Im trying to leave the left side of the GIF transparent. However when it exports it is all black. I made sure every layer has an alpha channel and it still doesnt work. Ive double checked and reopened the gif in gimp after it is exported and it just comes back as black... just in case it was the image viewer showing up.

Also having troubles with the bucket tool. Whenever I try to change the color for the bucket tool, it only replaces the colors within the image/gif. Rather then letting me just create a new color to use wherever I want.

Thank you if you can help.

How would you go on from this text to create that kind of effect? What sequence of filters should I follow? I figure that it needs noise over the top at the end. Should I make the font white to start with? and should I do it on a background? Any help appreciated. Thanks

I downloaded a spiral shape from google, when opening it in gimp it's partially transparent. I tried looking it up but all solutions point to adjusting the opacity slider above the layer list, but it's already all the way up...

How can I fix this? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

The last few days, I have been editing photos like I have always been doing. Nothing complicated. Rotating and cropping. The difference is that simply exporting a picture, without editing anything, corrupts the file in a way that it makes it unusable with any program. I just can't open/look at them anymore.

I am on Linux so I get with Eye of Gnome:

Remote error: org.gnome.glycin.Error.LoadingError: glycin-loaders/glycin-image-rs/src/main.rs:312:54: Format error decoding Jpeg: "Parsing of the following header DAC is not supported,cannot continue"

stderr: Setting process memory limit

and on Ranger

broken data stream when reading image file

What's going on?

It's Wolfie (Fortnite) as Pickle Rick (Rick & Morty)

I call it: "Pickle Wolfie"

i have a problem with gimp.

i want to make the shadows darker, but leave the mid to lighter colours as is without changing the colour, on about 5 images like the image above.

only problem is, that gimp uses math that should detect shadows, but my image has shadows that is too bright. this means no colour->shadow-highlights.

levels and curves works for some images that isnt bright, but doesnt work for lighter images (it'll look like if i turned up the contrast, which will look bad).

contrast or other similar stuff doesnt look good.

hi! I'm learning GIMP from zero, and the progress is really great. Now I'd like to do one thing, which idk how it is named even in my native language, so, I'll just show y'all the photo with explanation.

The thing should work like that:

1\. Let's say, I wanna draw a smile, but not a usual one -- with something like a color, but instead of a color it should be a photo;

2\. I saw a photo with blue waves, which made in a specific style;

3\. I did something, and the algorithm should analyze every element of the image(except for the background) and remember it somewhere;

4\. Now I can draw the smile, using the photo instead of a color;

5\. Result and the end;

With CSS you can make an image into a border. Is there a way to do this in GIMP?

I've been trying to search for a way, but all the results I've found show how to add a border to an image, and not how to make a border using an image.

I specifically wanted to use the pink lace image from this page and put it around an A4 page, similar to those Microsoft Word picture borders.

Thank you!

for simplicity sake, say i have a 100pixel mage, 10 pixel by 10 pixel. the 100 pixel image is natively 1 inch by 1 inch. id like to make the stretch the pixels at their same size across 20 inches. so that they will be evenly spaced. so the new image is 20x 20 inch, and there is a bunch of background space between all the pixels.

can gimp do this? if not, what can? what is this called? im pulling my hair out

edit: it looks like shit, but having a lot of fun with copy and pasting python scripts

https://www.reddit.com/r/GIMP/comments/r74hkb/how_to_have_a_bigger_cursor/

EDIT: On the title I should have said more visible in addition to larger. Example: the move tool stays the same size TINY!!! and almost invisible on my 32 inch display. So that needs to be larger and more visible. The paint brush tool gets larger if you have it set to show the diameter of a larger brush, but even when huge it is very difficult to see on some images.

Surely this is no longer the "way it is", 5 years after the OP and 4 years after the last comment on the thread? I have 20/15 vision in both eyes with my glasses on and have a VERY difficult time finding the mouse pointer when it is over the image area even when my face is 12 inches away from the display!

Hoping that someone knows a way to increase the size of the mouse pointer in Gimp or maybe add a big red circle around it, without having to change the resolution on the display. I don't want to have to do that.

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I’ve seen a bunch of tutorials for gifs and not a lot for full blown animation, so is gimp just for gifs?

i know people have created full length animation so I’m also wondering if it’s a long time user veteran type thing that only the most advanced users can do.

can't load that plugin, doesn't show in plugin browser, tried for hours debugging with AI but no matter what, the plugin didn't work

As the title.

I've downloaded the sources from here:
https://github.com/bootchk/resynthesizer/tree/resynthesizer3

I miss compiling instructions for Linux Mint / GIMP 3.2.4.
Can anybody help please?

Typewriter animation string generator for "Texts from list" plugin

Small companion tool for anyone using the "Texts from list" GIMP plugin to make typewriter-effect animations.

• Enter the text you want animated
• If your string has variables, mark the parts to keep separate with a circumflex (^)
• Click "Generate" and get the full list of strings ready to paste into "Texts from list"

Saves you from manually building the frame-by-frame string list. Free, browser-based.

Test it here: https://www.arakne.es/en/gimp-plugin-tool-text-editor-for-texts-from-list/

Hello everybody

I have found this particular tutorial and I think it's extremely good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAP56mhF-rQ

However, I have the following issue as well:

Following the tutorial, I have to play around with the cellheight and cellwidth dialogue windows until they snap back to the actual sizes of the image.
When I export the image and add it to my brushes, they only come out as black squares in the brush selection window and they really are just a big square brush when I try to paint with them.

I have followed the instructions word for word.

1. Choose picture
   
2. Switch To grayscale (It always is by default because I downloaded brushes that are only available as PSDs or similar, so I'm mostly converting them into gimp brushes)
   
3. Add alphachannel to layer
   
4. Adjust blackness and whiteness with curves (mostly just up the blackness because the white is perfect as-is)
   
5. "Copy Visible"
   
6. Create new layer with black background
   
7. Add layer mask with black background (full transparency)
   
8. Hide basic layer
   
9. Paste visible elements copied earlier
   
10. Invert color on hovering selection
    
11. Anchor to layermask
    
12. Apply layermask to layer
    
13. Delete basic layer
    
14. Cut empty space and reduce image to selection itself
    
15. File -> Export -> .gbr/.gih

The first time I tried .gbr, all I got was an brush that still included the entire empty space that wasn't yet cut. I tried .gih and that surprisingly worked, giving me a proper thumbnail in the brush preview window and on my canvas.
I have attempted two more brushes and both have just given me out squares that have roughly the measurements of the canvasses of the brushes I tried to make, but kinda wrong, as if they were still rendering or something. Does somebody have an explanation?

Hi, I post this here in hope that a GIMP developer sees it. I know it's not the dedicated channel, but it's the one I'm subscribed to. ;-)

I'm in the process of adding vector layers to the output of my pl_stroke_arrows plugin. But I'm stuck for now. The result is not remotely acceptable for certain types of arrows because of this bug.

On this image, the left arrow is done with the normal stroke operation, and the right one is the vector layer result. I think this exemple speaks for itself.

This is normal to have bugs. But seeing that this particular one has been reported 5 months ago, and that it has no milestone, or any reaction to it is a little worrying. And if this is not a major rendering issue, I don't know what is.

Hence my call to the developers roaming this forum. I know you are very busy. And I don't need a solution for tomorrow. Just need to be reassured that bugs like this are not left behind and forgotten.

When I move a layer after bucket filling a lasso select it then turns a large part of the image into a black square and I have to undo multiple times just to fix it.

I will literally never use these, why do they take up 4/5 of the entire font page