Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how to programmatically change text in a layer and then save the output? 

My use case is trying to add a version number (aka limited edition) to a digital photograph. I would like to do this 100 times and have an end result of 100 images that have a minor change of 1/100, 2/100, ... 100/100. 


Thank you for the help or suggestions!

The images draw with librecad, when I export it as jpg, it only exports with 96 dpi. But I need 300 dpi. I turn it into 300 dpi using gimp. What do you suggest? Is gimp the best one to do it or another software or it doesnt matter? I use windows 10.

If I reduce the size of an image with gimp vs another program, to the same size (just the scale or resize thing), why does the quality look different? For example I have an image I reduced its size with gimp. The lines looked faded a little. Then I tried reducing the size of same image with ms office picture manager. The lines looked less faded. Am I doing something wrong or is it normal?

If I save the image in jpg format with iptc data checked, after closing it, how , from where, can I review that iptc data later? Where is that data stored? How can it be viewed?

And do you recommend to check that option while saving and if so why?

Hello !

This time, I come back to you for making a burn on the eye of a character. I have a image and I would like a burn on the left eye until his ear, on the right. A burn mark.

I tried some things but it's hard to have a "beautiful" result.

My orginal image :

https://zupimages.net/up/21/30/bv6j.png

My attempts :

https://zupimages.net/up/21/30/y7io.jpg

https://zupimages.net/up/21/30/muys.jpg

I know, it's a very graphic stuff but maybe you will can help.

Thank you !

I liked Gimp 2.8, but have upgraded to Gimp 2.10 thinking it would preserve the original functionality but I am finding it to be extremely difficult to use. 

Especially the way Gimp 2.10 forces the zoom mode when pressing ctrl + MMB.

How can I disable this and go back to ctrl + MMB to simply pan the image?

I can find no option, no forums discussions, no hacks or any way to disable this useless feature and it has absolutely killed my efficiency. Also this new canvas rotation feature is forced always on and is a similar conflicting hotkey which also destroys efficiency - I never once needed rotate canvas but now I keep rotating my canvas and it is horrible. I just want simple controls, or a way to disable these truly awful hotkey assignments.

In my opinion "more is not always better" especially when the developer forgets to add options to turn it off. 

I am using gimp less now because of this horrible UX. It makes me very upset to see such a poorly designed update. I am at the point I just want to downgrade back to 2.8 and start moving away from Gimp entirely - It feels like Adobe is paying the developers of Gimp to degenerate the tool so to eliminate the competition - forget about donating to Gimp anymore, it is going backwards and losing its edge (just like so many other free software).

Just wanted to voice my frustrations because I know it would take a competent developer less than an hour to add options to shut off these ridiculous new-age features.

If you regularly use RAW images with Gimp then you are better off with one of the 'active' applications, Darktable or Rawtherapee, which are frequently updated.

I do find these have more features than I require and so I fall back to the Gimp uFRaw plugin.  This is old and newer RAW formats will not be supported. All you can do is try and see. 

For Windows Users.  
This archive  https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=...kjnBoOKXQV
I have tried this in Win10 / Gimp 2.10.24 and it works. Unzip and put the whole nufraw folder in C:\Users\"yourname"\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10\plug-ins

A quick animation in action: https://i.imgur.com/i5Mee3v.mp4

For linux users. 

(Edit: For 'buntu 20.04 / Mint 20 users. This plugin is not going to work, there are dependencies no longer included in these newer versions - ok for ubuntu 18.04 / Mint 19)

Check in your distro repo for a version that works with Gimp 2.10 (not always guaranteed) This is my compile which should work in ubuntu / mint etc.
https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=...VS1SOBlLJk Unzip put in ~/.config/GIMP/2.10/plug-ins/ make sure it is executable.
This plugin has a side effect. Stops Gimp loading SVG images, so keep it non-executable until required.

General: 
After installation, check that it shows bottom of Edit -> Preferences -> Image Import & Export and is selected.  
The usual guarantee, there is none. If it does not work for you, then I recommend trying RawTherapee.

I'm using GIMP 2.10 on a new computer and parts of it are super tiny or cut off. For example in the image, the font choices are cut off The justify font is tiny. The brush tool options are also small. Is there a way I can make those larger?

Hello!

First time poster here with a question that is puzzling me. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. I have an image that is 3000x4000 pixels. According to GIMP, the image in inches is 10"x13" as seen in this pic...

 

In scale image, it shows that as well...
 


So I have some 13x19 photo paper that I want to print his on. I have the correct paper size selected...
  


Here's my print preview...
  


But then my result is this...What am I doing wrong in GIMP? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

I frequently crop photographs I've taken. I crop, click inside the cropped image and save. When I return to the cropped image I am able to still drag parts of the UNCROPPED image into the crop box. First, how do I fix this? I want to eliminate the uncropped material.
This causes a problem when I want to affix a signature to the cropped image. When I bring the .png signature in it is centered in the image. When I try to drag the signature into place I'm dragging the image instead.
Sure these are easy fixes?