Can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.  Trying to lighten the face of the girl in the attached.  Steps I took:
Duplicate layer.
Use ellipse tool to select face.
Adjust selection as needed (see attached - overbrightened for emphasis).
Use eraser tool - fuzzy brush at 30% or so opacity - to get rid of line between adjusted and non-adjusted part.  Here is where I get unintended results.  Why is the eraser making a white path?  Shouldn't it fill the erased part with the full image underneath?

What am I going wrong?

Thanks!

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Hi All,

I'd like to wrap text in an outline based image. So for example, I have some text paragraph :
My house is red - a little house;
A happy child am I.
I laugh and play the whole day long,
I hardly ever cry.

I have a tree, a green, green tree,
To shade me from the sun;
And under it I often sit,
When all my play is done.

And I have an image of heart (outline only).

I want to fir the above text paragraph in the heart image.

Could you please guide me how this can be achieved

regards,
Arun

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Hello people, i´m new to the forum. 

It happened that i wanted the set single window on my gimp without updating it. There seems to be a tool for this called gimpbox, but the official download link is dead and i don´t know where else to find it. 

Could some one in here please provide it to us. Obviously i would accept another solution to what i want as long as it works 

I´m setting up a system with a Debian based distro called Trisquel mini.
Thanks.
In Advance.

My pattern-fill refuses to show the edit/copy item  from the clipboard.  I am doing a  tutorial by Meez "How to put text inside text".  The tutorial doesn't address this "no show" issue.  What to do to make it appear?  I see no deviation from the lesson's steps.

Hey! This is the first time I've installed Gimp on this computer, and I could really use some help getting it started.

I'm running it on a Windows 7 64-bit OS, and using the latest version of Gimp, v. 2.8.22.
I installed Gimp a few hours ago and tried several solutions I found on the internet (deleting files, renaming files, leaving it alone for a period of time, etc.), but end up with the same crash report whenever I try to start it up for the first time.
It crashes immediately once it reaches the "Updating tag cache" stage.

I can't seem to get passed the initial startup of Gimp, and was wondering if anyone had any solutions...? Or perhaps recommend to me which version I should download, since maybe my OS is a little outdated for the latest version of Gimp...?

Thanks!

Ive added a gif to a static background image using gimp but when i play it back the gif flashes on the screen before playing again, is there anyway of getting it to still loop but without it flashing?

many thanks!

My question is: is there a way to crop an image, like in photoshop, where you put the crop size you want, and it crops to that selection?


Source image: http://i.imgur.com/NT7yMLA.jpg  

Photoshop crop: http://imgur.com/BwCLKOS  

Gimp crop: http://imgur.com/c5HYTDh


Why the crop size isnt the same in photoshop and in gimp? And also, is it me or the quality is better in PS than gimp?  I am doing all wrong, right? Thank you for reading this n00b question.

 And have a nice friday, and better weekend in advance!  


Carlos Octavio

I'm pasting an image over a background and the image has very blunt straight edges and it doesn't look very good. How can I get these edges to fade more into the background and stand out less?

Hi,
I've created an icon in Inkscape (svg saved as a png). However, it's blank when I open it in gimp (png). 
In windows explorer, I can see that the png size is 1 px x 1 px. That's crazy because the svg is 350px  x 400
I suspect this has something to do with layers because I have been clicking and trying out the options. But that just a guess. There must be a setting I've ticked inadvertently. But I just cannot figure it out.
I've attached the svg and the png in case some kind soul would have the courage to have a look.
I've been at this for hours, and it's 2h30 am, so I'm off to my bed. 
This is the 4th icon I've made today and The all came out perfectly. So it's not a compatibility problem between gimp and Inkscape.
Thanks guys

So I've been able to open all the images as layers and then export as a gif, but only in the gui. Is there a way that batch mode can do this? 

I've looked into it but don't see how to add the parameters to the save file parameters that I need, like frame times. The image names are frame#".png" and don't require any additional correction or optimization, I've looked into it and the frames are just too different for optimization to help.