Hello fellow Gimp-Users.

I've been using Gimp for a couple years now.
As I got used to it, I also got used to the workflow and the shortcuts.
I just downloaded version 3 and to my surprise many shortcuts don't work at all (Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V/Ctrl+Zoom/Ctrl+H).
Also I was used to hit Ctrl+S to scale the current selection. Now it brings up the Shear tool and Ctrl+T seems to be for scaling.
I don't know what the developers were thinking on this release and why it would be a good idea to change shortcuts, people were used to for years. (vibe coding?)

However, in 2.8 everything works fine. My system is a clean W10 with more than enough performance.
Really dissapointed with this release. I know I can change my shortcuts manually, but why did they change them in first place? 
Anyone else facing the bugs of some not working at all?

Creating a paperback cover. Instructions from Amazon say:

Quote:Image color, size, and quality. Images should be in CMYK color to ensure your cover looks good in print. All images should be sized at 100%, flattened to one layer, and placed in your document at a minimum resolution of 300 DPI (dots per inch).
 
Flatten all transparencies. These can cause the file to print with missing or distorted content.

I was hoping for an update to this.  Have not experienced this before this latest upgrade.  You open the levels screen and it could take literally 5-minutes before it shows a histogram or your able to hit auto.  I have a gaming machine.  Maybe this has been mentioned 42 times already.

I am trying to call a gegl edge detect filter repeatedly in a while loop as here

I'm running GIMP 2.10.20 on Windows 10 on a 4K screen.

I searched for and found various GIMP mask tutorials but for some reason it never comes out right.  

I have a specific image that I'm trying to "enhance" with a mask.  BTW, this image is a copyright released image found here for any would-be copyright nazis out there.

I'm trying to get this image here.......




to look like this image here.........




As you can see the second image has a very light sort of sepia tint to it and I'm guessing they made a mask over the whole image.  So if I like the second image better then why don't I just use the second image?  I have a higher resolution image of this image than the one that I found online that's been masked and in addition to that the second image has been cropped and I want to use the uncropped image.  

Can someone give me detailed instruction on how to get the first image to look exactly like the second image by making a mask?  Thanks in advance

I have done this  thing for years so something must be wrong with my layers. I need to clean up the area in top left bit by bit.
I pasted a vertical piece at the top left of the image in the top layer. In this situation I usually clean up the excess with a brush in a mask on the side. I did as follows:
1. made a selection  from the image part of the layer. If I click once inside the selection it stays, If I click twice it disappears.
2. move to the mask
3.switch from selection to brush tool
4. selection in image disappears 
I am doing all this because I can't run the brush in a straight line.
The selection is large compared to the tiny area I need to remove, but I think that I am in the right layer.
I also tried a New from visible on top, selecting always from the image part of the layer of course, add mask, but selection disappears as I add the mask. Thank you.

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Version 3.0.4 is running on one computer. Just installed the same version on another computer. The new install shows a big blank window. Is it possible to copy a file from the first computer to the second to avoid manually setting display preferences? Both systems run Windows 10.

Hi, I just set out to write a tinyscheme script that retrieves the list of files from a folder using file-glob and although it looks trivial I can't get it to work. 

the line in question is:

(let* (filepaths (cadr (file-glob (string-append input-path "*.png") 0))))

which always returns empty whether I place it in a script or type a version into the console. Gimp just tells me that parameter 1 to cdr needs to be a pair.
Yes, I have verified that the folder pointed to by input-path exists and that there is at least one png file in it.Permissions are ok (I can load the file explicitly)
I have tried unix style and windows style path separator: nothing works.

I can hardly believe something this fundamental is actually broken - is there something about my setup that is wrong? I have a standard 3.04 installation using the windows installer any insights are appreciated.

Using a paperback cover template, I created and exported the final PDF file. I need to create a paperback cover using a different template provided by the distributor (PNG). Is there a way to port the work already done into this new template and "massage" it?

Hi,

I use the python-fu-eval batch interpreter on GIMP 3.0.4 AppImage and have noticed some unexpected behaviour. As a trivial example,


User:~$ ~/AppImages/gimp/GIMP-3.0.4-x86_64.AppImage -i --quit --batch-interpreter=python-fu-eval -b 'if True: a="something"; print(a);'
something
batch command executed successfully


But if the "if" statement comes after the declaration of variable "a"

User:~$ ~/AppImages/gimp/GIMP-3.0.4-x86_64.AppImage -i --quit --batch-interpreter=python-fu-eval -b 'a="something";if True: print(a);'
batch command experienced a calling error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/.mount_GIMP-3bPBAmP/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gimp/3.0/plug-ins/python-eval/python-eval.py", line 42, in code_eval
    exec(code, globals())
  File "<string>", line 1
    a="something";if True: print(a);
                             ^^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Similar problems arise with a "with" statement.

I don't understand this. Has anyone else noticed this sort of behaviour?

My OS is linux 6.1.0-37-amd64

Thanks.