I would like to fill an area with a sample taken from a photograph of my own.

For instance fill an area with copies of a small sample from a photo of a section of pebbly beach sand.

I say 'copies' because I believe that's the way pattern fill works and because my original sample wouldn't be big enough to fill the proposed area, so copies will be needed.

What's the best way to go about doing that?

Hello there,
Here is my case : I have made few patterns with gimp as .pat files, and I would like other applications to use them. Unfortunately the .pat files seem to be gimp-native formats and I can't use them as images.

One solution is to stop using the .pat format and to save my patterns as png. But would there be a loss of information ? I would like to know what information does the .pat format contains except the image itself.

Thanks !

Dear Anyone.

Dunno what version of GIMP I've got, complete dumbass with software, but most things have a pointer tool that lets you move stuff about the screen. Now I've imported 2 JPEGs. I want to position one inside the other - but I can't find a pointer tool to move them about the screen with. Where is it?  Ditto for moving text around the screen (I've googled 'Where's the Pointer in GIMP' and it says there isn't one which has to be stupid, I can't believe the programmers would leave out something so basic. Gimp's supposed to be a free Photoshop and that's got a pointer!) 

Also - sorry for two questions in one thread - I use the scissors tool to outline an area of foreground.  Say  for argument's sake someone's head.  Now I want to remove the head(!) and leave the rest of the picture untouched. If I press DELETE, it doesn't delete the area I've selected, it deletes the whole picture! 

How do I just delete what I've selected? Nope - CTRL-I for invert does NOT work, I've tried it. Whatever I do kills the background and leaves the selected foreground untouched which is the exact opposite of what I'm going for!

Yours frustratedly

Chris.

I am trying to convert .abr files to something I can use in gimp.  Please help me.

Hi - I'd like some help on understanding layer masks. 

I want to blend an image that has white clothing on one edge into a white background so there is a seamless transition (the whites are not quite the same, leaving a sharp edge.

I get the effect I want from using layer mask and the graduation tool, but I feel I am missing a step as the effect doesn't "stick" - i.e. it goes back to the original as soon as I move on.

Can anyone help?

Thanks
MrGimp

I used this pattern  to fill in a 1, when I first did it it looked like this  but now when I do it it looks like this  This happened without me changing any setttings or restarting GIMP or anything

I did a freshinstall of GIMP 2.10

When starting up I do get a couple of warnings about missing DDL's, which seems to be related to Mathmap.exe

Ignoring these messages is not a problem, but it's annoying.

Is there a solution?

Howdy,

I was working on a fantasy map just now and used the "text along path" tool. It seems to have worked like intended, except that there are now blue lines on the image that  I can't get rid of. They are not part of any layer (I tried turning all of them off and they were still there). Furthermore, if the image is exported the lines are not there.

Anyone know what this is and how to get rid of them? Thanks in advance!

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I downloaded a picture, which is too big. I selected only what I needed by using rectangular tool. I wanted the selected part to be a square. I adjusted the tool option to aspect ratio. Then I clicked down a certain point with the mouse, and pressed shift button on keyboard while dragging my mouse. I had successfully selected a square. I copied the selection, and pasted it in a new image. I pressed "shift+t" for reducing the pasted floating layer.

Then here is my issue. The scale tool doesn't recognize the initial object that needs to be reduced as a square. It is a rectangular with different ratio. I think I copied a perfect square. Then why do I have a rectangular after I pasted it on another image?

One of the reasons I keep using the Legacy Drop-Shadow Tool is because it creates a new Layer with the drop-shadow, instead of what this new one does, which it just edits the existing Layer.

But perhaps I am missing something. Is there a way for the new Drop-Shadow Tool to make New Layers upon creation?

Thank you