Hello everyone,

I would like to order a foil balloon with a wedding photo from the 50s printed on it. As you can imagine the resolution of the photo isn't great. Do you have any advice in what way I could edit the photo to improve the result? Alternatively if there is a better forum to ask this please point me there. Thanks a lot!

My previous laptop seems to have become a brick after an update that I can only assume was interrupted. It was an older laptop and I was considering replacing it, this is just sooner than expected. Does anyone here have advice for a laptop that would be primarily for photo manipulation projects via Gimp? I'm operating on a limited budget, but I'm open to suggestions. The attached image is my current consideration. The website coupons brought the price closer to $600, but I can consider a larger budget. It just means I'll be without a laptop for longer than I'd prefer. I appreciate any input.

I have googled this for a few days now, I have found templates for making magic the gathering cards, 1 per print, playing cards (1 per print) plugins that make tons of cards using comma seperated values, and print them front and back. I have found so many greeting card templates. But, I have no idea how to find what I am after or if it exists lol.

All I want is to be able to make an A4 sheet of paper with playing card sized images on it to be able to cut out.
Ideally a plugin that means I can jusst point at a folder of images and have them resized and then added to the a4 automatically, but I would be happy to resize myself, or if there is a template for gimp that has boxes for each card on an a4 sheet, and i can drop the images into each box before printing.

I just dont know gimp at all so I dont even know where to begin with this.... and googling playing cards, making cards etc is a rabbit hole from which there is no escape lol.

Hello,

i just wanted to make some 2d art for a video game using gimp. but everytime i try to rotate a section it becomes kinda transparent. what do i do wrong?

pictures of my problem:

https://prnt.sc/Ah8HZz14NaDg

https://prnt.sc/RivbZbUIOygD

I've followed a tutorial and made a circular path and selected text along path. But on the tutorial it's on the circular path line. But for me it hovers way above.

Does anyone know how to make my curved text sit on the path.

Want to make tshirt text more convincing.

https://preview.redd.it/o1u8uk5aoxwc1.jpg?width=1728&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a74d016bb625b433dd901cdd2227424d6839e380

so a random post reminded me of one of my more successful artworks, people like to complain about the gimp filters but this is a example of what it looks like when filters are done properly

(~8 layers, 5 were filters)

Hi everyone,

I've gotten into the habit of removing white/bright backgrounds from drawn images to black backgrounds for on my AMOLED phone. I'm still somewhat new to GIMP so I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing an obvious tool/trick and had some questions regarding different tools.

My main method is to use the pathing tool to draw around the parts of the image I want to turn transparent on the first layer and then use a second layer that's all black under the first layer for the background.

I attached an album showing how different tools usually leave the background for me. (1st is original image, 2nd is paths tool, 3rd is fuzzy select, and 4th is fuzzy select+selection grow)

Is using the paths tool still the most accurate way to remove backgrounds from an image?

I've tried using other tools like the fuzzy select tool but as shown in image 3 it still leaves behind a light outline of the image.

I've also tried using fuzzy select + select grow and it works better, but still misses some parts of the image and it makes the edges look rough since it doesn't seem to use "Feather Edges".

I have also tried using scissors select (which I found to be pretty useless) and also foreground select but it seemed to have similar issues with the edges of the top layer.

I've tried using a few different websites, but they seem to give the same results as using the fuzzy select tool with leaving a white outline around the main image.

Which brings me back to my first question, is using the paths tool still the best way for getting clean edges when removing the backgrounds? Or are there other programs out there that would give better results?

Thanks,

Title. I like GIMP but the wait when you open it is like being a Windows user again. Anyone with a workaround or an alternative piece of software that has similar image manipulation features?

Gimp ver 2.8.22, Macbook Pro '22.

Rookie question here -

I'm trying to change the background color of a photograph, but I'm hitting 2 problems:

1. The people's skin that I want in the final picture is really close to the same color as the background.
2. The space between fingers on the hands is so small I can't figure out how to remove that, even at 800 zoom

Are there any tips anyone has for this? At the moment, I'm using the fuzzy selection tool with the add/remove selectors which worked for most of the picture. But I have a few unrealistic areas where there are small hands that just don't look right.

I used to install a pack of plugins that enabled a tool under tools>enhance (I think) that allowed me to select an area and then it would be filled with a pattern using what surrounds it. It was awesome and what I used gimp for most of the time, where is that now? I installed the gimp-resynthesizer plugin thinking that was where it was but not sure. How can I access that functionality now? I'm on Fedora Linux 39.

Hey all
I've been using GIMP for some 25 years now (I've also got Photoshop but somehow I still prefer GIMP)
I'm a Data Engineer so I rarely do graphics but I'm doing a personal project that will require it
So are there any alternative programs similar to GIMP or perhaps even better?
Also what do you use in place of Paint for quick edits?

Thank you in advance!

Im created a transparent png. When I export it, the black also become transparent. I don't know why? I'm just a beginner so pls help me.

As you can see below, there is problem with vowel accents in Hindi. The text is seen properly when in text editor. But not seen properly on the image or in layer names.

