I'm looking into creating a plugin for GIMP, but what I want to do is basically create a compass tool. Where you choose a vertex, radius and angle to draw an arc.

it would be nice to select the plugin, left click on a vertex. then left click and hold to select distance and draw the arc. (sorry if im not great at explaining what im trying to do, if youve ever used a compas on paper then you probably know what I mean)

it would be more intuitive (and less work on my end, in theory) if I could just utilize the GIMP draw space rather than have to code basically a second canvas to draw the arcs then render them to the image. 

Is this something that is possible?

The only permanent link to a new appimage i could find is from the Artifacts page.
Look for a gimp-debian-x64 with 4 files and click the folder on the RHS. Then 'build' then 'linux'.

The team are pretty happy with it for good reason. It's the current state of the Gimp3 source code and its had many AppImage issues solved.
So far it's working on most Linux distros.

I find gnome gimp on Gitlab confusing because I haven't studied how to use it.

I've tried running the installer for G'MIC, as well as the zip version and manually extracting it (it's in it's own folder) to the plug-ins folder, but I can't get it to show up in the filters menu. I'm using GIMP portable version 2.10.38 on Windows 11. I've used plugins in the past without issue. I'm also using one of the two plug-ins folders that show up in preferences/folders.  Anything else I can try? 
Doing some reading, I've seen other people having trouble with it because of some DLL's it needs that aren't included.

This is a work in progress.  I am restoring an heirloom picture.  The picture (on left) is from the 1940's and has many defects, with parts of the surface having scaled off.  Because of the age, it might have been a B&W picture that was manually colorized.  This is actually a picture of the picture which was still behind glass and hanging on the wall, so there are reflections. 

So far, my strategy is to select an area using ellipse with feathered edges, copy it, and then paste it and move to the correct spot.  And some spots were to take a sample of the color and to use a small paint brush.

I am having problems with the nose.  It is hard to get it just right because of the shades of light and different skin tones due to contour of the nose.  I think there should be a catalog of noses so that I can just superimpose a good nose there.
 
Any suggestions / comments on how to do the nose?  
 
   

Greetings All!

Have just downloaded Gimp on my win 10 machine. but find it all too hard to use so I have looked online for the answers and cant find them. So as one last shot in the dark before I decided not ot go with this back ground and uninstall Gimp and do something ells, I though it might be worth while asking hear first

So what I am doing is a shot of business cards to print. And I have fond a back ground for it. But the problem is when I type black ink over it you can not see it well. So I though A good way to deal with this would be to take half the color out and make it half transparent (think that is what they call it any way). Anyway looked at some videos and stuff online and cant see how to do it. Can i do it and if so how please? 

Thanks

I had been using GIMP v. 2.10.30 for years & after this HEIC problem began recently, I updated to the most recent stable v. 2.10.38. Same problem.

macOS Monterey v. 12.7.6, iMac late 2015 

I bought an iPhone 15 ProMax ~ 1 year ago & photos are stored as HEIC files. I had no issues U/L to my Mac & then dragging the HEIC files into GIMP to work with them. (GIMP v. 2.10.30)

Beginning with HEIC pix created Oct 8 2024, cannot drag these new HEIC files into GIMP.

The error message is:
‘Opening users/Iconoclast/pictures/iPhone 15 Pro Max photos & videos/IMG_0360.HEIC’  failed


I can still drag old HEIC files, created b4 Oct 8 2024, into GIMP.

iPhone software: iOS v. 17.7 installed 9-25-24 still worked with GIMP.

Maybe iOS v. 18.0, installed 10-2-24 broke HEIC?  Or iOS 18.0.1, installed 10-5-24, caused this problem?

Apple Support forum is no help. 

I noticed on my Mac, all the old HEIC images have a tiny icon to the left of the actual photo. But the new HEIC images do not! They have placeholders icons.

I found a Work-a-round:
R click image on Mac
Scroll down to “Quick Actions”
Convert Image
Select JPEG
Change Image size from small to “Original size”

The original HEIC file remains & a new JPEG file is created

Now I am able to drag the JPEG file to GIMP!

But I do not want to go through these extra steps.

I updated to GIMP v. 2.10.38. Same problem.

Sometimes the error message on GIMP is:
Opening'/users/Iconoclast/pictures/iPhone 15 Pro Max photos & videos/img_0364.HEIC' failed:

Loading HEIF image failed: invalid input: unspecified: meta-data not correctly assigned to image


Searching the web, I found references to an HEIC plug-in for GIMP to work with Mac from years ago!

But I had no problem, for a full year, dragging HEIC files into GIMP.

Something changed and broke the ability to drag an HEIC file from my Mac into GIMP.

I'm hoping someone here knows what caused the problem and what the solution is.

Thanks!

   

Seems a regular occurrence compared to the more stable forums around

This is the conversion of ofn-interleave-layers to Gimp3. Essentially the same functionality, even if the script works slightly differently. In particular: 

• it works on the selected layers (so you have to know about multi-selection in Gimp3)
  
• it is much more laid back about  non-matching dimensions
  
• it handles groups
  
• it handles image mode and precision
  

Site is here. Not that much to see for now.

Time for a beer.