So I went to this Youtube video to see how to create text along a path:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nHyKrJwsaE

The trouble is that after making the text along the path, by some glitch or misstep, sometime the text is not centered in the middle of the path. When it does this I figure I could just move the text and reorient the text to fix the placement issue. I cannot figure out how to move the text that has been fixed to a path. Here's an example of what I'm talking about. The top text came out centered for some reason. Good. But the bottom text was off center. When I right click on the bottom text layer, I chose "Add To Selection" and it looks like my path text is selected but I still cannot move the text with the move tool:




See how the word leather seems to be selected but there seems to be no way to move the text around the art space. Aside from moving the text left, right, up and down I would also want to free orient the text too to get it placed just right.

I have been looking for a way to learn this effect without even knowing how to describe it.
Can this type of thing be done on gimp or do I need vector graphics or 3d modeling software?

Hi,

Last year, I worked with gap in gimp 2.8 version and works ok in my PC with W10 OS.
But, Now I install gimp 2.10 and when I try to use Master VideoEncoder Menu, and there are a bug. The program shows a window with a warning "the babl installation seems broken, no extensions found in queried babl path". After, open another window and shows a scrolling error messages 

This is a part of the message

babl-extension.c:354 babl_extension_load_dir_list()

WARNING: the babl installation seems broken, no extensions found in queried
BABL_PATH (C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\32\lib\babl-0.1) this means no SIMD/instructions/special case fast paths and
only slow reference conversions are available, applications might still
run but software relying on babl for conversions will be slow




** (gap_master_video_encoder:7436): WARNING **: 14:19:09.351: Pixbuf theme: Cannot load pixmap file C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\share\gimp\2.0\themes\Dark\ui/progressbar-trough.png: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file "C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\share\gimp\2.0\themes\Dark\ui/progressbar-trough.png"




(gap_master_video_encoder:7436): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: 14:19:09.365: gdk_pixbuf_get_width: assertion 'GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed


(gap_master_video_encoder:7436): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: 14:19:09.373: gdk_pixbuf_get_height: assertion 'GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed


** (gap_master_video_encoder:7436): WARNING **: 14:19:09.380: Invalid borders specified for theme pixmap:
C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\share\gimp\2.0\themes\Dark\ui/progressbar-trough.png,
borders don't fit within the image

Please, could you help me?

Thank you in advance

Pep Pons

Hi everyone!

I'm using Gimp 2.10.8. and I'm very confused. Seems like I've lost the Brushes Toolbox and can not resize brushes at all.

Please, help to figure out this problem.

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Been using GIMP 2.8 for a long time, but have switched to windows 10 and GIMP 2.10. Over the years I had discovered some favorite plugins and scripts, and would like to get them installed on the new set up. Nothing seems simple on W10, and I can't seem to find where to download my old favorites. I still have the W7 and GIMP 2.8, can I just copy scripts from those folders and move to new computer and W-10 GIMP 2.10? Is there a site where the best scripts are located? Searching the net these days seems more difficult, one gets so many hits that are irrelevant to a specific search. 2 of my old favorites were smart sharpening and Lasm's Lab wow color script. Help!

kj

I can't remember if I asked this before...
How do I open an image from Gimp?

Ctrl O.
But now I have to navigate to exactly where my image is - a painful lengthy navigation of clicking through folders.

I have a habit of:

- Copy the folder path in explorer
- Ctrl O
- Paste folder path and press enter
- I can now select the image

I do this in EVERY single program I use - apart from Gimp!

Love Gimp. It's been many years since I used Photoshop.
I wish this annoying feature could be fixed.

Someone is probably going to come along and defend the way it's setout and the way it works + tell me off for complaining! ?

Can someone tell me how to stretch an image section.

I've tried and am failing. I'm using Gimp 2.10. I can't get to grips with the controls.

I make a selection and then use the Scale Tool to stretch.

Great. Except...

- When I click away I find it hard to unselect.
No matter what I do, the white ants STILL surround.

- When I click away, the bit I had stretched, no dissapears!

- Sometimes I managed to succeed (somehow!!).
But then a line 2 pixels are missing - why!!!?

What am I doing wrong?

What I want to do is a 60 second job.
I've trawled through youtube videos - I cant find any dedicated to what I want to do.

What I want to do might be there... but it's in the middle of a much longer video!

Any pointers would be great.

Just to illustrate, take the pic below. Say I want to stretch the right hand said and make it similar length as the left side.
(Doesn't matter if the right side looks stretched and odd - just using the pic as an example, nothing else.)



Thanks.

ACTUALLY...
Something else... to try and achieve a similar effect, something I used to do in Photoshop was copy the right section, flip it so it's the mirror and then join on the right. If the image is blurred, this helps extend and not look odd. How could I do this?

Double thanks if I can get an answer to the above. ?

Hello:

I need a lot of the time to crop old newspaper images. I have them saved in pdfs files that are around 600kb each. When I use document viewer in Linux I can zoom in and the print is crisp and legible. When I import them into GIMP when I zoom in it is blurred. I am guessing there is some problem with converting pdfs. What do I need to do to not lose resolution and to be able to edit down to the particular stories I want?

Thanks,

M!

Working with badly stained pages of text.  Is it possible to select a whole page and delete a color. thus leaving
text on a white background ?  These documents are from 1939-1940's and I think that the paper quality and
poor bleach is cause of stains. Unwanted color is predominantly yellow.

I am having a very odd time with GIMP today. The issue involves exports.

When I try to export an image that I've worked on as either JPG or PNG, it behaves as if it is working fine but when I upload the image to my hosting service to use on the website I am building, the picture is either entirely undisplayable (most of them) or, a few cases, badly scrambled to the point that I don't even recognize the picture.

I'm simply taking an existing very large picture, scaling it down, then cropping the result and exporting it as JPG or PNG. I've done that many times before. Up until a few hours ago, I was still running GIMP 2.8.18 but after I detected this problem, I upgraded to 2.10.8. Much to my disappointment, I get the same issue in the 2.10.8.

I need to emphasize that I was editing photos quite a bit earlier this week and had no issues with the files produced by exports to either JPG or PNG format. It's as if something has changed in GIMP since earlier this week. I've been running 2.8.18 for the last couple of years and I'm at a loss to try to understand what could have changed in the last couple of days to mess up the export processing.

[Update:
Just as a workaround, I tried to do the same things in IrfanView a few moments ago and it is producing undisplayable pictures too!!!  Now I'm REALLY baffled. Could this be a Windows issue??? I'm running Windows 10 Home (64-bit).]

I hope someone here can suggest a cause for this problem and a way to resolve it. If you need me to upload some samples of the pictures - both the originals and the cropped versions - I will be happy to do that.