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

I created many layers, it is messy. I organized by creating folders. Layer modes in folders seem to affect only layers in the same folder. How do I make the layer modes to affect layers outside the folder?

In particular, I have a layer of which layer mode is screen in a folder. The layer has a lens flare with black background color. When the layer is not in the folder the layer screens with background images well. However the layer is in the folder, The whole image background color becomes black since the screen mode doesn't work for the rest of background images.

How do I solve this issue?

On a full painted layer smudge tools works but on a partly painted layer if I go off the paint and back on to the paint it turns the paint all white ?
Why is smudge turning the paint white ?

Hello Gimp friends
Im simple interested to show up thi window under the right bar as you can see in the picture

A new color adjustment in 2.10 is exposure, found in Colors->Exposure.

I want to use Bimp to batch process a bunch of images add add exposure.  I can't seem to find the procedure in Bimp.  Does anyone know what it is called or how to add exposure as a procedure in Bimp?

I saved a selection to a channel to use it later. I want to save the channel with another xcf files as well. How do I copy the channel to other projects?

Say I take pictures of an object on a 1 color background...
Is it possible to just get rid of that color?
Say cream or green or black?

Maybe roughly isolate the object and then apply a tool to turn the background to be white?

Thanks.

I've been using Gimp daily to edit tif files since 2012.

That being said, this version of Gimp is displaying them a little strangely. 

They look very "light" when I view them in Gimp. When I view them in any other program, they look as I expect them to. 

Also, when adding text to a tif file, it's going blurry on me and once the tif file is saved, it's more pixelated than it has been. They are also getting green and red halos around them. That's never happened either. See attached image. The top text is what I added today in 2.10. The bottom text is in version 2.8. 

I'm working with the same tif files I have for the last six years and the only thing that has changed is Gimp. 

Is there some setting I'm missing to bring back the darkness of the image and stop the text from blurring? I've been through many upgrades of Gimp and this has never happened before. 

Thank you!

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The interface I think is poor.
What would be preferred is the standard explorer type interface - like you get on all operating systems.

In Gimp... I find it difficult to navigate.
Why can't the clever people who coded Gimp simply use standard components for the file selection - like all other programs?

Or am I missing something?

ALSO: I just updated to the latest version. The toolbar on the left looks odd. See this image on the bottom left: https://snag.gy/B83muV.jpg. The bottom tool can barely be seen and I can't tell if there's other tools missing that I cant access. How do I detach and reposition? The toolbar users to be 3x7 grid or something before?

Thanks.