I have opened an image from my computer. I wish to use the path tool to outline part of it. However when I select the path tool, there is a circle with line through it. when I try to use context sensitive help, the message says unable to use path tool on this image. It's been a while since I've used Gimp. I have Partha's version of 2.10.12 installed. I'm on Windows 10 pro, version 1903 platform.

Hi Gang:

Long-time user in the 2.8 world, just moved into 2.10 and I've got some problems that aren't solved by the reports already here.  When I installed GIMP 2.10.12 on my laptop running Windows 10 (1903 update) it is about a 99/1 shot that it won't actually open (meaning 99 times out of every 100 it doesn't).  It is hanging on startup with no error messages, no splash screens, nothing.  I've uninstalled it multiple times (including deleting all related folders and registry settings) and reinstalled it with no success.  Then I back-reved the program to 2.10.10 thinking maybe that might work.  No dice.  I can go into Task Mangler and sometimes I see GIMP running as a background process and sometimes I do not.

I have tried everything I've found in this forum so far, and even some things that I thought might be the problem and none of them have worked.  So if anyone out there has an idea that isn't already posted in this forum, let me know.


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Went to the link and cannot understand what to expect in GIMP 3. Too technical for me.

From version 2 to 3 is a big change. So expecting and hoping for something really nice, powerful, easy to use etc etc.

Shed some light on this GIMP 3 please?

Thanks.

First of all, thanks a lot to all the people who made GIMP possible, it is a great software!.

I saw this question around the internet but I did not find any solution/explanation.

Since 2.10, GIMP just freezes (sometimes about 1 minute) when you use a tool for the first time (like for example picking one colour, or selecting a rectangle).

After that first time, it works as expected.

Now, I'll post my specs, but don't say my computer is slow (and thats the problem), because it will run as expected after the first freeze. I can scale, colorize... (and all the effects you imagine) "big" images (2048x2048) with no freezing or any trouble at all.

CPU Intel Atom Z3735F 1.33-1.7 GHz
RAM 2GB
OS Windows 8.1 (x86).


I repeat, neither CPU nor RAM are the problem, because while GIMP is unresponsive, cpu and ram are not showing anything wrong, (I can for example, write in this forum with no trouble).

Could windows 8.1 be the cause?

I could go back to GIMP 2.8 which had no issues, but I don't want to   .

Thanks a lot!

I'm keen to uncurl an image. By which I mean I have this attached image and I'd like to make of this a straight blade.

Intuition suggests I could trace the border and then trace a path down the central axis and apply some transform that straightens the central axis while holding the image in proportion, uncurling the curve so to speak. But that's a pipe dream perhaps.

So I've looked and searched and best I've found so far is the cage transform. But it's both very slow, very fiddly and hard to get a nice transform with very odd unintuitive responses to pushing points around IMHO.

Is there a simpler/better way, either in GIMP or already scripted, which can uncurl an image like this one?

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I've rotated (at arbitrary angles) a bunch of images for a collage.
I'm unable to stroke the edges of these tilted images.  I can't select the tilted images themselves, only the rectangular boundaries when they were first placed on the canvas.
Thank you for any help.  I've spent hours trying to solve this.

How can I make this water drop pattern in GIMP ?

I would need it in top down view.

Nothing special, I just like the colours.

   

Say I have 5 layered masks with color changes in each mask on different parts of the image.

If I set each layer mask to 30% transparency, I can see the effect of all the 5 changes.

But the final colors will not be the ones I selected in the layered masks.

Wondering how to correct for this.

Like to see an example of multi layered masks as the final colors will be distorted.

Thanks.

I tested changing the color of skin in a photo. Saved it.

Reopened the file, could not undo the color change I did earlier via "undo paintbrush" in the edit.

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Possible to undo or revert to original part of an edited image AFTER saving and closing the file?

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How to revert to original unedited part of an image beside using layer mask via changing the background color?

Thanks.