I've been using GIMP for a while now but something odd just happened and no matter what I try I can't seem to fix it. I was editing the letter spacing of a font in a document, reducing the size with the down arrows, when the tool options box, that in the upper right disappeared. I can't now get it back.
I'm using a Mac Air with Sonoma, and my version of GIMP is 2.10.34. The area I'm trying to restore is the upper right box of the font options. Now there is only the fonts list, not the options for altering size, width, line spacing etc of whichever font is selected. While I can select fonts, and can use the font tool, the additional text editing options are missing, irrespective of what I tab I click, or when restoring the default settings. When I reload older documents, or go back with my undo history, nothing changes.
Am I missing something? I feel like I can't see the wood for the trees!
I'm new to creating prints for my original paintings and have some questions about file exporting.
I'm using Gelato and they mention a couple things. First is 300 DPI which it is so thats cool. Second is that I should export the file as a PDF/X4. Is that just PDF? I dont see an X4 option in the File Types menu when exporting.
Third it mentions "If working in RGB, tag your image files with an sRGB profile. When exporting, save them as PDF/X4 files with a "GRACoL2006_Coated1v2.icc" output intent to maintain color fidelity."
I downloaded that color assignment and tried assigning it to my image but I got an error that says: ICC profile validation failed: Color profile is not for RGB color space"
Do I need to export as a PDF first, then assign the color profile? What am I doing wrong?
[attachment=12457][attachment=12457]Im using GIMP 2.10 on windows 10 on a lenovo yoga i7 laptop. GIMP is recognising touch stylus only once after restarting laptop but not after that. I still can select tools or select options from status bar but unable to draw. Kindly let me know solution if anyone has. I'm attaching images of my settings on GIMP
Hi, I used to participate as needed in the old GIMPUsers forum, but I see it's archived now.
Five or six years ago I used some iteration of 2.8 (I think) to produce the cover for my first indie-pubbed novel. I think it came out fairly well.
I'm a slow writer and editor. Only now am I preparing the cover for the second-in-series. I'm basing it on the first one, but it's been so long I've forgotten how I did it and I'm having to relearn as I go. It's coming back to me, but I can't recall how I produced the yellow-ochre quasi-drop shadows you see with the title.
I know I copied the edited black title text onto a new layer, moved it where I wanted it, and recolored it, but I'm stuck on how to change the black to the yellow-ochre.
Here's where I've gotten to, and I beg pardon because the image is posting as a link, and not as an image:
I've tried the Fill tool, but it only recolors the rectangular background of the layer. I imagine the right method has to do with masks and so on, but I can't recall the knack of it. Could some kind person lead me through it again?
Steps:
1: Choose the "Clone tool" from the menu
2: Select my clone area (white part of the image) and then click the "command" key and then "left" mouse click
3: Move mouse over the text I want to eliminate by pressing the "left" mouse continuously.
Hey, I just had to reinstall Windows and when I installed gimp, something weird started happening.
The icon was flag gray instead of brown-ish and detailed. I managed to somehow use this detailed toolbar icon with flat colored tool icons (pencil, selection, etc), because that's how it was before the reinstall. I simply dragged the dog icon files from Color to Symbolic, thus making everything flat gray but the toolbar icon.
One thing I can't figure out, is how to stop the toolbar icon from changing whenever I open a file. It adds like a minature canvas to the icon, and I'd like it to stay as just the dog, because that's how it acted before the reinstall.
Was I simply using a different version? Or do I need to do something specific for the toolbar icon to not change at all?
The version I'm using right now is 2.10.38 if I'm not mistaken.
I created some plugins that utilize ComfyUI to add AI features to GIMP. This includes object erasing, image generation, and image-to-image generation. I have some videos on my Github: https://github.com/nchenevey1/gimp-comfy-tools
Features are limited by imagination. I plan to add upscaling in the future, which can reliably create good AI photos above 8000x8000 or improve low res images. I'm an impoverished student though, so allow me patience if you have a feature request.
Personally I don't think AI art is unethical, but this can assuage those qualms with open source and local generation. The downside is that this does require access to VRAM locally or through Websocket, as well as storage space for big models (usually 2-10 gigabytes each). It works well for me with an RTX 3060 laptop GPU.
If anyone likes this and would like help to set it up, let me know.
I would like to make a few suggestions to the developers, but I'm not sure the best place or line of contact to do so. Any idea how I could reach out to them?
I've been using Photoshop since 2000 or v5.0/6.0. There are two things that made Photoshop the standard. How it's selections work, and how it's layers work.
This mentality when someone says, "Gimp is not like Photoshop", people often respond back and say, "GIMP is not trying to be like Photoshop" I say that's a poor excuse. Photoshop is an industry standard because it is the best - Period - End of story.
I love what GIMP is doing, and I really would love to get away from Adobe. I think software as a service is only going to harm Adobe in the long run as students find alternative to subscriptions, they are shrinking their base of users in the long run, and it's expensive for something you don't own.
But GIMP still feels inefficient to me and I say this because I care and I want GIMP to succeed.
The way the layers flatten when you move things. I know this can be toggled, but it still feels buggy. Maybe I don't know something, but I can't get use to this program, feels strange why someone would want automated flattening that you have to go back on undo. Photoshop is simple, you just create a layer and its like an invisible floating independent object that lets you do anything to the object it contains. Maybe this will change in 3.0 as more tools become non destructive. GIMP needs it's layers to function independently of the other objects by default. You can always go back and merge all layers, or specific layers with with layers you specifically select or at least you can in Photoshop.
The Selections in Photoshop are amazing. GIMP needs to copy this. They let you create any shape you want and then you can apply these selections adds or cuts not only to layers, but you can use them to cut a layer in half. Adobe calls this Layer Via Cut when you right click in a selection. GIMP needs Layer Via Cut.
Photoshop lets you transform the actual selection before you apply it. you can rotate the selection, change its shape...ect GIMP needs a transform selection.
Last where is the Polygonal Lasso tool? Maybe I missed it, but it's one of the most common tools in editing software. Is there a Polygonal Lasso tool in GIMP?
Rather than trying to be different, I would try to copy Photoshop.
