey everybody,

My name is Zach and I have recently re-downloaded Gimp. I used to use Gimp about ten years ago but dropped off for awhile; I would like to get back into the swing of things.

I am curious about how to add a burning/glowing effect to text in Gimp 2.10. When I was originally using Gimp, I created the userbar below where the text glows from left to right. I was hoping somebody could assist me in doing that same thing now since I have forgotten. If a thread already exists explaining how to do this, I would be grateful for any links. 



Thanks in advance!

Hello there!

I want to make a poster in the size A1 and therefore choose the settings your can see nin the picture below.
I want to print the finished poster then on paper with the size A1 - will that work out?

I've been working with a similar type of grayscale transparent images and they exported fine in PNG & GIF. As mentioned, with something similar, it exported fine in PNG but was added a black background (to where the transparency should have been). I thought perhaps it was my usage of GIMP so I found an online tool, uploaded the PNG (recently exported) then saved it into GIF through them and the transparency was as it should.

I opened the image expecting it to have been converted into RGB but it was indexed. So I went back to my GIMP image, changed the mode to indexed and was surprised all 256 colors were taken; I thought it would have been 100 or less.

Was I on the right path, that there was too many colors for a GIF? Is there something I could do so this situation doesn't reoccur? Otherwise, it wouldn't be a big hassle and when that happen I'll convert it to indexed.

Oh and the mode that there shoudln't be duplicate indexed colors was on when I converted (and all 256 colors were taken).

Update 1: The exact mode name, along with the rest of the conversion options:
   

I have GIMP 2.10 installed from the Ubuntu Cosmic repository. I also have installed the gimp-plugin-registry package, and I can see under /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins a plugin-heal-transparency.py file.

However, I cannot see the "Heal transparency" filter in the menu. Also, in the plugin filter I don't see any plugin whose name contains "Heal", but "Resynthesize" is there in the list.

I have also tried to install the flatpak version from gimp.org, but the filter does not appear there either.

Any advice of what could I try to get the filter to show? I would happily downgrade to 2.8, but package repositories that also include the gimp-plugin-registry seem to be all on 2.10.