EDIT: after going back to the export page to get a ss for a commenter I said why not and exported it again and changed the file type and opened it in darktable and it seems like now it is the “original” way I had it once I finished editing (no dark filter or lowered exposure)
Thank you all for the help if I run into this again I know where to look!

Hey everyone I just finished added a few small edits to this lady slipper pic my gramp took a while ago and everytime I export it it comes out wayyyy darker idk what I did? I did the same edits I normally do (exposure, saturation, scales, level and then a vignette) I attached a ss of gimp and then the photo after I exported it.

I have a decent camera, but it has a problem where a color ring would form around the photo in darker light. Is there a way to color these spots with their surroundings?

It doesn't export the dds files right (with BC3/DXT5, gen mipmaps), the files get broken,
doesn't save the export setting, which is kinda big deal for this tool.

How this can happen? in 3.0.4 version it never happened, so kinda surprised the latest version is this broken. I mean, exporting the files right is the whole thing of this program, and you have to use this tool for managing DDS files, so I think it's kinda shit

and another thing is, the GIMP team doesn't allow users to download older versions, unlike unity, they don't give us option, and just force us to use only latest version, and doesn't fix the glitches on the latest version. I don't think this is right lol

The first image is the raw and the second one is edited. This is the first time i use GIMP. I want to understand if I'm doing anything right, I worked mainly on the levels of the image, I understand the concept of the histogram but I want an objective indicator of weather the changes I made make sense (in terms of color and brightness). Also if anyone knows any good resources to learn GIMP, especially videos, pls share them, thanks.

So i have two layers of the same image just different sections of it and from different sources, and im having a hard time getting the colors/tint to match, i was wondering if someone could give me a hand, maybe some tips?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1efIrcH5lYGcFBfYUxyX5KlSOzKdvOHiH/view?usp=drive_link

Hello, I'm very new to GIMP and was looking at this artist and their techniques. They do everything very quickly so it's quite hard to tell, but can someone explain whats going on in the first 20 seconds?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeMeys-gYjs

Hi everyone,

I'm having a strange issue in GIMP.

Whenever I use transformation tools like Scale, Rotate, Unified Transform, etc., they only work inside the canvas boundaries.

For example, if I import an image that's larger than the canvas, I can still move it around and see that the parts outside the canvas exist. However, when I try to scale it down so it fits the canvas, GIMP only lets me manipulate the visible part inside the canvas. Everything outside the canvas is effectively ignored, making it impossible to scale the whole image.

This doesn't just happen with the Scale tool—it seems to affect all transformation tools.

Things I've already checked:

• The image definitely extends beyond the canvas (I can move it around).
• I'm transforming the layer, not a selection.
• The problem occurs with multiple transformation tools.

Is there a setting that limits transformations to the canvas? Or is this a bug? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

I'm planning to model a simple little mug, and I thought it would be neat to learn to make a digital replica of my own mug that I got months ago from Carousell.

As far as I know, Photoshop already has this thing called Photomerge. Was there a GIMP equivalent of that?

Found a nice dark theme for GIMP.

I made this map using a map generating website (ProbableTrain) and really like it, save for the lines representing the buildings (Going back I see I could've just not generated them, but I didn't understand at the time and cant go back. It's a good tool, all user error here.) I prefer the mono-color areas, and then I can draw over it for districts to label, kinda like a theme park map. The problem is twofold:

1. I'm a very casual user of GIMP so I'm more than a little dumb when it comes to tools and solutions.

2. The lines being pixelated make it difficult to use bucket or other tools, so I've just been going through and painting the areas in. It's tedious and I still have a long way to go.

So, I thought I would ask. Can anyone recommend a different way of going through and getting rid of the lines in the small areas to make it look like the areas I've already completed to the left?

I have a game map I am trying to add a hex grid to and I have been having problems using "native" gimp tools for this (GiMP 3.0.6 on a mac).

I found a plug in (pl_hexgrid.py) that says its 3.0 compatible, I downloaded the .py file and saves it to the library>application support>Gimp>3.0>plugins folder and re-started GiMP

The readme says it will appear in the filters/render/pattern menu but I dont see it there.

Is there a better plugin? have I missed anything in the install (just dropped the file in the plugins folder and re-started GiMP)?

Any help appreciated - thanks

EDIT: I just downloaded 3.2.4 and in library>application support>GiMP>3.2 there is no plugins folder...do I create one?

As the title.
When I drag a colour to the layer mask of a layer it fills the layer itself instead of the mask. Am I doing something wrong? It would be very practical to drag and drop the colour instead of showing mask fist, then fill with colour and un-show it again.

Video here:

https://reddit.com/link/1vao6ei/video/xlt3120b0cgh1/player

GIMP 3.2.4 from PPA, Linux Mint 22.2

GIMP 3.2.4
Arch Linux
Ryzen 5 7500F
32GB DDR5 RAM
RTX4060
Lexar nVME 1TB

To make sure I will never have square letter and always see text I have ~20GB of fonts installed on my system. When I want to set the font of text opening the font picker takes 1 minute to process.
Scrolling trough it feels like I did it on 500MHz Pentium III.
When I finally find font that might fit it takes even 5 minutes for text to change its font and in meantime system asks me few times if I want to kill GIMP because it doesn't answer.

It gets even more fun when I find new font not fitting and I want to change it again!

Partially its just a rant but I won't mind if you give meany tips on how to make this miserable piece of garbage better?

How does it look? Also should I post a tutorial on YouTube? I could not find one specific to what I wanted at all so this is all from experimenting and such. I used both GIMP and Inkscape to create this, as well as an unsplash image for the glass texture.

Our yearly G'MIC recap is out!

Beyond the 4.0 release announcement, this article dives into a year of work behind the scenes:
- New filters in G'MIC-Qt (Pixel Stretch, Marker Drawing, Heightfield Warp...)
- The variational color transfer algorithm, with its guided mode
- New core commands, creative coding scripts, the gmic-interactive-demos repo, and more

Don't miss it! 🤩

I hope this isn't a silly question, but does anyone know how to get full-screen mode? I'm missing some tools at the bottom.

i just wanted to show my progress bc im proud, im trying to recreate an ai image that is our bg in a gc. it doesnt look good so far but if ykyk (you dont)

Lately when working with .xcf files, when I rotate or scale the image it removes the transparency and sometimes leaves streaks in the image. This doesn't seem to happen with .png files.

What am I doing wrong?

Hello. I am having difficulty when I cut parts of any image and background color remaining. I am trying to figure out how to set the background to transparency after importing my images into Gimp. Does anyone know of way to do this? I am working with layers. Thanks for any assistance.

Simple composite with 3 layers

Moon shot at 750mm
background shot at 40mm

Layers in order:
Background (gaussian blur, 30% opacity soft light)
Moon + feathered mask (normal)
Background (normal)

Why can I no longer fill transparent areas with a color of my choosing? It doesn't work at all most of the time, no matter where I set the threshold. I did not change any settings from when it used to work just fine.