Hello!
Having just upgraded from 2.8.14 to 2.10.6, I have met a surprise (for me) in working with painting tools on layers with wholly transparent pixels:
* under 2.8, choosing mode 'darken only', 'soft light', etc., the brush worked only over the already 'painted' pixels, skipping those with full tansparency--never painted or previously deleted.
* under 2.10.6, the effect on painted pixels is as expected, BUT tansparent pixels get filled as per mode 'normal'.
QUESTION 1: is this effect configurable? i.e., I cannot pretend to understand most of the new features--maybe I am missing something?
QUESTION 2: if it IS a new, unavoidable feature, HOW DO OTHERS FEEL ABOUT IT? I find it
* counter-intuitive: how do you lighten/darken WHAT ISN'T THERE?
* no end of a bore to lock transparency to change the color of a small spot (without bleeding out of the drawing), and then unlock to edit the boundary with transparency. In fact, it is almost as bad as editing a masked layer--endlessly checking/unchecking 'edit mask'. 
On the other hand, some features (so far) are fine: loading time, memory load, BLENDING TOOL...
Any suggestions would appreciated. Thanks!

Hello everyone.
I have a little problem with gimp. When i start use my GT with stylus gimp has little "death zone" on picture when i start drawing(when i draw with mouse,all fine).
Somebody know how to fix that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70y4CvfHjPg
At first steps i use mouse, but latter, when i use stylus my gimp has little "death zone"(it stop responding, in little area, but when i move little forward it start draw like normal. Than it starts  again with new line)

I downloaded the newest version of Gimp for Windows 10 and I can't figure out how to get this awesome plugin called Beautify installed in the new version of GIMP 2.10.6. I love this plugin and would like to use it on the new version. If someone could please help step by step with any screenshots provided I would appreciate it very much.

Melissa

This might sound a bit dumb, but I just can't create a selection using the lasso tool. Tutorials on YouTube tells me to press enter or double click after I've finished selecting an area using the free select tool, but that doesn't work, instead it just resets the free select tool. I can use the path tool to create selections, but for some reason the free select tool is not working for me. Has the keys changed for version 2.10.6 of GIMP?

Hi, I've been following along with a tutorial and I'm right at the end, all I need is a plugin called 'Fuse Layers', but I can't get a hold of it since Gimp's plugin site went away.

I'm completely new to Gimp and don't know if there are any alternative plugins or features that merge multiple layers into a single spritesheet.

It's pretty unlikely, but if anyone has a download of Fuse Layers I'd be really grateful if they'd share it.  Or if anyone can offer an alternate solution (that doesn't include manually dragging them into position), that would be great.

Hello all,

I wonder why in Gimp 2.10.6 / flatpak ( and previous Gimp 2.10 s) I cannot choose the "engine" when in foreground select.
What prerequisites are necessary for that? Special kind of photo? Missing libraries?

   

(Linux Mint Mate 18.3)

Regards
nelo

Hi there all ,  I am wondering ( screen shot attached  ) if there is a fuctionon Gimp that will put all four logos in the circle to be exactly the same size.
Also the band logos that I have used are off Google and I have used the magic wand fuzzy selection tool to remove the backgroud to make them transparent. The problem is that they aren't the best. Is there a better way of removing the background simply...

Thanks for your time.

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I have 2.10 with windows 10. I have a problem with the text not showing up on the screen when I log in to Gimp. The text across the top, (File, Edit, etc) is fine, but when you click on one of these the block comes up but there are only small squares showing, no text. Any suggestions?

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getting back into mapmaking, using an app called HexKit. normally it's a nice speedy way to bang a map together because the tiles come pre-made and you're spared a bunch of techy details.

that said i've found that i want/need to make some tiles of my own for a bit of geography specific to my own world.
that has me wondering how i would do shorelines in GIMP.

here's an example from an excellent tile pack called HexMarch:



if you zoom in on that you can see the way he's done shorelines:



i've got water tiles to use as background, and the land areas that i have cut my basic coastline from but it's that transition area that i'm really wondering about, that land-to-water area that i think looks quite good.

so, GIMP n00b that i am, i'm wondering "how do i do that?"

Hi people
Just installed 2.10. Seems nice. Just tried exporting a pic as .jpg and .png. I noticed that there were no options to choose the file type. However simply changing the file extention in the 'Name' seems to have achieved this. Is this the new standard?
Many thanks.