GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition web design and image authoring.
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What are useful brush dynamics and tool presets in GIMP 2.8?
In previous versions of GIMP only pressure was recognized by the brush tool. It wasn't much but it was simple. The new GIMP 2.8 introduces an all new brush dynamics system with a ton of customization ...
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How to get standard results in colour management in Linux
I have recently calibrated and profiled my screen, with a ColorHug device.
I'm using Gnome, and have the profile installed through gcm.
When opening an image in GIMP and DigiKam, the results are ...
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Gimp: Change coordinate system (where 0,0 is)
I use gimp for manipulating images for my software projects.
I am used to working in a coordinate system where 0,0 is at the bottom left of the screen.
Gimp uses 0,0 as the top left; Is there a ...
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How to connect with aspiring game designers for collaborative work [closed]
I'm a programming-student and I'm making my own android-game. I'm decent at photoshop, but when it comes to drawing, I'm awful. I was wondering if there are graphic designers out there that are ...
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Changing text with drop shadow over a radial gradient in GIMP
I want to change the text in the image below without modifying the background.
I tried cutting the text and filling the gap with a new one, but it doesn't look nice. Is there a simpler way?
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Handling layers in GIMP
I'm a first time GIMP user. I have an image that contains a design that'd I like to copy on to a transparent background. therefore, I started tracing the design using the paint/pencil tool. now that ...
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How do you get transparent colour on Gimp?
In the colour selection I have been searching for a transparent option, but I can't find one. How can I do it?
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Why is the Gimp selection pane not going away?
I needed to move something so I copied it and pasted it to its new location and now where I have pasted it there is a selection pane that will not go away.
I've tried to move the pane and tried the ...
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Convert foreground motif to degrees of transparency?
I have a 24-bit PNG where the motif is a subtle pattern. The pattern itself is in light greys, i.e. the background color of the PNG is #eee and the pattern is in a range of slightly darker greys.
I ...
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Portable file format to export Photoshop layers
I'm working on web-apps and frequently have to slice designer-made PSD files as HTML.
However, I'm a GNU/Linux user, and in Gimp, PSD files look different than in Photoshop,
so I'm forced to use a ...
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How can I make patterns visible when I am using A4 size layers in gimp?
I have this small problem that anytime I wanna make a good quality design in A4 the bucket fill of patterns is hardly visible. How can I make patterns adjust to the size of the layer?
For ...
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Create Circle Stripes
I want to generate circles like in this picture. It is an overlay and I need the overlay alone.
It looks like circles in circles each with a width and a margin of one pixel. How can I generate such ...
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gimp how to sharpen text
I have two layers. Layer one has the background image (some landscape) und layer two is colored. Layer two is above and I insert a text on top of layer two and merge it with layer two and then set ...
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Gimp: Copy layer 1 to layer 2's mask
Pretty straight forward question, say in Gimp I have an image with 2 layers in question, one is temporary, I want to use it as the mask for the other. How can I transfer a layer into the mask of ...
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Gimp - Using an image as the transparency layer of another image
I have two images (For the sake of simplicity, Image1 and Image2). I want to use Image2 as a transparency for Image1.
How can I do that? Assume I've done little more with Gimp than play with some ...
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match color of pasted selection to local background
I'd like to copy part of a picture to another part of the same picture, the background is similar in both places but not exactly the same. Is there a way to mach the copied part colors to the colors ...
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How to specify a transformation in GIMP
I have a specific perspective transformation that I want to apply to an image. How can I enter the matrix values manually in GIMP instead of playing around with stretching the image until the numbers ...
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In GIMP, how to colorize using a reference color?
I have an image I wish to colorize using a picked color. What is the handiest/easiest way to do this in GIMP?
I've tried my best by checking the palette for my picked color's HSV, then using it as ...
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Using GIMP, can you “erase” a color?
I'm presently working on an iOS application and I am attempting to reverse engineer their standard alert dialog window. I have managed to figure out what the alpha value on the background it uses is ...
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GIMP: creating a 1 pixel wide line
I'm trying to create 1 pixel wide borders for some web buttons.
I've tried to use the GIMP path tool to do this but I can't figure out how to get it looking right. See attached image.
1 - copied from ...
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Gimp - how to dock toolbars [closed]
Is it possible to dock toolbars in Gimp program? When toolbars are in undocked state, they can hide parts of image being edited which is very uncomfortable. Beside this its inefficient and waste of ...
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using gimp to add to an image
I am using gimp for windows 7. I have an image of a color gradient line (top is black middle white, bottom black) and I want to use gimp to extend the bottom of the line. Meaning, I want to make the ...
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Optimizing a screenshot for adding in a document and printing
This question is not directly related to graphic design, but I think you guys can help.
I am writing a thesis and I need to add several screen shots of the tools I have used and screen shot of web ...
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Which color i have to add on neutral grey to get white
I am using gimp with a large text image. Unfortunately there is no way to change the color of the individual words.
So I changed the text color to a neutral grey (#7f7f7f) and added layers above the ...
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Create rounded button with inset edge, gradient and inset text with Gimp
This is my first attempt at seriously using Gimp. I am more of a front end developer slash developer myself and I have only used Gimp or Photoshop for very basic stuff such as removing backgrounds, ...
