Hi, I could use some help with dealing with "Expand from center" shortcut. Is there any way to remove this shortcut completely or god-willing completely disable that option? It's making GIMP practically unusable for me.

If you're holding left mouse button clicked, and press ctrl, if will auto enable. This is exceptionally frustrating as I use GIMP to create sprites so a lot of what I do is copy/paste little bits here and here, so I'm constantly selecting parts of an image by dragging the mouse and then clicking ctrl+x/c/v, which mean I auto enable it about 5 times a minute when I'm editing because those actions and the shortcut overlap 100%. It's gotten to the point where I want to downgrade to a much earlier version of GIMP as just about every time I want to select something to copy, I have to toggle "Expand from center" off, which keeps toggling itself on.

Please help. I'm on 2.10.30

Eventually upgraded my Ubuntu from 19.10 to 20.04. In the process a bunch of fonts are broken:

• Display as square with hex code
  
• Seems to affect a bunch of "L" font : "URW Bookman L", "URW Palladio L", "Nimbus Sans L", "Century Schoolbook L"... while there are non-L versions
  
• Also some others (Bitstream Charter, Courier, Courier 10...)
  
• These fonts are found by the font manager (but not listed in some apps, such as LibreOffice)
  
• I don't remember installing these fonts from other sources (I usually keep the downloaded ZIP around)
  

I am trying to use free select.  When I do this, it seems that it is always feathering my selection, and I can't figure out how to prevent that.  

I'm attaching two images - I hope you can see them.  The first shows a somewhat random free selection, and you can see that the area selected is substantially within the area I chose, and it is rounded rather than having the jagged edges of my selection.  

The second is from clicking "select - feather," and you can see that feathering was set to 0.00, but the selection is still substantially feathered.

This has happened to me before in and somehow I managed to turn it off, but now I can't figure out how.  Did I accidentally select something that set it to do this?  It's very frustrating!!!  I'm trying to do some picky editing of this image and I can't do it unless I can correctly free select the details to change.  I was really delighted when I figured out, a few days ago, quite by accident, that I could free select an area and then when I used "paint clone" it would only paint within the selected area.  But now it doesn't work because it won't let me actually select the area I want to modify.

I hope someone can help!

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I read with interest ( curiousity ) the advice on here about not using cage transform

https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-How-do...5#pid26445

and wondering what is the reason for this , I've looked here (GF) and searched with DDG apart from crashing The Gimp, a problem I've not had for a long time, maybe just lucky pickings of Linux distros, there is no dire warning about cage transform usage.

So far it's the only tool that can change a normal car image into a modified or exaggerated car image, getting there thou I need more practice.
Regards
ReDraw

When I select "Export as" it shows all the drives I have, just like Windows File Viewer.
I then select the drive I need, then the folder, then the required sub folder.
I then export the item of interest to that sub folder.
However, when I want to move on to the next sub folder, it seems I hare to start over and select the drive etc again.
Is there a way to "index / switch" to the next sub folder in the sequence, without repeating the whole selection process?

Is Gimp compatible with mac? OK, that's not really my question. Years ago the gimp programmer that makes it compatible with mac became MIA. When mac upgraded with macOS Sierra (version 10.12) Gimp suddenly had lots of bugs in it.

My question is, how is it now? Better? Worse? Same?

Doe gimp have this styles to use.

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Using Gimp 2.10.30 on Windows 10 I have not been able to find a way to contract/expand an image along one axis in a way that would linearly depend on the position along the other axis and do nothing else.

The perspective tool apparently does not do the trick, because if I use it to create a trapezoid by contracting the bottom edge of the image horizontally, the content of the image also shifts vertically, and that is not the intention.

Perhaps I am missing something basic, but having spent quite some time experimenting with the available tools, I am still at a loss as to how to achieve this fairly simple effect.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

This has been asked before but so far the problem seems to be unresolved. In 3.8 when I opened an image, the image displayed zoomed down to the available space. Now in 3.10, the image opens at 100% and resizes the window so the controls are way off screen. How can I get back the 3.8 behavior? I looked at the Preferences, Window Management, and tried all the settings there. None work. Single window mode. I can't find any other setting that controls window size on image opening.

I'm trying to develop a skill here, more than just trying to slap image "A" onto background "B",  so I'm kinda looking more for which procedures I should practice, than trying to solve an immediate goal.

I've run  a few searches, tried to follow their tutorials (Filters>Decor>Stencil carve, for one example) and ended up less than happy with the results I've obtained

What I hope to do, is something like this:



Particularly where the white arrow points to the bird.


For instance, using this image:

https://i.imgur.com/nYe51xM.png



On this background:

https://i.imgur.com/AKRlNc3.png



Everything  I've tried thus far, I lose the details of the wing feathers into a mottled glob. It's important to me that the finished result appear engraved and not just "painted on"

And again, I'm looking mostly for the procedures I need to practice, than just trying to get this one project completed.

Thanks for constructive guidance.