Hi,
in my activity of porting my filters to 2.10, I faced a strange behavior:
- there is a filter (running on 2.8) which as a "brush" parameter in the definition  
- trying to see it under 2.10 it was in the menu but not showing its menu when launched
- after some trials I discovered that removing the filter name from the parameters it was showing, but..
  only once (unless resetting all the filters)

So I decided to write a couple of test filters, one with the brush parameter (but set to None), the other one which uses the active brush.
The behavior was confirmed:
- using the first one I can see it and run only once (unless resetting the filters)
- using the second one I can see it and run as many times as I like

Ther same 2 filters included in my 2.8, show up and run always.

Hence I post here these 2 small filters; if someone is so kind to double-check them, I will appreciate 
The first one

So, I had a black XP-Pen G640, it was my first tablet and I had it for almost 1 year, but recently I lost the pen and I can‘t buy one where I live so I would have to buy it online, like I did with my tablet. So instead of that, I decided to just buy a better one. Screen Tablets are too expensive for me, so I was looking at the XP-Pen Star06 , wich I've heard is called the best non-screen tablet, but it was also a little bit on the expensive side for me. In my opinion the XP-Pen G640 was decent, but I also dont have experience with other graphic tablets, so right now what I'm looking for is something in the middle between a XP-Pen Star06 and the XP-Pen G640 quality-wise, that will also hopefully be not as expensive as the Star06 .

Looking for a relatively cheap graphics tab (under £100). It does not have to have a display but should connect to my mac and be compatible with photoshop.

I have little experience in that area so I am hoping you can

What would you suggest?

rich: my suggestion is do not advertise and buy a Wacom tablet

I'm using Gimp 2.10.

I am trying to save a red pencil tool preset.   However, when i select the tool to draw with, it uses the current foreground color.

In the preset file the color is saved:  (color-rgb 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000))

I've edited the tool and checked/unchecked  Apply stored FG/BG but so far it doesn't work.

Am I missing something obvious?

This year is a big year for open source graphics software like Gimp and Inkscape.
Once both programs have included CMYK support, they will be a serious alternative for professionals to Photoshop and Illustrator.

Hello guys, how are you doing? I'm reading gimp Docs. Here is what they say about "grain extract" in layer modes.

Grain extract mode is supposed to extract the "film grain" from a layer to produce a new layer that is pure grain, but it can also be useful for giving images an embossed appearance.

I don't think grain extract gives images an embossed appearance, but grain merge gives the embossed appearance.

What do you think about it?

This is a total update on previous post.

For Windows 2.10.x and current gmic_qt plugin

The installer correctly puts the plugin in its own folder in your Gimp 2.10 profile. Nothing else for you to do.

Just download from https://gmic.eu/download.shtml and run the installer



Find the plugin bottom of the filters menu, remember to update it occasionally.

Gimp 2.10 gives me no options to save or export in any other file type except xhtml, ora and xcf. I need to save my image in png or at least jpeg/jpg.
I tried saving in Open Raster (.ora), and got these error messages:

Calling error for procedure 'gimp-procedural-db-proc-info': Procedure 'file-png-save' not found

Saving 'C:\Users\Debby\Desktop\HairLock.ora' failed:OpenRaster plug-in could not save image

Does anyone know what I can do? Please Help!

I have several favorite folders in system file browser, but gimp application is not showing up all of the favorite folders in the left pane when I opened the file browser in gimp for saving files. Even I only may add the last sub folder of some files not the parent folders. It is weird to explain like this. How do you guys manage to add favorite folders for gimp application to save and open files?

It seems that the system file browser is capable of adding any folder as a favorite folder, but the gimp file browser won't adding the root folder of mounted disk as a favorite folder. Anyone know about this? Am I the first one who find out this?

I just installed Gimp 2.10.0 and I find that the size of the icons on my 4K screen are too tiny to use.

(As an example, on my 15" diag. screen, the brush icons are approximately 0.10 inches wide, tool icons are approx. 0.15 inches
When using Gimp 2.8 on my older 1K screen, these icons are 0.3 inches wide)

Is there a way to increase the size of everything ?

Thanks in advance

When using GIMP 2.10 and trying to open an image in the form of a tif file that was created by GIMP 2.8 the error shown in the attached file occurred.  Result is that that GIMP 2.10 cannot be used to process this file.  It might also be worth noting that some other programs are able to open the subject file.  This includes Picasa, XnViewMP, Paint, Canon DPP4, and Rawtherapee.  Notably Windows Photo Viewer is unable to open the subject file.