opening the image leads to funny action - cannot see any thing but a black box

what is aimed: i want to work on a output of a scatterplot.  This should have a transparent background. but duhhh - i am not able to open it i n Gimp.

what goes wrong here ? 

look forward to hear from you 

   

It is fantastic that GIMP exists. This article provides a nice perspective on graphics software.

https://www.chuckhenrich.com/nik-collect...-tell-you/

            Hello,

I am using GIMP on Windows and an XP-Pen tablet.

The tablet works normally in Microsoft Paint and I can draw without any problem.

In GIMP, the pen is detected and appears under Input Devices. The cursor moves normally, but when I try to paint on the canvas nothing is drawn.

What I have already checked:

Brush tool selected
Opacity 100%
Visible layer selected
Foreground color set to red
Tablet works correctly in Paint
GIMP detects the XP-Pen stylus

When I touch the canvas, I only see a strange cursor/icon near the crosshair, but no brush stroke appears.

Could this be related to Input Devices, Windows Ink, or a tablet configuration issue?


Screenshots attached.

Thank you.

CMYK conversion

https://cyan.graphics

I am using GIMP on Windows if that matters in Single Window Mode.

It looks like I did something, unknown to me, which has caused the tool options to stop being displayed in the frame on the left side of the window.  It looks like they now appear in the top of the frame on the right side which, for me, normally displays a histogram.  I think the setup I prefer is the standard default (out-of-the-box so to speak.

I'd be grateful if someone could explain how to restore GIMP to its' prior state.

Software-update: Affinity 3.2.2

https://www.affinity.studio/get-affinity

I am new to using plugins and have read about LayerFX, but cannot find where to download for GIMP 3.2. I am using Windows 11. I did locate it as part of PGEI but, as I have no idea what PGEI is, I avoided it. Web searches have only shown me older versions. Thanks for any tips on this.

I'm opening multiple uncompressed TIFF files and exporting them someplace else after editing.
I have to manually select LZW compression from the dropdown every time.
Is it possible to set it as a default, even when exporting an uncompressed file?


Thanks in advance.

Hi! Is anyone here doing comic book coloring in GIMP? I'm doing just fine with flatting, but I wanted to color a comic book page from start to finish. I cant find any decent tutorials on YouTube, but I found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_uNnawaBmE

The problem? It's for Photoshop, and I am having difficult time translating this workflow to GIMP. Does anyone here can help?

I'm trying to tint the merged image of the couple in this screenshot to be shades of the main color of the background.

   

I have the hex code of the background red color (94151a), and with it, the RGB and HSV numbers. I've tried everything I could find under the Colors menu to plug these in to get the color I want, but with no success. The RGB numbers just make the faces look sick. I tried using Sample Points and Curves and tried matching the HSV there, but the result was the same.

The closest I get is when I use Colorize, but I'm just doing it by eye and the results are chancy at best. The cover, front and back, will have four or more images that need to match, and I'd like to do it scientifically if I can.

Am I missing a tool somewhere? Will using the HSV numbers do me better, and if so, where can I try?

I had to do the same thing with the cover of the first book in the series, and somehow managed it. But as I said, it was by sheer dumb luck.
   

EDIT--- I also want to apply the same sort of "glow" to the background of the red cover that the blue one has, but that'll be a separate question.

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