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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GIMP: Layer Effects: Stroke
I'm trying to add a border around a rounded rectangle using the layer effects stroke tool (I've found that the stroke selection never looks very good for my purposes). The problem is that the corners ...
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Window focus hops between windows in The Gimp 2.6 on Ubuntu 12.04 - how do I configure this?
If I run the gimp and have one image open for editing and use hot keys to perform operations (e.g. Alt-I, s, 600, Alt-S), after I am done the focus moved from the editing window to the toolbox window. ...
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Gimp Pasted Layer Move Tool
I am so frustrated. I've been searching tons of places for my problem but all I find are people that don't know what the move tool is or stuck at the floating selection.
What I want to do is paste a ...
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How to create a small button image with embossed text like this?
I'm trying to create a shade/roll up button for a window manager theme I'm using. How do you create an image like the one pictured? I'm familiar with gimp but I'm not familiar with the techniques to ...
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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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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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Create a labeled grid in Gimp [closed]
Is there a way to create a Grid in Gimp, that will also show a coordinate label ( [1,7] for example)? Thanks
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How to make borders that look like clouds? [closed]
I have Gimp and Photoshop, so any of the two could be useful to me.
I have an image, I would like to use it to create a cloud pattern that uses the borders of the image, this is, an image of clouds ...
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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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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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Exponential degrade or similar effect to this one
I'd like to reproduce a similar effect to the one on this image (in Gimp if possible). The borders can be extracted but there's some sort of exponential degrade at the bottom. How could I go about ...
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Automating the Creation of Geometric Shapes?
How can I draw geometric shapes, or other regular shapes, such as a gear, using macros or scripts? I'd like to experiment with creating games by combining elements, similar to geoDefense: ...
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How to move and align?
Can anyone explain how to move the star, so it is 64 pixels above the text and howto align the star horizontally with the text?
When I use the Fuzzy Select tool on the black pixels, it only selects ...
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How to create instructions and arrows
What are the tools used to create the instructions and arrows in such images?
Which one is the font?
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How to create the drop shadow “We are Mozilla” effect?
The text "We are Mozilla" on this page: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/ seems to have something of a "white" drop shadow effect that makes it seem embedded onto the page, somewhat.
How can we ...
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How can I achieve the light arcing background in this image
I've tried finding a tutorial without any luck. Even if someone could describe the effect so I could better search for tutorials myself.
I am trying to achieve the following effect as seen in the ...
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Switching to GIMP from CS5.5. Is it feasible?
I've recently moved to linux from Windows7. The only program I can't do without is photoshop. I make a lot of banner ads and small landing page creatives.
My question, is it realistic to switch and ...
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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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How do I create a rectangle with a trapezoid bottom in gimp?
Using gimp 2.6.11 on Windows. How do I create a rectangle with a trapezoid bottom? I understand to make shapes I should make a selection and then stroke it, but how do I make a selection of this ...
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How to mimic this text in Gimp?
I found this really cool text, and would like to use the style but for a different word. How can I do it in GIMP or pixlr.com?
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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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Fixing fuzzy text in an icon?
I have an icon that looks like it was shrunk from a larger image. How can I easily clean up the text to make it look sharper?
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Standard pixel density for print? [duplicate]
I have to design a flyer for half of an 81/2 x 11 page. It mostly has images but some text. And I'm designing it in GIMP. Is there an industry standard dpi for simple prints? It's not magazine ...
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How to edit a closed shape drawn by Path Tool in GIMP?
I created a custom shape with custom pattern with the following steps:
Drawing the border lines with Path Tool
Making a closed shape by Selection from Path
Selecting the closed shape with Magic Wand ...
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GIMP Rounded Rectangle Radius > 100px?
I am wondering if there is a way to make GIMP (2.8 on Mac) allow me to make a rectangle with rounded corners - the radius being over 100 px. This seems to be the current limit.
This would greatly ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How does the GIMP function “perspective” work?
The function "perspective" looks like a 3*3-matrix with sine och cosines and is it translation, scaling, rotation, some combination or other? How does it work? Is "perspective" the real proper name ...
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Dotted square in gimp?
I've seen this effect on several sites, basically it's just a simple background with a bunch of dots, and I'd like to use this for a background for something but I don't know where to start!
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Can't see alpha channel in png using GIMP
I created an RGBA image as png file using Blender. When opening image with GIMP, not everything is visible.
Here's the original png file created with Blender:
Here how does it looks in GIMP:
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How to colorize a layer with semi transparent borders to a specific color in GIMP?
I have an white icon that needs to be colorized to a specific color. How do I do it in GIMP?
Keep in mind that it has semi transparent borders and transparent background, so using the bucket or ...
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How to apply anti-aliasing to a layer with a transparent background?
I have one layer with some black pixels in the middle and a transparent background.
If I add an opaque white background under it, merge both, and then click "Antialias" from the "Filters" menu, it ...
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Best Way To Make A pdf Book Cover for Create Space?
Let's suppose you have copies of Inkscape and GIMP. Let's suppose you download a paper back book cover template from Create Space and load it up into Inkscape. What steps do you take, what settings do ...
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Make part of image transparent in GIMP [duplicate]
Using Gimp, I want to make a small part of an image transparent. However, when I use colour to alpha, it turns the whole image partially transparent by removing the colour from all pixels.
Is there ...
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Annoying GIMP issue (fill bucket with a circle-slash icon on the cursor)
I am trying to bucket fill a layer, but I get this crazy cursor I cant get rid of. I think its because I have something selected. I tired Select All, Select None, but the cursor does not change.
I ...
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How do I create a tapered opacity effect around an image in gimp?
I'd like my image to blend into the background gradually around the edges on a web project I'm working on. How do I fade transparency around the edge of an image in gimp?
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Gettings Tools -window back in Gimp?
It is window with tools such as magic-wand -selector but cannot find anything from Tools or View -dropdowns. So how can I get the Tools -window back after closing it?
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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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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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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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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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Are there easy ways to convert an image to a cartoon achieving a high quality? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it easy to convert an image to a cartoon with high quality?
Is there some relatively easy way to convert an image to a cartoon with a high quality ? This example ...
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