There has been a lot of scams and data loss this year. I found this way to make secure passwords on my Ubuntu-based system.

#  openssl rand -base64 14

The base64 supports standard keyboards and leaves '=' at the end of passwords. They can be left out is you want.

I use the "glossy" plugin all the time, but it seems to be removed in recent versions of Gimp. I had a copy saved off but can't find it. Can anyone post it or tell me where I can find it? Thx!

Hello, I had to reinstall gimp and some of the fonts in my previously created xcf files are not "on the system" - I need to make an edit and need to find out what the font is to reinstall it. Somehow when I was on the text layer and selected "Tools > Text" and selected the text, while the text box was in red and said "Standard" (Since font not on system) there was a "pop up"? that identified the font. When I try to duplicate this for another font style, I can't. Does anyone know what the steps are to see this?

Thank you!

Hey guys,

I would like a small favor.

I would like to change a script so that it allows me to enter 0 (zero) as a minimum value and 2000 as a maximum value.

The script in its original form only allows me to enter values from 1 to 500.

I thought of manually editing the values in the .scm file, changing the values 1 to zero and 500 to 2000 respectively, but when in doubt I decided to ask for help.

Below the .scm

How do you get GIMP to make one large image out of about 6,800 small (256x256 pixel) images? It's like you had one large picture and you cut it up into 6,800 little squares. I only have the little squares, not the original, and I want to put them together without any seams showing to make the large original image. They're numbered in sequence, they must stay in the exact sequence, and I already know exactly how many rows and columns the composite needs to have. If it's easier in some other program than GIMP that's fine too.

Hello,

First time here

Anyway, I thought it would be useful if I could tell GIMP to use current selection as area for setting guides.

There is an option called New guide from selection (Images -> Guides -> New guide from selection), but this just
puts 2 horizontal and 2 vertical guides along sides of selection.


What I had in mind was to use current rectangular selection (or bounding box of it) and then "divide" it into equal parts by
setting guides  (number settable by user), either horizontally, vertically, or both.

So for example, let's say I have some kind of object on my canvas, and it's already placed on the right spot. 
And maybe I want to do some work on the middle third. 

I could use measure tool, but this won't work without calculator.


Another option would be using rectangular selection and then setting Rule of thirds under tool options.
But choosing any tool after that results in "guides" vanishing inside of the selection, so you have to put guides
manually right after making that selection, if you don't want to loose them.

Also, if you need any number of divisions that's not already predefined (center, thirds, fifths...) this technique will not really work. 
It can be done, but it will definitely take lots of repetitive steps.

So I wrote a small plugin that does exactly what I had in mind.

It's not finished yet, but it works. 

So how do you use it? After placing it in plugin directory, it registers itself under
Image -> Guides -> Divide selection using guides

First you make a selection. It doesn't have to be rectangular, and if it's not it will use the bounding box of the selection
for calculation. After making a selection, choose Divide selection using guides (under Image -> Guides).
Enter the number of divisions you need, and that's it.

Now, maybe I'm re-discovering here something that's common knowledge among gimpers,
but even if that's the case, this was a good learning experience. The only problem is I'm
getting lots of GEGL related errors (GIMP 2.10.32), but from what I could read here, it's not my plugin's fault.

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  g_divide_selection_using_guides.zip (Size: 725 bytes / Downloads: 132)

I had 64-bit 2.10.32 but started the update for 2.10.34.

I've tried several times, but each time when I get to the very end when the bar is full and it has installed or is installing twain.exe, it quits with the message "access denied" and then "setup is not complete. Please correct the problem and run Setup again."It doesn't tell me what the problem is, though.

The result of this is that the installer removed the old version of Gimp and now I don't have Gimp at all. I've never had this problem before.

I disabled my virus protection temporarily in case that interfered, but it didn't help. I tried re-installing the version I had before and I get the same error message.

I'm running Windows 10 22H2, fully up-to-date

Any suggestions?

How do you install the offline help in 2.8.0? I've spent to hours digging online and can't find any trace of instructions. The GIMP help pages just keep repeating over and over "Install the help file" and that's it. I downloaded it frolm

https://docs.gimp.org/download.html

When I try to fill the selection with the color of PP, the selection is colored gray. As you can see, the PP color is cyan, but the elliptical selection is colored in gray

How to edit the background image of gimp with red mark as per attached image. The border line between text to be adjusted . How to di this. Please help me. Thank you

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