This is a crop of a bigger collage project and I'm having a problem with shadows. You can see that I tried having an image with a border around it and shadows on all sides, but at the edge of the border, a white streak appears which ruins the shadow, I have no idea what causes this and it makes the whole project look REALLY bad, I have no transparency on the image layer, nor on the border layer, it's all full opacity, I even tried removing the alpha transparency all together from the layer menu, it didn't help, trying to cover the white area with a bigger border didn't help either...please help me, having these shadows would make the whole thing look 10000 times better as it's a HUGE image (18500x18500)

This is what I see if I zoom in:
   
   

also, downscaling the project makes this white stuff become even bigger
   
PLEASE HELP WITHIN A FEW DAYS IF YOU CAN I WOULD LOVE YOU FOREVER 

If one must type-over text on an image with a 1 colour background and want to hide the old text then one can do this as follow: 
 
- type-over the old text
- fill the text box with the background colour
- the old text is now hidden and only the new text is visible  
 
Easy!

After updating i have two pics of each texture showing.  Its annoying.  I dont know what file to delete so i only have one set.  Thank you

Hi.

When I apply a pattern with the render option or the bucketfill it doesn't completely fill the selection without being off center


The pattern on the left was made with bucket fill while the one on the right was made with the renders option. I used grid and "use selection as input"

Thank you.

HELP!  About 4 days ago, my GIMP began displaying the characters in various part of the user interface as rectangles.  It happens in popup UI windows a few other places, like in rulers, the popup descriptions for menu items and on the main splash screen while coming up.  Menus and sub-menus are fine. My best guess is that it happens for any variable text. At this point GIMP is virtually unusable.
 
This happened when I brought up GIMP 2.10.8 after having brought it up with no problems 3-4 times a week for several months.  To my knowledge I didn't update anything relevant anywhere else.  
 
I tried cleaning up AppData\Local\fontconfig\cache.  I uninstalled GIMP 2.10.8 and installed 2.10.12.  No improvement. 
 
I am running on a 64-bit Windows 7. I'm not too sophisticated. I am a GIMP user and have been for 4 trouble-free years.  
 
Any suggestions?  

Krobins

I had 2.8 on my system (OSX 10.13.6). I tried and tried to find an answer to this. I just downloaded 2.10, and same thing. I deleted the app, deleted all the preferences (including in ~Library), and same thing.
Theme is dark grey. all icons are light grey. Interface text (not menu pull downs - they're okay) are a very small and not english font.

My Gimp Preferences window screenshot is included.

I'm guessing it's something simple, but nothing I've read has addressed this. Help!

   

hi, 
is there a download/plugin link for opening raw files in gimp 2.8 for windows 7, 32 bit?

i havnt yet played with a raw file and have been sent some (i model, i get pics sent me), im quite excited to play but as yet gimp doesnt see raw files...

Having successfully used Gimp to recover a couple of thousand elderly pages for
archiving - and my thanks to Ofnuts for his help on this project - I now need to
watermark them before the archive goes on line.

Have read several tutorials about watermarks using Gimp, and  made progress
towards a batch operation - except for adjusting the watermark opacity. There was
a tool for changing opacity in earlier versions of Gimp - where is it in 2.10 please,
or has the procedure changed?


Thanks,
Tuxford.

Hello,

I'm wondering how I can center something within a selection. So I've got this:



I'd like to center the text "prepare wireframes" within the yellow box. So with the fuzzy select tool, I select the yellow area inside the box. Then I switch to the "prepare wireframes" text layer. You can see the layer border in the image above (which also happens to crop the selection). Then I select the alignment tool. Then I click on center horizontally. But nothing happens.

How can I center the text inside a selection?

I'm relatively new to both GIMP and image editing, so I don't know if this is due to my own inexperience or if I'm noticing something weird in GIMP (2.10.12, Windows 10).

Is the Pixelize filter supposed to apply the average color within and to each block subsection?  And if I expand the block size to cover the entire selection, that should act as a way to average the entire selection?  And should the average found via the histogram's mean RGB values match the average after the pixelization filter is used?

Either that doesn't always seem to be the case, or I'm misunderstanding something.

I noticed the issue while using GIMP for a retexturing project for the old game Team Fortress Classic where I'm basically pixelizing the textures and adding a grid to reduce detail and streamline the look (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OekLawHEfi8, early attempt before I streamlined it further).

Take this one example image: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vOT8MuE...sp=sharing

I convert its mode to RGB, then select the bottom 16 pixel row to pixelize, and whether I pixelize the entire row or just one 16x16 square, I get a different end result via pixelize than I get via the histogram's average, or via a plugin like ofn-average-fill found here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-to...s/scripts/  Before pixelizing, histogram tells me the mean RGB of the selection is 21.2/19.9/19.9, and after pixelizing the entire row as one block, the RGB is 27.5/27.8/28.2.

Please let me know if it's me misunderstanding how pixelize (or any other step in the  process) is supposed to work, or if it's a bug in the program.  Thanks.  =x