Welcome, Guest |
You have to register before you can post on our site.
|
|
|
Fore-/Background Color tool very small |
Posted by: Ced_ - 06-15-2021, 09:28 PM - Forum: General questions
- Replies (1)
|
|
Hello, newbie here,
I was setting up Gimp and noticed that the Foreground- and Background Color tool (beneath the toolbox icons) is incredibly small for me.
Is there any way to increase it's size? I found nothing on google about that, just about the size of the toolbox icons.
I use an 1440p monitor. Could it have anything to do with that resolution? Altough, on my second monitor (1080p) the tool is even smaller.
|
|
|
How to adjust filling pattern |
Posted by: snowforest - 06-14-2021, 11:50 AM - Forum: General questions
- Replies (2)
|
|
If I want to apply gradient filling, it automatically starts from black and goes to white. But I do not want it to start from that dark. How can I adjust the start and finish colors of gradient fill? I see the box but it looks very complex and nothing happens no matter what I do and first of all the escape button doesnt work in gimp.
Once I am done with filling how do I get rid of dashed lines around the selected area? Escape button doesnt work
|
|
|
Some XCF and PNG exports are bloated |
Posted by: GMP - 06-14-2021, 01:47 AM - Forum: General questions
- Replies (4)
|
|
I'm using 2.10.24 Yesterday after importing 73 meg PNG file into GIMP the XCF file became really bloated - 698 meg and the PNG I exported from this was 397 meg. I think the reason this is occurring is sometimes some pics are too small so I need to scale the layer much higher, sometimes over 100,000 px. Does scaling increase the file size quite a bit?
When this occurs GIMP is super slow at saving the file or exporting a file. Recently when this happened I noticed that most of the files I've been creating lately, which are all similar faces swaps, are fairly small XCF files (5-100 meg) and small PNG's (1-35 meg) are created from the export.
I use Photo Gallery to view my pics and want them to be about the same size for a slide show. After I make changes in GIMP I always open the pic in PhotoWorks, which is a program with some time saving photo correction and altering tools. I then save as a PNG and I open it again in GIMP for final fixes.
As a temporary fix I used the Snipping Tool to create a new PNG file from the 397 meg and it's a small 682 KB PNG file - 500x smaller
I think the PNG file somehow got corrupted. Is there a way to fix a file that opens in GIMP but is corrupted in some way? or do I just need to use the Snipping Tool? Or can the export the scale the pic larger?
|
|
|
After typing text, i cannot unselect |
Posted by: snowforest - 06-13-2021, 04:50 PM - Forum: General questions
- Replies (1)
|
|
Lets say I have an image and I type a text on it. After I am done, Its box keeps appearing on the screen with dashed lines. How can I deselect it? Because after that when I draw a line on the image, I cannot, and I can only draw inside the text box, well I am done with the text box but I cannot deselect it. This is very counterintuitive. I even tried to select all with the hope that I will select everything but the text box still keep appearing with its nice dashed lines, and now in addition I cannot deselect what I selected. And escape button seems to do nothing in GIMP. I just started to use gimp and so far it is counterintuitive. All I want is to type a text, deselect it, and draw a line on the other part of the image.
|
|
|
How to make comic strips in GIMP |
Posted by: Brightlightning 85 - 06-13-2021, 08:28 AM - Forum: General questions
- Replies (3)
|
|
My son and I are keen to try and make a comic strip. The only problem is that neither he nor I are very good at drawing (even though he is better than I am).
I thought that maybe we could use a filter of the type seen in Snapchat to turn photos into cartoons, then to use those images to create a comic strip using GIMP.
Has anyone tried to do anything similar or have any tips as to how it can be done?
|
|
|
Newbie deal breaker problem |
Posted by: FredM - 06-12-2021, 05:09 PM - Forum: General questions
- Replies (7)
|
|
Hi everyone,
A colleague has convinced me to test GIMP instead of my old Paintshop Pro.
I am a casual user, usually just removing an odd frame, blurring the background or layers to create thumbnails or backgrounds for videos, which means opening a file, adding some brushes, using clone brushes and retouch and saving it. That's all.
I just realised I can't do that in GIMP. It always saves the file in a different format, the internal one. I found I need to export the result and can't use png or jpg depending on what format the original was in.
So I read up on this issue here, managed to find the folder and tried to install jpeg.exe and png.exe where both failed due to some other file missing.
I am now at a crossroads whether to upgrade Paintshop Pro or dive into GIMP, where I am unsure whether GIMP is actually the right tool for an infrequent and simple user like me. Will GIMP lead me down a rabbit hole which will require a rethink and redoing my pc to suit GIMP?
I've gone and skimmed through a tutorial and watched a few Davies videos. The scope of the program is impressive, but might just be too much for me, which is why I'd love to hear some users provide user-level feedback what they think.
Thanks a lot for your help.
|
|
|
|