In the attached picture of wire ribbon matting, there is a shading effect that I guess was intended to simulate texture by the original artist. (the diagonal banding)

Is there a process in gimp to selectively darken the light spots while selectively lightening the dark areas, with the ultimate goal of achieving a uniform appearance? I've been playing around with alternate "dodge and burn"  processes from a brush set larger than the overall image, with mixed success.

My gut feeling is that if I keep at it over and over long enough, I will eventually luck into an acceptable result. But knowing you folks are far more skilled than I, got me to wondering if there might be a better way, less depended upon random chance, that is repeatable,  which  one of you might share?

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

What was in the early days a time consuming job, now colourise a black and white photo is a piece of cake. Just upload a photo and it will be colourised instantly. You can colourise a few photos for free and then you have to pay for it. 
https://www.myheritage.nl/incolor?utm_so...e=20210307
There are a few other possibilities with your photos on this site like make a face alive or optimise a photo
A colourised one :

   

I've got a xcf file where I've created around 400 paths. I'm using it to change a color of the clothes of audience,
and now I would like to colorize each path with the same color. As far as I understood correctly there is no way to select multiple paths and apply color using Colours->Colourize tool, so I have to do it manually what is very tedious and log process (I need to do it for at leas 10 colors - 400 paths for each of them)..

I went into direction of writing a a script that does a job like Colours->Colourize tool instead

Current script looks like this:

def plugin_main(image, layer):
    for p in image.vectors:
        pdb.gimp_image_select_item(image,CHANNEL_OP_REPLACE,p)
        pdb.gimp_edit_fill(layer, FOREGROUND_FILL) 

it iterates over paths fine but instead of pdb.gimp_edit_fill I need to execute something like  Colours->Colourize  does. 

Is there any way to do it?

thanks in advance ,

In GIMP 1.x, and supposedly still in 2.10, the "monitor" icon in the color picker window enables an eyedropper tool which collects color info from anywhere on the screen, not just in GIMP.  This is VERY useful!  But in 2.10 it doesn't seem to work, unless I'm doing something wrong: as soon as the cursor leaves the GIMP window it reverts to Windows' generic arrowhead, and clicking anywhere outside the GIMP window just brings the new window to the front, like with any other cursor.

Or is there a step I'm missing?

Hi, can someone suggest a good 2D intro video maker ? I thought of SynfigStudio, but the interface looks so dated. I can use Windows 10 if needed. It will be nice to have some pre-made actions like zoom in, zoom out, fade in fade out, flying in etc

Thanks

I recently installed the LXDE desktop environment over my MINT 19.3 XFCE version.  I prefer LXDE and almost everything works, but I only have Gimp 2.8.  I do not know how to access Gimp 2.10.  The terminal command 'gimp' runs 2.8.

Is there any way I can start 2.10 from a terminal, or really is there any way at all?

I am not remarkable at doing animations,  but I have not seen this problem in other years.

I am making a neon light sign, and just wanting the blur layers to go on and off.  Seems simple?  The problem is that the blur layer
   


 turns into a filled in blob 

   

I tried saving as a Gif, but even the gif when opened shows the blob.

(Windows 10 GIMP 2.10.22)

Now it has been many many many versions since I last animated, so maybe I am missing a few steps? 

Can someone assist me?


I will edit and update as I learn about the issue for any future readers.

While I see many one-click remove background tools online, which works great too. I am a bit sceptic about my photos leaving my computer.

I always loved how GIMP helped do a lot of things and preserve our privacy at the same time. I wonder what are our options for background removal in GIMP 2.10.22. Is there any safe script or a reliable addon that we can use to make background removal easier ? Thanks.

My question is pretty self explanatory IMHO. 

The path tool is quite painful concerning text. It's very difficult to use to get things just right, and doesn't seem to ever do things perfectly the first time when applying "Text along Path". Neither is it intuitive or easy to edit.

It squishes. Distorts. etc. Strange thing is there's little to zero on the interwebs on the topic.

I cannot possibly be the only one wanting to do this. Either that, or it's actually so elementary no one actually cares to document it.    I'd very much love to see this as a future feature. As a software developer, though the task may be a difficult one to code, my humble unsolicited opinion is justification of text along a path should've been there from the beginning. 

So, is there a simpler way to assign justification attributes to text being applied to a path, with a focus specifically on centering?

TIA! 

Running 2.10.22 on OSX Big Sur 11.3. Whenever I click and drag to draw a line, it just creates a dot where I start and every time I stop. Happens with every drag and click tool. Changing size, color, etc does not help. Any advice would be appreciated.