When I bring in a photo 1600w by 2500h, gimp creates a window that is of these dinensions, but the photo is much smaller within the window, surrounded by white borders. Cropping leaves me with a photo of too few pixels. I want the photo to fill the allocated window. 

I always use only open-source editing programs. GIMP is an incredible photo editor, I'm using it with RawTherapie and Luminance HDR

My photos on 500px processed in GIMP are here.

Best regards and again - thanks for help and support!

I am running gimp 2.28 on Fedora 26 (kernel 4.13.5-200). I installed gimp through the dnf package manager. The installation included libopenraw-0.1.2-1 as a dependency. However, I cannot open PEF raw files from my Pentax camera. The gimp open dialog does not even see the .pef files. 

I can install the ufraw-gimp package and open the files. However, the ufraw interface actually gets in the way of some things I want to do. What makes this more curious for me, I was able to open the PEF files without installing ufraw-gimp on one or more previous versions of Fedora. Unfortunately, I did not record the details of the previous version because I didn't know I would need them.

I can open the PEF files in darktable and gwenview, but I assume they use different libraries. I see libraw1394 and LibRaw in my rpm listing. 

Is this a known problem? What can I do to troubleshoot the problem? I am willing to build from source for troubleshooting. Eventually, I would like to get back packages for convenience and consistency. 

Thanks!

I have custom images created, and I wanted to know how to create a straight line across. I would also like to know how to put one image on the bottom line and another on the top, kinda like a border. If there is a way, I would like to have 2 lines creating a X and having 4 pictures on each side.
Thank you for the help!

I have an image I would like to add a magnification segment to. 

In other words there is a small portion of the image I would like magnified then inserted in the image. Like a picture in a picture, but still retaining the magnification. 

Is there a way to create the image (picture in a picture) so that when the picture in the picture when clicked on could open or enlarge itself?

Hello everyone,

For a long time I've been trying to find to find a solution to the problem that's been puzzling me. So far with no luck so I decided to ask here. I'm an English teacher an I wanted to update one of the boardgames I have to be able to use it with my students. To do so I need to be able to arrange a list of words (say about eighty), each in a new line, in a ray-like fashion around a circle. I've seen many tutorials showing how to do something similar along the path of a circle but here it would have to be like rays instead. I'm attaching a picture of what I'm aiming for. I imagine I could do that by tranforming the subsequent words by say 1 degree but I am looking for a solution which would allow for the circle to be editable, by typing/pasting the whole list of words. I'd be really grateful for any tips how to do that.

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Hi all,

I am wondering how I can add custom shapes (not round, line, diamond, or square) to the newsprint filter.

I would like to rasterize an old grayscale photo using five-pointed-stars.

• Can it be done in gimp using the newsprint filter?
  
• How can we add custom dot-shapes to this filter?
  
• Suggestions for work-arounds?
  

As of today I'm running into an issue where I can't drag layers or select buttons with my mouse. I can attempt to, and when I do I see that the layer is moving, but when I release nothing happens. If I click a button in the menu, it's highlighted but doesn't actually work unless I select it again with the Spacebar. I use keyboard shortcuts for a lot of things anyways, but not being able to easily move layers by dragging is a big problem. From looking online it seems other people who have had this issue found it was caused by either a plugin, or a screen capture software, but I don't use either of those. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but the problem is still there.

Any help would be appreciated!
Thank you.

You will find this one buried in Filters -> Render -> Pattern -> Spiral

The thing to note is it is a GEGL filter. The spiral is drawn on the canvas (In this example in a Layer mask) What you see is what you get.

As well as the dialogue sliders and little rotary dial, the shape is adjusted using those on-canvas controls. From a thin spiral of constant width to the heavy short shape shown.