In the process of creating car textures on the side view, front view and rear view, how do I make shiny metallic textures on the car body with reflection? Also is there a way to auto add shadows and shading depending on light direction as if it were a 3d render?

I have a CAD programme, I would like to recolour the GUI to submit to the company as a suggestion for a new colour scheme.

My question is : Is it possible to "sample" a particular colour on the GUI and then ask GIMP to recoulor all of that selected colour to the colour that I want to change it to ?

At the moment the only way I can think of would be to draw rectangles, ellipses, circles etc and then use the bucket tool to fill in the drawn rectangles etc.

Thanks in advance

I figured since I've decided to pick up graphic design again that I'd post this annoying bug. I'm not sure why, but everytime I install Gimp I keep seeing how it says certain filters & dll files are missing or won't open, but the program as a whole still works. My main reason for posting this is to hopefully get rid of this from happening everytime it starts up so I don't have to leave the application all day without having to click away at 30 error windows.

Hello,

Being generally quite resourceful with a computer, I usually post only as a last resort... but 'im unable to find a solution to my problem. I guess I'm the only one in this situation. 

I explain: I have been using the GIMP software to edit images of all kinds for a few years now, and for a few months, the official version 2.10 has been released. However, I find this version awful, and not only from an aesthetic point of view (otherwise I would go with it), but also functional. For example, I can no longer copy and paste an image from the clipboard into my layers, resizing an image changes its color, etc...

I've obviously reverted immediatly to version 2.8.22, which perfectly satisfies my needs, and that should be the end of my story, but... GIMP felt obliged to integrate an automatic update in its software. So at every startup, i have to uninstall the current version of gimp, and reinstall the version 2.8.22. which is quite boring in the end...

At the moment, I have tried different solutions: 

1. Look in the app settings.... obviously, there was nothing (Thanks GIMP) 
2. Searching the entirely registry from... nothing to disable updates either 
3. Search in all subfolders stamped GIMP to look for an Updater... nothing 
4. Search among programs that run at startup... nothing either 
5. Blocking access to sourceforge.net/projects/gimp and gimp.sourceforge.net in the host file, where the updates seem to come from... but it didn't work either. 

If someone has a solution to prevent the auto update, I confess that it will definitely help me, because I do not know what to do anymore.

Hey I have a question for more knowledgable digital artists about brush lag in GIMP 
I am working in GIMP right now to paint and I had done a few small designs at 1.5"x1.5" with GIMP running perfectly. However when I opened a 8.5"x11" canvas and used brushes with sizes in the hundreds instead of the teens I got extreme brush lag when I applied pressure with only size and opacity being based on pressure.
I have 16GB of ram and a 3.8Hz CPU. 
Should I just do smaller art or is there something I can do to fix this?


Thanks!

I am having trouble making a brush.  I use Copy or Copy visable and Paste as but keep getting errors that stop the process. I do not know what this means.  Is there something I need to do to correct this?  I have Windows 10, 64 bit.
Thank you for any help you can give me.

   

Soooooooooooooooo, how do you find python fu filters that you have added to your (my name) plugins folder? I downloaded the zip file rich added and unzipped it all to my gimp and cannot find any.

The effect I want is to pixelise an image based on mosaic tiles. I can do this manually using a separate mosaic layer, selections and ofn-average-fill (https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-to...s/scripts/) however this is time consuming. Any ideas on a better way to do this?

I just made a gradient having eight (8) segments, but I want only seven (7) because the gradient consists of the colors of the rainbow. The problem is, whenever I delete the last segment, the color that was on its left, fills the void, resulting in it being twice the width of the other colors in the gradient. How do I make all the colors have exactly equal widths?

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Hello all!  First post here so I hope this make sense.

I am trying to resize images to the highest multiple of 4 (unless it already is a multiple of 4).

My script runs without any errors but does absolutely nothing to the images in the directory.
I tested out individual elements of the script in the GIMP console (or whatever it is called) and the ones I could test work fine.

I feel like I'm missing something simple.

Any ideas?  The script is below.