How does gimp choose the app for viewing help? I do not have webkit, so I need an external browser. Even though I set the default app for text/html, text/xml, and application/xml to kfmclient (konqueror), gimp help always open in a TEXT EDITOR, which is the stupidest thing it could do.

I checked that
xdg-open /usr/share/gimp/2.0/help/en/index.html
does indeed open in konqueror, as desired.

The only thing that works so far is to uninstall the text editor, which again is the stupidest thing to do.

I am running Windows 10 x64 Version 1709 (OS Build 16299.192) with Gimp Version 2.8.22. All are up to date. When I close Gimp program, the Toolbox and the Tool Options remain on my desktop and finally close in 15 to 30 seconds. Is this normal, or is there a setting to stop this? It is not a big problem, but is a little distracting and if it can be changed, I would really appreciate knowing the solution. Thanks.

Hello,

Please have a look at the following screen shot:

[img]http://www.shahspace.com/before painting elvis's tail.png[/img]


I prepared the selection so that I could click the paint tool between the two wavy lines and have it fill only between those lines.

But this is what happened:

[img]http://www.shahspace.com/after painting elvis's tail.png[/img]

Not only did it paint between the lines, but outside as well.

I was expecting the paint tool to propagate from the point where I clicked until it hit borders, those borders being both the lines I drew an the borders of the selection. It seem it did stop painting beyond the selection border, but then continued propagating until it got to the region outside the lines inside the selection, and then started painting again.

How do I configure the paint to stop propagating once it hits selection borders as well as lines drawn in the layer?

Thanks.

I have scanned several pages to my MBP. 
when I open a file in GIMP I get pop up message:
JPEG Image Message:  Corrupt JPEG data:240 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9
I just click okay, carry on with my edits and save file to jpg in another location.

1. what does this error mean?
2. and do I really need to be concerned about it.
3. the edited files I will save as a group and pass on to others. 

thnx

I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this.  But is there a user active here who can cut 2 people out of an image for me?  I hav attached the images to this post.

       

Please save as transparent pngs

Please watch the video at this site:

http://www.shahspace.com/gimp anomoly.mp4

What it shows is a new layer being created by a copy of a section of another layer. The new layer is then dragged to the bottom border of the lower layer and is cropped off. Why is it cropped off?

The new layer is on top. It shouldn't be cropped by anything.

In the video, I toggle the visibility of each layer to show the boundaries. It would be understandable if the middle layer acted as a viewport to all layers below it, thus cropping off any layers below it that aren't in the viewport. But this new layer is on top. So why is it being cropped?

Hi,

Just downloaded GIMP, just about managed to import and edit a pic, but can't save it in any other format than .xcf which seems only to be viewable via GIMP? How do I save to a format that I can view in other programs? (My original image was RAW).

Thanks,

Matt.

Hello, please help!
1)have image, one layer
2)layer boundary increased
3)when I'm trying to move image(selection) to center it hides behind white layer
what I want is to move blue image to any new position in layer

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Hi
I have a scanned image with some text at the top , a picture in the middle, and some text at the bottom.
I would like to make the picture smaller, while retaining the text so that the whole can make a CD box label 138mm wide x 117mm tall.
I have made duplicate layers, but I find that when I start editing one layer it edits the original layer as well.
Is there a tutorial which shows how to do this correctly?
I have tried Googling but most results are long and I haven't found one which covers what I am trying to do.

Hello, (first post)


I've recently started using GIMP. I'd consider myself a newbie but not completely stupid.

I would like to be able to draw striped lines. There seems to be quite a few tutorials etc on doing striped backgounds etc but I was wondering if it is possible to create a "striped" brush. I know a pattern could achieve what I want but these use fixed colours (I believe). A normal brush paints the foreground colour where it is black and nothing where it is white. Can I make a simple brush that puts the background colour where the white is instead?

The reason is to be able to draw striped lines in ANY colour (by choosing them with the fore/back colour selector. I think to do this with a pattern would require a pattern for every colour combination.

I want to draw wiring diagrams in colour using multiple coloured wires (lines) some having a stripe. e.g. RED with a YELLOW stripe

Any thoughts? 

Thanks