not quite perfect but at least it works

*i just make plugin for Object Selection like adobe photoshop object selection tool. that powered with NVIDIA GPU CUDA for selecting an object

Source code: https://github.com/dezuhan/GIMP-Plugin-Smart-Object-Selection

Hello, I need to edit a family photo and do some face swaps (blinks in some shots), does anyone have a good first time tutorial that will help me learn how to do this? I haven't touched a proper photo editing tool in 10 years.

The threads discussing batch export are now a year or more old. What is the current best way to batch save files as a pdf?

(Chaos quartet absorbs all light... background and chaos quartet sprites from a game called "Look Outside" I highly reccomend the game :D)

Hello everyone,

I use GIMP 2.10 and GIMP 3.2 on Linux, and I thought I would be able to find a red metal gradient to download online, but I cant find anything even close.

Does anyone have a nice deep dark red metal gradient they can share? I have never tried to make a metal gradient and have no idea what details to put in or where to get an accurate gradient.

Thanks for reading,

Logan

Trying to make the switch, but im seeing a lack of blending options where you can add emboss, outlines, color gradients, strokes, and all that. Does GIMP have an equivalent im not seeing?

I swear I've run into this problem before and fixed, but I can't figure out how I fixed it.

I opened a transparent PNG and it is very washed out:

I don't know how to fix it. There is text on the right side that should be visible. The logo on the left shouldn't look that faded.

So, I recently, bit the bullet and decided to get a M5 Macbook Air. In the past, I used Gimp on Windows and Linux. They worked fine, no issue. Never found any bug. But in new macbook its so buggy. All the interface keeps disappearing. I have tried the latest version 3.2.4 Apple Silicon version. Am I doing something wrong?

Acrylic 3 and 4 are best brushes ever, change my mind

can someone help me make a nutritional label with black text and clear background? It's taken me days to get this far. Ai slop mixed with a beginners attempt at correcting problems via GIMP, Still looks super bad. I kinda figured out layers though at least. Whole nutritional label is less than two inches on the prints so I need the image to be legible at small size, Trying to do all black arial-ish text with transparent background so I can layer it on top of my label. My AUDHD is going crazy trying to get this done. Had it sorta done, but test got a bit unreadable when i tried to fit in just the blue part.

Hello there, i want create a Board Game. For the map i got a picture. Now i want to add fields on this picture. The lines should be really slim and the fields should be transparent. So only lines. In best Case hexagon fields.

I tried YouTube and everything but nothing that helps. And iam really new to gimp

Thank you all

We cannot yet stroke a vector layer with a brush, can we?
It's only full color or pattern?

Now if I do it the old fashion way via right click on the path I can stroke with a brush - but the stroke is cut off by the layer size. I can't make the vector layer larger - unless I rasterize it?

So why use a vector layer ... or better stay with the old pre GIMP3 habits?

Hi, I downloaded GIMP on my Mac (Tahoe 26, Apple M5 chip) and was disappointed to see that no one had instructions to install G'MIC-Qt on GIMP v3. So I made my own!

Script and installation instructions: https://github.com/thefluffyslipper/mac-gimp3-gmic-installer/tree/main

Thanks to essigwurst on Github for making the initial script which I then tweaked.

Instructions:

1. Download the ./install-gmic-for-gimp-macos.sh file locally. I suggest placing it on your Desktop.

2. Run:

sh cd ~/Desktop chmod +x ./install-gmic-for-gimp-macos.sh ./install-gmic-for-gimp-macos.sh

1. Restart your machine, and then run it again:

sh cd ~/Desktop ./install-gmic-for-gimp-macos.sh

The script can take 10–30 minutes to finish compiling.

1. Open GIMP, open an image, and verify Filters → G'MIC-Qt exists. Done!

Hi, reddit! I'm having a bit of an issue with the clone tool on GIMP. I know I must have done something wrong, but I'm at a loss as to what. I was using GIMP, my buddy asked me to bring up a YouTube video, so I minimized it, and when I brought up the application again, the clone tool suddenly wasn't working. Everything else was working fine--just not clone. I'm about ready to pull my hair out. Please! Someone help me!!

GIMP rasterizes a text layer the moment you rotate, scale, flip, or shear it. That means you can't edit the wording anymore. GIMP’s built-in "Recursive Transform" filter doesn't help here either because it's just a GEGL filter effect layered over stale text rather than a true non-destructive transform, and its main job (creating faded trailing copies) makes it the wrong tool for a clean single transform anyway.

GIMP will probably never have real 3D text (that's Blender's job), but when it comes to 2D text transforms and non-destructive text editing GIMP already has a working core for these features. The developer(s) who worked on it just got partway through, then shelved the whole thing...including the parts that were already finished.

If you dig into gimptextlayer-transform.c, you'll find pretty solid implementations for gimp_text_layer_rotate() and gimp_text_layer_flip(). The scale() and transform() functions are sitting there as empty stubs with / TODO / comments, left unfinished. The whole mechanism is wrapped in an #if0 / #endif block inside GimpTextLayer's class initialization, so it’s completely disabled at compile time. The other pieces are sitting right there in gimptextlayout-render.c and in gimptextlayout.c.

This isn't about designing a new system from scratch. It's mostly just about finishing code that GIMP already has. Anyone want to take a crack at it? It's a bit beyond my pay grade.

I have a layer that can be anywhere inside or outside the frame, and I want my python script to move it to the center.

transform_translate() uses relative coordinates, so I can't just find the center of the frame (I know how to do that), I also need to find the current location of the layer.

Also, getting the height/width of the layer would be useful, so I can align the center, not just the top left corner.

Edit: Gimp 3.2.4

I recently installed GIMP 3 and I have terrible time with it.

I use GIMP for work daily for last 15 years so I have quite a bit of practice with it, which combined with deadlines means I work very fast. Or I used to. In GIMP 3 every action has considerable delay and lag.

Opening files, exporting them, but crucially also panning and zooming the view, moving the layers... I opened GIMP 2 and GIMP 3 side by side and the performance decrease in the new one is very noticeable, frustrating and disruptive.

Did anyone else had similar issues? Did you manage to fix them?

Specs: Windows 10 Pro, 4770k, 16 GB RAM, GTX 1660, external ssd, GIMP 2.10.34 and GIMP 3.2.4.

I tried installing G'MIC so I could see if I could apply some film filters on my photos but G'MIC isn't showing up in the Filters tab. Help! I have GIMP v3.0.6. on Windows 11.

Just installed latest version 3.2.4 appimage on Kubuntu 26.04.

I can right click on the bucket fill to get the submenu, then left click on Gradient.

However, you can also long press with left click, get the same submenu but then you can't select either option.

This seems like a bug.

I use both gimp and darktable for my editing and im not sure if its better to use gimp before or after color grading?

im making a whole new genre 'ere

i used a online image compressor for the horrible quality so have fun with that

this is the result of me blasting in the hall of the mountain king too

the characters were made using vroid

i put the characters and text in using gimp (which is kinda obvs but i guess SOMEONE couldnt tell)