Cannot Connect Canon LIDE 400 to GIMP

]I want to be able to directly scan to GIMP.

All seems in order, but I cannot get it going.
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gimp-2.8.14-setup-1.exe  Installed and running

https://smallbusiness.chron.com/gimp-recognize-scanner-58544.html
    Launch GIMP and click "File," then "Acquire," then "Scanner/Camera

https://yourbusiness.azcentral.com/gimp-recognize-scanner-24851.html
All the drivers are up to date.

CanoScan LiDE 400 Scanner Driver Ver.1.00 (Windows)
File version: 1.00
Thanks for your guidance.
Release date: 03 August 2018[
This file is a TWAIN-compliant scanner driver for Canon color image scanner.
#Installed with the scanner set up

#scanner is working fine.

   
I worked it on these lines:
1. start from 2 layers (background and text) and two separated paths for big/small text (borrowed from another proyect)
2. new transparent layer below the text layer -> fill with black the big text path -> Filters -> Light and Shadow -> Long Shadow, Style = Finite, Angle = 90, Color = Black, and play with Length until it looks right
3. repeat for the small text, but in Filters, instead to 'Repeat Long Shadow', 'Re-show Long Shadow', go to Presets and click on the arrow on right: the first item stores your setting for pass 1; select it and decrease Length to about half:
result is the picture above.
4. Zooming on it, one sees that the fine lines have left gaps in the black: simply duplicating the layer in 3 mends it some
   
5. A simple example of Long Shadow, Style = Fading
   
with the shadow layer in mode 'linear burn' and the Long Shadow made from a layer with both texts at once: the fading masks the queer effect one sees here
   
which shows also some queernes due to very fine vertical stroke in "5th"
6. Instead, one can change also the angle for each text shadow
   
and color it with a gradient, after having toggled 'Lock alpha channel'.
Here, an added layer on top from 'copy visible', in mode 'soft light', not only improves the colors, but mends the previous point.
7. Of course, instead of working with text from paths, one can begin from an actual text layer, or any other shape on a transparent background, but although there is an option to add the shadow to the layer, in my opinion, it works poorly for text: the edge between text and shadow loses sharpness, so it 's better to make a copy, put it below the original, and apply Long Shadow with the option Composition: Only Shadow, in whatever color.
 If useful, enjoy!

Hi everyone. Very much a newbie here. I've been watching tutorials and reading all morning and for some reason cannot get the clone tool to work.  I reposition a piece of my picture then try and fill in the spot left.  I feel like I am following all of the correct steps as far as holding ctrl and clicking on the spot I want to use but then nothing happens.  Can someone please enlighten me? Thank You!

Hi guys, can anyone help me with this: This often happens when I install new fonts. Gimp lists them as <name>#number and when I select them gimp shows them as the default font.
Here's a screenshot:     
Thanks, Dera

I saved this document on another PC, then installed Gimp here and this is how the file opens.  All the layers are in the list, but none of them show up.  Its as though they are all empty.  Some have pictures, some have text but only a sliver of two of the layers are displaying properly.

Attached Files

  MtD.xcf (Size: 23.31 KB / Downloads: 341)

A quickie to add an outline around layer contents:

   

Hi,

I've been given 2000 images (all of students) to make background transparent and I'm absolutely going to be scripting this! Hopefully going to be using BIMP for GIMP on 2.10.10

I'm IT and occasionally dabble in image manipulation, but this is beyond what I know.

Process:

1. Layer > Transparancy > Add Alpha Channel
2. Fuzzy Select background. There's flat white background on all images, but different shaped humans in front - the upper most pixels (eg 10,10) are all background.
3. Delete

I've got all input and output folders sorted and ready to go so I just need the above commands for BIMP but I can't see anything that might be useful.

Can this be done in BIMP or do I need to go into scripting it using Python/Script-Fu?


Hope you guys can help!

TC

So far I've only exported images as PNGs. When I paste it into Microsoft Word to print (so I can print it with other stuff) it comes out smaller than the original image. How do I get Gimp to not do that?

So I have some experience in Gimp and have designed over (100 ) designs, mainly simple text, although I am still very much so a beginner.
I have very little experience with designing in Inkscape but it appears pretty straight forward.

Here's the situation:
I have a design that was designed in Gimp, which contains a high resolution full color image as well as a text font I used from Gimp.
My dilemma is I want vector quality text but i dont want to vectorize the entire design, as that will change the aesthetic of the image which I want to remain realistic looking.

I am not certain how to go about using Gimp and Inkscape in combination in this case with one another.  Should the text from Inkscape be imported into Gimp or vice versa?


Also, if I take a vectorized image and output it to .png wouldn't the quality be compromised?

When its finalized I need to produce a .png file for use with Merch by Amazon.

Again, the goal is to get the crisp vector text and maintain the image quality and design I currently have in Gimp.

Sorry for the long post.

Hello there,

I'm new to gimp and wanted to know if I could draw with pressure using my hp pen.
I have an HP x360 ENVY with a touchscreen. On OneNote, (not really a drawing software), the pressure is detected.
But after having followed a few tutorials for setting up a Wacom tablet (not my case), it appears to me that to set up (if possible) Gimp with my pen, I would have to use a method not listed in any previous forums.

Hope somebody will find a solution.