Hello,

I'm using Gimp 2.10. I assume my question should go here.

I'm trying to give an arch to my text selection and I'm not getting the look that I want.

Here's a screen shot of the text along with a curvy arrow:


https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/q221a59al...0hkyr&dl=0

I would like to distort the text so that it curves with the arrow, something like this (but more professional looking, obviously ):

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zipzmqmk6...q8j8w&dl=0

My Google searches have lead me to using Filters > Distortion > Curve Bend... but the look I get isn't quite what I want:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nhu42ytfq...68148&dl=0

This tool seems to squish the selection around the area it distorts/curves. I end up not being able to read the text.

So I'm wondering if there's a way to accomplish what I want without compromising the legibility of the test. Something like creating a snake-like distortion, like the text follows the body of the snake in that it has the same girth at every point such that nothing is ever "squished".

Just FYI, the text is rasterized. It's not a text layer.

Thank you in advanced!

A frequent situation: I load a *.jpg images and applied some changes.

Then I press the good old standard key combination <Ctrl> + S to save it into the original *.jpg file.

As I noticed I can save such images only into *.xcf format.
If I want to save it into *.jpg or *.png format I have to export it with  an annoying intermediate dialog
with some additional required mouse clicks.

Is there no way to swap the meanings?

Ctrl+S IS the standard to save something into original file.
And export to save it to something different.

Having to remember the different meaning in Gimp interrupts my workflow and is user unfriendly.

Claudia

So yesterday, GIMP was acting normal. When I scaled it, it would let me move it in all directions.
Now it's acting really weird. When I move an image while scaling, it only lets me move it in a few directions, but when I hold down Shift,
everything is normal and it lets me move it in all directions.

I tried reinstalling GIMP, but it didn't work.

Maybe someone can find a way for me to move it in all directions PERMENANTLY.

Hello, can you give me an advise how to do this kind of photos?
Tutorials on Youtube would be the best.

Thanks for your Help!

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  1_big.webp (Size: 12.37 KB / Downloads: 125)
  0_full.webp (Size: 6.99 KB / Downloads: 121)

Running Linux Mint Mate 20 in an HP Elite Notebook that I got out of the garbage.. It has a touch screen, oh yay..
 
  I just uninstalled the new Gimp I got from Synaptic.. The one that has everything in one window, is way too gaudy and cluttered.. I suppose it's made for you supermen perfessionals.. I ain't uh perfessional.. don't want to be.. up hear in duh mowntains we dont git much o dat dar supahero edgimukashun larnin lik yer stonch snootie heroburger citee foks do.. 
Weza mostlee as dum as uh skwisht grashopuh on uh rok in duh rane.. 

  I love the old Gimp that has the three little windows, so I can close the right window, and make Gimp be small on the screen, so I can have several pix files of these cutie bare bum young ladies up on the screen that I'm working on editing making em prettier.. I have been through all the older version web pages, and have been downloading from here there and everywhere..  I get archive thingys that don't install but give a useless pretty list of crap stuff.. I get the same new one window cluttered crazy Gimp everywhere I download it.. I am forever downloading, installing, uninstalling, deleting downloads, searching searching searching on the Net..  What ever happened to the good ole real Gimp?..   

  There should be a double user option in synaptic to install the old Gimp or the new Gimp..

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I'm just trying to find an old version of Gimp that installs without me needing to waste my life learning how to do computer programming and code and all that crap.. I know the off'n on buttons, and usb's, and gmail, and YouTube, and passwords, and mp3's, and mouse clicky stuff, and charge the battery, and how to use the old Gimp... Where can I find a simple download of the old Gimp that installs after you downloads it like things were before the world went all crazy and suicidal..?

I am confused. After a while of not using Gimp I need to do something which worked the past worked...somehow.

1. I dragged a new image to Gimp
2. I selected "Rectangle Select Tool" and selected an area in the currently visible image
3. I selected the "Move Tool"
4. I clicked into the rectangle area and dragged it.

Surprisingly not the rectangle area is moved but the underlying whole picture.
Whats wrong?
How can I move selected are only?

https://discuss.pixls.us/t/gimp-3-0-fina...dule/40597

Could someone help me to figure out a way in Gimp 2.10.36
to change thick lines into thinner ones?  Is there a function
that would speed the process?  Currently I am reducing the line
with a digital art pad and I would rather reduce the thickness by 
computer and not by me trying to erase a line.

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Assume I select a rectangle and moved it inside the image.

How can I unselect the current selection?

How can I merge all current layers into one layer (=the base image)?

I found no toolbox symbol or menu

I clicked on menu

File--->New

and try to create one with 3000x15000 pixels (see attached snapshot).
Much to my surprise I got a warning popup that gimp will create an image with size of 475 MB.
A simple image with pure white background?
I guess its the uncompressed size (not .png or *.jpg format)

And yes the maximum image size in Preferences is about 128MB

What would be the recommended maximum image size for a computer with 16GB RAM?

Whats would happened if I create an image beyond my maximum?
Will the new image be saved (completely) into (and handled from) swapfile on SSD/hard disk?
Or will it be rejected?