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

Hey so i'm a bit new at this and after making a palette I thought i'd save it by exporting it as a CSS file since that's the first one that was suggested.

Anyway now i'm trying to re-import it but it's not loading in at all.

Is there a way to import CSS tilesets? Because i'd rather not have to go remake the palette all over again........But if that's the case and i've buggered this up then is there any better file type to save my palettes as in the future?

Any help would be much appreciated 

This guide will show you how to use the DDS plugin. Lots of explanations concerning all of the BC/DXT and RGB types. Also explains how to create Cube Maps and Volume Maps. Includes sources at end of the document.

In PDF format.

Tested in Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit using the latest stable Gimp release 2.8.22, and should work without issue with the upcoming release.

You can view or download it here.


~V~

--Edit--
Uploaded version 0.2. This new version contains a few corrections and adds explanations to each of the RGB types (bit depth, with or without alphas, etc).

Attached Files

  Gimp DDS Plugin Guide v0.2 (Feb 2018).pdf (Size: 195.19 KB / Downloads: 61435)

Using windows 10
2.9.5 only Gimp I can use
Issues with Wacom tablet (Intuous3, 6x8) =

• Only pen will place cursor in desired position
  
• Only pen will draw, paint and edit in desired area
  
• Mouse will not place cursor where desired
  
• I've upgraded and installed multiple versions of Wacom drivers
  

Over the year a lot of xcf files have accumulated on the hard disk. Sometimes the names do not make sense, I do not know which file to delete.
Am using Gimp on Linuxmint and in the file browser it does not show miniature images. I have to open each file with Gimp to see what it contains and then delete it or not.
Question: Is there a viewer for xcf file format to quickly get an idea of the image and decide if to delete or not?

Long time user of Gimp.. But it recently started acting up. I have reinstalled in hopes of fixing the issue, but that didn't help.
While using the program, after about 10-15 minutes, It stops.

Event Viewer says
Faulting application name: gimp-2.8.exe, version: 2.8.22.0, time stamp: 0x00c9b800
Faulting module name: GROOVEEX.DLL, version: 16.0.4546.1000, time stamp: 0x5911c6c5
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000000000000dc50
Faulting process id: 0xffc
Faulting application start time: 0x01d3a423bfec5714
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\bin\gimp-2.8.exe
Faulting module path: C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~4\Office16\GROOVEEX.DLL
Report Id: ba308768-1018-11e8-8510-d89d67c61080

i cannot install (not viewed in the filters or scripts list) beautify plugin even i did all what the owner said in read file . ! and the owner did not answer on github ,,Or, in the truest sense, forgotten, because it has been a long time ..

I scan a black ink drawing on white paper. If I'm using a bucket fill, what are the best settings so that the black lines are preserved and dominant? Normally I don't have any problem - I just make sure the lines as thick and dark before I scan. However, on my most recent drawing, the bucket fill swallowed up the lines more than normal - I can only guess that my settings were somehow changed (unbeknownst to me) from what I am used to. I usually just set the bucket threshold to 90 and it does a pretty good job. Thanks for any suggestions!

Hi,

I wrote a C based GIMP plugin to cleanup text scans done with a camera.
Some of these scans, esp. of books tend to have darker and lighter areas on the page , and these don't work well when you try to use a thresholding tool on your text.
The plugin I wrote find the background level dynamically for each small part of the picture, by dividng the picture into squares whose radius is the inner_level parameter. For each square, the average level is calculated on a square whose radius is the kernel_size parameter (and is larger than the inner_size). A histogram is made o all the pixel values within the kernel area, and the most popular one is assumed to be the background level.
The next darker histogram peak is assumed to be the text color, and any pixel brighter than the text brightness (plus the threshold adjust) is squashed to white.
The result is the original text in its original brightness, plus a full white background, suitable for printing.
I forgot to add that the filter first converts everything to grey scale.

The plugin is in: Gimp-clean-text-photos
(Sorry, binaries are windows-only (x86), but full source code is provided).

Demo picture taken from here:
https://pxhere.com/en/photo/745068

Original Photo

Using GIMP threshold tool :
You can easily see that even if you let part of the picture become black, some other section is still too bright.
No global threshold level across all the picture can separate all the text from the background.

Using my plugin (Using a kernel size of 40, inner size 3, and threshold ajust is -12).

Increasing the kernel size increases the are over which the averaging is made, You want it to be at least as large as the text rows height so that the dark letters will never become the majority pixels instead of the background.
Increasing the inner_size makes things faster since more pixels are calculated for each square,
Changing the threshold_asjust controls the offset from the 2nd histogram peak, effectively turning this to a brighness  control.

I used it to clean up hundreds of text scans done using a simple pocket camera of open books where some of the pages are darker or have shadows. The objective was to get pictures that have a white background duitable for printing on a B/W laser printer, without losing text clarity.

Hope you find this useful.