r/GIMP

Hi!

I'm extremely new to GiMP and came here when trying to learn how to make mods for a Deadlock. So I have a texture for a character and I want to change certain parts of the texture to be a different color. Is there an easy way to edit the textures without losing some of the shading they've already done? I know about Hue Chroma, but I only want to do it to a PART of the texture not the entire thing.

https://preview.redd.it/d2bhtmjxhc2h1.png?width=767&format=png&auto=webp&s=f82d51f259801516df3100086fc8f9ce4877a009

I'm essentially attempting to change anything that is red. I want it to be a different color, I just don't want to lose the shading the devs already put in.

Hi,

using the gradient editor with the dark default theme, can any of the developers really easily recognize which segment is the active one?

https://preview.redd.it/3d5vf8loya2h1.png?width=702&format=png&auto=webp&s=eb535c4dd313b45a889bc6835d70b06634330c58

Please: how can we make that so that it's clear where we are. I'm really struggling with this tool and not even being able to see what's active does not make it better.

As the title said, I am an idiot. I spent 4 hours on a project (a boarding ticket design for a ride on a flying carpet for a camp I volunteer at), which may have been at a working size of 20GB due to stupid choices in the canvas size. I generally only work with programs that have some form of autosaving, so I forgot to save during these 4 hours. Instead of saving when I finished it, I got curious and tried to export it to pdf first.
Since then GIMP has been on not responding.

I don't want to close it just in case it is just slowly working through putting everything in a pdf, but it has been stuck on using 41% of my CPU and 9GB of my RAM ever since, with only small fluctuations.

Is there anything I can do to save my work? I vaguely remember GIMP recovering some files after a crash, but am not sure about that. I am running Windows 10, so sadly no Linux tricks

Have mercy on the old and obsolete.

I've been using GIMP to create simple stick-figure drawings for 20+ years, and I can't figure out how 3.2 does it.

(Smegging reddit will not allow me to include screenshots. I'll see if I can put them in comments)

(No, it won't upload pictures there, either. Tanj)

ANYWAY.

For example:

In 3.0, I use the Path tool to draw two lines.

Then I use "Stroke Path" to draw a solid black line 6 pixels wide. And there it is.

When I use Path tool in 3.2, I pick my points for my two lines. There's no "Stroke Path" button. I tried using the 'Create New Vector Layer', and I got a new layer over in the Layers list on the right, but it doesn't create a line. I tried it again, and the 'Create New Vector Layer' button was greyed out, so I couldn't even get that.

I'm sure this Vector stuff is wonderful, but all I want is to draw straight lines. What am I missing?

I've been an Adobe user since high school but I am considering trying GIMP... how do they compare? I use Adobe for professional projects and would need GIMP to live up to standard. Looking for opinions from people with lots of experience using GIMP pls!!!

Also, if there are any youtube familiarization videos to recommend, pls drop them!

I really need help with this. I'm on Linux Mint and i originally had GIMP recognizing my brushes (a mix of gbr, png, and abr; yes, all of them are compatible), but it seems like every time i close GIMP is stops recognizing the brushes in my config folder and now i can't remember how i got it to recognize them last time i used them. I use so many of those brushes in my art and I'm at my wit's end trying to get them back.

https://preview.redd.it/49tmm3w3012h1.png?width=1597&format=png&auto=webp&s=714c83ab90853df2cbd24df498fecbae7813df26

I have the default for creating images set where I want it, but it makes me a little crazy that I can't seem to default images to open at anything other than 72 pixels/inch. My phone and Canon camera take photos at great resolution, so the 72 px/in default in GIMP makes my photos huge, a current one is 64 inches wide. I know how to scale individual images for what I want, but why should I have to do that for every single one, rather than just the ones that need to be different? I print a lot of my photos and tend to think in terms of good print resolution so would prefer my default photos at at least 300. Help?

my vertical guide axis counts up, i want it to count down. instead of 0 at the top and 150 at the bottom, i want 150 at the top and 0 at the bottom, like the 1st quadrant of a coordinate system, instead of the 4th.

can someone tell me where to change those settings (if they exist)? and if i have used any incorrect vocabulary I would really appreciate corrections so that I can navigate online GIMP help a little more quickly. i've been using tutorials as I need them, and struggle to learn using standard linear tutorial videos, and learn better by learning individual concepts as they are required.

thank you for your time.

I have created a new image in GIMP, opened a vector graphic that I made from scratch in Inkscape. So far so good. Did some coloring and moving around in GIMP. I saved my work. Checked metadata using exiftool. And found this:

Comment                         : Created with GIMP
Metadata Tag Name               : Exif.Image.BitsPerSample
Metadata Tag                    : 8 8 8
Metadata Namespace Prefix       : photoshop
Metadata Namespace Url          : http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/

I never used PS, so why is that in my files?

PS: just found out: it's already there when I just create a blank new picture with transparent BG and just save it as .xcf.

Is it really necessary that we have adobe in our OPEN Source made files?

(GIMP 3.2.4, PPA on Linux Mint22)

I formatted my laptop a few months ago and I forgot to jot down which version of GIMP I was using. I have the project files for that version, it's just they don't seem to say what version I was using. How can I go about finding out which version I was using?

If it helps I remember the version I was using loaded with a mushroomy kind of background every time I opened it. I believe I installed the version around 2023-24 and never updated it.

Please help me! Thank you!!!

Edit: Solved!! Thank you so much u/slush1000 ☺️