Any solutions?

https://preview.redd.it/7qydmfaognwc1.jpg?width=3022&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dedf95ac243aae5be3f60b938df0e8bbfa29979a

I'm currently working on a deck of cards for a boardgame. My printer informs me that the cards must not contain 100% black in zones where there may be transparency – I'm not entirely certain at which stage of the toolchain such things may cause issues, but I'd rather avoid the risk, by removing 100% black from my raster images.

So... is there a good way to search for full black (i.e. any color that is (<5%, 0%, 0%, 100%) CMYK) and replace it with almost black ((5%, 0%, 0%, 100%) CMYK)? For bonus point, is there a good way to do this automatically for the ~200 images I'm using in this boardgame?

So, I'm trying to make my own LUT for a video game I'm playing. I've revamped the graphics with mods but the improved graphics come with a built-in LUT that is not favorable. So, I'm trying to match the before and after screenshots so I could apply that same processing to the LUT.bmp. Here is the target color scheme I'm trying to replicate. I like the overly blue look. Now, here is the target image that I'd like to adjust. It's too red/orange.

I tried using "CLUT from after/before layers" with the G'MIC Gimp plugin to apply the color scheme of image one to image two. Here is the result. As you can see, the white-ish highlights and details of the target image have been lost. Overall, it's pretty close, but those highlights and details are important.

Can anyone help me come up with a better method here? Any help would be hugely appreciated. Thanks.

Is there a way I can distort an image so that areas are magnified proportionally to how close they are to a given point? I have a map and I need to edit it so that Europe is the largest area, while showing the rest of the world distorted around it proportional to its distance from Europe.

Hello everyone,

So i have my image there and i want to make it smaller.

https://preview.redd.it/ulflixq9thwc1.png?width=1265&format=png&auto=webp&s=fa72d062181a10ca44804f63d124f69ecf827243

I used the Scale Image option as found on google, but after transformation, the result is as follows:

https://preview.redd.it/ajp22ysfthwc1.png?width=713&format=png&auto=webp&s=fbc9b28d521021f91b944988f3903f264a3b73b5

Smaller but pixelated image, which is problematic because i planned on putting it on another image with lots of details, and this is not gonna cut it.

Can somebody tell me if i'm doing something wrong? Do i have to use another tool to get what i want?

Thanks in advance.

https://preview.redd.it/8cfsnh9cfhwc1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=9902147f1ea634a05652de8bad1edca342ddca34

So im super new to gimp! im trying to remove the background of a picture i made but it doesn't work like the videos say even after adding an alpha channel and its driving me nuts when i restart fully and copy the videos for the same problem to happen. im sure its prob something simple im missing but id love any help.

I'm working on a project where I want to get a specific shade of red. I'm not sure if it's possible, but it'd save me a lot of work if it's possible.

I was wondering how I could create an outline/bubble of a png, for a sticker.

Here's what I want it to look like. Basically a bubble around the whole phrase.

Here's the image I want to use.

I know how to put an outline on a PNG without whitespace in the middle, like this, but I'm not too sure about my image, which is a bunch of different parts.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[Please excuse my poor English]

[The cause of the problem has been identified]

• This is a problem caused by a difference between the latest update of gimp(flatpak) and the version of ibus. A temporary solution can be found at the link below.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/comments/1cbs7ek/comment/l10muc2/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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Since yesterday, a problem has suddenly occurred where non-English input is not possible on the ibus input device.

I've searched through various documents and tried the solutions suggested, but I haven't been able to solve it yet,
so I'm asking this question to see if anyone has had a similar experience and to get some hints on how to solve the problem.

[My system environment]

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OS: linux mint 21.3 cinnamon

kerner: 6.50-28

GPU driver: NVIDIA 550.67

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[Problem phenomenon]

Since yesterday, non-English keyboard input on the ibus input device suddenly does not work only on flatkpak Gimp. [In my case, Korean]

There are no problems at all in all apps and environments (that I use) except Gimp.

[Environment before the problem occurred]

1. Before entering Korean in Gimp yesterday, I had not entered Korean for about 3 to 4 days.
   1. I was able to type Korean clearly 3-4 days ago.
2. As I remember, the nvidia driver was updated within 3 to 4 days.
   1. In addition, it seems that several things related to the flatpak app have been updated.
3. However, nowhere else have problems occurred with Korean input using the ibus input device.
4. Input is not possible only in GIMP (flatpak)
   1. Flatpak's other apps work well with Korean input.

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[message in terminal]

gimp-2.10:2): Gtk-WARNING **: 16:09:25.500: /app/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-ibus.so: undefined symbol: ibus_input_context_set_post_process_key_event

(gimp-2.10:2): Gtk-WARNING **: 16:09:25.500: Loading IM context type 'ibus' failed

• The above message is displayed repeatedly 18 times.

So far I didn't have a used these things SVG etc.

Ca anyone explain me the benefit of the work with SVG

Friends of mye said that much is possible...eg:

Exporting paths to SVG format; Creating rounded rectangles; Transforming paths; Toggling menu visibility; Converting selections to paths; Creating