Asking for a friend: Uncommanded color changes between FG and BG within a single stroke using the pencil tool.
 

What additional info should I give?

The check box to save exif data is there and checked but greyed out. I understand libexif is required. I find exif-12.dll in the "Darktable" folder. How is it activated for Gimp?

Martin

Hi, I'm new to Gimp and was doing brilliantly until my brushes stopped working.  The 'marching ants' in the active window have been replaced with a dotted green line.  I`ve spent several hours trying to correct this. Can anyone please help?

Hello! I just got my new Wacom one and wanted to test it out in Gimp but ran into the problem that pressure sensitivity (of the pen) is not working. I ran into similar problems before with my last tablet so I tried out a few things:
- connect the tablet before opening Gimp
- check that I was using pressure opacity or a pressure-sensitive setting when using pen or brush
- go to the setting where you can check that gimp recognizes the tablet and put the tablet as "screen" and save.

I also checked whether the problem may be the tablet by downloading a random drawing program and testing it out. There the pressure from the pen works.
I also downloaded the newer 2.10.2 version of Gimp thinking that maybe the older version is not compatible.

If anyone got an idea what I might have to do to make this work I'd love some ideas, I enjoy the new tablet a lot and would love to be able to paint and draw. Please be aware I'm not very knowledgable about the technical sides of Gimp

Thanks in advance!

I'm trying to digitize an old Russian-language book, to put it up on Google Books and similar platforms, for open access.

Increasing the contrast by 50 (under Colors/Brightness-Contrast) seems to help with readability.

A sample of the unaltered version has been uploaded here. 
A sample of the same page, with contrast increased by 50 has been uploaded here.

I'm seeking advice as to whether (a) the version with the contrast increased is indeed more readable and (b) there would be a better way of changing the image, to maximize readability—or have I likely hit the sweet spot?

Any feedback/suggestions would be most appreciated. I'm a novice with regard to Gimp and similar programs.

Hi,
Any chance we could get an idea of how much has been donated to the GIMP project this year, taking into account all donations (one time and periodic) and to both the foundation and the developer's patreons?

Also, the donation page says this :

Quote:While we don’t raise funds to sponsor development of GIMP as an organization at this time

I am trying to modify a 8192 x 4096 16-bit .dds heightmap of the Earth, but whenever I import it, it always converts to 8-bit. Is there any way I can import without it becoming 8-bit? Or if GIMP cannot do that, which program can?

Hi there,

I'm trying to create a shadow for my photo, so I copied and pasted it as a new layer and coloured it black. Normally I just select gaussian blur and it changes it to a shadowier image, but for some reason it's just not working. If I keep it as a pasted layer without turning it black, the Gaussian filter works. I've tried applying the filter, then colouring it black but it just goes back to a solid block colour. 

Any advice would be massively appreciated! 

Thanks,

Nadia

A couple weeks ago the display settings for GIMP somehow changed. The display resolution seems to have altered somehow and now all toolboxes, icons, etc are VERY small (to the point of being nearly unusable). I have tried uninstalling 2.10 three times now. I even uninstalled .10 and reinstalled .8 and .8 has the same issue. I cannot find what file has been edited to create this issue. I've literally searched my drive and deleted anything with the name GIMP in it, but I cannot get my computer to the point as though it has never seen the program before. Does anyone have any idea how I can COMPLETELY delete GIMP and EVERYTHING related to it from my PC (other than formatting the drive ) or a way to manually edit the display resolution for GIMP? Thanks for any help.



EDIT:
So, I've been messing around for the past couple hours and have found a work-around, but if anyone has a true solution, please let me know.

In case anyone is interested: as a temporary work-around I had to lower my system resolution by about half (to double the apparent size), then used the Windows display to scale the view back down. Then go into the program files and properties for the GIMP executable. From there I could disable the Windows scaling (compatibility tab - change high DPI settings).

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Hi, I'm new here, and I'm hoping you can help me.  I'm new to GIMP, and I was wondering how I would go about changing the red background of the sign in the image to the flag in the other image without covering over the text on the sign?  Thanks in advance.