hi all,

I've been at this for days, trying to figure this out for hours and hours scouring all over the internet and I cannot for the life of me figure out what I am doing wrong. 

Basically, I am trying to create a silly gif with an image of a cat and two wings attached to either side of the image. The wings are animated (gif), and are both part of a single gif, so not separate. When I first tried doing this I quickly found out that whenever I export the cat only shows up at the very end, so I tried to figure out why. It's got to do with the layers, and every step of the way I found a plugin called ofn interleave layers being linked but at first I tried to avoid it since I couldn't figure out how to download it. 

The cat in the middle is the image, the wings are the gif/animated part. 

It quickly became apparent that I did need it, so I relented and downloaded it and put it in my plugin folder according to the instructions given (Filters->Development->Python-fu->console and then got the plugin folder.

I then pasted the contents in the plugin folder it gave me like so  

Restarting Gimp that didn't do the trick, so I then created a subfolder, which also did not work. I then saw that gimphelpers.py might be needed and installed that, which also changed nothing. I use Gimp 3.0 and Windows 11.  

What I thought was a very simple and quick creation has turned into a multiple days long affair, and at this point I'm more frustrated that I can't seem to figure out how to make this work rather than actually getting the result. I am sorry if this isn't the right place but I truly am at a loss of what I am doing wrong at this point. 

Please don't assume I know anything when you reply, I am very new to Gimp and I know like nothing about Python. Assume I am an idiot (I am) 

Is there any way to deal with this?

Here's an example, resize to 25%.
Gimp - blurry. (if choose None, will get terrible aliasing)
Windows Paint - not blurry (but not support alpha).

Original image (cannot attach, said too large): https://1drv.ms/i/c/cfd39d12afb55641/IQB...Jss9bfcMkA
Result-Gimp: https://1drv.ms/i/c/cfd39d12afb55641/IQC...ceDmBBTfrU
   
Result-Windows Paint: https://1drv.ms/i/c/cfd39d12afb55641/IQA...EO4nLDEi9Y
   

Look at the face and hair.

edit:attachment seems didn't display.

I've released version 1 of my Contact Sheet plug-in for GIMP 3:

https://www.chuckhenrich.com/contact-sheets-in-gimp-3/

Details are in the blog post. Here's a screenshot of the main dialog:



Supported languages are:

Nederlands (Dutch)
English
Français (French (Français)
Deutsch (German)
Italiano (Italian)
Magyar (Hungarian)
日本語 (Japanese)
Polski (Polish)
Português (Portuguese)
Português (Brazilian)
Español (Spanish)
Українська (Ukrainian)
简体中文 (Chinese (Simplified))
繁體中文 (Chinese (Traditional))

Many many thanks to Joe over at pixls.us for the inspiration, ideas, and robust testing!

Please let me know what you think. And if you have any suggestions, I'm all ears.

Using the pencil tool I created 10 big dots with the same Green en Blue value but with the Red value ranging from 10, 20, 30 etc to 100%, I used the Color Curve tool to modify the Red component only. While the colors on the screen truly reflect the changes, the Color Picker tool still shows exactly the same color as before applying the Curve Tool. I have to export the image and reload it into GIMP before I get the actual colors in the Color Picker tool. Am I missing something, or is this a bug?

I can not open raw files on gimp anymore, can anyone help me with this? I did install darktable but i do not have any idea how i can use it to make raw's open on gimp

(link to picture from the message i get)
https://imgur.com/a/Rvgsuxu

Hi
I wonder if I can get some recommendations for a Drawing tablet that is compatible, or just really good for GIMP.

I'm using GIMP 3.0 on Win 11, I've been using GIMP for a few year now on and off, for both artwork, and Photo editing. So I was wondering what Drawing Tablets others user use. There are so many choices out there, and having Googled the best choices for GIMP I'm still not sure what to purchase. I have a budget of around £50, and I know that probably limits me.

Thanks

Hi,

I'm interested in whether adjusting colour channels in Gimp can be used to detect chlorophyll emitted by biological life, or damp patches in roofs and masonry of buildings.

I've been experimenting with this but have found the results to be inconsistent. I've tried things like boosting the green in the green channel and the red in the red channel and also removing all the red and boosting the green in the red channel and removing all the green and boosting the red in the green channel etc.

I don't really understand what I'm doing with this.

Does anybody know whether this is a technique that could work in the diagnoses of damp related issues in buildings?

Any advice greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

I installed Gimp in early January of this year (2026) on a new Chromebook. I use to be able to launch and use it, but it no longer launches. The bar, at the bottom shows it attempting, but fails after a couple of minutes.

Its a new Chromebook. Model Asus CX15.

I had to install Linux first, so it runs under Linux. It no longer works.

I've used Gimp for a while, but only in the most rudimentary way.  I'm now trying something new for me that has me stumped. I've RTFM, searched online and watched YouTube vids, but I must be obtuse.

I have a scan containing two fragments of a document that I want to piece together. I successfully moved the fragments apart and now want to rotate each piece individually. I selected one piece using Tools->Selection Tools->Rectangular Select. Next I activated Tools->Transform Tools->Rotate. In Tool Options, I set Transform: Selection. I'm up to this step in the first screenshot. I enter a rotation, 90 degrees. I get a crawling ants frame that is otherwise all white. When I select Rotate, the blank white crawling ant frame remains. The originally selected region remains unchanged (second screenshot).

I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, but how do I accomplish the rotation I want?

-- Greg

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This is with Gimp 3.0.8-2 and Darktable 5.4.1 on Windows 11. When I try to open an ARW raw from my Sony camera or a DNG raw from my Leica, Gimp starts Darktable and the images display in Darktable as I would expect. When I close Darktable it displays "Exporting to GIMP" on the screen, but I then just get an error dialog, and the image doesn't appear in Gimp. 

For ARW files, the error dialog is this:
   

For DNG files, the error dialog is this:
   

When I look at Gimp's preferences for Image import and export, the import options are set to this:
   

Any suggestions on a fix?