Hi there,

I am working on the image in the attachment.

If you see the planets in the sky don't really look like a photograph. However, the beach and the ocean do. My question is: how can I make the beach and the ocean (which is one layer) look more like the planets. I am very inexperienced and have thought of using the artistic filters, but really I haven't got a clue what I am doing.

Can someone help please?

Many thanks,

Tygra

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I am trying to improve the quality of the image (upscaling the text quality, unifying the tone )that I am providing here, but I am not sure where I can start. I watched a couple of videos on using the cloning tool, but that seems very ineffective. It would be very helpful if someone can tell me where I can start or just help me out. (my first time using GIMP)

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This story is getting around the net
about ChatGPT's complete refusal to mention the name 'David Mayer'.

Apparently there are other names the AI also refuses to return.

'AI expert Justine Moore pointed out on social media site X, a plausible scenario is that someone named David Mayer has gone out of his way to remove his presence from the internet. In the European Union, for instance, strict privacy laws allow citizens to file "right to be forgotten" requests.'

I find the 'right to be forgotten' is interesting because it's so similar to 'the right not to be remembered'.

This is a screen shot at the top center:
Attempting to drag '[Untitled]-3' to the right tab, fails to duplicate layer in said tab.

I am running MacOS Ventura 13.7.1 on iMac 21.5" Model 18,1 with 8GB DDRAM.

I had installed 'unstable' version 2.99.18 prior to installing version 3.0 earlier this week. I had no problems opening psd, png, & jpg file provided they were located on my internal HD.  External HDs will not be recognised by either GIMP version.

Today, I downloaded the GIMP Plug in 'Resynthesizer' for GIMP 2.  Following the 'Davies Media Tutorail', I installed the expanded .tgz files into the appropriate Application Support/Gimp 3.0 folders.

Since installing Resynthesizer Plug in, neither GIMP 3.0 nor 2.99.18 will open the above 3 file types, on each attempt displaying Gimp Warning windows stating "Unknown file type".  A cumbersome 'workaround' has been to open the files in Graphic Converter Ver. 9, copy all (of the file on screen) and then switch to GIMP and use the 'file/open/create from clipboard' command to create a new .xcf file.

I have checked that the necessary file-ico, file-png, file-jpeg, file-psd files etc. are in the plug ins folder.

I will be grateful for any advice members may offer me.  My email is <sylvia1913@rtutamail.com>: I don't know how to replace/update my member profile to negate the redundant gmail address which no longer works (another good one, Google!) 

Sincerely, Ranger1951.

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Just for fun, a mockup membership card.
You can download the .xcf and change layers to your liking.
UID is actual uid on gimp-forum just prepended with zeros for fun.

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  gfmembershipcard.xcf (Size: 1.44 MB / Downloads: 285)

First shot at the Gimp3 conversion of ofn-layer-tiles

Some difference with the Gimpv2 version (most notably works with multi-selected layers) so make sure you read the doc.

See here.

Enjoy.

I recently had to process many photos for one of my websites.

I decided to write a plug-in to allow me to export in three different sizes - original, website size, and thumbnail.
Also to give meaningful names to the photos and save them in a designated folder and sub-folders.
If there are multiple photos with the same root name a suffix is incremented.

So for luddites like me, who are still using GIMP Python 2.7 plug-ins, here is the file.
It may prove useful to someone, either in it's present form or after modification.

Tested in Linux, hopefully will work in Windows.

David.

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This thread is for questions and comments on my GimpHelper module to make writing plugins a bit easier by:

• keeping the boilerplate code to a minimum
  
• doing some housekeeping (undo groups and error catching)
  
• allowing as many checks as possible in an IDE to reduce the debug times in Gimp
  
• helping your IDE do useful code completion
  

Would it not be useful that the "Trusted members" by reporting a spam whatever a comment or an user (nothing else, just the "Spam" option in the "Report" button), those are "on hold" or flagged as spammer and cannot be visible until Admins have a look at it?

I mean today.... pffff, that " Temu " sh!t everywhere  

   

IMHO denying an IP is not really working if they use a VPN or live in India, Indonesia, etc...  

Also while I'm here, I have a question, if we report a "user/member" spammer, do we need also to report all their spam threads?
I'm asking because today I don't feel to click on each and every single spam they posted, I did report the users, though