When I hover over a button in GIMP,  and get a "tool tip"  which appears to have white text on an off-white background, nearly zero contrast and impossible to read.

How does one change the foreground/background colors of the 'tool tips' to make these readable?

If I download/install 2.8.22 will I have library version conflicts, manual updates?  [1]

System:
GIMP 2.8.18, YAST install, latest available from Suse
OpenSuse 42.3, fully patched
Linux spock 4.4.104-39-default #1 SMP Thu Jan 4 08:11:03 UTC 2018 (7db1912) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


NOTE [1]: Installed VLC outside of YAST, now seeing:
phonon-backend-vlc-0.8.2-5.2.
x86_64 conflicts with vlc-noX > 2.2.99 provided by vlc-noX-3.0.1-278.2.x86_64
vlc-codecs-3.0.1-278.2.x86_64 requires libavcodec57(unrestricted), but this requirement cannot be provided

As bad as DLL HELL with windows!

https://inkscape.org/en/release/0.92.3/

Mostly bugfixes and quicker start up on windows.

i am using gimp and every stupid time i need to cut a new part on the picture it does not cut(when i select the new cut area the rest of the image is gone and only the cut part stays). also when i deselect the cutting tool what i cut out comes back. only thing i can think of out of this simple so simple it pisses me off solution is to save the pic each time i need a new cut


if you need i can upload the project i am working on

It uses to be an exact match. But now it darker then the part I'm cloning. No matter what area I try to clone from, it's always going darker then what I pick from and had become pointless. 
I don't know if there is a setting for this that has been changed or what is going on. I need it to be an exact clone of what I take from. Like it uses to be.
I have 2.8.16 

top left I cloned a line moving down from the right and it doesn't match.
bottom right it's going so dark it almost black.

Gif help

Hello i am new to the GIF game. My question is, I created a transparent logo. I wanted to do simple animations to it. So i duplicated the transparent background logo 50 times. I added simple stuff like Supernova going from larger to smaller in each frame. When i do an animation play back i can see the previous frames still in the GIF, Like if each still shot is composited and not muted after each image is processed. Now if i create a background and use a combine script fu it works perfectly. I assume its because its hidden behind each color background that's combined. The problem is i don't want a color background. I want a transparent GIF so i can use it on my twitch overlay... Can anyone help???? Thanks for your time Below are examples of what I am talking about.


Rookie of the Day~

I add layer mask and cut out
Now... I want to add a new white layer
I cant
Options greyed out

Instead, I have to duplicate layer and then delete the image
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.

I've been through tutorials on youtube...

Using Lasoo is OK for some parts. Not all.

Using layer mask + brush is OK... but edges are hit and miss - some OK, some not.

Is there a layer mask version of the Lasoo tool?
The thing is, once a part is deleted, I can't get it back.

Or... are there any other better methods?

Thanks.

I was watching a video tutorial yesterday, and PS has a Colour Range selection tool, which RobA's plug-in was inspired by, i think.
Had it installed for a long time, but not really used much so far.
Unfortunately i couldnt get good results with it, especially not by adding or subtracting from an already existing selection.

You can find the image used in the tutorial here.

This is what the colour range looks like in PS. You select a colour with an eyedropper, which is basically what Gimp's Selection Tools do, but there is an interactive fuzziness (=Threshold) slider.

   

The goal is to select the hair and change the colour with Colourize and a layermask.
In the end i used the Fuzzy Selection Tool, because i couldnt find a way to select all the hair with the RobA plug-in.
But theoretically this tool should be able to make a better selection.

Hi,

I am using Gimp 2.8.18 on Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 64-bit Gnome 3.22.2.

My problem:

occasionally I loose the Tool Options dialogue, can retrieve it via Windows > Dockable Dialogues, but try as I might I cannot manage to redock it, see screenshot. Of course I can move it more to the left, but did not find nor could google a way to refix it, let alone that "you can drop dockable dialogue here" worked"

It just refuses to be fixed like the dialogue in "Layers/Brushes" on the right.

How can I do it, please?

Thanks, gnuimpcub

P.S. My awkward workaroung so far is to close gimp, delete the ".gimp-2.8" folder and restart gimp again; and loose the previous settings

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Is it possible to cut Jackson out of this image for me:

https://instagram.fsea1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/...0800_n.jpg

I've tried doing this myself, but I can't get the hang of the path/pen tool, and I don't clean it very well with the eraser.