Sorry to keep coming back with my minor queries - honestly I'm making progress and soon should be able to motor along without bothering anyone...

But:  I made an image by pasting onto one image another taken from elsewhere.

 The second was bigger than the first.

So I found that menu choice to expand the canvas to fit.  Exactly what I wanted.  So I did it.

And it worked lovely.  But it shows dotted yellow indicating where the previous canvas edges where.

I thought saving it might get rid of them or 'select none'  but neither did.

One simple keystroke somewhere I'm sure...  but where?

I just downloaded and set up 2.10.2 on this machine and the appearance was all this modern trendy black screen with white letters.  No good to me.

Found the way to change it to 'grey' or 'white' and chose white.

That's about 75% okay.  All the tool  icons are too faint to see without straining.

Can I somehow switch back to the old fashioned appearance?

Hey Gimpers:
I’ve been using Gimp for a couple of years, on and off, mostly for layering photos and using a layer mask for cropping. I still have trouble cropping around hair, especially around woman’s hair that is always curly and wispy. I struggle with extreme magnification and one of the fuzzy brushes trying to pick out individual locks of hair and depending on the background shade, sometimes it works. But most times I end up with a woman’s head that looks like it has been cut out with kindergarten scissors.
Any advise or hints about cropping around hair would be much appreciated. Or maybe a way of filling in the background so it looks natural. Or anything else.
Much thanks,
Bry

Good grief, We have made it onto UseNet

 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/...TgSYY0TsAw

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