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.

I generally use some version of GIMP 2.10 on many different distros of Linux, most often Debian-based such Ubuntu, Parrot, Neon, etc

For the most part, I've done my scripting in Scheme because it was the only scripting language I could get to register properly, the python scripts would never load no matter what troubleshooting steps I tried.  This is fine though as Scheme is fun and still powerful enough to do just about whatever I need with the proper ideas.

Anyhow, the point being that I came across a hurdle with (gimp-drawable-set-pixel), which is the only function I know where you can explicitly define pixels values to place into an image.  And with the following script :

Is there a script that runs auto white balance, stretch contrast and stretch contrast HSV, one after the other, with the default settings of each?
If not, how would I write one, I'm not a programmer.

I assume the problem area is obvious, roughly 2/3 of the area of this section of a photo from about the tip of her right thumb down to the top edge of their kneecaps - the banding and smearing. 

Thanks!

https://www.reddit.com/r/photography/com...ve_remove/

Hi all. I am trying to do a photo collage (for a jigsaw) with one photo as the main background and then several others layered in and bordered which I will then eventually all flatten image for the final step. However when I copy in the smaller images as 'new layer', I can't seem to add a border to them even though the layer is selected. It adds the border to the main base layer photo not the one I have selected. I can rotate the smaller layers, soft focus etc, so they are definitely selected, it just seems to be the border than I can't add. I know I somehow managed to do this for a Christmas puzzle last year but I now can't figure it out. Help please!