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  imgur blocked
Posted by: rich2005 - 09-30-2025, 08:09 AM - Forum: Watercooler - Replies (3)

As title, Imgur has blocked the UK due to the recent data protection laws.

Any one else affected ?

I know it has a chequered history, but it is/was a nice easy site for quick image posts.

Any decent alternatives ....

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  Search in layers
Posted by: mrkid - 09-29-2025, 11:16 PM - Forum: General questions - Replies (4)

Hi. Im working in the background of a book cover. Im using intensively layers and groups to keep all the elements in order. Very nice!  I named groups, and some key elements. As number of elements increase i wonder if there is some way to search them by name. AFAIK there is no that feature, but maybe i´m wrong, and you can give me some info about this.

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  LibreOffice turns 15
Posted by: Ofnuts - 09-29-2025, 08:40 PM - Forum: Watercooler - Replies (2)

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog...-turns-15/

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  GIMP 3.1.2 really hard to control with Appple magic mouse
Posted by: foxycologist - 09-29-2025, 02:18 PM - Forum: General questions - Replies (2)

I am running GIMP 3.0.4 on an iMac with Sequoia 15.6.1. The last major upgrade to GIMP (presumably to v.3.0.0) made a change to the controls such that all the sliders, mouse movements, etc became far more sensitive (i.e. a small mouse movement produces a huge change) and actually very difficult to work with.

This is particularly frustrating when trying to navigate around a large image by sliding a finger over the mouse.  The on-screen sliders work OK for navigation, but are far less convenient - and anyway, this all used to work fine in GIMP 2.

The slider scales for things like brush size seem now to be logarithmic.  That makes it (too) easy to make big changes to brush size, but really difficult to select small brush sizes (e.g. for spotting dust on scanned images using the clone tool).

I have dug about in the iMac system settings, and tried all possible combinations of the mouse controls, without any effect on GIMP.  It seems there must be a mis-communication between the OS and GIMP.

Any ideas for workarounds or fixes, please?

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  High RAM Consumption in GIMP
Posted by: Dunham - 09-28-2025, 11:07 PM - Forum: General questions - Replies (11)

This week I noticed my system was crashing when I used GIMP. So I monitored it with the Missions Central application and discovered that GIMP was using 9.5GB, even though I wasn't doing much editing. Today I'm using GIMP 3.0.4 and Linux Mint. I noticed that just opening GIMP consumes about 5GB.
I managed to solve the problem as follows:

I went into the preferences section and made some changes to the system resources section, as follows:

Minimum number of undo levels: 10
Maximum undo memory: reduced to 1024MB
Fragment cache size: reduced to 1100MB
I left the other settings as they were.
This reduced RAM consumption during editing, but when opening GIMP it remains at 5GB.

For my current tasks, I haven't noticed any significant performance losses yet. Regarding GIMP opening with 5GB, although I'm not sure, I think it's due to having the following installed:
GMIC Plugin
Resynthesize Plugin
Remove BG Plugin
Several extra brushes
Thank you
My question, however, is this: is it normal to have this %GB consumption only when opening GIMP?
Are the settings I made in preferences relevant?
Here's my machine:
Acer Nitro 5 AN515-45
RAM: 16GB 3100MHz
Processor: AMD Rysen 7-5800h with integrated graphics
Dedicated graphics: RTX 3060

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  windows 10 : goodbye...
Posted by: denzjos - 09-28-2025, 03:48 PM - Forum: Watercooler - Replies (1)

As I expected, installing open-source programs on Windows 11 isn't going smoothly. Gimp 2.10.38 - no (now installed as a portable), Mozilla Firefox - no (won't start, I'm now using Outlook), Mozilla Thunderbird - no (won't start, I'm using Opera, Google Chrome), etc. Angry Gimp 3.0.4, LibreOffice 25.2, FreeCAD, and LibreCAD work fine. Big Grin

On the other hand, installing Linux Mint on my old PC went smoothly. It feels like I'm using Windows. Cool

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Question 2 subtle changes to this image: how?
Posted by: gi811 - 09-28-2025, 12:57 AM - Forum: General questions - Replies (1)

The darker blemish in the lower right corner and the clump of hair that's curving toward the center: it looks weird. The browns need to be lightened to look like the rest of her hair and the whitish part probably need to be darkened a bit and perhaps tinted with a bit of yellow.



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  Sharpening with Blur
Posted by: Italian74 - 09-26-2025, 09:28 AM - Forum: General questions - Replies (9)

In Photoshop images are often sharpened using an iverted layer with blur. This gives much better results than unsharp Mask. Has anyone tried this method in Gimp?

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  NumPy
Posted by: rich2005 - 09-25-2025, 04:37 PM - Forum: Watercooler - No Replies

One for Ofnuts  https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02903-1

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  UV DTF File Setup
Posted by: racinlm - 09-24-2025, 06:24 PM - Forum: General questions - Replies (1)

Hello all,
I have a UV DTF printer that requires the print files to be setup in photoshop. I am a corel user and I do not want to get photoshop. I have GIMP on my machine but rarely if ever use it. Is it possible to have gimp do what is in the below videos what they are doing in photoshop? If so, would someone be able to screenshot or have a video or instructions on how to do that process in GIMP. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Chris

https://youtu.be/vMwrNs-pyFc?si=2jOXVBRz93gkSl6o
https://youtu.be/IQJWgJhRZhY?si=sMp9H95hVcu_qi-s
https://youtu.be/HK8Kku-_S7g?si=2FTojbiURwPkKBBI

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