I'm a Gimp novice, so I need some help...

http://www.johngreenbooks.com/ <-- on this author site, on the main page, there's a blue and yellow photo of John Green and I was wondering how I could get an effect like that on my own pictures?? I've messed about with a few things, but they failed badly. Can anyone help me, please?

Thanks in advance.

Looking to make a gif for my birthday.

Essentially I'll have a circle image with my face rotating to a song.
However I really don't want to be repeating the "Duplicate Layer +1 Degree Rotate" for 360 layers. Is there a faster way of doing this? Or maybe I could do bigger degree portions instead of 1 to 360? A script perhaps?

Hi, I'm pretty new to both Gimp and Linux.  

I'm trying to produce a brand-compliant leaflet for a charity I support.  I've installed two new fonts that were provided by the charity - 'Omnes Extra light' and 'Omnes Thin' 

But I cannot get Gimp to recognize them as two different fonts, or to name them correctly.

First off, they pop up in the Gimp font list with wrong names. Both have been labelled as  'Omnes Light'  -  which is in fact the name of a different font - that I haven't installed.  And when I use them to edit text, both fonts print out identically - which is wrong, they should appear notably different from each other..

I have viewed whole alphabets for both fonts in Font Viewer and both appear as they should be -  intact and correct.  Both have file names that are correct for the fonts: 'omnes-thin.ttf' and 'omnes-extralight.ttf

Things I have tried: 

I have installed .otf versions of both fonts with the same result.  

I have tried installing the fonts automatically via Font viewer.

I have tried putting them manually in a different folder - ie in /home/andy/.fonts


None of the above work. I'd appreciate any help anyone can offer !

So, I'm a casual user transitioning over to Gimp 2.8, and one of my major gripes with it is the fact that the rectangle select tool has a double border.  In 2.6, the rectangle select tool was a single line, and was much more precise.  Here's what I mean:
In 2.6, that purple line was exact - you knew exactly what pixels you were selecting, and the resulting marching ants resided exactly along that purple line.  In 2.8, however, the resulting marching ants wind up somewhere in between those two lines, which makes it a lot harder to select things at the pixel level.  Is there any way to change the way this looks?

Thanks,
Sean

Can anyone help me figure out what filter was used to create this image? I created this image a couple years ago using Gimp, but I can't remember what filter I used. Before the filter was applied, the image was a solid light-green circle with solid white stripes. (I blurred out the text since they're names.) I've gone through all the filters and I can't seem to find a filter that produces the same result.

Hi! 

I often export to the .data format, and I'm wondering how to make it so that when I do, the window that pops up:

defaults to selecting Standard. It's one of those small things that, when I'm saving a lot of images in a new format, slows me down a little.

I'm just curious about whether I can make that option stay as planar unless I choose otherwise. It's not major.

Ok so I'm a noob at Gimp 2 and art in general. I've got these brushes from Deviantart, I added them to gimp as a .abr file and when I try to use them they appear over inked (A lot of the detail is gone). Does anyone care to tell me what I'm doing wrong/missing?

Here's a link to an image showing what I mean as this isn't a very good description: https://imgur.com/gallery/bbzL2

Hi fellow GIMPers!

I'd like to set a custom shortcut and can't figure it out. So I have a script "Arrange Layers" which has a few options. It's annoying to make several clicks, I'd like it set to a shortcut (for example ALT + . or something) that would do all that in 1 action.

THE SEQUENCE:
(click) Image
(mouse point) Arrange Layers -> Space
(click) Horizontally
[window pops up]
(click) OK (or press Enter)

So I'd like to assign a shortcut for the entire SEQUENCE. Could anyone help?

Attached Files

Thumbnail(s)
   
Image(s)
   

Windows 10 updated and GIMP now will only copy blank areas to Microsoft Word. I get a blank of the same size as the copied field. Restarted GIMP and rebooted computer several times without success.

However,  it will copy to WordPad.

Hi!

How to disable the command line "DOS" window which pops up every time I launch gimp 2.9.6. I know I did it back in the days of the previous years-old beta but I seem to have lost my notes on gimp and normal internet lookup doesn't boing any clear answers either. Any ideas? I've looked into gimp startup command line parameters. Either I'm blind or there is no solution for me there. I only see the option to enable the console. This should matter really but just in case - I'm currently on Windows 7 64-bit.