GIMP makes my photo editing so much easier, and I am able to achieve what I want thanks to this program. I know a lot of people want things for free and are willing to sit through pop-ups and ads to do it. I would rather give my money for something that I find worthwhile.
I had an old version of Photoshop with a license I paid for that worked fine until they went to their subscription program. I'm just an amateur - what I do is not worth their program and pay wall.

Thank you GIMP for helping to make it worth my while to lug around a full-size camera when I travel.

Topkapi Palace, Bosporus Strait

I think other people have alluded to this in other situations, but here's are examples where changes you make don't seem to "stick" and be available right away. Other times the catalog just seems out of whack occasionally. I can see why constantly updating the catalog could overload somebody's system, so maybe there should be a manual catalog update option instead of having to close the program.

First, a simple example. This is not a serious problem, but could result in some occasional confusion. As in this case when I'm trying to set up photos to make a panorama. The catalog is sorted by Edits/Descending. The center photo is actually the last one edited, but in order to show that, you have to go up to the menu and reselect sort options:

After editing 1795

Now it's where it should be

Here is a more significant situation. I make a pano of the first two photos above. Notice in the catalog preview they are both pretty much the same luminosity, etc. But when I make the pano you get this:

Notice the dark difference where the photos overlap.

Now, to emphasize the effect, I go back into 1795 and overexpose it:

How it looks in the catalog.

But when I now make a pano of the same two photos, I get the same as the previous result. It completely ignores my last edit

Exact same result.

Even after closing and reopening the program I still get the exact same result. So I am not really sure what the problem is, but I don't see how that overexposed photo on the left could continue to come out looking so dark in the panorama.

In general, most (all?) of the gripes I have about Neo involve a lack of options or defaults. The inability to customize the program to suit the individual user. Here is number one on my list:

I work hard to keep my files organized, because I confess it's not my strong suit.

I would like to have the option to view files in a root directory without seeing files in the subdirectory, unless I actually select that subdirectory. This is a really big one for me-it really screws with my work flow.

For example, let's say I have a folder marked called Istanbul with 203 raw files and it. I load that into Neo, then work on say 40 of them. I then export those 40 as TIF files. to keep things clean I don't want to create a separate folder, I would like to put them in a subfolder called "Good ones", or something like that. But with the current state of folder management in Neo,when I look at the root folder I would see all 243 files. I know I can sort them by file type or edit time, but it would just be nice to keep them separate.

Consider an additional example: Instead of "Good ones", suppose I want to create subsets by category. Mosques, Landscapes, Statuary, etc. That seems like a reasonable thing for a photographer to want to do. Putting them all in subfolders would make accessing them in Neo extremely painful. But the alternative is to have a bunch of separate folders, instead of keeping everything organized under the one main category of "Istanbul".

That's my main beef. What's yours?

It has been a few weeks since I have used GIMP. I did a complete refresh of my PC and reinstalled GIMP. I notice a change in the toolbox-I swear the toolbox-tool options and the layers menu were attached as one pop-up window. Am I missing something? I can't seem to get it back to that state .

Thanks!

https://preview.redd.it/ajgyj5ae7h4h1.jpg?width=7680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=96106e140bf69016264e81a488078041c81f457a

Here's one for you:

Recently, I booted my computer and found that all of my icons had disappeared from the main screen and auto-arranged themselves onto the other two monitors (even though I don't use auto-arrange). I can drag icons back to the main screen, but they are not visible. If I move my mouse around, I can still find and select them where I dragged them.

I've been using this setup for about 2 years. This started happening just a couple of days ago. I didn't change any settings, though there were a couple of security updates installed five days ago.

3 Monitors identified:

https://preview.redd.it/pgn3bhnf4h4h1.jpg?width=7680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b72f12153473cdc5228b2affe20f3a090ad82216

Entire Desktop showing:

https://preview.redd.it/4tmz6qui4h4h1.jpg?width=7680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a2faec79a220b0ef7e583b317b2d89363ae61dd5

Icons are there - just invisible:

https://preview.redd.it/4hrbff6q4h4h1.jpg?width=1632&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5338f40c4abbb61e2a28bf9744ab7f863ea6c279

If I make Monitor 1 the Main monitor it fixes it. I tried moving monitors, switching cables, resetting the icon cache, etc. Then I even did a clean Windows install ( I thought it deserved it).

After moving monitors I have this now:

https://preview.redd.it/ya02p0ki7h4h1.jpg?width=7680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=188bb8a37cd58ec598bfd839f6bee2d06a7bc3b0

Same issue, but if I make Monitor 3 the main window, icons are invisible on 1 AND 3.

This just seems crazy.

Any ideas?

System Info:
Edition: Windows 11 Home
Version: 25H2
Installed on: ‎8/‎21/‎2025
OS build: 26200.8457
Experience: Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.304.0

Video: Radeon RX560 2G Graphics Card, with 4 HDMI

 

One day recently I booted my computer and all of the icons were gone from my main screen and auto-arranged on the other 2 (I don't use auto-arrange). I can drag icons to the screen, but they are not visible. If I wander around with my mouse I will find icons where I dragged them to.

This just started happening a couple of days ago. I did not change any settings. There were a couple of security updates 5 days ago, nothing else.

https://preview.redd.it/kppo9qfkrb2h1.jpg?width=7680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ba7df27099cab11d35c9a8b46cc131924d493982

https://preview.redd.it/50qk2o0qrb2h1.jpg?width=7680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=09d46e8f3a4360fb1709268437674a68267832b9

See - it's still there!

Edition Windows 11 Home

Version 25H2

Installed on ‎8/‎21/‎2025

OS build 26200.8457

Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.304.0

My Active 2 has been great, but suddenly has developed a charging issue. It will only charge if I hold it pressed down against the charger. I have several chargers, including the original that came with it, and they all act the same way-so it's not the charger. I have not done anything to possibly damage the back of it. I tried cleaning it with a lens wipe but that did not help. has anyone else experienced this? I presume it will be covered under warranty as I have only had it since September.

Windows 11-I got home from a long trip and updated GIMP to 3.2.4. Batcher was gone. I looked it up and they had an update for that also. I deleted the old one and installed the new one in every plug-in directory I could find, but still nothing. There is a comment about making sure gimp is Python enabled. I don't quite get how to do that but, it worked before so I presume it was.

I'm dying here because without being able to save individual layers my workflow is sunk. And I'm still wondering why there isn't just a built-in option when everything else gimp does with layers is just so wonderful.

Thanks for anyone can who can help me.