This is a preliminary sketch I'm working up with Gimp for a finished piece. A 5"x7" greeting card... most of the greeting cards (done since 1980) are humorous rural subjects... so is this one - - "Hot Date" 

I am confused as to when the best time is to change a photo's resolution from 76 to 300 for printing out a 5 X 7 High Quality print. Do I do it before or after cropping? Do I do it at all and just change the size to 5 X 7 from it's original size of 19 X 25 inches at 76 resolution and let the program do the calculating? I guess I'm confused as to which setting determines the final quality?

Hi,

I look for a coach/master/guru to give me instructions regularly to finish works in 2D and demonstrate what I can do.
He/she should ideally be experimented in order to push me to a new level.
I have a good level in drawing and master the basics of Gimp/Krita but use it mostly to colour a blueprint with layers and homogenic colours with a mouse.
I think that I would benefit much from somebody's instructions to produce and improve within my art: reducing the possibilities, chosing a format, a topic, a style; giving an example to interpretate, etc.

Thank you if you have a few seconds a day and the temperament to do that.

M. -from Brussels.
   

Having done illustrations for books, magazines, cards, ads, gift products (like puzzles, wall decor) since 1970... I'm simplifying, Gimp does most of the things I did in the past with Photoshop, Corel Painter, etc. with a lot less hassle...
Should you be curious to look go to Web Site or the FaceBook page

Here's a cool Dymo Label Text Effect that RJKD suggested to me to script.

   

This is driving me a bit crazy so I hope someone can help.



I'm using the latest version of GIMP. I want to copy a 15cm x 15cm image to a different document. Whenever I do that, it enlarges it massively to about 60cm!!! No problem you might think. Just resize it down again....but no. Whenever I do that, the detail and quality of the image is massively reduced. It definitely does not look like the 15cm image in the first document. 

When I click to resize the over-enlarged image, I notice that the resolution has changed from 300 to 72. When I try to change it back to 300 and also choose a dimension of 15cm x 15cm, it won't let me. If I insist on changing it to 300, it decides the image size must be no larger than 3.6cm x 3.6cm! I don't understand why this is happening when I'm pasting an image over to a different document. Is it GIMP? Is there something I can do to prevent this from happening?

Buttons are fun to create.
   
   

 I'm new here.
I designed a new color dialog for GIMP. 
It's just a design, I don't know how to program.
The suggestion is here:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781692
 How do you feel?

Hi,

In this post (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrVnI3l9fgE), the instructor can move the content of a layer around by clicking the layer, the object on that layer is automatically selected and he can do whatever he wants to with the object: move it, change the size etc.

When I select a layer the object is NOT selected automatically; it is even impossible to select it in whatever way. To move the object around I have to move the whole layer. Furthermore if I want to resize an object, I have to change the scale of the layer, since I cannot select the object itself.

Am I doing something wrong or is this the way things are done in GIMP (2.8.22)

Looking forward to any comments and/or tips.

Kindest regards, Leo.

Hi,
I wanted to try using plug_in_qbist inside a filter (i.e. try to use it non-interactively)
I did some tests, but without success.
The statement pdb.plug_in_qbist (inImage, inLayer) returns an error (RuntimeError: calling error).
I'm using Windows 10, Gimp 2.8.22. 
Did someone make use of it? (or can just test now if it works?)
Thanks a lot