Hi there I wonder if someone  would be kind enough to answer this question for me as I am struggling to get the hang of Gimp.

I am sure there is another way of doing this, however I have just come across the measuring tool so I can measure things in order to get everything in proportion like text..So i am measuring a line with the measuring tool however it seems that I can only measure one line at a time rather than have multiple lines. You must be able to get multiple lines ?

Sorry for asking a silly question...

Every time I load Gimp I have to 'OK' a list of 9 missing libraries; It's making start up very slow and tedious.
I've tried reporting this, maybe I'm being thick, but I can't find Gimp in Bugzilla.
Anyone else having this problem?

The libraries are:
libfftw3-3.dll
libtif3.dll
libtiff3.dll
libgdkglext-win32-1.0-0.dll
liblqr-1-0.dll
libffttw-3.dll
libpng15-15.dll
pcre.dll

I have Gimp 2.8.22, and the recent demise of my old computer meant that I had to transfer to a new one running Windows 10. Everything seems fine, but every time I open Gimp the 'dock' on the right is wider.

   

Everything docked at A stays in place, but the width of B gets smaller and smaller as C keeps growing. I would guess it is something to do with area D, which appears to be sitting in uncontrolled screen space. I have tried reading the guides, but they seem to skip lightly over what is actually meant by a dock.

Can anyone help?

Hi.
 I need a geek. First off I have to admit I'm no techie. I'm a newbie with using Windows 10 after many years using windows 7. THere are many things i just don't understand yet about W10, but one of the first things I need to install is GIMP with G'mic.
Gimp downloaded fine and then I downloaded G'Mic. I went to the preferences folder - plug-ins to show GIMP the path to G'mic, which you can see in the image I'm posting. Everything seemed to go well until I tried to use G'mic. G'mic started to load but then this happened. I hoped it was just a small glitch but after closing and retrying several times, & uninstalling and re-installing both GIMP & G'mic, I still got this response every time.

 I hope someone knows what I did wrong and can help me get back in the swing. Thank you

Is there a filter or a script that lets me tile squares with different colours in a random fashion ?

Lets say i have a red, a black and a yellow 40x40px square and i want x rows and x columns.

Like this:
   

When opening DDS files into GIMP for editing, should I be loading the mipmaps?

I've never had a need to edit the mipmaps, but that's what I'm doing now. Since I often create a layer out of the same "main" texture, the result is that each of the layer and main texture have loads of (identical I guess) mipmaps.  If the answer to the above question is yes, when merging down should I also merge the layer's mipmaps or delete them first?

Something tells me that a better practice is to open DDS's without mipmaps and simply generate them on export, but I thought I'd double-check.

Thanks

Edit: strange how many basic tutorials don't address this, but I finally did stumble upon a couple of them that advised to not load mipmaps when loading an image into Gimp, but just generate them on export. I'll do that from now on, unless someone knows of a reason not to. (Again, I haven't had any need to touch the mipmaps during the edit process.)

Using GIMP, is there a (simple) way to have the color of text automatically invert whenever it's over a background of a similar color? For instance, I've seen print ads where black text on a white background becomes white wherever it's over a dark enough background that would make it difficult to read were its color not reversed, due to the lack of adequate contrast. In case I'm not explaining the issue clearly, this post pretty much illustrates the effect I want. But I don't need it for animation purposes, just static documents.

Thanks.

Upon upgrading to Gimp 2.10 (through "brew cask install gimp"), the open command has stopped working on Gimp.

Before the upgrade,

$ open -a Gimp

used to open gimp. Now Gimp is installed as /Applications/GIMP-2.10.app , but none of

$ open -a GIMP-2.10
$ open -a Gimp-2.10
$ open -a GIMP
$ open -a Gimp
$ open -a gimp

opens Gimp.  I haven't seen the same problem on other applications.  Is this a problem of Gimp installation on Mac ?

I use macOS High Sierra.

Mac Keyboard delete key not working as intended
Transitioning to a desktop Mac with a Mac keyboard.

In making a selection with the path tool and with all the prerequisites about alpha channel etc. , when I click the delete key after inverting, nothing happens.

With a non Mac keyboard, everything happens as it should. Is there a special key or combination of keys on a Mac keyboard to get the same results from the delete key as from a non Mac keyboard?

I was pulling my hair out until I put my old keyboard back into operation and everything worked. I think there is also an issue with the "Command Key" on Mac Keyboard doing the function of the "Control" key on a non Mac Keyboard with certain tools.

Perhaps a section of the difference between keyboard usage using Gimp with Mac and Windoze would be helpufl

Hey guys,

is it possible to enable dithering when reducing the image's color precision with