I have been attempting to use Gimp but usually have to quit frustrated. Using Gimp tutorials do not help because the steps include opening up options I simply don’t have. For example, trying to align text. The tutorial tells me to click Align in the toolbox and another box is supposed to appear with the … Read more
I am using Linux for the first 2 days. I am doing my best to learn the terminal commands etc. I am currently trying to install Gimp. After doing ./configure it gives me this error: configure: error: GNU gettext tools not found; required for intltool For past hours I was installing this intltool, because it … Read more
As I take and try to save my screenshots, with any type of software, and any type of lossless format, I see a loss in color precision in the 4-bit range. An rgb value of (20, 20, 20) crunches down unexplainably to full black, independent from the color mode used I’m trying to pin point … Read more
I am using GIMP 2.8 and Windows 10. I want to run a python script for GIMP via command-line. I read a similar question under https: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29001226/how-to-execute-python-fu-script-from-shell-via-gimp and the answer was gimp -n –no-interface –batch “(python-fu-gradient-save-as-css RUN-NONINTERACTIVE \”Sunrise\” \”/tmp/grad.css\”)” –batch “(gimp-quit 1)” but to be honest I am not able to understand it. My script … Read more
I used GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) once last week. Now every time I boot up openSUSE, it launches GIMP! I close it, but it’s annoying. Why does it do this and how can I fix it? Is there some master list of apps/processes/whatever that have registered themselves to respawn across reboots or something, where … Read more
I have a layer in GIMP, but I can only see it when I hide all others. They are transparent backgrounds, something as simple as stroke on a selection. I added alpha channels. Here’s both layers shown: Here’s when I hide it. I want a purple outline inside a green border: I’m running this on … Read more
This question already exists: Gimp automation: Crop fixed ratio and change resolution [closed] Closed 1 year ago. For all of you that genuinely and kindly want to help, the next two paragraphs aren’t for you. I thank you in advance for your helpfulness. The next two paragraphs are for moderators who are power hungry and … Read more
Gimp’s default scaling on Windows sucks, so I have to manually scale it. I saw an existing answer, and tried to modify the “gtkrc” file of the dark theme. However, I could not find the values for the menu background colour, or the icon sizes. Could someone tell me which values I should edit for … Read more
What I’m Trying To Do: I have about 80 pngs of “cards”, and I want to paste first of all a black border with rounded corners over top of the images, and then have the outside parts of the rounded corners be “transparent color”. What Works But Painfully: One thing that works is having a … Read more
I have a fresh install of GIMP on Windows 10. When I try to save an image in the native format in a folder under Users\username I get an error like: GIMP Message: Error creating ‘C:\Users\nagev\Documents\test.xcf’: Error opening file “C:\Users\nagev\Documents\test.xcf”: No such file or directory I also get other errors exporting images as JPG or … Read more
