I have been finding it dfficult to get to grips with Gimp regarding text. Anyway I have been having a go on Inkscape and the text option is a lot easier to be honest. Is it possible to import the text as a PNG file or JPEG into Gimp.

When 2.10 came out, I downloaded it and deleted my all other Gimp stuff. It worked great. Then I got a Monoprice 10x6.25 inch drawing tablet. I couldn't get it to work with 2.10 so I deleted 2.10 and downloaded the latest version of 2.8. Once I figured out the right driver, the tablet worked okay with 2.8 but...   now I didn't have G'mic anymore. I tried to download G'mic for 2.8 but couldn't get it to work. There's a video that shows how to get G'mic to work with 2.8 but it's done by one of those assholes that wants to show how fast they can do stuff not how or why it's done. When, after stopping the video a bunch of times, I more-or-less figured it out, I found that, following the steps in the video, my results don't match his. 

Does anyone know how I can get a Monoprice tablet to work with 2.10 with G'mic installed. It seems I can have 2.10 with G'mic but no tablet or 2.8 with the tablet but no G'mic.

HELP!

I love to play around distressing images in Gimp, but find the filters somewhat lacking.

Is there any plugins available that specifically provide filters and effects for this kind of manipulation?

W7
Gimp 2.8.16

Is there a setting or plug in that can add flood light effects?  I've been through the filters & can add the spot lights & such, but would like to be able to find a way to add a much wider beam lighting effect.

Thanks!

just say "great" or "Amazing", its for a forced school project


thank you )

Picture of a friend of ours here in Central Maryland that was removed from the original background using layer masks and substituted the background from a picture we took in New Zealand on a holding farm.  Chose Alpaca to look big to give it the "Beast" look - ha ha.

Having fun playing with the GIMP

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Can anyone explain why the little square font previews alongside each font when you scroll through the list in text tools, bear no resemblance to the actual font? Most of them look like Arabic or Chinese - which renders them pretty useless becuase they tell you nothing about the font.

I’m using GIMP 2.10.4 and I was wondering if I lose image quality when I export as pdf?

Will I keep my 300.000 pixels/in for example?

Currently just getting started using Gimp 2.8 on Mac with High Sierra

Is there any advantage to upgrading to 2.10?

If I upgrade, is it necessary to first delete my current version?

Hello,

I am new to the forum.
So far addicted to PS but...

Could anybody advice which library/function/algorithm GIMP uses for extracting/refining foreground object(s)?
I mean: is this OpenCV, MarvinJS whateever ?



cheers in advance,