I want to show plumbers the problem I have with a tap seat but I have been unable to take a good clear pic.
There are two grooves in it is the problem.
You can see them if you look hard on the pic I took.  One at about 3 o'clock and the other at maybe 10 o'clock.
They prevent washers working well.  There is always a leak.
I have played with Gimp as best I could but I've failed to find a way to clean up this pic so it simply shows things and shows them 'dramatically', so to speak.
Any suggestions as to what I could/should do?  

I tried to post the  pic but it seems it was too big so I've put it up on imgur

https://imgur.com/a/OyPNkvM

good evening dear Sir,

hello dear GIMP-Experts

i have used GIMP  years before - and now i gladly found back to gimp.

i now want to dive into all that - working with GIMP. I have found allready that there were good handbooks and things like that.

btw:  one question regarding the creation of pics - its a Question about AI, e.g. the possibilities and limits: can you, for example, recreate photos with AI? So, for example, if I say, take a photo of xy in the situation at xz.

E.g. a man gets on a bus!? or so?!

Dear GIMP.-Experts - i will start over with the work on GIMP i have lots of questions. so expect me to come back on a regular basis.

greetings
st barr

I wanted to compare a @Ofnuts' method to one of mines here > https://www.reddit.com/r/GIMP/comments/1...xcept_for/

I did the Ofnuts method first, (the top layers in the xcf below) then I wanted to Color to Alpha as a starter of mine, and it does not work on this very specific layer (the visible one, and the one above)

Can you try it?
Open the Xcf and directly go to color to alpha (whatever color), and if you find out why it is not working, please tell me, like that this evening I would be able to go to sleep a bit less stupid  

The .7z ➤ https://sendgb.com/rpv37MwBYRf 2mb
or the .xcf ➤ https://sendgb.com/rMuRLSdV9Ql 4.5mb

If you drag and drop that layer in the tool box to open as a new image, yes color to alpha will work, but what I want to know is why it is not working in that xcf

EDIT: Never mind, I'm stupid, I just checked the menu Select and None was not grayed out....  
Morality of the story, when something does not work, don't forget the basics ➤ check the Select

Although I cannot find out where is that selected pixel...

Hi guys, I'm using Gimp 2.10.36 and need to find the coordinates of selected bounding box using this python code:

hi all,

i am sooooooooooooo close in cleaning up an image.....something minor must be keeping me from moving on. i could please use your help

i'm following this tutorial here. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0R3XvrsC3c

if you could please watch a few seconds at 9:47....see how is paintbrush is cleaning it up? when i do it, its just painting black on there (my settings for paintbrush are the same as is, i've checked them a million times, and everything up to this point i've matched his results so it has to be something minor) 

i want to throw my computer out the window right now! i'm so close and this is the most important part.

maybe he clicked on something? the problem with tutorials is that if they click without saying they clicked, its impossible to tell ya know?

thank you for your help


bonus question - have you all heard of this dude before? is he good? should i rely on him for future tutorials? he was honest in his tutorial - he said theres a million ways to accomplish this but this method is the most straightforward

Hi all, at the risk of being a doofus, i wanted to share some work i did a few years back(I think it is better quality than what i have shared before). I want to post it somewhere, instead of letting it rot on my hard drive. It is pixel art from a collab that never got published.

Here is the collab: https://pixelation.org/index.php?topic=31210.0

I'm not a very experienced pixel artist, so participating in this collab was a good learning experience for me, and taught me a lot about GIMP and graphic art in general. Sadly, i haven't been doing as much graphic art lately, though I do occasionally still find the opportunity to open GIMP for one reason or another, and very much appreciate that this software exists. Anyway let me post images:

T2 Mirage:
   

T7 RNA Stream:
   

T31 Dr. Devil(MD):
   

T40 Hoax Man:
   

...well, I'm not sure how to upscale the attachments in the post, and i kind of prefer to submit in the original size. Maybe there is a way to magnify in the BB prefs? IDK, if people respond with interest, I can provide some progress shots and reference stuff illustrating the process i used.

Take Care!

I'm new here. Been using gimp for a long time now and sometimes run into the problem I'm currently having. Sometimes when I use one of the standard feathered edge brushes in a transparent layer, the brush's edges are a bunch of concentric circles, instead of being nice and feathered. However if I use the same brush directly on the background, it does look nice and feathered. Is there a setting that fixes this? Or am I doing something wrong?

See attachment. Thank you to anyone who can help with this.

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Well I though I was entering intermediate skill level...

I'm trying to make a flyer for print. I'm trying to get things perfectly positioned; like you can do in desktop publishing software.

I havnt been able to find any coordinate settings, besides setting all the units to inches.

Even just the guides positioning guides is over my head.  I did find where you can insert guides by a percentage or pixel count,  but I have no idea how I could convert pixels/% to inches.

I was trying to make a .25" border around the flyer, and I realized there was more to it than something like Scribus.

I'm a bit surprised X/Y coordinates, and positioning tools are not front and center.

hi all

i like this color so i'm using the color picker tool, so lets keep it straightforward;

i click on "color picker tool"
then i click somewhere in the image of the color i want

now where does that color go?

in the left pane, in the middle, theres 2 squares which say foreground color/background color, i click there and i don't see the color i just chose

in the right pane, theres "color history" and i dont see it there neither

this sucks! where is my color

if it helps you, using gimp 2.10.18

thx

Hello again everyone,

Today I am trying to make 120 concentric circle images. I want to start at 600x600 with a border of 2, then 598x598 with a border of 2, then 596x596 with a border of 2, etc.

I tried to use the shrink command but after I shrank my first circle by 2 the shrink option became ghosted and I could not continue. Any ideas why?

Of course a script to do this would be best

I found this 
http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=6923
which points to a file on the registry but that is closed so then I went to github and I found an .html file talking about the script and then reading the .html file I found out that the script name is concentric-fill-selection_0.scm but searching for that got me nowhere.
 
Thanks