I just downloaded GIMP 2.10.8 on Feb. 23rd.  I am on Win 7 32-bit. Home desktop PC.

When I try to open a file from either my desktop c\ drive or a thumb drive, GIMP does not recognize any file type. I have tried TIFFs, JPEGs and PNGs.

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling GIMP, but this did not help.


Thanks for any advice.

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I have a svg file of a magnifying glass.  I want to place the image of the shark inside the magnifying glass.  What's the easiest way to do it?

I've tried to break it into layers, but it looks like that is for flat pictures with a few colors.  The magnifying glass I have is more realistic and I would like to keep it that way.

Thanks for your help.

Carl

An earlier post asked about using the old GAP package, problems with that and also the included morph plugin.

As a trial, the whole of the old-and-flakey GAP package is not needed, the morph plugin on its own works fine.

There are any number of howto's/tutorials on the internet for using GAP, if you are into animation, go for those.

Morphing 2 images together can be a bit of fun, so I have attached for Windows users (linux users look in your distro GAP package) 
gap_morph.exe which provides the morphing interface
export-jpg.py which just exports all the layers to separate files if you want to make a video (plugin thanks to Kevin)

Unzip and put in your Gimp user profile plugins folder C:\Users\"yourname"\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10\plug-ins

You might just want a gif animation but often a video is both better quality and a much smaller file size.

Some hints on making a video. Plenty of video editor/tools around. I suggest Avidemux http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/

...and...the inevitable video about the whole thing





direct link https://youtu.be/8zXVenm6OgY duration 7 minutes

Attached Files

  gimp-morph.zip (Size: 92.92 KB / Downloads: 2156)

Hi All,

I'm new to this forum and GIMP 2.10 in general. So I'm trying to convert images into outlines for laser cutting. And the best way I found is a combination of fuzzy tool+ stroke selection and color exchanging. However, the clicking for stroke selection is a bit too much (edit->stroke selection->stroke) since I need to repeat the process over 100+ times. I was wondering if there is a way to map (edit->stroke selection->stroke) to a key on my keyboard.

Thanks!

Hi,
I'm using 2.10.8 on Windows 10.
Any JPEG file generated by my Canon EOS 5D Mark II or by a Canon utility from a RAW file is correctly displayed by my LG OLED television..
If I open one of these files with GIMP and export it without any modification then the TV set will be consider it as corrupted.
I submitted the problem to LG support team and they suggested that it was GIMP fault.
I suspect that some JPEG parameter is altered or missing when exporting. I tried various export settings but couln't fix the problem.
Any suggestion?

p. 69

It says of JPEG: "No other format comes close to achieving the same level of compression."

That must've been written before webp.

Hi,    
After I put in text, I can push the small arrow to make the space between the lines larger; but it won't work going smaller.
If I make it larger; I can make it smaller back to the original position; but I can't go any smaller.   The text really needs to be closer.  It's way too big.
Thank you,
Terry

Hi All,
Image a letter 'S'.
Or a 'C', for that matter.
Can anybody suggest a sensible way to fill the shape with a linear-style  gradient, starting at one end and shading to the other?
A purely linear gradient places the end points of the gradient at the furthest extents of the shape, leaving incorrectly coloured parts at the tips of the shape; 'shaped' gradients fill from the edges to the middle; spiral, conical and radial gradients also fail to fit the bill.
Warp transformation and Whirl and Pinch filter make interesting effects if you start with a box filled with a linear gradient, but change the width and length of the box in a way I haven't managed to control, and don't get me started about Cage Transform.

Am I simply asking too much of Gimp in its current incarnation, or can you suggest the blindingly obvious solution that's right under my nose but will need a good night's sleep to work out, otherwise?

QuinB

Hi all.
Is anyone aware of any update to PDB to have interfaces to the new (GEGL) functions in Gimp?
I browsed Gimp Roadmap and didn't find any info about, unless this title "Redesign wire protocol for scripts/plug-ins" is the subject, but even in this case that title is inserted in the roadmap after Gimp 3.2.
Thanks

Hi,
I'm using GIMP 2.10 for astroimage processing. When I export the final image as tif or png, and reopen in Windows (7) next to the original image in GIMP, it appears significantly darker. I tried to no avail:
Reducing bit depth and switching between linear and perceptive mode.
Is this a bug or a feature? How can I save my images "as is"? Never had this problem with 2.8.
Any help would be very much appreciated!
Thanks and best regards,
Pat