I have an image of a clock and the background of the clock is transparent. Im wanting to add a solid background to it without making the whole canvas that solid color (around the clock). Its a pretty intricate clock with lots of little spaces so it would take me forever to fill it with the bucket. I know there has to be an easier way to do this. Please help! I posted a link to something similar im working with. 
https://www.google.com/search?q=pocket+w...bTf1WBPuM:

https://www.spriters-resource.com/resour...2/2137.png


Simpliest ways to achieve something like this? Leisure Suit Larry 2 & 3 got exactly the stuff that im looking for..
(you know that basic 3 colour bg, with some "sprite" graining, lines and blurring in it that millions of games had at that time..)
and also how to reduce the image quality to make it most EGA-like.. 

I need step by step instructions, i dont know much about GIMP. Thanks!

In Gimp 2.8.16 If I am working with an image with an alpha channel, select a certain color or area, click on the Gradient Blend Tool then swipe the tool across the screen at the angle I want, the selected areas ONLY fill with the gradient.

When I do the exact same thing with the exact same image in Gimp 2.10.2 initially it works, but when I click "select none" to clear the selection line the gradient paints into the entire image, overwrites the original image content and the path line remains.

It's infuriating!!! No doubt it's something I am doing wrong so can someone please tell me how to fix this?

I saw that in 1.8 you could "Create" a multi-page PDF, but in this version I do not see this option.

I see that after selecting Export as PDF, it gives you the option to make multiple pages, but only with Layers.

I have a lot of text and images Layers in one XCF, so I don't think I can do this with Layers unless I export each page as a single image, but then I anticipate a drop in quality.

Should I just look for a third-party application that merges PDFs? Or is there a GIMP tool/option I am missing?
(I'm not renting Acrobat just for this purpose... I do not like Adobe and I don't want to give them money)

Yesterday i tried a faceswap on a couple with G'MIC Blend [seamless]. 

They were both in the same image, but one was asian and the other caucasian.

I used Pat David's tutorial for adjusting skintones with Samplepoint and Curves but it was (again) really difficult and time consuming without good results.

So i was wondering (because ofnut's once said that it would be easy to script):

any chance we get a script, please ?  


https://patdavid.net/2012/07/getting-aro...color.html

(Just for clarification, i am using Gimp 2.8)

I had a similar problem with another image (the image size was 777 x 777) however, this is much different,

I took a picture of a old metal key i had lying around, and made the background (mostly) transparent (still leaving a shadow) however, i had to scale this down to the appropriate size for my game, but when i did that, it became all pixelated, (and i would like to maintain the same look of the image, despite the size.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Thanks in advance,

- nopropsgames

My image has one layer and doesn't have alpha channel. It is a gray-scale image with rgb mode. Do you know why stencil filter is grayed out?

main menu > View > Show Rulers:uncheck
restart GIMP
rulers are again displayed

is this setting supposed to be persistent?

Brand new Gimp user here, using 2.10.2 on Windows 7, 32 bit.

Installation went very smoothly.

Opened a relatively small existing jpg (photo), less than 100kb probably.

Managed to use one of the basic guides to convert image to a pseudo circle.

Then tried saving to .png, but the save dialogue just "hung".

Tried to save to .xcf, but that hung too.

Restarted gimp, and after reading around, realised I should probably be exporting as, rather than saving as.
Did that, but it also hung.

Restarted again, and just tried saving as .xcf. Hung again.

Restarted again, and now I couldn't even open the .jpg, or any similar .jpg.
The open dialogue hangs in a similar way to save.

I assume there must be something wrong with my installation of Gimp.

Only thing I can think of is to reinstall.
(Maybe I should reboot first - haven't tried that).

Thought I might be memory constrained, since this box only has 2GB, but these are small files I'm trying to work with.

Should I try an older version, perhaps? Where would I get that from? I didn't see any options for older versions on the download page.

Thanks a lot in advance for any advice.