Until now I thought jpg was the best file format with respect to compatibility.  However, recently produced images are turning out NOT to be compatible with much of anything I can find which is not a computer.  This includes electronic picture frames (several) and smart TVs (several).

I do notice that there are "Advanced Options" which can be specified when exporting to jpg format.  However, I'm lacking knowledge of these factors.  Is it possible that I'm inadvertently electing to create files with compatibility issues?

I should point out that these incompatible devices are a few years old.  Likely between 8 and 12 years old.  However, my principal use for GIMP is to try and preserve old pictures by converting them to digital format.  In that, scan printed photos, slides and negatives into GIMP for editing with the idea of producing files that might be useful for future generations.  As such, compatibility of the resulting files is the most important factor.  Future devices are more important than past (older) ones but this experience is not very comforting when it comes to having the ability to create something that will last for a long time (i.e., at least, outlast me).  Rather this experience makes a pretty good case for the inability of digital technology as an aid to preservation.

Does our technology decay faster than paper?  Maybe I need to go back to printing.

Download from OCAL, either as vector or png in three sizes.
They are all blurry/build from gradients, so good for bumpmapping !

Some of the png's are not seamless, but the svg is.
Just download the svg, open in Inkscape and scale with the selection tool. Its a patternfill and will always fill the square.

https://openclipart.org/detail/290633/pattern-pack

   

100% Gimp !
Used ofnuts path tools for the sinewaves. Stroked with a brush dynamic and filled with the clone-layer-tool.

   

A demo of making a shape (a cross) in Gimp, using that in Inkscape to fill with text, then back to Gimp

   

The main points are

Make a shape with the paths tool.
Export that as a gimp SVG file.

Open that in Inkscape
Fill with text
Convert the text to a path for opening in Gimp.
Save as an Inkscape SVG
Open Inkscape SVG in Gimp





The link to the video if you want to go there  https://youtu.be/GI_soknqccE

Hello...

I've overlayed just a headshot over another image of a girl bowling....I'd like to add some text to the image of the girls stats and year in high school, etc.

I activated the text tool, and start entering text into the image, but the text is too tiny to even see. I can't even increase the size in pixels, or pts, etc, large enough to see it no matter what I try.

Thanks for the help and hopefully understanding.

Tom

The other thing I'm noticing is when I increase the text size it keeps reverting back to 18px

I was curious about whats the best size for custom brushes.
Always had the idea in my head that bigger is better, but when looking at my chart, thats not true at all.

The 300px star brush doesnt look very good when scaled down a lot.

Does anybody know whether the scaling algorithm you can choose in the settings has an effect on scaling brushes ?

   

I've just tried to install a Huion H420 graphic tablet on my laptop.   I can use it and the associated pen to draw in Paint.net and Windows Ink Workspace, but it's not working properly in GIMP 2.8.22.    

In GIMP  I can use the pen to move the mouse pointer around and to select things and click on them.   However, I can't do any freehand drawing using the pen or brush tools.   Holding down my left mouse button and dragging the pointer round works.   Holding down the top pen button (the pen's equivalent of the left mouse button) doesn't.

What am I doing wrong?    I've tried both Window and Screen in File>Configure Input Devices for the Huion Tablet but neither seems to do what I want.

Hi,
I created a logo and uploaded to a web page, as you can see by the attached image "HIRED", the lettering/text doesn't look clear. It is Arial 11 on a transparent background. Gimp 2.8
The link to the home page "Home" is attached. it is not part of the logo, but looks much clearer on the web page.
Is there something I can do to help make the logo text sharper/clearer?
Any help will be appreciated.

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Again, coming from the Felt Thread.

I did it by applying the felt texture, which has a lot of white with a bit of medium gray, with the 'Value' Blendmode to the colour shapes (1.), and it seems, there arent any other options, except 'Multiply'.

This worked well for me, however whenever i applied a Bevel to a shape, the highlights and shadows were invisible (2.), because of the 'Value' layer on top, so that i had to put them one step higher in the z-order (3.).

   

One would think that the values of the grayscale texture, combined with coloured shapes in 'Colour' Mode, would result in a good looking colorized result, but the colours always look washed out...i guess because of the missing Saturation information ?



Slightly related video about colourizing old b/w photos, and as can be seen done in PS with the Colour Blendmode at 3:46min.

This one totally made my day (slightly NSFW):

http://www.gocomics.com/bent-objects/2017/11/16