I  have GIMP 2.8.22


I've googled and found quite a few videos and instruction pages for doing passport pics and they include all kinds of different ways. And some of them are quite old. And some don't suit Australian requirements. And some I can't understand...

So I thought I'd come here and get perhaps up-to-date advice from people who really know their stuff and the latest GIMP.

I have the source pics. I need advice how to process them in GIMP to make them passport pics.

I need Aussie passport photos and that means overall 35mm-40mm wide x 45mm - 50mm high.

The size of the head from chin to top of the head must be 32mm-36mm.

I reckon that equates to a pic 2" x 1.5" with a head of 1.3"

I'll take my finished product to a chainstore photo print machine which will print out 6"x4" pics. So I need to perhaps plan for eight pics on one image: two rows of four each. 4 x 1.5" being 6" and two rows at 2" being 4".

Can anyone help with that or perhaps direct to a good site for it?

I am posting this here because I only started to get this issue when I updated to GIMP 2.10.
   I went to Google Images, found an image, right-clicked, clicked "Copy Image," and then pressed Ctrl+V to put it into GIMP. Then, I went to a different image, right-clicked, clicked "Copy Image," and went to the GIMP window and clicked File>Create>From Clipboard to put the new copied image in a new window. However, instead of the new copied image, it made a new window with the first copied image.
   To make sure it wasn't a problem with my right-click method, I tried screenshotting the new image with the Snipping Tool, and pressing Ctrl-C to copy, and repeating previous steps to put the image into a new GIMP window. Still, it created the first image. In case maybe it just wasn't copying at all, I pasted my clipboard intp MS Paint, and the new image was pasted. It is also worth noting that in the 'Brushes' tab in the toolbar on the right, it shows the first image as the clipboard image, instead of what I actually have copied.
I am running Windows 10, if that is important.

Massive thanks to whoever can figure out how to fix this, it is a major setback in my editing procedures.

Hello everyone. I recently decided to do a new OS installation so I had to re-download GIMP. However in this new version the menu Alpha to logo isn't there anymore. It's usually under the filters. Did they remove it? Do I have to download some file or should I install the previous version?

As a long time and almost daily user of GIMP, I decided to take a look at the new version. My first issue was that the eraser was not working on a transparent layer as I was intending adding colour to an old B/W pic.

I thought it may be something I might have to re-learn a bit so, being impatient to do the pic, I decided to uninstall and go back to 2.8 for the time being.  Oh dear, so now I cannot install either version. During the installation, an error message pops up..."Egads... installation failed... error code 0x80040c01" and I don't seem to be able to find a solution.

From what I have seen, it appears to be a Chrome issue, tried uninstalling and using another browser to d/load but the same result. I'm at a loss, not techy at all, definitely a plug and play merchant. I'm so gutted.

Windows 10
Gimp 2.10.2 from gimp.org

I can't find a way to to do a bump map.

In the Bump Map dialogue I can't change the option that says Bump Map RedLayer-3 ([Untitled]). It is not a drop-down or anything.
Me being stupid? Or a bug?

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Hi!
If I create a layer group, is it possible to modify all layers in this group at one time? For example I want to adjust curves the same to every layer in a layer group.

Hi!
In GIMP 2.10 UI looks a bit different than formerly - we've got an image tab on the top (this is how I call it, see the screenshot) to switch between multiple files.
I searched for an answer to a question if it could be hidden because it wastes some workspace. But seems it's impossible.
So I want to ask if someone would like to write a script that would do this and save ourselves some screen space. I won't do this because I completely don't know how to code.

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I just recently downloaded the latest version of Gimp 2.10.2. Everything says it can work with 16 bit files, but every time I try to open a tiff file (either by direct opening or from LR) I get the following:

Tiff Image Message

Warning:
The image you are loading is 16 bits per channel. Gimp can only handle 8 bit, so it will be converted for you. Information will be lost because of this conversion.

Running it on Windows 10 64 bit. Any help would be appreciated and I do apologize if the topic has been previously discussed in a previous thread.

Just downloaded the beautify plugin. Extracted it and put the whole folder into the plugins folder (My personal gimp folder)  I had a look on Pixls before and saw it was working in 2.10 still but it isn't showing up at all in my filters?


1. I never saw a 'new' plugin being added when gimp started up.
2. There were no error messages.
3. I have closed gimp twice now and restarted. I haven't shut the computer down yet - will be back with the result.
4. I know it hasn't been updated or I think it hasn't since 2012 - 2.6 is talked about in the read me. Am I correct that it should still work?

EDIT: don't know what I have done but it is still not showing

Hey everyone. I am new to GIMP and I have been having a problem every since I started using GIMP a few days ago. Every time I go to add a drop shadow it never works. Well I have figured out it is because I need to clear my selection. The problem is select > none is grayed out and CTRL+SHIFT+A does nothing. I am attaching an image because I know that is a terrible explanation. In the image though you can see what is selected. I need to deselect that so I can add my drop shadow, but I can't deselect it. When I select a different layer it will deselect, but every time I go to the layer where I want the drop shadow it selects the same thing and I can't deselect it. Sorry I know that is a bad explanation, but hopefully someone gets what I am asking.

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