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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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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10 pixel square brush in Gimp… how?
I need a brush that is exactly 10x10 pixels.
Here is what I have tried so far:
creating a brush with a radius of 5. This, of course, results in a brush that is more than 10 pixels wide
creating a ...
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GIMP: Using Channels Independently
I need to use GIMP instead of Photoshop, but I have a problem doing some things with transparency:
I explain: I manipulate some tga files that have 4 channels, rgb and alpha.
Using Photoshop I'm ...
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How to create a realistic wooden photoframe from images of blocks of the frame?
I want to create wooden rectangular photo frames of custom size for using it in an e-commerce project where we will be selling photos with wooden and plastic frames. But I don't have images of the ...
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Forcing transparency on layers below
I am pretty new at Gimp, so not sure if this is possible at all.
Let's say I have two lines like this, and I give the impression one line is on top of the other by clipping at the intersection, like ...
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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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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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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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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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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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GIMP: “Joined” arabic text
I'm trying to create an image which contains Arab text.
This is the (HTML entities for the) text: العربية
Raw, it is العربية
When I paste the text into ...
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Highlight stray non-background pixels
I am editing an image in GIMP that has a few nearly-transparent (resp. very light) pixels scattered through an otherwise transparent (resp. pure white) background.
Is there a command that will ...
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Using GIMP to redraw an existing low res logo
I am just getting my teeth into Gimp and am not a graphic designer by any stretch of the imagination! I'm a developer trying to make myself a bit more useful on the design front.
Anyway, I am ...
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Create a color-separated PDF in GIMP
Using GIMP I would like to create a color-separated PDF. I plan on making printing plates for a home letterpress and they request a color-separated PDF, which seems to just be a page for each color ...
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Gimp : difference between crop and canvas size
I would like to know the difference between the crop tool and changing canvas size.
If I reduce the size of the canvas, a yellow dashed line stays around the previous size. On the other hand, when I ...
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In GIMP how to scale up image without scaling layers?
I am trying to scale images without scaling layers. I tackled the problem of scaling down the images by selecting the largest visible layer and the cropping the image to that layer. This way none of ...
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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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Simple way to create this 3-D pixel effect in GIMP?
It's the sad, pixelated little icon that appears when Google Chrome doesn't shut down correctly.
Given a, say, off white on dark gray pixel image to use in a design, how would I get the edges of ...
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How to create multiple buttons in bulk with Gimp?
I'm trying to create a "set" of buttons. Actually I can make the buttons somewhat easily.
In GIMP I have a template (It's a rectangle… soooo complicated).
Take template, add text to text box for ...
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City map making (cartography) with GIMP.
Does anyone know of good city specific (although I would be interested in others as well) plug-ins for fantasy role playing game map making using GIMP?
I am more looking at macro-scale (so whole ...
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Use GIMP to extract out the logo from background
I would like to extract out the icon in the following screen (mixed with gray background)
to
May I know how I can do that through GIMP?
Thanks.
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GIMP: How to crop a layer?
I have a screenshot where I want only a part of the pasted image, and I want to turn the white that's in it transparent.
First I need to crop the pasted image. I have selected the layer and a ...
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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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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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Convert icon to a transparent png
I have a set of icons that I resized to 30x30. Now I want to use them for my iPhone TabBar as specified here:
http://www.idev101.com/code/User_Interface/sizes.html
How can I make these transparent ...
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Export GIMP Settings
I've used GIMP for a while and have custom settings, brushes, plugins, etc. installed on my Windows 7 computer. I have a Windows XP machine that I want GIMP on too, and I want all the customizations ...
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Scaling image in gimp without losing definition of characters
I'm working with a .png (a logo with text) found here. When I import to gimp and try to scale it down, to fit my canvas, the text above "DON DAVIS LECTURESHIP... etc" becomes illegible from ...
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Photo effects in Gimp: How to improve color, depth of field, etc
G' day dear Graphic-design-experts,
I am new to Stackexchange's Graphic Design and I have no clue if this is the right place to ask, so bear with me and steer me in the correct direction if i am ...
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Gimp: Pick color on screen without taking screenshot
Sometimes I want to quickly use a color that I see on a picture, website or program.
I usually take a screenshot then open it in Gimp and use the "Color Picker" tool.
Is there another way to do this ...
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Resizing a large number of Images with Gimp or IrfanView
I have about 300 pictures.
They were taken of the restoration of the place where I work.
Now we have an opening night with some people.
The pictures are sometimes portrait and sometimes landscape, ...
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How to select more layers with GIMP?
For example in Adobe Photoshop I would just shift+click. How do I do that in GIMP?
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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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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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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 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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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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What's the best way to create a subtle, barely noticeable texture? [closed]
Using Gimp (or other free software), how would I go about creating a subtle, "mild" texture, like the green in the header at forrst, or the gray in the background of the backbone.js home page?
Those ...
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Make image partially transparent in gimp
I want my image to have 60% transparency. How can I do this in gimp?
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Gimp Creating 3D Round Glossy appearing Button
I am trying to create a 3d glossy looking button in Gimp. How to I create this 3d appearance.
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How do I do Ctrl-Left-Click operations in GIMP on Mac OS X?
When you ctrl+ left-Click, it's like a right-click in Mac OS X and brings up a menu.
I'm trying to clone a selected rectangle as shown here
But if I ctrl+alt+ click, I just get a context menu ...
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GIF animation skipping immediately to last frame
I was making a GIF animation with GIMP. When I tried to play it back, though, it skipped directly from my first frame to the final frame and missed all the others. Is this a glitch in GIMP, or am I ...
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How can I recreate the shadows and blur effect using Gimp?
So I'm fairly new when it comes to working with images and creating different effects.
But can anyone explain what effect is being applied to the conference logos in the following link?
The middle ...
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How to create a smoothing photo effect in GIMP
How can I create a smoothing effect like this?:
It's clearer in his hairs and face.
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How to make moving blur effect on Gimp
I like to make a moving blur on a picture using GIMP (on Ubuntu). What kind of effects should I use? I already use blur but it doesn't give the moving blur.
Note: I'm beginner in graphic design
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Gimp: How to reverse the direction of gif image
How can i reverse Gif image with out affecting animation of the image and save it. I used Flip Tool and reversed image then after save it. Then i lost the animation effect of the image.
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GIMP Text along creates jaggies
I have just learned (thanks to tutorial at http://buttner-jenkins.blogspot.com/2010/04/gimp-tut-text-along-path.html) how to create a text along path.
When I followed these instructions, though, ...
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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?
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