When saving image, almost all is white despite of what is on the scree

[dziuniek]

Newbie here!

My GIMP window looks as shown below. However, when I try to export image to tif, almost all is white. What's wrong? Have I selected incorrect layers? I'm very new to GIMP, I'm using it to remove speckles before OCR-ing a book.

[rich2005]

Difficult to say from your screenshot but a couple of possibilities.

Exporting to tiff - disable the layers option. That gives a multi-page file and all you see is the 'first page' .

   

There is a floating selection, irrespective of the outcome you need to either anchor it or promote to a new layer.

   

(Just a comment, text looks small for OCR-ing and if using tesseract then formatting will be an issue, but that is another story)

[dziuniek]

(04-07-2020, 07:16 PM)rich2005 Wrote: Difficult to say from your screenshot but a couple of possibilities.

Exporting to tiff - disable the layers option. That gives a multi-page file and all you see is the 'first page' .



There is a floating selection, irrespective of the outcome you need to either anchor it or promote to a new layer.



(Just a comment, text looks small for OCR-ing and if using tesseract then formatting will be an issue, but that is another story)

Thanks,  now it's fine. Text may look small but in fact it isn't I use Tesseract and rarely have problems.
On a side note, what theme do you use in Linux?

[rich2005]

(04-07-2020, 07:34 PM)dziuniek Wrote: Thanks,  now it's fine. Text may look small but in fact it isn't I use Tesseract and rarely have problems.
On a side note, what theme do you use in Linux?

The Gimp theme?  https://i.imgur.com/gjWmdMW.jpg

I am very conservative (and set in ways), been using this theme for the last 10 years or so. Hate the very dark themes, find the symbolic icons a pita. My Gimp 2.10 looks very old-fashioned (same as Gimp 2.8) but it works for me.  Unlikely that anyone will bother with this theme but zipped and attached anyway  
Get into preferences, change the icons to colour, set the padding colour to something that shows the canvas boundary. Thin the tool box down. Close un-needed tabs. All sorts of things you can do to set up the way you require.

[dziuniek]

Many thanks for this. In fact I very liked your GIMP and Linux theme, too. Could you please give a link to it?

[rich2005]

It will depend somewhat on your linux distro and desktop manager, I use KDE, very flexible, as well as workspaces you can set up different desktop 'activities'. Despite the usual Gnome detractors, KDE is not over heavy on resources.

This is my video editing desktop, absolutely clean, no clutter. Not colour calibrated monitor but screen brightness is set low, so what I see is what prints.

I use a stock theme 'Breeze ' nothing special but it fits in with the general setup. This screenshot is Gimp 2.10.18 (appimage) in kubuntu 18.04 Nice compact tools / tool options, I like it.
https://i.imgur.com/ORbOGzC.jpg

[dziuniek]

Great, thanks! I've been a loyal GNOME user but its developers have made a lot unpopular changes. That's why I decided to switch to KDE. Many thanks for your input and help!