Hello all,

First time here.  In truth, I don't do alot of image editing.  Dangit Jim, I'm a network tech not a graphic artist!

But I had an idea for a custom morale Badge, that I wanted to try and get made for me.  All the people who make said badges, wanted an image to base their printing/embroidering off of.

And thus here we are.  Right now, I managed to figure out how to get image 1's background to be transparent.  But, when I add it as a layer on top of image 2, image 1's colors change.

Is there a way to either re-color image 1 to its original colors?  Or a way to lock image 1's colors, so they don't change?

Thanks all!

When I export this image, it is on a transparent background in Gimp and the PNG has a black background? 

If I use Black Text, it cannot be seen on the PNG. 

So if I  send this off to a printer, there is no text, and will the black background be present which will mess up the printing because I need it to be Transparent.

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I have a finished design and want to export. However, I get a notification box that states;

[The given filename does not have any known file extension. 
Please enter a known file extension or select a file format from the file format list.]

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Gave this effect a try (theres also a similar (and clueless) tutorial by he-who-shall-not-be-named on youtube).

Now i need to clean up the effect, but im lost with the choice of ca. 3000 different G'MIC filters.....any ideas ?

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I've been working in an image set to grayscale mode. It's in preparation for a publication that will only accept images that are naturally grayscale in this mode (these are from a scanning electron microscope-all pixels assigned grey values only). I'm working in the most up to date version of GIMP-2.8.22 in Win7.

There are some layers in which I wish to make minor edits to the brightness and contrast, but the tool makes no visible change to the layer (which is in a layer group) I have selected. There are no changes in the preview mode or when i press OK. Is it possible this feature is not usuable in greyscale, but only RGB mode?

Hi, I'm looking for a way to convert a path to a single line:
I have a scanned image. I used the "select by color" tool to select the outline. I then convert selection to path. Is there any tool or script that will change the path to a single line, rather than the outlines that the selection followed?

This whole thing is an attempt to get an image file that will allow me to DRAW/WRITE my own images with a Cricut machine, rather than print & cut or simply cutting the images out. I was told that I'll need to find a way to save a file as a "single stroke" vector image. If anybody knows another way to go about this, please let me know! I feel like I'm being pretty dense about this... 

   

... was the simultaneous landing of the two Falcon Heavy boosters. I reckon some people at SpaceX must have had an engineergasm today. Too bad they lost the core.

The astronaut dummy in the Tesla (with the HHGTTG reference) was also a nice touch.

Special thanks for delaying the launch until after dinner

Just installed GIMP! Excited to use this program.

Going through all of the preferences I noticed there is the option to select a temporary file location and swap folder. I understand it's never good to take up space and write in the same hard disk as your OS.

Are the default locations for tmp files and swap folder for the best or should they be located elsewhere? I, as well as many others out there have multiple hard drives and I don't mind designating these files to another disk as long as it keeps everything running smoothly.

Thanks! Appreciate any advice and tips.

Hope I explain this correctly. I want to put an image onto an image of a bus, so it follows the contours of the bus. Just as the cinema ads do on buses.

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