Okay, in 2.8.22, I had this fabulous script-fu filter called Line Sketch. Since "upgrading" to 2.10.4 (maybe 44; not sure) I can't seem to find the corresponding filter.

The effect I'm going for is a photo to something like this:
   
What am I missing, and who am I missing it with?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Oh, long time user, first time needing help(with this version)....

Now, I do understand that trying to duplicate the results of an older version of software on the latest'n'greatest can be troublesome, but I was looking over a v2.6 tutorial Cool wave effect and came unstuck.

The tutorial uses the solid noise function as a basis, claims to throw in difference clouds,  lightens things up with colour level adjustment and throws in a motion blur before applying the whirl and pinch function. Then is duplicates the work layer and applies Lighten Only mode to the top layer.
At that point, the reality diverges from the tutorial, as no change is seen with the Lighten Only mode addition (no idea HOW Lighten Only is meant to have any effect with two images with exactly the same values on each pixel). Having tried default Lighten Only mode as well as Legacy(well you never know), and then run through every other mode available (well you never know), I'm stuck as to the solution - other than v2.6 was A Long Time Ago and we do things differently now.

So. Can anybody suggest how the effect shown in the tutorial is produced?
(apart from the tutor fudging the results, of course. I mean; who'd DO a thing like that?)

Hello!

I've recently moved back to using Arch after using Windows for a few years and I've become quite used to Photoshop.

Quick question: Is there any way to require a click to pan the can along with holding the space bar?

I have a really crippling problem (2.8 user)
I am working on a large topographic file which is 22 000 x 22 000 . Gimp is saying 4 GO and some when I load it . My RAM is 32 GO .
Now what I need is to isolate a part of this picture (about 5 000 x 3000) .
Whatever I try (cutting off , doing a transparent or white selection) when I want to save the result , GIMP crashes to desktop with no error message .

I will not be able to finish my work if I cannot get this small 5000x300 part what makes me desperate .
Can anybody here help me with explaining what is happening (I have obviously more than enough RAM so why would GIMP want to crash ?) and how I could solve the problem ?
Many thanks in advance .

Hi all,

I followed the commands given at the Gimp web site (flatpak install https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/org.g...flatpakref, and flatpak run org.gimp.GIMP//stable)

Then the only one item I have been able to find is its shortcut in the main menu.

I did a search in the Terminal to no avail:

This post/topic is an answer to questions posted elsewhere.

Warning: possibly some prejudice ahead.

• GimpForums.com (GF.c) used to be one of the leading Gimp forums, which, with all due modesty, I'll ascribe to Rich's and I continued efforts (as well as a few others').
  
• However we weren't the owners, and the only person with full admin rights didn't really care about the day-to-day operations.
  
• In September 2016 GF crashed and the owner/admin never showed up to repair it
  
• So, after a month Rich, Kevin, and I joined efforts to create Gimp-Forum.net (G-F.n) to replace it
  
• However, 6 months later, GF.c was restarted, likely to milk its popularity with search engines (a popular site name is worth money (several thousands dollars), using a backup from... 2014.
  
• Given the low level of consideration we received from the GF.c owner ("benevolent idiots" could be an understatement), we decided not post again on GF.c , to stop moderate it, and to put banners all over the place pointing here. In addition I removed all the content I had authored over the years (around 25% of the total)(*).
  
• Due to lack of maintenance/moderation (you can't efficiently fight spam without having full admin rights) GF.c has become a spammer's nest.
  
• At the end of September 2018 (nearly two years after it creation), G-F.n passed GF.c in estimated traffic on Alexa.com.
  

When using the rotate tool, an overlay grid appears. This would be very useful to line up the thing being rotated to get it exactly square, but the grid itself also rotates. 

Why does it do this, and is it possible to stop the grid turning?

Hello !
I remember using a filter or tool in Gimp, in a previous version. I downloaded the latest version recently, and now I'd like to re use a tool, but I can't find it anymore, I'm going to describe it and hope someone can help me to find it : 

It's a tool or filter that brings up a tiny window of the image, then you can deform your image at will using the mouse, and enter a number of images you want in the end. Then it will create a sort of animation, each layer moving and deforming the image up to the one you deformed yourself in the window.

Sorry it's not very precise, but I used this quite a while ago. I really need to use this right now so I hope someone can help, thanks in advance !

Burg.

I'm assuming that this is a font weight issue.  I was doing a mockup of a dialog, so I took what we had and then tried to modify it by adding some extra stuff.  This is what I got:

   

Can you tell which text doesn't belong?

This is exactly the same font and font size with antialiasing and yet it looks lighter than the other text.  So I looked up if I could change the weight for a font in gimp but seems that it is not directly available.  The closest that I came up with was:  http://www.gimptalk.com/index.php?/topic...t-in-gimp/

Which I don't understand.  Some retired staff member references:

Quote:To "fatten" your text: "Filters->Distorts->Value Propagate" with the More Opaque option.

To "outline" text: "Layer->Mask->Add Layer Mask" initialized to Inverted Alpha Channel. "Filters->Distorts->Value Propagate" the layer (not the mask) with the More Opaque option.

Quote:Note that the Value Propagate method for outlining creates the outline outside the text. If you want the outline inside the text then you would apply Value Propagate on the layermask with the More White option.

Hello, new GIMP user here. Best I can tell GIMP 2.10.6 is not seeing or using the arialn.ttf font. Several Arial font options are listed, including Arial Narrow Condensed and Arial Italic Condensed. Strangely, Narrow Condensed is set to bold and I cannot remove it nor can I remove the italics from the Italic Condensed. They are otherwise correct. Using Arial and adjusting character spacing also does not achieve desired result.

Any thoughts or ideas? What am I missing?

Also, can anyone shed light on gimpforums.com vs gimp-forum.net? I saw a post on gimpforums.com saying it was being shut down due to spamming...but it still looks active to me.

Thanks!