My first post here. 

I use the Gimp animation player quite a bit to test animations. I've noticed two things recently.

 The animation player ignores dim backgrounds on transparent (alpha) layers.
This looks like a 'foreground extract' filter that appears to be coded-in. It could work as a stand alone filter.

 Also there is an icon in the top menu that says 'detach the animation from the dialogue window'.
I'm not sure what this actually does. Any ideas?

hi

when i open an multi layered .xcf file in gimp most of the layers are text after few seconds i hear a strange sound from hdd listen below:

https://vocaroo.com/i/s0IviH2RCHJm

i-m using:
debian jessie 8.10.0 amd 64 with gnome 3.14.1
AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ × 2
AMD Radeon R7 250 Series
16Gb SSD for the: /
hdd wd black caviar 2500 250Gb for: /home

what i need to do to hear that sound is to not move mouse or touch keyboard 10-15 seconds

gimp 2.8.14 with gimp_dark_v2 theme standard installation no additional plugins

here a the .xcf file with the strange sound:

http://www.filedropper.com/fonmascopie


below is syslog when i launch ghimp

I like the way this photo (https://www.flickr.com/photos/152818709@...d-public/) looks and would like to apply a similar style to other photos.

I realize that the photo has vignetting and softening but what I'm not clear on is how to take a black and white photo and map the range of grays to the same tones in this photo. This photo was converted to this style using an in-camera style which is why I don't really know how it was done in-camera.

Is it possible and if so, how might it be done?

Thanks,

Jules

Is there a script to copy a layer at regular positions along a path (or should I write one )

If I make some shapes in GIMP how to create normal maps so that shadows are correctly displayed. I want to make something like this:



Q

Is there a way to get a portrait of myself to look like a drawing?

Like a simple cartoon drawing, think Hanna Barbara simplicity.

Freshly installed GIMP 2.8.22 on OSX 10.12.6 never starts, and throws the following (when reaching initialization of extension-script-fu):

*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[__NSCFArray length]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x11033f370'
*** First throw call stack:
(
0   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fffc943b2cb __exceptionPreprocess + 171
1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x00007fffde25448d objc_exception_throw + 48
2   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fffc94bcf04 -[NSObject(NSObject) doesNotRecognizeSelector:] + 132
3   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fffc93ad755 ___forwarding___ + 1061
4   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fffc93ad2a8 _CF_forwarding_prep_0 + 120
5   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fffc933a257 CFStringFindWithOptionsAndLocale + 231
6   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fffc9348792 CFStringHasSuffix + 194
7   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fffc93a4bdb -[__NSCFString hasSuffix:] + 107
8   CFNetwork                           0x00007fffc8684e9d __40-[NSHost resolveCurrentHo<…>

I worked for a long time without issues with GIMP version 2.8, then suddenly after a Mac restart it started throwing the above when launching the app. I reinstalled 2.8.22, but it didn't fix the issue.

How do I use Gimp to make a cross image (a large plus sign), with the corners rounded, not just the 8 outermost corners, but the 4 inner corners as well?

I am creating graphic a globe. I am about half way through creating shapes then selection from path and bucket fill the area. All of a sudden it stopped working. The bucket fill appears to be available and I click it I get the watch but then it doesn't fill.

For Windows computers GIMP is available as a Portable APP but only for a stable version.  Insofar as this is my preferred method of installation/usage I'd like to make my own portable installation on an external disk drive for a newer/development version.

I've been able to run the installer and choose a target location on the external drive.  This has the affect of locating the program files where I want them.  Unfortunately, when GIMP executes it creates a bunch of folders for persistent data on the path "C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.9" which is most undesirable.

Insofar as the Portable Apps folks are able to change this I thought I should also be able to do that as well.  The question is how?