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It says of JPEG: "No other format comes close to achieving the same level of compression."

That must've been written before webp.

Hi,    
After I put in text, I can push the small arrow to make the space between the lines larger; but it won't work going smaller.
If I make it larger; I can make it smaller back to the original position; but I can't go any smaller.   The text really needs to be closer.  It's way too big.
Thank you,
Terry

Hi All,
Image a letter 'S'.
Or a 'C', for that matter.
Can anybody suggest a sensible way to fill the shape with a linear-style  gradient, starting at one end and shading to the other?
A purely linear gradient places the end points of the gradient at the furthest extents of the shape, leaving incorrectly coloured parts at the tips of the shape; 'shaped' gradients fill from the edges to the middle; spiral, conical and radial gradients also fail to fit the bill.
Warp transformation and Whirl and Pinch filter make interesting effects if you start with a box filled with a linear gradient, but change the width and length of the box in a way I haven't managed to control, and don't get me started about Cage Transform.

Am I simply asking too much of Gimp in its current incarnation, or can you suggest the blindingly obvious solution that's right under my nose but will need a good night's sleep to work out, otherwise?

QuinB

Hi all.
Is anyone aware of any update to PDB to have interfaces to the new (GEGL) functions in Gimp?
I browsed Gimp Roadmap and didn't find any info about, unless this title "Redesign wire protocol for scripts/plug-ins" is the subject, but even in this case that title is inserted in the roadmap after Gimp 3.2.
Thanks

Hi,
I'm using GIMP 2.10 for astroimage processing. When I export the final image as tif or png, and reopen in Windows (7) next to the original image in GIMP, it appears significantly darker. I tried to no avail:
Reducing bit depth and switching between linear and perceptive mode.
Is this a bug or a feature? How can I save my images "as is"? Never had this problem with 2.8.
Any help would be very much appreciated!
Thanks and best regards,
Pat

GIMP 2.8 insists on using .PNG as the default export format. We have standardised on .JPG format. Is there a way to set JPG as the default export format?

Hi folks

I'm looking at how we can use GIMP for some of our departments who need to do some basic image manipulation. Currently we have a Marketing and Digital team who use Adobe products to produce templates for invitations to our events. These are then sent to individual departments running the various events. The events departments then edit the invitations a bit before sending them out. As the templates are being produced in Adobe, we are now getting constant requests for new Adobe licences from these other departments and our costs are spiraling!

I asked the question of our Marketing and Digital team about if there was anything that would prevent these other departments from using GIMP, bearing in mind that they would only need to make minor edits. The Marketing and Digital team would still stay on Adobe, since that's what they've worked in for years, plus they work with various external parties who all use Adobe. I can live with that. There's always a lot of resistance to any kind of change at my organisation, so I was expecting a negative response. They fed back the below:

Quote:GIMP is a cutdown Photoshop alternative so offers functionality for pixel based raster image manipulation. It doesn’t, however, offer accurate colour matching/correction or the range of file outputs that we’d need as standard for digital invitations or print production. If, for example, I had a supporter’s vector logo, I’d have to convert it to an SVG to open it in GIMP. 

I am very new to GIMP (about a week) but have been working with Linux for years.  Have been co-opted into a
group recovering and digitising several thousand pages printed in the 1930's. Some pages text and rust stains
only, other pages have monochrome images too.  Am seeking guidance on three subjects.
1. Killing ants? Am using the Selection Tools to isolate the rust marks but cannot find how to remove the ants
    after using brightness/contrast to remove the marks.
2. Selecting Colors/Brightness-Contrast brings a popup box that often obscures the image I am trying to fix.
    Can this box be moved ?
3. Trying to use Quick Mask to isolate the monochrome pictures while I work on the text. This is OK for one
    picture but some pages have two or three.  Can we  have multiple masks ?

Searched the Manual but found no advice on any of these queries. Others in the group are using Photoshop.
Thanks,
Tux.

Hello all,

I've been able to integrate a couple of machine learning algorithms about style transfer into a GIMP plugin. This is an experimental plugin: it is meant mainly for developers interested to integrate more machine learning algorithms. You will find the code and instructions to install it in the above link.

Windows user: I believe this plugin will not work on Windows just yet... Be patient, or better, find a way to get it working 

I am very new to Gimp. I have been using gravit and switched yesterday. I am creating a morale patch and I have imported an image that will also have text around it. The image by itself is way too large. All I want to do is make that image smaller inside the overall canvas. When I use scale image, it makes the entire canvas smaller. In Gravit, the image has a box around it and you just click and drag one of the squares on the edge. So simple. Not so in Gimp. Please help!