Just thanks. Good improvement!

Say I have a photo that is resolution 2000 x 1500. Now say I put it in a web page, and scale it using css to 600 x 400. NOW, say that I take that same 2000 x 1500 image and scale it down to 600 x 400 using Gimp or even Photoshop. If I take the second image, put it in a web page and display it at its 600 x 400 width, and compare it with the first larger image that was scaled using only css, the second one ALWAYS looks fuzzier. Also, the colors will often also look diminished.

So, my question is, why can't Gimp or Photoshop do as good of a job scaling images as HTML/css can?

   
I need help guys. I've searched a ton on Youtube and I don't even know what to call the feature I'm trying to discover. What you see below is from a board game I'm making to use on Vassal. As Germany conquers territory, I can change the color to match. What I can't figure out to do is to find a way for GIMP to autogenerate that fuzzy darker border color you see on the original map. I can use airbrush and follow the edge of the border myself to make them, however I don't want to do this 300 times. It's tedious and it would look sloppy. Surely, there is a way to do some kind of drop shadow kind of thing, but on the inside. Every Youtube was all about the exterior. 

I tried a few zones using an airbrush, but it just could not replicate it nicely. The original has a nice fade going on while my airbrush doesn't fade anything like that. It's to abrupt when it reaches the width I set. I suppose that's another question on how to configure an airbrush to do that. The technique I'm looking for would not need the airbrush anyway since it should simply fill the border for me with the color I choose and width and fade.

Hi there,

I am practising with colour matching and I would like your opinion on whether I am getting it right or not? Sometimes I think it matches okay and sometimes I am thinking have not got it right. It can be quite confusing.

I have attached my image and the original image.

I am thinking is there too much magenta in the image? But the background is very magenta. Thank you in advance for your opinions.

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I worked with a large file in Gimp 3.2 RC1 - 6000 x 4000 pxxpx (not nice to Gimp but experimental).

Then I decided to straighten 5 layers 1.59 degrees clockwise around the center.

Shortly after I regretted not to have saved the image right before initiating the rotation (the current version could be a number of important steps old, so I decided to let the rotation in progress run). For the same reason Task Manager was not an option.
The rotation with the default Cubic interpolation took 1.5 hours!

Is anybody aware of - if I did something wrong? If so, how can this be done at a normal execusion speed - like at most 1 second in my old Photoshop CS5?

Is any plugin available for such manipulations?

I am of course a beginner with Gimp - and despite this waste of my time a kind of affection is developing. At least this product is open and free

Hello GIMP Community,

I am facing an issue in a GIMP 3.0 Python plugin: reliably closing the program and the last active image when the sequential workflow is finished.

My script is running in the GUI Mode, and I need to perform two actions in order:

1. Close the last open image container.
   
2. Force GIMP to quit the application entirely.
   

I have restarted it and checked preferences incase they got changed.
I cannot see the status bar on the bottom of gimp or the bottom of my dialogs that are at the bottom.
It originally did what I wrote above when I opened it today. After restarting I can barely see the top menu bar and the bar above where it has the image name.
What is wrong - what should I do?
Oh, my version is 3.0.4 portable clang. This only happened today

EDIT:- I was able to pull it down to see the top bar so I could turn it off again
EDIT x2:- Opened it again and all is ok now while Gimp is maximised. When I minimise it A few things I cannot see still, like the bottom status bar and bottom of dialogs along the bottom of Gimp

Im on a Mac and I just installed Gimp 3. And it states The GIMP user manual is not installed in your language." 
"You may either install the additional help package or change your preferences to use the online version."
but the only English manual I see is a windows .exe installer, Where's an English Mac version? 

Thanks
Steve

Hi Everyone,


I have been trying to figure this out for 2 days, and have come up short, so I created an account to hopefully get some help. I am new to GIMP and have been using it to extract a little image from a larger image. I use Linux Mint Cinnamon.

I extracted the image, added an alpha layer, made the background transparent, and extracted my image as a PNG with the "save background color" option unchecked. The png properly shows only the image in the thumbnail of my file browser (no background), but when I right click on the file and view the properties it shows the total width x height of the file as including the transparent background from the canvas in GIMP. To illustrate, the image is roughly 360x350 pixels, but the total W x H is 1344x768. 

The problem arises because I want to change the image size, but when I try to scale it GIMP scales based on the size of the canvas, not the size of the image. I found a workaround where I changed the Canvas Size to match roughly what the image is, so then when I use Scale Image my actual image is closer to what I want. There is still a small amount of error in this method because the whole canvas size is slighly bigger than my image.

Is there an an answer to my question? I spent so much time searching, but all I could find was people with problems of a background showing in their exported images and badly written ai articles outlining bare minimum basics. I went through the GIMP documentation, but I didn't see any mentioned regarding file dimensions and how they work when exporting with GIMP. To me, it seems like a transparent background would not be included in dimensions of a PNG because it does not exist. Maybe it does exist and the dimensional data is included in the file itself, but not rendered when used? I think I am fundamentally misunderstanding something.

Is the solution I came up with the best way to accomplish what I need?