I need to insert a rectangle with text in an image. I have created the rectangle, but when I paste it into the image it loses its color and becomes transparent. The text shows, but it is not black like it is in the image I have created. It is made up of little squares instead.

I would also like to have lines of a different color than the background of the rectangle on the top and bottom as borders. It's for a header image on a web site I am building.

Thank you!
Jim

Hello. I have been using Gimp for many years (I guess it started with 1.2 or even 1.0 version). Nothing complicated, basic photo edition, low resolution. It was fine. Few Years ago I started to photograph more seriously than before and I decided that I move to Photoshop, mainly for its much bigger tutorials availability and 16-bit tiff support. This year, after my subscription ran out, I decided that I will try to save some $$ and give Gimp another try. I realised, that after some modifications I can use part of my PS experience inside Gimp and it seems 16-bit support is almost there!

After I forced Gimp 2.8 to recognise my tablet I realised I have problems with performance - precisely speaking, brush lag. I am working on quite big files (up to 24mpix) and when I paint on a layer mask using Wacom tablet I have serious brush lag. I realise that my laptop is quite weak (Pentium 2020M, 8GB ram), but Photoshop didn't have this problem, even when working with 16-bit. Is that normal Gimp behaviour?

Second question - I tried Gimp 2.9 - despite 2 core support it is significantly slower (more lag), and after enabling 16-bit depth it is even worse. Is 2.9 slower than 2.8?

Michael

P.S. I tried to disable rulers. It helped -a bit-.

Apologies to user moderation, I deleted what I thought was a duplicate post.

Roughly goes like this,

Shuts Gimp down by closing the middle window, leaves the tool and dialogue docks behind.

How to close all at once.

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I can not reproduce that but;

There are often good reasons for using the traditional Gimp three window mode, however I would recommend if possible going into single window mode Windows -> Single window mode which will close everything down.

or

Use the menu system File -> Quit

I've been banging my head against the wall trying to use two paths to create an envelope for 3D text. 
Both with 2.9.5 and 2.8.2
I saw an example in these threads, but can't find it now and I never get the text to do anything but flow along 1 path

Here's the effect which was easy to do using 3D Rhino which I've had for years... it is not free and basically is a Nurbs program

The final =
   
Starting with basic extruded 3D text =
   

Fairly basic user, trying to measure off of scanned mapping where the scale is all to cock.

Is there any way to use the measure tool, or another tool, to set a scale and measure using it - i.e. can I log points x and y, tell the tool that's 100, or whatever, and then have it automatically scale any further measurements to that?

So, on a map, I could click either edge of a grid square, which is - say - 336 pixels, and log that as 1000m, then measure a line somewhere else, let's say 512 pixels, and have the measure tool automatically tell me that's 1524m, without me having to break out the calculator for every measurement?

Had a nice explanation and accidentally hit close

Anyways, I'd like some help drawing smoother curves. I tried dynamics and my issues are that it doesn't follow to the cursor all the way(bigger line, bigger gap) and at the highest setting which is the only one that looks right to me its a bit slow. Is there some setting I missed to get it right on the cursor(I'm stuck using a mouse)? Is it just slow because of my pc or just the way it works?

If anyone has seen the christmas yogscast jingle jam then last year kieran used a similar tool to smooth his drawing and it seemed to work great. I think he was using photoshop though, plus a touchscreen and pen. I'd like to stay on gimp because it's free and just for fun. But even for fun I'd rather my drawings look a bit better than an episode of dr katz.

Also, is there a mirroring function(like in kieran's live drawing) that I've missed. I can't seem to find one. Plugin?

@ofnuts

could you possibly add a tooltip to the 'Height Reference' ?!

Every time i want to use the plug-in, i have to figure out what 'Baseline', 'Top of Box' or 'Middle Of Caps' means (i know its explained in the doc).

'Middle of capital letters' would be clearer for example.
And 'Top of Bounding Box'.

I'm trying to create a logo/watermark with some text at the top which curves round the top of a circle.
I've Googled my problem and found THIS page, 've managed to figure out how to get the line to follow the part of the circle I want the text to follow, but when I select 'Stroke Path', it puts half the text in the circle and half outside the circle when I want the text outside, on top of the circle.
Is there an easier way or am I doing something wrong?

I've included the .xcf file so you can see what I've done so far.

Attached Files

  Teddy Watermark.xcf (Size: 989.92 KB / Downloads: 5718)

Hey people,
Is there a way to easily find out how many layers are contained in a layer group? I'm currently working on some files where I'm sorting my layers (up to some 2000 per file) into groups, and now I want to produce some statistics. I thought of deleting all other groups so the title bar gives me the number that I need, but it's a bit clumsy, and I just know I'm going to click "save" instead of "close" one day soon...

Thanks,
Akir

Hi. I'm running Windows 10 Pro, on a fairly old Gigabyte motherboard (965P-DS3). A 32 bit system. Installed with GIMP 2.8.22.

With :
* 4Gb installed physical memory
* 3.50Gb total physical memory
* 1.93Gb available physical memory
* 7Gb total virtual memory
* 5.15Gb avialable virtual memory
* 3.50Gb page file space

I think my jpg file is 15380 pixels x 10511 pixels. File size 39.9Mb.

GIMP opens the file fine. But it crashes when I try to convert from rgb to monochrome. It does about one quarter of the conversion then reports a Glib error and a failure to allocate so many bytes.

Apparantly then, this is memory issue, I have insufficient RAM. Even though I have 4Gb of installed RAM. I think Windows 10 is eating up a lot of it.

Can I use a 16Gb memory stick I have to solve this issue? Any other solutions? Thanks. Rich