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: 5750)

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: 62214)

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?