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Mathematical operations such as “Reflection in Line” with FOSS Linux tools such as Inkscape, Gimp or Blender?
In Gimp, I could do this by "Layer/Transform/180 rotation" and then "Layer/Transform/Flip vertically" -- and then with some mouse, putting things together but it is slow. I am now looking for simpler ...
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Gimp: Save tiff with a “Group 4 Fax” compression
I'm using Gimp and I need to save a tiff file with a "Group 4 Fax" compression. I've followed the instructions to have that option enabled on the "Save as Tiff" dialog (see bottom of the linked page), ...
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GIMP: find midpoint / arbitrary division between two points
How do I find the middle, or n/th division or percentage of distance between two arbitrary points in GIMP?
Like, I have an object / a line of arbitrary length / two guides, placed in arbitrary place ...
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Coloring a map, one color per country
How could one use the Gimp to easily transform a map with many colors into a map where each country is fully colored in a single unique color.
I used the Color > Threshold option to get a b&w ...
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Design tools in Fedora
I am reasonably experience developer on photoshop and it has spoiled me to no extent. I am searching for a graphic tool on fedora which is simple to generate images that I would like to use on my ...
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How do I directly set layer positions in Gimp?
I'd like to directly set (i.e. type in actual coordinates of) the position of my layer in the image, like you can with the selection box:
(Not the size, but that would also be cool)
Is this ...
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How do I wrap text around a ball in Gimp?
I have a picture of a ball which is rounded as usually balls are, and I'd like to create quickly some text and place it on the ball.
The result should create a feeling that there is really a label on ...
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Is there already a pre-compiled windows version available of Gimp 2.7 with single window mode? [closed]
I found a (german) description on how to install it for Linux (http://zinformatik.de/tipps-tricks/interessante-programme/gimp-2-7-mit-single-window-mode-installieren/) but I want it for Windows. ...
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Gimp grid strange behavior - feature or bug?
When I create a grid in Gimp (a 32x32px grid with 0x0px offset), the distance between the top edge of the image, and the first grid line, is 31 pixels, almost like the grid starts one pixel above the ...
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How do you show the handles of paths (bezier curves) in Gimp?
I click many times on a point of a path in Gimp, and no handles show up... how do I make them appear?
(I'm using Fedora 16.)
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Add transparency to an existing PNG
I'd like to use this image on a web site.
What I need to do is change the background from black to transparent, so I can use the arrow on my site maintaining the page background.
I used Gimp to ...
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How to recreate this effect from Apple's GameCenter?
How could I recreate the background and the effect on the ribbons, borders, and "Other" text in this screenshot from Apple's GameCenter app? To me, the background looks a little glittery, but also a ...
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Create consistent greyscale icons from a set of third-party logos?
I have a bunch of third-party client logos in clashing colours. I would like to convert them to elegantly matching grayscale.
What I'm after is a set of identical grayscale images of the kind seen ...
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How to design a brochure for a programming competiton
I am a computer science student hosting a programming contest at our college. We need to design a nice brochure for the contest.
I don't have any idea hot to create such a thing. All I know is how ...
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Censoring image in GIMP
I need to censor some images (Whole image).
I need these images for a essay about pornography in a webpage and I need the images (pornographic pictures) be censored (something like a pixelized image ...
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Using GIMP, given a black text on a white area having some grayish smudges, how do I remove everything except the text?
Using GIMP, given a black text on a white area having some grayish smudges, how do I remove everything except the text?
for example this image, has gray outline around the text at places, I tried ...
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How to add brushes on gimp
I am a new user of Ubuntu, and to be honest completly new to the whole linux scene. I'm looking to add more brushes to my GIMP program, but I don't know how.
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Photoshop with Wacom Intuos4: can't draw on low part of canvas
After photoshop started and once it get focus, I can move stylus to low part of the screen. But if I switch to other app's windows, stylus can be moved to full screen.
I found a similar case on ...
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Separating a stock photograph from background
I purchased some stock images for a website I'm building (I'm a programmer, with relatively no design experience at all). The issue at hand is, like most stock images, the images I purchased are on ...
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Moving a part of an image with GIMP?
This is the original image and I want to move the text to the right of the image:
But I failed, I tried to resize the canvas but then when I move the text the layer gets invisible when put on the ...
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Changing the background of the picture to white
I have a passport picture in which the background is light brown. I need to change that background to white. Is there anyway I can do that using Inkscape or any free tools?
Here is the picture:
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Reverse-engineer alpha channel
This is something that I stumble over occasionally. I have an image that was clearly created using some form of blending / alpha channel magic, usually for things like smooth edges.
For example:
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Gradient Brightness
I'm not particularly experienced in graphic design, so maybe there's an easy way to do this that I just haven't noticed, but...
I have a layered PNG image in Gimp. It's a complex shape (a photo of a ...
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Is Gimpshop equally good as Gimp?
I am a photoshop user who is looking for a free alternative.
Gimp is usually the answer. When looking for downloads I stumbled upon 'gimpshop', a gimp distro that is layout for the convenience of ...
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Why does my transparent PNG not look good?
I want to convert a JPG to transparent and using GIMP I added alpha layers and transparency same way I make a GIF transparent I converted it to PNG but it doesn't display well when I load it on my ...
