Running Fedora 40

Was using Gimp always as preferred image software.

I could use the print preview to exactly outline the image to print.
That is lost now.

Pls GIMP manufacturers don't do this. When not broken do not fix it, the version I had was OK.

How can I roll back to the version that worked for me. I do not know the number, just the previous one.

Current (not wanted) version 2.99.19

Hi all,

Please advise an easy way to touch old color photos.

I have old color hardcopy photos converted to digital copies using an android phone connected via an USB cable to Ubuntu 24.04 desktop PC with remote desktop.  This setup works for me without problem.  Copies of 3 digitized photos are attached here as example.

I expect to retouch them adding colors on the fade colored photos as well as making the photos more sharp .  Please advice.  I expect finding an easy way because I have abundon hard copies of fading color photos to treate.

I'll not print the edited photos but using them building digital slideshow only.

Thanks in advance.

Regards

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I wrote a plugin long ago to help me in coloring comic pages:

1: Outline image darkened a bit (to minimize gaps) and converted to two bit indexed black and white. 2: Multifill filter fills with random colors. 3: Outlines removed with flatten filter.
   

Random colors replaced. Outline added back as a layer in multiply mode. Shading applied.
   

I wrote this in 2013 and I regret not having shared it, the only other option was a very slow script on the Gimp Registry. I wrote mine with its own logic not using any Gimp features except access to image data. I wrote it in C and it's fast, even on old 32 bit machines. But I never dared to show my C code and I couldn't have compiled anything on other platforms but Linux.

Only very recently I found out by accident about the low level access to gimp images with Python. I ported the code just to try. The result is not as fast, but it's quite reasonable, taking a few seconds and not minutes or hours to finish.

My script is dumb, it can't find gaps or merge small areas with the surrounding ones, someday maybe. I know Gimp now has filling with line art detection and there's also an advanced "smart coloring" GMIC filter. But the workflow with line art detection is not great for me, I have to work faster. And being Qt based, gimp-gmic requires that I install 44 packages and use extra 107 MB of disk, versus my tiny plugins that only take a few Kb.


  flattingtools.zip (Size: 1.85 KB / Downloads: 62)

The flatting tool (edge removal) is copied from the one written by Rob Antonishen that uses the dilate filter, in this case my code would be slower in python.

https://www.ghacks.net/2024/10/25/opera-...e-browser/
And from the first reaction to this article: SPAM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE

The logical power of... bi, tri and so

I think we are subject to a turing test or alike to see if we can detect or not that AI  

More seriously, I think that we have an AI as member using the pseudonym of a Bollywood singer "nehakakar", look at ALL "her" posts > https://www.gimp-forum.net/search.php?ac...r&uid=8170

1) - In "her" profile: Operating system Window XP (no GIMP version), but "her" second post is about AppImage over snap, yes I know that means nothing, but "her" post add absolutely nothing to the topic, and her "I also prefer using trusted sources for downloads to keep things secure." looks 100% AI to me (the remaining of "her" comment as well).

2) - Necroposter, ALL "her" comments are on threads many months or years old.

3) - Comment construction: ALL are a successive short sentences, very positive, but adding nothing to the context or meaningless or over the top for nothing like "her" last post, last sentence "It’s exciting to see how GIMP will adapt to these changes!"  

I could continue, but it was just some of my thoughts...

I've been using GIMP forever to create meme text (shadows behind the text). My process hasn't changed, but all of sudden today, it's not working. Here are the steps I usually do:

1. Open the image
2. Add text
3. Select the Text layer and select "Alpha to Selection"
4. Select "Grow" under the Select tab and choose size
5. Create a background layer
6. Move the background layer behind the text
7. Select the background layer
8. Select "Edit" and choose "Fill with FG Color"

Normally, it creates a black shadow. Now, nothing. 

Any ideas? I'm using v2.10.36 on Windows 11. 

Thanks!

I upload my photos to windows 11.
I am using GIMP 2.10.38


I like to order my photos by date/time taken but on a recent holiday my phone automatically changed to the local time but I forgot to change my camera so now some of my photos have an hours difference in time. 

Is there any way within Gimp to change the 'time taken' field to add an hour to make them align to the phone camera photos? I've looked at the metadata editor but it doesn't seem to include this field.
I could do it in windows photo editor but it seems you can only do it one at a time and would therefore be a lengthy process, whereas I am alread checking them in Gimp.


Thanks

So, this summer, I started noticing that the cap of the E key of my keyboard was getting loose. By September it would come off regularly and was a PITA.

So I ended up on the Lenovo site looking for spare parts. Fresh new AZERTY keyboard, 93€. Ordered, received, and doh! wrong AZERTY. Ask for a return, order the good AZERTY, and receive it.

Open the PC, remove the old keyboard and one of the connectors seems a bit stubborn. I eventually disconnect the keyboard. Ready to put the new one back, and doh! in fact I had broken the stubborn connector. So the PC is dead... well not quite since it will boot with a USB keyboard attached. At least I can also return the 2nd keyboard.

Not too much a problem as long as I keep the PC home, but that makes it hard to move, so I will have to find a new PC. That PC is 4 years old and heavily used so fairly worn out anyway and that won't be such a loss. So I go back to the Lenovo site for some additional shopping, and find my dream PC (60€ off since I don't want windows on it)

The PC is eventually delivered (straight from China) and now the question is what I put on it. Not too happy with Ubuntu recently with the snap-for-everything trend so I try a Debian. Unfortunately the new PC is using very recent components that aren't well supported on a pure Debian, so booting, yes, graphics, perhaps, and network, nope.

So that's back to Kubuntu, because the PC is Ubuntu-certified. And I have to say, that works. Everything is fine (even though I installed 24.04 while the certification is for 22.04). I even manage to find most of my favorite apps a DEB packages, and even in 24.04, some apps are still .DEB.

Now for the end-of-level boss: Gimp 2.10 non-snap, non-flatpak, non-AppImage, with Python support. On My old PC it is a self-compiled thing but at that point I don't want to recompile it on the new system. So, I transplant the Python 2.7 runtime from the old one, start  Gimp, get a few complaints about missing libs, import these as well, restart, re-complaints, re-import some more, and after a couple of hours I eventually succeed and see one of my scripts started with a parameter dialog.

Time for a beer. Cheers!

Hi, I am running Gimp 2.10.38 on a PC running UBUNTU 24.04. Gimp is on a SSD with the other apps and my photographs are on a 2Tb HD with other data. When I try to open a photograph in Gimp, it recognises it but says "Reading permission denied" I can open the file which is a jpg in other programmes with no problem. I put one of the photographs on to a USB stick and checked the properties which included permission for read and write. I tried to get Gimp to read it but got the same response. I tried the USB stick on another computer running Windows 10 and Gimp on that PC accepted the file with no problem. What am I missing here ?
Ron.