i have never used a graphic design website before i just started a business and have a business card and flyer design that my neighbor made for me but didn't finish i want to make some changes and finish the cards and flyers so i can send them out and have printed also how do i upload my design to work on it i want to be able to make custom flyers for different specials i might be running also i paint cars and anything anybody wants painted i thought i could use a graphic design soft ware to design paint jobs can anybody help me get started as i have no experience in this any help would be greatly appreciated

For some reason I can't post in Gimp 2.10 forum... ? 

I make a new layer. I add an image.
It stays as a 'floating layer' or something.
I can't move it!!
I somehow, after clicking like, mad turn it into a layer.
Sometimes, I can now move it. Other times... I can't!!
What am I doing wrong???

Text layer: I make a new text layer.
Now... I can't move it.
There seems to be some other empty box that gets moved when I use the move tool.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks.

Hi there,

I tried drawing a proper circle usign the ecclipse selection tool, and the circle looks like jagged on the selection line as shown here: 

How can i draw a circle that is round like paint?

To speed up opening, I'd like to delete some plugins. I probably don't need all of them. But which to delete?

Does anyone know of a general guide to GIMP plugins? I mean a list of all or most plugins, with information as to what each one does, which ones are essential and which optional, and so on?

I am running Gimp 2.10 on a Windows 10 system.  I have completed two graphics project with great success.  In the middle of my third project, the brush/eraser stopped functioning.  All of the brush, pencil and eraser options freeze up after a short time.  After about a 1/4” or so into drawing a line, it stops. Sometimes it will let me continue after some time.  Other times it won’t.  Other functions of Gimp seem to work alright.  The frustrating thing is that it was working fine. It doesn’t matter if it is a new project or editing an old one.  Any help would be appreciated.

Hi All, 
I'm looking for advice on resizing  images. I have used the scale tool to resize them individually, but find it quite time consuming and at times a bit trial and error.

I post pictures on a modeling site, and they need to be below 3mb, but not too small or they are not quality enough to be viewed properly, and the site system bitches at you continually that you have  images that are too small.. 

Firstly, on an individual basis using the scale tool, is there a way to determine the finished size of the image in MB? As all images vary in their starting size, i never know how much to reduce them by so find myself reducing a bit, saving, checking, then repeating as much as possible trying to get them to as close under 3mb as i can - that's time consuming lol

Secondly, is there a way to batch resize images in GIMP?

I have a few dozen PNG images in a folder. Each image has the same color palette (only 10 colors total). I am looking for a batch file to make 3 color changes to each image - here is the sequence of the changes:

1) replace ffffff with 00ff00
2) replace 000055 with ffffff
3) replace ffff00 with 000000

The changes have to be done in this order. I'm using GIMP 2.10.2 on Windows 10 64-bit. I installed BIMP, but I don't see a way to implement the color changes. I could run 3 batches too, one for each color change, or build a windows batch file to make all the changes, I'm just unsure of the GIMP code to accomplish the task.

Thanks for any help/direction.

Hi,

I have been using GIMP for some time on my Macbook Pro. I use the fuzzy select tool to cut out the background of photos I take of coins so that I can show both sides of the coin in the one image with a white background.  I have an issue with using fuzzy select that would save me a huge amount of time, if I worked out how to use it better. Grateful for nay help.

I have 2 questions:

1.  When using the fuzzy select tool, why after feathering do selected areas outside the main selected area dissapear (screenshot 1) only to reappear when copying and pasting (screenshot 2 - circled). In other words, after feathering, it looks like i have gotten rid of the unwanted selected areas, only for them to reappear when I copy / cut from the selection (photo 2). If they were still selected, why aren't they showing as selected.

2. I struggle with silver coins as they are too reflective. Is there any way for the selection using the fuzzel tool to only include contiguous areas? Or is there a way to remove ALL selections outside the main selected area?  It would seem odd to me if there is no solution for this.  It is painstakingly slow to keep reducing the threshold and removing all unwanted selections. When I find myself doing this (usually with silever coins), I revert to the paths tool (also slow, but faster than using fuzzy tool in that situation).

Thanks, I hope to find out I've been using it wrong all this time and there is a better way to do it!

Peter P

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Hi,

  OK, I have a general question about the ink tool. I use the ink tool with the dissolve setting and pressure sensitivity only. When I use the ink tool with my Wacom tablet as soon as I touch the tablet the tool goes on heavy. Is there anyway to adjust the settings so when I press lightly the stroke appears as a fine stroke and if I press down harder the stroke gets wider? Am I missing something obvious here? FYI: I don't need speed sensitivity just pressure sensitivity.

Thanks,
Frederick

Hello! new to the forum,
I need some help because I couldn't find any om YouTube..

Anyone knows how to make typical "biker gang" styled patches? 
Like the top and lower rockers and adding text to that and have and image in the middle. 
Also adding and outer line color, as shown in image. 

This might be very simple but I can't figure it out.