Is there a way to enhance photo taken from physical LCD screen?

You can see the extreme pixelization on the forehead.

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dear all,

i am a newbie in GIMP. so i need some help. 
as you can see that from the attached pic, that I had done not a bad job by chopping off the blue color on the top using the Fuzzy selection (Magic Wand) tool (i selected the smallest brush i could find) but it needs to be refined a bit more as the interface still contains a haze of blue. 
can someone suggest me how to improve this ? 
thanks a lot and best wishes for the new year !
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I would like to use GIMP for making virtuals of trees' images changing the potting angle, branch placement, the pot etc
If I have one branch which at some point makes a curve at a right angle and I would like to change the right angle to an acute angle what should I do?
I understand I have to make a selection at first. A selection of the part which has to be transformed. Correct?
Then do I have to use some of the transform tools?
Does this thread answer my questions? https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-Gimp-s...ight=angle

Thank you in advance.



P.S. I apologize for any grammar/syntax errors... English is a foreign language to me...

Does anyone have or know where to get 3d Extrusion.  I've searched everywhere with no luck.  I never realized how handy the GIMP Scripts site was till it shut down.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

I really love the way your present your screenshots !
It looks very elegant with the arrow maker plug-in and the handwritten font.


Or is that your real handwriting ??


   

I'd like to clean up a short piece of handwriting (like a signature; see attachment). I found some kind of thresholding in Gimp, but ended up cleaning a lot with the eraser.

Could you please suggest an approach / tools that seems best to get a single color version of the writing only?

Ideally it should be the lines only, no stray dots, a fairly smooth edge of the written lines and in the end a single color stroke.

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For the life of me, I can't figure out which filter was used when editing these colors. It's like an exposure that pops the color, and at it's highest point turns black into something silvery. Any ideas? 

I would like to create an oval gradient. Kind of like the radial gradient except it radiates out in an oval shape instead of a perfect circle.

If there is no such thing as an oval gradient, then perhaps there's a gradient that fills an oval shaped selection. Can this be done?

When I open a photograph stored in .tif format a dialogue box (see attached file) opens asking if I want to convert to RBG working space.  The message says the file has an embedded color profile identified as "sRBG v1.31 (Canon)".  It seems to be asking if I want to convert to something called "sRGB IEC61966-2.1".

It sort of looks like the choice is between 2 versions of sRGB where I have no idea what the difference might be but do think that the embedded profile might be one associated with my camera by its' manufacturer (i.e., Canon).  I also own a photo printer which is also manufactured by Canon.  Insofar as one of the uses of the the results of any editing done by GIMP is to print, I can't think of any reason to do this conversion.  What am I missing?

BTW I did experiment with both options (Convert & Keep) and output files exported to .tif format seem to retain the choosen option.  In that, there is no conversion done when the file is exported.  The differences on my display which is a moderately good (27" 1920x1080) one (but has not been calibrated) are imperceptible.

2 issues that have for years kept me from using GIMP fully:

1. I have never been able to find out how to create a custom toolbar in GIMP, as can be done in PSP and, I believe, PhotoShop. GIMP doesn't even have a main toolbar and it's a serious, serious lack with the repetitive mouse movements instead of one-click operations when there is a custom toolbar.

Is this possible to do in GIMP? If so, what is it called, or where is it located so I can start searching for means to, please? I have never found any reference and find that the native interface seriously lacks something like this. I'm hoping that it's just because it has a name other than "custom toolbar" ...

2. In Windows XP and now in Windows 10, despite upgrading to newer versions of GIMP throughout the years, as well as being on two different operating systems (WinXP, Win10) and two completely different monitors and graphics cards, when I load images in GIMP, more often than not they disappear from view. The images are there and are 'selectable', they just aren't visible.

This has never happened in either version of Linux Mint's I've used (LM 17, Rafaella before, I think it was, and now LM Sylvia 18. I am using now).

I'd like to know what it is in Windows that interferes with GIMP, if anyone knows? I use Portable GIMP for Windows and tried it on two different computers at work over the years, as well, btw, and the same thing happened on those PCs. I'm hoping very much it's a known bug with a fix ... (?)

These 2 things are what stop me completely every time when using GIMP. But now that Win10 is also not launching either PSP8 or PSP9, I must make the switch to GIMP once and for all.

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Hopefully someone knows of a solution to #1 above as I'm again trying to migrate to Linux Mint but his time permanently as Windows 10 is absolutely the worst Windows it's been my misfortune to have to use!

As for #2, would be nice to know as I will still retain WinXP on my dual boot Notebook and it'll be nice to get GIMP to work when in WinXP even if I also have the Linux version on there, too.

Thanks all! Much appreciated.

(p.s., custom toolbars such as these are what I'm referring to in #1, above - I'm attaching more than one as links sometimes don't all open for everyone:
http://www.paintshopprotutorials.co.uk/a...ptiosn.gif,
http://www.bellaonline.us/~digitalart/PS...eled75.jpg,
http://img.bhs4.com/2D/9/2D9CD49A7B8F135..._large.jpg,
http://img.brothersoft.com/screenshots/s...974-1.jpeg)