Hello GIMP Folk -

I've used GIMP for simple photo work for several years, but I've just encountered a PROBLEM.

When I have opened a photo in the past, a little dialogue says something like: "Drag your cursor to crop image."

This has disappeared, and in its place there is now a tool makes the image to be worked on LARGER... and LARGER - and no selection occurs!

Thinking perhaps my trusty GIMP had developed a glitch, after switching off & on my machine to clear the problem, I deleted GIMP and installed the latest 2.10 version.

But - Same problem. I cannot use my cursor to make a simple selection / crop of the image.

What has happened?

Any help will be wholeheartedly appreciated!

MAC OSX 10.14.6 Mojave

- Mehermuchacho

I can no longer open JPG files of any significant size. GIMP just gets stuck in the opening process. Sometimes it shows the image, sometimes not, but no tools respond after it tries to open the image, though quitting the program responds quickly. Opening GIMP by itself still responds in the same time as always, which is about 6 seconds. These are images similar to images I was opening a month or two ago.

I have an older Mac, but it's not so short of resources to be struggling with the size of files that I used to be able to open until recently.

To get some indictions I have opened the dashboard Window to get some info while it tries to open the image, and also had a look at the system Activity Monitor.

If I could just get some hints what else to try! Or to be more pertinent, where to start looking. Log files, temporary files, settings? I'll stop short of percussive maintenance, emoji here.

Here are the details

macbook pro 2016

2.6 GHz Quad Core Intel i7
macOS Monterey 12.6.9
16GB RAM
SSD drive - lots of free space
Graphics: Radeon Pro 2GB
GIMP
GIMP 2.10.34 (Revision 3)
Tile cache size: 8GB
All other settings: default
Tried so far
update
uninstall, reinstall
uninstall, delete all temp files I could find (BUT there could be some I missed), reinstalled

File 1 that can't open

Filesize: 209kB
Imagesize: 1152x896
Colourprofile: sRGB IEC61966-2.1
8 bits/channel
dpi: 72
Dashboard says while opening (not always the same, after opening image multiple time)

• Cache: goes up to 12%
  
• Memory 1%
  
• Cache varies: sometimes 4.4MB, sometimes as high as 10MB.
  

• CPU goes DOWN to 0 from about 7%
  

• Cache: 21.8MB
  
• CPU:1-2%
  
• Memory: 2%
  

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Hello gentlemen,

I was a little curious about how the opacity indicator value works with the Paintbrush, Bucket Fill tools, among others.
Even the behavior of opacity between layers follows its own logic.

What I'm trying to say is that intuitively when I select, for example, a value of 50 for Paintbrush opacity, I imagine that I am using half the transparency in that stroke and that if I apply a second stroke over the previous stroke I will have 100% of the opacity achieved.

Or that if the Paintbrush / Bucket Fill opacity value of 34 is applied, with 4 reapplications I will obtain 100%.

However, this is not what happens!

Using the opacity value of 50, as an example, it will take 7 reapplications (not just 2) to obtain a 100% opaque color, as I tried to demonstrate in the image below.

   

Hello World,

This is my first post and I have two questions about text.
I am running Linux Mint and GIMP 2.10.34 Flatpak

1. I have downloaded a bunch of fonts from Google Fonts, they're all true type fonts and I want to add them to my font choices. I followed a Davies Media tutorial for adding them to a folder defined under preferences/folders/fonts
   
The two linked paths did not exist, so I had to create the directories to match the paths (why two, well the first didn't work). Anyway, I copied the fonts into the folders, went back to GIMP as the tutorial suggested, and select the refresh button in the fonts panel, and just like that nothing happened. Any ideas of why it didn't work and how to add new fonts?

2. Once again watching another Davies Media tutorial Top 5 text effects in GIMP and the tutorial requires you to select the three layers of text, so you can then select the selection to path.  For some reason, I cannot ALT + CLICK or ALT + SHIFT + CLICK the text layers and do not get the marching ants around the text, nor the selection to path function. Is there another way or do I have an issue with my version of GIMP flatpak? 
   

Thanks in advance 
Macr

Hi, I can't find the installation files, they are not available for macOS on the original Gmic site, can anyone help me? Thank you.

Hi!

The 2.10.36 release is tentatively planned for the end of the month. I believe it's mainly a security update, prompted by recent issues such as the libwebp exploit. Still, there's time to backport some bugfixes/updates/small features from 2.99. I can't make any promises, but I wanted to ask if there were any recommendations? The bug tracker is here if you're not familiar: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues

Ideally suggestions would either already be in 2.99 or only affect 2.10, since everything has to be implemented in 2.99 first to prevent regressions. Thanks!

Hello, I am a new gimp user.
I am using a mac os sonoma, on a mac min.
I can only download gimp 2.10.34.
When I want save a folder, my external drive is not visible
I have an external hard drive with X fat
Gimp have autorisation to use all folder.

Thanks you for your attention.

Hi. where is the panel to control feathering on Eraser or maybe the selection feather ?
https://ibb.co/FbdGCC0

Hello,

I am not very familiair to GIMP, but I hope somebody can help me.

I use Ubuntu 20.04
I had GIMP 2.10.18
I installed the Resynthsizer plugin
I see now f.e. FX-foundry and Script-Fu

In the map with plugins I see the heal-selection-tool.py and other files from resynthesizer

But when I go to Filters>Enhance> I cannot find the heal-selection-tools that there should be.

That's why I updated Gimp from 2.10.18 to 2.10.34.

But still I cannot find the tool.

I is it replaced to another location? Or is there a setting that I missed anywhere?

Thanks for a reaction

I have an old-style two-circles map, similar to the one here:



I've extracted the circles, and now need to turn them into squares so I can use them as a texture in a render. I've tried various techniques: warp, cage and scale transforms, and scale layer in the layer menu; either they're the wrong tools or I'm not using them properly; is there a way to actually do this?