Hi guys I am new to this forum. Thanks for letting me join!!
I have an issue with making an advert photo for a physical item. I have put little pictures of this item around the edges and one larger one in the middle. When i use the scale tool to enlarge the centre image, the corners of the selection go over the little photos around the edges. When I select the eraser tool to bring back the  parts of the edge images it has gone over, it does not fill them back in. It simply starts to erase the parts of the images that were not covered by the scale tool selection corners - line a normal eraser would.
Please can you direct me in finding out how to use this tool after scaling as I have done in the past with moving normal images about. 
Cordially

Decided to do some housekeeping in my Windows 7-64 Gimp install  today.  First off I was determined to correct the extreme long launch time of Gimp 2.10.14.  Noticed that I had 176 MB of extra brushes and 460 MB of extra patterns installed.  Cleared out all but the basics and a few custom favorites, and that completely fixed the launch time problem.

This was originally a Gimp 2.8.x install that I updated to 2.10.14 a year or so ago. And when I did the update at that time, the install process found and auto-migrated all those brushes, patterns, plugins, etc etc to the new 2.10.14 install....AND PUT A MYSTERY DIRECTORY in my start  menu labeled .gimp2.8    that I had pretty much neglected ever since.

For reasons explained in the following, I now want to delete all traces of the old gimp 2.8.x install...if I can do that without causing problems I'm too ignorant to know to expect. Can I safely delete those? Or are there hidden dependencies lurking beneath the surface?

To my uninformed eyes, it appears that everything crucial to Gimp 2.10.14 was migrated into the new directories created when the upgrade was performed, and I am no longer using Gimp 2.8.x. So, will I cripple anything by removing the old brushes, patterns, gradients,plugins, etc directories that are present in this .gimp2.8 menu?

The reason why it's important to me is that today I also decided to install  Partha's Portable Gimp 2.10.22 onto a flash drive, and during that install, the install process  "found" all those old 2.8.x  files and migrated them into the portable USB system....meaning I had to go through the portable install and repeat the pruning process I had just done on my console

It was truly a "oh god, where did all this junk come from AGAIN? moment...that I'd just as soon try to do away with completely, if possible. 

I was surprised that the "Portable" install found my old 2.8.x resources that had been neglected for some time and annexed those instead of the  freshly pruned 2.10.14 currently in use.

Even more of a surprise, while I was at it I decided to update the 2.10.14 install,....and found that 2.10.30 is now available, and went with that.

And was relieved to see that the 2.10.30 update found and used the resources from the 2.10.14 install, and not the older 2.8.x install .

So, is there any purpose to those legacy resources that I'll miss if I delete them?

Hi everyone, what should you do if after downloading the plug-in and placing the files in the right folder you get this error when starting Gimp?

When developing photos I commonly add text using GIMP.  It looks to me like this results in adding a new layer that is just large enough to hold the text (i.e., quite small in relation to the image/canvas/layer size for the photo).  Then the Move Tool can be used (easily) to reposition the text (? layer).  I'd like to be able to the same thing with a small image (e.g., like on ICON).  However, I have NOT had much luck figuring out how to do it.  If this is possible HOW?

Also, in the case of text you can change the size by adjusting the size of the font.  While that would NOT apply in the case of an image it is still desired to be able to adjust the size of such an image, while previewing it in relation to the main image (photo), without affecting anything else.  If that's possible I could use some help figuring out how.

Hi,
I have a red picture. It has an alpha channel too. All I want is to change the color to Yellow keeping the alpha values in respect. I mean, I just want to transform this red to yellow. Is there any method for doing it? Any tutorial, suggestion or video is welcome.

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It's been years since I was on here, but I noticed something that has me wondering: Gimp, like Photoshop, has Modes for each of its Paint tools (Darken, Lighten, Etc.), yet when I try to access these modes, the box stays locked. Not sure how to unlock it? Attachment included.

Thanks for your time and efforts.

-Bill

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hello dear experts - good day dear community, 

i have a question;  how to get more hardiness in the colors - especially where two fields meet each other


in other words - see the example: how to get the image and the border of the two different fields 

a. blue 
b. yellow 

in a better shape - with a harder borderline!?

   


i hope that i was able to describe what is needede!?
if i have to explain more - then lemme know.  i love to do that.. - if necessary.


love to hear from you 

Hi,

Can someone explain to me how to make icons bigger?

The steps I have done:
Access Edit --➤ Preferences --➤ Icon Theme --➤ Custom Icon size and shifted slider to “Huge”. The icons changed but still are not as I expected.


Regards,

After editing images and closing all, system memory usage still remain as before and even layers list and undo history remain.
I have to close Gimp to free all memory.
How to avoid it without restart Gimp?

On Windows 10 with 16GB ram, ssd and AMD Ryzen 5.

Hey, I'm working on a new design with 5 logos stacked on top of each other evenly but the alignment tool won't work, what am I doing wrong?