Hi, I'm new here and just installed Gimp 2.10.20. I used PS for years...

I like what i see and want to transfer to Gimp. But I ran into a problem now: How can I use the color picker outside of the Gimp window, eg to pick an  original color from my web browser to get it as a foreground color or its hexcode? I couldn't solve the problem with YT tutorials. So I try, if maybe someone in this forum hopefully knows an answer. 

Ok, I could import a screenshot and use the picker inside Gimp, but I need this so often, that I think maybe there's a trick cos in PS I just moved the eyedropper to an open browser and I had exactly the color of the pixel under the cursor, no matter where ever I clicked. If I try this in Gimp, the picker turns into a standard windows picker, as soon as it leaves the Gimp area, what normally makes sense, but not, if I need a color from my desktop window. Sorry for still being a noob, but maybe someone is so nice to help me.  

Thanks, Finn

On my Debian 10 system, Gimp's memory usage builds up as I open/close files and never goes down until I quit Gimp, leading it to fill the memory and use the swap even though I have 64GB of RAM and each xcf file is less than 1GB (and I only open one at a time).

Is there a setting I can change to make Gimp free memory when an image gets closed?

I wanted to post a thread in Gimp 2.10 section, but I don't see an option for posting a new thread there.

I would like to create a layer from the below image that goes from full opacity in the centre of the clock to transparent at a certain radius. I guess this is a sort of "radial transparency fade selection". So I would like a circular image which is 100% opaque in the centre, and completely transparent around the cirumference.

How would I go about doing this in GIMP? I've tried using the Gradient tool on a white transparency mask, a FG to Transparent gradient but I am getting absolutely nowhere.

Can somebody please help me or point me to a good tutorial that does this?

The paint bucket in Gimp 2.10.20 is not adding color correctly. As you can see from the attachment, colors in two of the three rectangles are faded. The bright gold one is pasted in from elsewhere and the paintbrush strokes do properly show color. Same thing with the blue. For whatever it may be worth, I'm running GIMP on a fully updated version of Win 10.

Any idea what might be causing this and how to fix it? The color setting is exactly the same for the brush strokes and corresponding box.

Thanks for you help.

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Hello all,

I am a new GIMP user, with very little editing experience. I've used GIMP off and on for a while, but some of the concepts/terms still confuse me. I've mostly followed tutorials online to get my results.

I'm trying to use the Long Shadow light effects on some star shapes but can't get it to work. I have gotten it to work on text from a video I found, but I can't get it to work with the star brush. Unsure what I am doing wrong. Effectively I am re-creating this old Wonder Woman graphic

Thanks for any help you can give me!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e...logotv.jpg

I try to erase some things from an image using the erase tool. I want to erase pixel sharp, no blurred edges. Hardness and force are set to 100%. I've set up a grid to 1 pixel and also set snap to grid. The result is that the eraser snap to 1/2 pixel so the result is an erased area with blurred edges. Can anyone tell me how can I prevent that? 

   
   

I found the solution : I must set the dynamics to 'hard edge', so problem solved.

I was expecting that somehow when using measure tool I would be able to right-click on a pixel and have single pixel coordinates stored in the clipboard as a numeric string, so I can copy it to a text editor in order to create input for some other program. Is there a way to do this? Is there any other tool with the precise cross cursor that can be used in this mode?
TIA

Came across a strange problem that just started today. After I open Gimp, if I try to open a file to edit from one particular folder, it crashes. If I try to open files from other folders, it works fine. I've always used this one folder to store files I want to edit, so not sure what the problem is. I deleted my Gimp user folder, then re-booted Gimp but that did not help. I'm using Gimp 2.6.11. Any ideas why this could be happening or how to fix it?

Hi,

I am trying to create an image with a specific bit depth to trial something to see if I can take it to a manufacturing process at work.
Long story short, I need finer control over the bit depth of my images.

I am using GIMP 2.10.20, can anyone help me with how to create an image with bit depths that are not available on the default precision drop down list?
(File -> New -> Advanced Options -> Precision)

At the moment I need a 4 bit per pixel bitmap image.
Is this even possible with GIMP?

Thanks in advance!