I have a grey box with the text 'Tool Options' at the top left of my screen which is preventing me from using the main menu. i.e. I can't get to the 'save as' function on my mac. (I'm trying to save as a png..)

So I have used the Paths tool to select the girl out of a very cluttered back ground, then Select From Path, then Cut.

I pasted her into a New Layer, selected Anchor, and Deleted the old layer.

This is the problem that arises. There is a rectangular border of the photo she was cropped from that appears on any layer the Girl is put on.

How do I get rid of that rectangle, and how do I prevent that from happening again?

I can not find a tutorial how to fix the brushes pane, on the right side of the screen.  It shows a drop down list at the top and at the bottom.  right now none of my brushes show up there so i cannot pick them.  How on earth does that work?  I tried googling and all i get is how to add brushes etc.

not how to use that pane!  i have clicked all of them on both lists and still nothing.  i have done them top and not bottom and vise versa.   i have them all off and still nothing.  

Ok i got all the brushes back. Now can someone please explain the filter at the bottom of the pane?  how do you use that one?  thank you very much.

Hi guys and gals,

I have a problem with Jagged edges which are making my customer made badges for my Football Manager game. The jagged edges makes it look low res and blurry. I have a path of a shield and when I select it and fill the selection it creates the jagged edges. Now I have tried to free paint the edges to get straight lines but I can see the problem that the way GIMP works with pixels means that you cant avoid a jagged edge. Does anyone know of anything to combat this problem?

Hi Ofnuts,

Thank you again for your excellent and extremely useful path tools.

I'm using gimp 2.10.12 and have just been trying ofn-text-along-path.  Overall it's working great apart from when I choose the following two options together:

Generate: One single path
Show boxes as paths: Yes

I'm getting a dialog box saying:
global name 'bPath' is not defined.

All the other Generate options work fine with Show boxes as paths: Yes.

I'm getting this for both Text along path and Text (multi) along path.

Best wishes, Teapot.

I'm having trouble getting bump maps to do anything. I go to Filters > Maps > Bump Maps and have the correct layer selected and everything but no results occur. Can anyone provide insight into this situation? It has me up a wall right now.

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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.