Using version 2.8 still but can upgrade if it will make things easier:

I am trying to add though bubbles to pictures and have found a nice bubble png I can put on top of my pictures and that works fine.



The next step is to insert another picture into the bubble, so I drop the thought image on top of the bubble to create a new layer:



Now I need to crop the thought image to the central area of the bubble image. I can use the color select tool on the bubble layer to get the cropping area but I cannot work out how to crop the thought layer using that selection to trim the legs in this image to the size of the bubble. As soon as I switch to the thought layer the selection area changes.

Any help appreciated.

Greetings, all. I'm familiarizing myself with this software but experiencing a problem creating a gif, or rather, exporting it. I've captured a part of game and created a gif with another program. I opened the gif with GIMP and I went through each frame to erase the background and leave transparency in its absence. Now, when I export, all the layers are shown when the gif is viewed, one after the next. I want the previous frames to become hidden when the next one is displayed. I've toyed with all the options in the export settings and cant seem to find a solution. any advice? xcf project file is available here:
https://nofile.io/f/wVgVCsOMR2e/Next+Level+HD+Taunt.xcf
thanks in advance!

Hello,
          I've recently downloaded gimp 2.10 and I find that when I utilise the eraser
function it behaves like the paintbrush and paints the photograph with the 
background colour.I should be obliged if anyone could tell me how to remedy this,
                                                                                       Yours,
                                                                                             halligant

I have a letter I've drawn as an image.  It is like hollow - you know?  It is a 'G' drawn like with parallel lines you know?

  And I want to clean out the area inside the lines - i.e. inside the letter itself - and clean out the area outside the lines which is supposed to be already 'cleaned out'  i.e. erased,  but isn't.

The border, the outline, of the letter is nice thick black.

 I have the idea that gimp will somehow recognise the difference between that black and select all the area within, like between the lines, within the actual letter, so's I can flood fill it or erase it - and do the same on the other side of the border and erase everything to the edges of the canvas so's I've just got the letter left.

 Is that right or am I remembering some other prog somewhere?

 Can it be done easily or do I have to go all around my letter again with the lasso or the path tool or something and make a selection that way?

How can I remove the F1 shortcut in GIMP 2.10?
I used to have a snippet in gtkrc inside GIMP's config which disabled the F1 shortcut, which I could then use for something else. This is the snippet:

This script is under Selection -> Distort. 
Im interested in the steps.

As far as i can tell, it does the following:

- Spread
- Blur
- Levels (alpha)

But the code says Threshold instead of Levels, which is odd, because Threshold doesnt have an alpha option.

Following EsperMachine's remarks, I'm going to upgrade the script formerly known as stroke-fill-visible-paths. The changes I envision are:

• add a "reverse gradient" option
  
• add stroke in "line" mode for cleaner results
  
• possibly split the stroke/fill choices in two different menu entries
  

hello, i want to make this image into a circle, https://imgur.com/d6douAv

that looks like this https://it.depositphotos.com/185081200/s...ament.html

Hello all,

I am very very new to Gimp and image programs in general.  I have been trying to make logos and stuff for my Twitch stream.

I am having an issue when I make a circle and fill it with color.  As soon as I do Select---->None, the whole page changes color and I can't seem to figure out how to keep that from happening.

Any ideas?

Thank you in advance,
iEnemyBeneath

Using GIMP 2.10.2 on Windows.

I've edited an image and set the "Print Size" to 5x7 with the intention of printing on 5x7 paper.  I select "File>Print" and then choose "Preferences" which invokes the setup options for my printer, which is Canon Pixma Pro-100, driver.  Using these setup options I choose 5x7 for the paper size.  Then when the driver is invoked (i.e., "Print" is selected), where I've asked for a preview during the setup, the paper size is now specified 8.5x11 and the preview shows the 5x7 picture to be printed in the upper left corner of the page.

I think this is a pretty straightforward, commonly used, interface that I'm using correctly.  If not what did I miss?  If so, what about fixing GIMP.