When I try to import a png image with transparency, the checkers in the background remain there and not see through. I have tried right clicking the layer and adding "add alpha channel" and also doing layer>transparency>add alpha channel but it remains the same.

This is more of a Linux question than a GIMP question, but since I first noticed this in GIMP I thought I would start here.

Using Kubuntu 22.04 and GIMP 2.10, I do not have the ability to use the  spacebar to pan the canvas.  This began when I first installed GIMP 2.10 in Kubuntu 22.04.  This also affects Adobe Photoshop in a virtual Windows client.  With previous versions of Ubuntu I had no problems with the spacebar in this context.


Have you come across this issue before, and/or what might be causing it?

I can't use the updated versions of GIMP; they are totally USELESS; they are incapable of preserving or manipulating transparency in images. Please refer to attached image, "Missing.png." There's supposed to be an interface there that details selection dimensions. It USED to be there, but I accidentally undocked it, and I can't get it back. If I can't restore this functionality, I will be forced to abandon using GIMP...and I have no other application that will fit the bill. My preferred version is GIMP 2.6.11. I've tried resetting values in Settings to default, but that worked for CRAP; the interface is still deficient.

I can think of only ONE solution, and it is unacceptable: Perform a clean reinstall of my OS, and reinstall all my preferred programs. this is RIDICULOUS. Help is no damned help whatsoever.

EDIT: I'd add text to the image to further explain the problem presented, but GIMP is totally screwed on my computer, now.

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I'm using GIMP 2.10.30.
 I can't get the CLONE tool to COPY from the SOURCE. I keep on getting a pattern instead of the part of the 
image I want to CLONE.
garystan

I recently had an old platter based 1tb drive fail. It was my D: drive. Gimp was on it.

Now when I attempt to reinstall Gimp on my new Solid State Drive "F:" the wizard doesn't offer location for install options.

Anyone else experience this?

I have no idea where the instruction for installing gimp on the now missing "D:" drive is being derived from... Even deleting the REGEDIT folder for GIMP did not stop the "pre installed at D:" issue.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Old digital painting made with Gimp yes, paint brush and lots of smudge tool all around.
   
I used the motion blur filter with zoom mode just for fun and added quite a dynamic effect.
   
Since Gimp can't know the supposed depth of the scene, the blurring occurs evenly on all the background and that doesn't look convincing. I edited the alpha channel's mask to blend the static background a bit using the smudge tool. It was just a quick edit that could use some work, but oh well...
   

Hello,

Not an artist.  Please use layman's terms if you're kind enough to reply.

I'd like to make an empty box like the attached, but balanced.  I can't seem to figure it out.

Suggestions?


Thank you,

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I am using portable phone only to phone and shoot photos, nothing more because my bad eyes don't like the little screens and bad keyboards. Until now I did use a very old portable phone for old peoples with big keys, cam but very little screen. It was possible to connect it directly with linux per USB cable and use it as memory card reader, a very comfortable way also to accede to the photos or files. But the back wall of the battery was part of the box of the phone. In the last time, it was not possible to continue to use that "phonausor" because of any power of the battery was loose and no way to find a new fresh one... As in Germany where I live, (old) new tablets with android 10..12 are offered very cheap, I did buy one small one as phone and a 10" tablet (with high resolution screen) one as my future tool to process photos, picture and maps.

So I am dependent from tablets (it is completely new for me) or laptop screens to do the rest.

But the first problem for me is to transmit the shoot photos to large 10" tablett alt. to my old linux laptop (it is preferable as I actually discover and not really know the android app's and tools).

I did connect an USB cable. Nothing to do: no communication turned on or turned off (the old portable phone did have to be turned off to be only some kind of memory card reader!).

I did find at "akp pure" in android (as I prefer to avoid the services from google) 2 "gimp-s". a small one and a very large one (not very good for the portable phone tablet having a small memory capacity).

The commands of the small gimp (for the phone! For the large tablet 10" I will in the future install the big "gimp" for android, of course!) are totally different from those in linux, and not evident! For ex. save the actual stage of the transformation of the original photo (as a different doc to don't alter the original, of cours!). No Alt-S ... But the app claims to save. And no save function (preserving or not) in the very small menu!

What would be the best succession of commands to make out the large original photos very little ones to, for ex., publish in forum threads etc.?

How to transmit the photos from Android to Linux (of course each on a separate tablet/PC)?

Is there no handbook for android app's, espec. for gimp mini or gimp full for Android?

Hi I need to know how to put a circular border in black around a image to enable it to be cut out with scissors. The image must be perfectly centred with the border.