i have wide feet, the only wide that fits me is new balance extra wide. but recently, i have noticed new balance extra wide doesn't fit me. what i am trying to figure out is if they made their shoes more narrow, or if i have some kind of a medical condition causing my feet to get bigger. in the picture below, I am trying to compare the width of the new shoes with the old ones. but i dont know how to do it in gimp. i know the measure tool exists, but i dont know how to point it in the right spot, and i dont know if i am drawing a straight line. 

I transition from PS to GIMP. Is there a pre-set layout for Photographers, or is there a course for a basic beginners layout?

So - in Gimp 3.0 version 1, I see that it is no longer available to crop a layer to the selection. Instead we are forced to crop all layers to content. That is unacceptable - how do I restore the ability to simply crop a layer to selection?

Hi, I just compiled GIMP 2.10.38 (under an up-to-date Archlinux) from the sources in download.gimp.org, after a couple of tiny fix to get rid of some errors, and now I am trying to execute it without installation.

It seems to work well from the source directory when I run the command "GIMP2_DATADIR=$(pwd) app/gimp-2.10", but (most of) the UI icons are replaced by papers with gray warning signs: See my attachment "no-icons_warn.png".

I suspected the icon management to be an XDG stuff, and since I noticed the icons are present in the "icon" sub-folder of the current directory, I prepended the command line with "XDG_DATA_DIRS=$(pwd)", which changed the icons but not in a way that pleased me: See my attachment "no-icons_cross.png".

I am far from being an expert about Gimp/GTK and FreeDesktop icon management, does somebody know why the icons are missing? Should I tell GIMP where to find them? How?

*** Note ***
The edition I made on the sources are unrelated, they are :

1. Replaced the line 1372 of the file "plug-ins/file-tiff/file-tiff-load.c" by something like
gdouble xfix, yfix; gimp_image_get_resolution(*image, &xfix, &yfix); xres = xfix; yres = yfix;

2. Replaced the line 2143 of the file "plug-ins/metadata/metadata-editor.c" by something like
if (!g_strv_contains((const gchar* const*)values, equiv_values[evi]))

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My linux system upgrade, Fedora 42, comes with gimp 3 which is behaving oddly. Bucket fill is quite strange. After a couple of fill operations the earlier fill regions get mangled. Looks like the region has rings of different intensity.

I have been using gimp 2.x for many years and tried to build it from source but getting compilation errors.

Also having problem with many of the "select" by options. Select by color selects the last painted cells, select NONE typically does absolutely nothing, select ALL seems to select the entire current layer.

Very frustrating!!!! I cannot currently show these problems as I uninstalled gimp 3 when attempting to load a earlier version.

@Ofnuts, it appears the ofn3-layer-tile plugin .zip file is missing the gimphelpers.py file, causing it to not load into the menu.

I guess I hadn't used ofn-layer-tile in a hot minute, or I just recently updated GIMP to where I needed the ofn3- versions. After some troubleshooting and research in the forum, I found your ofn3- files, set them up in my user directory, and only noticed ofn3-layer-tiels was not available. I found a thread mentioning gimphelpers.py was needed for your plug-ins, so I copied the instance in ofn3-interleave-layers into the ofn3-layer-tiles directory, restarted GIMP, and now it is in the Layer menu as expected! 

However, the Join tiles... option is inactive, and I'm not sure what to do next.

GIMP 3.0.4
macOS 15.5
ofn3-layer-tiles v1.02: 2025-05-13

I opened a .gif with 76 frames/layers; in the previous version, I would now select Join tiles... and specify the number of rows and number of columns and it would create a new image with one layer with each frame tiled next to the other.
Before I posted, I decided to try the Split functions, and both produce an error "name 'getArgsValues' is not defined"




Thanks for your work on these!

Hi, I'm am a completly newbee with GIMP trying to remove the background of a picture.
THis picture is a shield . When I try to select the white border and delete it, the two heads and the bell are also selected since they are also white.
Thanks for your help.
Bernard

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For adding a symbol to text in Windows Gimp 3.0 the previous unicode entry does not work (it is more-or-less ok with linux).

Two ways you might add a symbol

(1) Copy and paste into the Gimp text window, typically using a character map.

   

(2) One of the Gimp developers came up with this for Windows (must be in the MS documentation somewhere), putting a symbol straight into Gimp text.

The Windows key + . (the period / full stop key) brings up this.

   

There is a section for symbols, which narrows down selection a bit. Clicking on a symbol puts it straight into the Gimp text window, using the current font.

   

hi, i decided to use gimp for digital painting however when i import some abr brushes into gimp, they didn't behave 
like a brush at all. its like stamps forming a line 
myPaint brushes do behave like propper brushes but i can't find a way to convert my abr brushes into .myb brushes ( the format of mypaint brushes )
i can import them into png but that's it for now, i didn't find any way to convert them into myb

ASs is usually the case, the tutorials for this are wonderful if you want to something hard.  But not for something that I suspect is very easy.  Attached is a seal off my now ancient briefcase from when I worked on the Mariner Jupiter/Saturn project, later renamed as Voyager.  The seal has been abused in many years of use and moving.  I want to make the background (black leather) transparent or perhaps white.  The blue of space behind the planets should be a uniform dark blue.  A few smudges need to be covered over with other patches of color.

How do I select a region (such as the black leather) and bucket fiill it with some arbitrary color.  I managed to select similar colors.  How do I tell bucket fill to use some arbitrary color?

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