Some notes and observations for ubuntu users, in particular 'buntu 16.04 'xenial'

Installing flatpak (All done in a Kubuntu 16.04 VM)

add a flatpak ppa, update and install

This is the only photo I have of my dear uncle who died in a truck accident 15 years ago. I am a total newbie to Gimp. Where would I begin to try to improve this photo? Especially would like to remove the state seal that overshadows much of his face. If someone wants to do it for me I am not complaining :-) Thanks for any help or recommendations you can give.

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Using Mac OS x Yosemite 10.10.5. Downloaded and installed 2.8.22 after first removing 2.8.14. 

1. Filter drop down menu shows no filters 
2. Have tried to load scripts (e.g. FX Foundry) and plug-ins (Beautify), among others, several different times. Have done so both through Gimp Preferences and directly into the correct Application Support subfolders (e.g. "Scripts, "Plugins") but none appear in any drop down menu in the app itself. 
3. Have no "Refresh" button anywhere in the Preferences Scripts or Plugin folders  in this version, only "Reset" (reset to default vs. refresh).        

Have spent hours troubleshooting. Any help/ideas will be appreciated. Thanks in advance

In Gimp 2.8 my tool options dock to the toolbox alright but, as soon as I click on the toolbox, the options disappear.  What could be the problem?

Hello everyone,

I have 2 question:

1. Is it possible to measure the distance between layers, similar like in Invision? If not, how can I check eg distance between paragraphs? http://ifotos.pl/z/qnaexrw

2. Is it another option to select layers? Because now I'm using Move but, sometimes, if a layer is small, I have a problem with choosing a specific layer. maybe I can mark it in some other way?

Thanks!

Hello,

I am having trouble getting my JPGs across from gimp to my website without the image being blury.

Could someone give me an idea of the procedure resolution sizes, dimensions etc and how to do it
with the highest quality image (I have a limit of 10mb on the website platform)?

Many thanks in advance!

Thomas

I've been having a persistent problem for an hour now -- I edited an image, yet when I save it, an earlier version of the image gets saved. It saves the correct version as an xcf file, as a png file but just refuses to save the correct version as a jpg. I tried changing the name, the location where I am saving, closing and reloading Gimp, closing and reopening the photo folder ... nothing works. I need to upload as a jpg, unfortunately.

Anyone have a clue? Thanks in advance.

You have installed Gimp 2.10 and made your latest and greatest image. Now you need to save it as a Gimp .xcf which keeps masks and layers, guides and paths. However the Save dialogue shows this.

   

The file is not compatible with Gimp 2.8 / 2.6 

There are very good reasons for using the new format. Photographers can keep higher image precision, 16 or 32 bit. Artists can use linear mode and the enhanced layer modes. Everyone can use improved layer groups and masks. The new compression format makes smaller file sizes and is supposed to be more robust than the older compression format.

When Gimp 2.10 starts, there are some settings that are different to Gimp 2.8 There are now Default and Legacy options for layers and some of the tools. There are also new settings in the Advanced Options in File -> New The same settings can be accessed in Image -> Precision

   

Why might you use these new settings. For example, artists will like Linear Light which correctly blends colours when using the paint tool, gradient tool and shown here the fill tool. No more dark borders.

   

But for whatever reason you need the old .xcf format.

You need to change the various modes to Legacy That includes checking each layer separately the Default -> Legacy toggle is not universal.
Go into Image -> Precision and enable Perceptual Gamma(sRGB) and 8 bit

And all being well, you get a Save dialogue that looks like this, without the compatibility warning (just keep the new compression off).

   

Hi folks,

First post here, so hello all

I'm very much a beginner with GIMP, and just learn by clicking on tools and playing with them to see what they do, and anything I cab't figure out I google and figure it out from there, but I'm having difficulty figuring out how to do something specific here.

I want to apply a gradient of brightness to just a single layer of an image, but for the life of me I can't. I know what to do in terms of applying the gradient, but I can only apply it to the whole image whilst I only want it to apply to one.

In searching for the answer, the best thing I found for my query was this https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/...brightness which actually seems to be an answer given by one of the moderators of this very forum, some 6 years ago (the part in yellow near the bottom).

Now, those steps are giving me the exact effect I am looking for, it's just I can't figure out how to apply the effect to a single layer. I have no issue applying other effects to a single layer, so perhaps this can't be done, though I suspect it is possible and I'm just missing something.

Any help would be much appreciated

I wanted to use this specific piece of an image:





I wanted that streak of light to be VERTICAL, though, so I rotated the image, and got:





As you can see, the uppermost and lowermost bits of the image are missing. How can I rotate an image and end up with the ENTIRE image after it’s done?