I'm trying to learn Gimp as a tyro.  I was perfectly satisfied with Microsoft Digital Image Suite, though it was soon discontinued and unsupported.   Finally, it became non-functional with WIN 10, forcing me to find a new app.  

Gimp looks good but all such powerful apps seem intimidating at first, with all that web of choices.  Extended hands-on learning can't be averted.

You can't get more basic or naive than I in my struggles to yet perform some simple Gimp operations.  For example, having made, say, a "rectangle select" area, how do I complete the operation and move on? The keyboard Enter key seems most intuitive but NO!  Left mouse key, NO.  Right mouse key, NO.  There it sits, selected.....and essentially useless.  How humbling!  So please be kind in any instruction.  I'm an 86-year-old retired engineer who is unused to accepting advice from young whippersnappers, regardless of how keen they may be.  They need to pay their "dues". 

--seeking info but moreover, wisdom

Hey everyone, I hope everyone is well. 

I have a quick question regarding brushes, I downloaded Gimp 2.10 several days ago and have to say that the programme is actually great however my brushes are no longer applying straight, they were fine before but now when I try to use them they paint at angles and move around alot. 

For example, I do pixel art; a few days ago I could just click several times and have several squares come up, now if I do that the brush goes at all types of angles sometimes doing diamonds, other times crosses, it's super strange.

I have reset the brushes, the angle is at 00.00, it's set to normal. I'm not sure what to do?

Many thanks!

https://imgur.com/a/gYEx6bU

For a Warcraft modding project, I am trying to come up with a texture for this model.(not sure why this link isn't working).


Which I want to look something like this. For this I wanted some tips and advice to shading and adding colors like this and how I might go about trying to come up with a body texture like this.

https://imgur.com/a/d1eCGLm

For this image, I am trying to make strokes that are such so that similar to the tatooes you see on this model, they are as detailed as possible. However when I try to ad such detail myself, there is often a lot of pixilation. I was wondering what might be the best brush or pencil settings to manage such a task?

Hello  

I would know if I could make accents on the words
with text editor in Gimp ( grave, circumflex, acute)   

Thanks !

Regards

Looking for animation.

I kinda want to do some of those "Oh Really Owl" animations that were everywhere a few years back.

Am I just not seeing the buttons for this?

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I've been using Gimp for years but lately, I'm trying to learn some of the more complicated bits and make myself less of an idiot. 

So the present project is to build a fantasy map. 
Questions:
1. I'm trying to draw out a city full of houses from a top-down view and I'm looking for an easy way to slap down roof textures that look like they would 'flow' toward the edge of the house. 
- My best solution is to make custom roof-like brushes. I've figured out how to make animated brushes to give me nice 'roof stamps' and I think I can get that to work by taking advantage of the 'angle' property in the brush settings, but is there a quick easy way to bind a hotkey to adjust the angle via mouse scroller? It'd be hectic to pounce back and forth to adjust the angle for every little housetop.
- As said, the 'roof stamp' via animated brushes is my best solution so far, but is there a way to have something more along the lines of the clone tool so that I can seamlessly paint a repeating roof texture onto any sized area?

2. I used animated brushes to make a forest, and that works great as long as I start at the top of the forest and stamp my way down (As the trees from one stamp cover the roots of the previous stamp.) But if I just slap a new tree into my "forest" then I can see the trunk and roots of the tree when they should be hidden behind the top of the lower tree stamp.
Is there a way to take an animated brush and say, for example, "Always put 'this part' behind the layer, and 'this part' on top of the layer."?

3. How about fences, i.e. how do I make the brush that will rotate my 'fence stamp' to follow whatever silly line I draw the fence at?

Thanks a lot! 

Salve non riesco più a reperire un link valido per scaricare "save for web" x window 10.
grazie dell'aiuto

I m really asking for feature which is colorifing an rgb image with a palette without passing to the destructive Indexed mode
Each rgb pixel search for his nearest  color in the palette than based on the value of a slider (0-1) he will close in to that color, any ideas?

Used Ofnuts' neon-path plugin and gimp's symmetry painting to make this mandala, the path was just the one petal.