Hi all,
I am new to using GIMP, and could use your advice/input. I have several solar eclipse photos from the April 2024 eclipse, and I would like to arrange them in a sequence.  I'd like my total eclipse photo to be in the center of the sequence, with the stages leading up to it, and after it on either side.

I am not very technically savvy with computer software in general, and have limited free time to learn GIMP and all its functions. I found quite a few detailed/complex tutorials that show how to create an eclipse sequence in photoshop, but I couldn't find a good basic one for GIMP, so I would appreciate any assistance. 

I assume I will need to load all my photos in layers, then somehow put all the images on top of a black background. Then I'll need to adjust their size and move them into the correct positions. Can someone suggest a very simple way to create this type of image? As I am not very familiar with the tools in GIMP (or even how to create a black background), if you can be very specific with a step-by-step process that would be greatly appreciated!  Note - I have version 2.10.32 revision 1.

Any assistance will be greatly appreciated!

See the attached image. I am attempting to export an image. I can't find a necessary button to complete the export.

What am I missing?

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The conventional copy command obtained by the free select tool makes a copy of the free select tool outline and what it encloses. Is it possible to copy the outline free select tool path only, move it to a new area, have the free select tool enclose some new material, and move the free select tool now with the new material back to sit over the original, exactly matching the original free select outline?

Maybe it already exists, but I don't know it's name!

Thanks in advance.

Is it possible to achieve a long shadow effect in GIMP where the long shadow spreads out, as if coming from a central point?  Here's an approximate example of what I mean, which I did by separating the text into 3 parts and applying separate long shadows to each:

   

It should give the general idea but it's only an approximation; each letter should have a different shadow angle pointing out from the letter towards an imaginary circle behind it.  I can't see any way to do this.

Thinking about it, it'd make sense for the long shadow filter to have a "spread" option, where 0 does the current behaviour, negative would modify the angle so the shadow converged, and positive would modify it so the shadow diverged.

from this...

   

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If it is a bug I don't know where to put this under


2.10.38 doesn't give the option of using a chosen gradient/spherical maps? It only uses the default map, and 3 Release Candidate 1 doesn't have it at all!

Version 2.10.36 still had been fine.

Hello Everyone,

I have just finished creating my first gimp plugin and I wanted to see if there was anything I should do differently, like best practices to follow, etc. The plugin works as is, but is there any way to improve it?

Here's a link to the plugin code https://github.com/origamifreak2/Gimp-Pl...by_nine.py

The plugin converts an image to a 16:9 aspect ratio and ads a blurred background as padding.

Hi. I need to remove this blue border around planet which arose from sharpen Wavelets in the other program.

I tried blending pictures like this:

Made two pictures, which I call:
1)Less_Wavelets
First picture, blurred, made without sharpening, where no border
2)More_Wavelets
Sharpened picture, with border.
 pictures, 

In Gimp I place Less_Wavelets on the bottom, and More_Wavelets at the top Layer.

- then click on upper Layer-Fuzzy Tool and make auto selection around planet
- Select-Feather: 165, that will move selection little inside, behind border which must be removed
- Layer-Transparency-Add Alpha Channel
- Select-invert
- Eraser Tool or Delete key pressing more time.

Now, the problem is, why my eraser tool/delete key passing from outside of selection to inside of selection, and deleting part what I don't want? If I am selected „invert“, that means I want to delete only from outside?

Can I somehow decrease or turn it OFF, that deletion not pass selection?

When I delete with the Eraser Tool, just close to the edge of the border, it is a slow process. But if I just click „Delete“, it can remove it fine „in circle shape“ and fast. But If I press delete many times, deletion is going inside of selection. If you understand me.
Thanks.

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Hello,
I am currently using GIMP 2.10, but I would like to install and use GIMP 3.
How can I install and run it without deleting the 2.10 version?

Pure curiosity at this stage.

I have a fully functional gimp - PandaJim 2.10.38 running on Ubuntu 20.04 with Python 2.7 and G'mic.

But I can find no evidence of an Appimage loader and my .desktop file points directly at gimp 2.10.

The .desktop file is attached.

The reason I enquire is because I am considering putting a second SSD in my laptop and then trying to achieve the same result with Ubuntu 22.04 or even 24.04.

David.

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