GIMP 2.8 insists on using .PNG as the default export format. We have standardised on .JPG format. Is there a way to set JPG as the default export format?

Hi folks

I'm looking at how we can use GIMP for some of our departments who need to do some basic image manipulation. Currently we have a Marketing and Digital team who use Adobe products to produce templates for invitations to our events. These are then sent to individual departments running the various events. The events departments then edit the invitations a bit before sending them out. As the templates are being produced in Adobe, we are now getting constant requests for new Adobe licences from these other departments and our costs are spiraling!

I asked the question of our Marketing and Digital team about if there was anything that would prevent these other departments from using GIMP, bearing in mind that they would only need to make minor edits. The Marketing and Digital team would still stay on Adobe, since that's what they've worked in for years, plus they work with various external parties who all use Adobe. I can live with that. There's always a lot of resistance to any kind of change at my organisation, so I was expecting a negative response. They fed back the below:

Quote:GIMP is a cutdown Photoshop alternative so offers functionality for pixel based raster image manipulation. It doesn’t, however, offer accurate colour matching/correction or the range of file outputs that we’d need as standard for digital invitations or print production. If, for example, I had a supporter’s vector logo, I’d have to convert it to an SVG to open it in GIMP. 

I am very new to GIMP (about a week) but have been working with Linux for years.  Have been co-opted into a
group recovering and digitising several thousand pages printed in the 1930's. Some pages text and rust stains
only, other pages have monochrome images too.  Am seeking guidance on three subjects.
1. Killing ants? Am using the Selection Tools to isolate the rust marks but cannot find how to remove the ants
    after using brightness/contrast to remove the marks.
2. Selecting Colors/Brightness-Contrast brings a popup box that often obscures the image I am trying to fix.
    Can this box be moved ?
3. Trying to use Quick Mask to isolate the monochrome pictures while I work on the text. This is OK for one
    picture but some pages have two or three.  Can we  have multiple masks ?

Searched the Manual but found no advice on any of these queries. Others in the group are using Photoshop.
Thanks,
Tux.

Hello all,

I've been able to integrate a couple of machine learning algorithms about style transfer into a GIMP plugin. This is an experimental plugin: it is meant mainly for developers interested to integrate more machine learning algorithms. You will find the code and instructions to install it in the above link.

Windows user: I believe this plugin will not work on Windows just yet... Be patient, or better, find a way to get it working 

I am very new to Gimp. I have been using gravit and switched yesterday. I am creating a morale patch and I have imported an image that will also have text around it. The image by itself is way too large. All I want to do is make that image smaller inside the overall canvas. When I use scale image, it makes the entire canvas smaller. In Gravit, the image has a box around it and you just click and drag one of the squares on the edge. So simple. Not so in Gimp. Please help!

Hi guys,
Using GIMP with my Ubuntu  for long, but now I met a problem. Make long story short, we have an older smart TV (maybe first generation), reads only jpg file as picture. This TV is used as a display, different infos appears on screen for audience (I am volunteer in a theater) using its slide show option. Each time when I create a jpg file with GIMP with my Ubuntu, between the two slides the changing time is 30 seconds, accompanied with black screen. 

GIMP Ubuntu jpg -> 30 sec black screen -> GIMP Ubuntu jpg  -> 30 sec black screen -> GIMP Ubuntu jpg......

When I export the picture to jpg Gimp Ubuntu, I set up the quality to 100%, that's all the changes I do.
Because of the long changing time I always need to open these jpg files on windows PC and save them again (which is wasting my time, espacially when something important need to be shown before the show and need to be fast). After opening and saving on Win the changing of slides is normal, means no black screen among slides.
So my question is what is the difference between ubuntu GIMP jpg and windiws jpg file? Should I set up something in GIMP before export?

Any help appriciated.

Ps. I know that would be a great solution to install GIMP to win PCs, but there are occasion when I am working from home.

hi
I just noticed that suddenly the heal and clone tools have a not usable symbol when I have an image open.   It is a circle with a line through it in other words.
I have not been able to get it out of this mode.   THe image isn't locked as far as I can tell and I have hit ctrl and enter but its not going back to the circle size of the spot I am trying to modify.   how do I get it out of this mode?

thanks!

I'm using Windows 10, using Gimp version 2.10.8. I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to using gimp. 

I am trying to clean up some PDFs I have of some game manuals and once I'm done editing them, whenever I try to export it I'm stuck with just the first page. 

I'm trying to look for a more streamline way of doing this. 

What I've been doing:  Right click>Open with GIMP (2.10.8) > Import from PDF (I can choose from opening pages as Layers or Images, not sure which to use) > Finish editing/cleaning up images > ??? From here I have no idea how to convert it back into the same PDF (pages all in the same order) because when I try it, everything gets merged into a single image on a single page (meaning just the first page is shown, nothing else)

I feel like there should be a simple way of editing one or two pages and just saving/exporting it back to pdf. Hoping someone here can help me out.

In order to create a symetrical path, I drew and shaped half, then duplicated the path. I then tried using Image > Transform > Flip Horizonally with path mode selected to flip the path copy. I had only one selected. Both paths flipped. The same thing happened when I moved one of the paths and when I clicked off visibility on one. What finally worked was to copy and delete one of the paths, flip the remaining one, and paste the first back in. 

Exploring the situation further, I created a random new path. When I flipped it, all paths flipped.

Single paths within a collection can be stroked or turned into selections. Why won't single paths flip?

Hello All,

    I tried looking through the forum for this, but the answers I've found don't seem to quite cover my situation, or are for older versions of gimp to which I couldn't get the mentioned plugin.

    I've Scanned an older small photo of my mother for her obituary, and we'd like to re-print it to a larger poster board for the funeral service.  The problem I have is that the scanned photo has a grid of small dots which I'd like to blend out of the picture so they're not so visible on a larger print.

Attached is an example.

    I would be much appreciative if this could be answered sooner rather than later.  

    A point in the right direction should help.

TIA,
Mark

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