(02-25-2018, 04:20 PM)miimers Wrote: Pretty much what it says. I was trying to make a pixellated image of a 2000x3000 photo yesterday, using a video tutorial. It requires duplicating the original image 3 times, then using the shear-tool, set the top layer X magnitude to 1223 then pixelleating and setting it to -1223 and adjusting opacity before moving to the middle layer and doing similar things.
After the pixellation part on the first layer, the shear-tool just stopped doing anything when I hand-type the number. I've shut it down, restarted computer, uninstalled and reinstalled and it just doesn't do anything. I've tried it on a different image and still nothing. If I use the arrows, it works for now, but hand-inserting numbers just makes it appear it's calculating something, but in reality, it doesn't do anything.
I'm running GIMP on a Samsung-laptop (SF311) and a WIN10. Still using GIMP 2.8
Should I just keep my fingers crossed that nothing else gets broken or is there a way to fix this?
The first time I tried what you did I got a noticeable delay, but this didn't happen on further tries.
What I notice is that shearing that much creates a somewhat bigger layer (add 1223 pixels each side...) so you end up with a rather big image.
On the other hand your laptop isn't very recent...
If you go to Edit>Preference>Environment what is the Tile Cache size set to? Still 512M? if so can you increase it to 2GB (or even more if you have more than 3GB.