Would it be possible to have shortcuts to set the padding to a specific color with or without a plugin?

I am constantly checking for flaws by viewing images against both black and white padding and would like a quicker way to do so. I already have shortcuts to set custom color and return to theme default, but it is still plenty of clicks and mouse drags to set the custom colors.

Just checking if this is something really involved, or easily doable.

Thanks!

Just a little exercise to see how the displacement map is working. I've used a photo from a wooden sculpture. Made a new transparent layer and color some grey tones areas (select and fill the selection), blurred the layer (Filters / Blur / Gaussian Blur) and used the 'Filters / Map / Displace' to make some transformations. Then export (File / Export as...) the converted layers and the original photo layer is a gif file. 
depth map :
   
just used horizontal displacement :
   
gif file :
   

hi, ok i'm new here. but i just started using gimp to make gifs and when I was initially making my gifs using open as layers for my frames it was working but suddenly it doesn't work anymore and whenever i try to open my images as layers it looks like this instead. 
and i have no idea what it is I'm doing wrong, so if anyone knows that'd be a great help (to clarify the images I'm using are all png files)

Hi:
I take a few hundred photos at various sporting events.
I was wondering if there was a way to compare some of the items in the meta data
I'd like to know lets say the avg focal length of the lens
Can I view maybe the meta data from 10 photos uploaded to an excel spread sheet and do a sort?
Thanks

Hi, do you think I should update my 2.10.24  (setup from GIMP.org) to 2.10.28 ? If yes, how to do that ?

I am not sure whether I should. Because everything (including plugins) is working perfectly right now.

I'm selecting a color using the eye dropper. Then changing the color of a small area to the picked color. This was working fine until recently! However now it isn't working. Guessing that I may have changed a setting inadvertently while adjusting the image with the options given in the 'colors' tab of the menu? So, now, when the eye dropper picks #ecb377, the 'fill the foreground' command is painting #f5bb7c! I haven't been able to find out what the issue is and would appreciate ideas for solving this. The picture has several levels (variants of same image) and currently am not able to ensure the same colors are being used on all the levels.

There are a dozen and a half things with GIMP 2.10 that are driving me up the wall, but to be reasonable here I'm just going to have to bring them up separately as they come up.

Okay, I was using the crop tool, I dragged out a box, decided that I shouldn't crop this, and thus clicked a different tool.
And GIMP cropped my image.

WHAT IN THE HOLY HELL IS GOING ON HERE?!
At what point EVER is it a reasonable idea to have a tool impact an image WHEN I EXPLICTLY TELL IT TO NOT USE THAT TOOL?!?!
What kind of backwards design is this?
If I select a paint brush tool and then select a different tool would it be reasonable to expect the paintbrush to suddenly draw all over my image?  Of course not.  So why is the crop tool cropping my image when I EXPLICITLY TAKE ACTION TO NOT HAVE MY IMAGE BE CROPPED?!

This is the most asinine design I have ever seen in a program, and I use Microsoft products.

How exactly am I supposed to NOT have my image crop if I ever select this tool?
I mean for f***'s sake, not even counting just when I change my mind once I actually can see a box at a specified aspect ratio, what if I selected that tool by mistake and drew out a box over a tiny section of my image?  I would be able to clearly see the mistake, but yet it is utterly IMPOSSIBLE to simply cancel the action?  I HAVE to actually crop my image and un-do?  What kind of sense does that make?  Even if there was some one person out there who managed to find this useful, why can't I disable this backwards design?

I am not a frequent or expert GIMP user, in fact I don't do a lot of image editing at all, and most of what I do do is very simple stuff like cropping an image. So please don't assume I have a lot of prior knowledge about GIMP. What I was wanting to know is if there is any way to load an image, record the actions I take to modify that image and the options used when saving it, and then apply that to several hundred other images in a directory.

To be more specific, what I have is several hundred images that have a significant transparent border. All I want to do is automatically crop the images so that all the excess transparency is discarded. If I were doing this on a single image, I would do it this way:

•     Load the image
  
•     Use the fuzzy select in any corner to select the transparent part
  
•     Invert the selection (If there is a better way to select non-transparent parts only, I'm not aware of it).
  
•     Crop to selection
  
•     Export the image as a .png file to a different directory but with the same filename, with none of the options selected in the popup that you get when you export a .png image (basically I uncheck everything, also I make sure maximum compression is selected).
  

I understand the symbol being the same since gimp creation.

but I don't want that ugly poorly drawn dog in my desktop area.

I want a clean desktop. what I can do?

   

Hi Everyone,

I used to scale up extremely small images (40 x 40px for example) to about 1200 x 1200px without any interpolation (interpolation method: "none"). This worked perfectly fine, producing .xcf files of <1MB in size. 

Recently I cannot make this work, as whenever I try, GIMP warns me that the resulting image will be over 2GB (!!!) in size which is above the max size I allow in options. The issue remains if I choose extremely low X & Y resolution (the image size would then be 700MB). 

Does any of you have any idea what could've changed and how to make this work again? My current version is 2.10.24.

Thank you!