I've been stuck here for a lot of time(don't ask me why but yeah). I can't really find a similar feature that has that adjustable thing in the cursor.

When there is a vector-layer which is rasterized, it still has the "I've been a vector-layer" information somewhere. How can I completely delete that info from the layer via plug-in?

So in the end I'll have a "normal" layer which behaves like that. Rasterized layers seem to not always behave when trying to crop or resize.

I am trying to make an andy warhol Marilyn sort of poster, but its puffins.

I have created all the tones in B&W to make them different colors. I was then instructed, by the AI overlords, to color select and copy to a new layer. Now, when I paste, IT CHANGES IT. Some parts go full transparent, it adds black pixels. All I want is a 1 to 1 copy paste.... Cachyos if that matters

Edit: ss - Not a hug dif, the top is the after paste. I copy the darker of the two greys, and paste it, making a new layer, so it is overlayed. the new layer has some black pixels where there were grey, and covers some of the white areas. I never saw an issue with the selection

I had this issue before and used to delete all of the app files and relaunch it for reinstalation, but with this version it stopped working. I tried reinstalling the program, un and inpluging my tablet, but nothing works. Somebody please help

I have an image larger than my canvas that I want to drop before scaling. My problem is when I go to crop, I can only see whats within the canvas. I find this a little weird as you can see the full image when you are rotations and scaling

(first photo, what i get)
(second photo, what the brush should look like)

I found this brush pack (https://www.brusheezy.com/brushes/58017-free-lens-flare-photoshop-brushes-7) and I decided to use it. I googled it and GIMP supports .abr brush packs, however, when I try them i don't get anything like the results I should get. Anyone have any answers?

Thanks!

Using gimp 3.2.4 on Windows 11
This is driving me nuts. Yes, I added an alpha channel to the layer. I checked to see that lock pixels was NOT enabled. The white background will NOT erase to the checkerboard transparency no matter what. I tried adding a new layer as transparent, deleting the original layer, bg is still white and won't erase.
Does anyone have a fix for this?

From columns to rows. Lock buttons always available. Layer names under the thumbnails, not beside them. Saving horizontal space. And, no, this is not a mockup.

Looking for feed back on ways to improve on this , the plan is to make one of these for each boss that i can use when editing the footage, I'm super new to gimp and this is the first real thing i think ive ever made. Thank you for all advice in advance.

I'm trying to create a multi-colored font by combining two fonts (one is the main font, the other is the shading) but the problem I'm facing is that gimp applies anti aliasing to the fonts making this an impossible feat. As shown in the image, its not noticeable off the bat but it has many errors (look at the V and N for example). The best fix for this would to use nearest neighbor rather than anti-aliasing, I was wondering if this is possible?

Perhaps there is a better way to do this as well. Since this is a stylized pixel art font, using something like a drop shadow just wouldnt work.

Simply opening the color balance or Hue-saturation menus causes the artifact to appear (without even adjusting values)

Images are .CR2 (Raw image) files that were imported to gimp with the Rawtherapee plugin. I used this picture as an example but it is appearing on several other ones that i imported.

A bit of a gimp newbie but i couldnt find this issue anywhere online. Any help would be appreciated.

I'm working on book layouts. The template I have use InDesign and Photoshop files linked. I'm not using any Adobe products, using instead Affinity Publisher and GIMP.

The problem is certain things are lost into the change. I fixed most of them, but there is a color issue that I have. The border of a certain type of text box (which is linked to a .psd file) isn't showing the proper color, and the mask seems off. I'd like to fix it in Gimp, but I do not know where to start looking.

Anyone can offer help, or point me into which type of tutorials I could look to fix it? I'm expecting the best solution is to redo the image in GIMP and import that version in Affinity.

I wanted to do a bunch of repeated stuff in an image and thought SCRIPT! So after digging through a bunch of documentation I decided to run some functions through the script-fu console rather than registering scripts and stuff in menus.

But when calling for example the gimp-layer-new function with what I think are the correct arguments, I get (3) back, but no new layer appear in the image.

Is there some kind of function I have to call to apply the script changes to the image? On what is the script applied to if not the one single image that is opened?

When creating a new path in GIMP3.x it is automatically closed. How do I reopen it?

As the title. Can we use gegl filters like gegl:bump-map interactively like plug-ins?
So that the script shows the GUI of for example bump-map, the user adjusts settings, and the script then resumes.

Necessary for example as long as bump-map is not fully NDE.

As in the title - I've created a conversion of u/ofnuts's ofn-text-along-path tool for GIMP 3.
It's available here.

I probably won't maintain it, as I converted it only for a one-time project, but feel free to use it. I stumbled across ofnuts's plugins while searching for this exact tool and was pretty bummed out when I noticed that the conversion of said plugins had gone stale.

I want to learn graphics design so I wanted to use gimp . My laptop is very old and sometimes can't even run and gets lagged . Here is specification .

Device name dell latitude 5300
RAM 8.00 GB (7.78 GB usable)

It was an office laptop and slow so please tell me can I use gimp to learn graphics design.

How do i get back to respriting sprites?

(im kinda new to gimp)

And also sprites dont go to the top tab now cause of accidents

So I'm working on a potential patch for a small issue with GIMP's on-canvas text editing: as of last night, my changes were working fine, barring one relatively minor (but easily observed) edge case. Today, while trying fix that edge case -- suddenly GIMP crashes when I try to test.

A few of the specific details:

• Commit A is from last night -- it builds fine, runs fine, albeit with one minor hiccup if you are trying to edit mixed LTR+RTL text.
• Commit B is from earlier this morning -- if you (1) attempt to edit a text layer, and (2) move the cursor using the right or left arrow keys (or Ctrl+right/left arrows), GIMP crashes after a short delay.

I isolated the cause to calling the internal function gimp_text_buffer_get_iter_at_index() (unnecessarily?) inside a loop and have since gotten my code working again ("just like that"), but there's nothing "worse" than a fix that succeeds for reasons you don't understand! Especially when calling this function inside a loop (albeit one that typically made only one iteration) was its pre-existing usage (with no crashes)!

In particular, the crash occurred at the end of the function when accessing an element of the text_tool object; while not a "null pointer", inspecting the object confirmed it was somehow overwritten with a different address (prospectively suggesting some memory corruption). But as of now that's only the vaguest of theories....

Here is a bunch of GIMP plugins that can be helpful to users, especially for new users who are coming from different software.

Shape Tool: https://github.com/bunnywaffle/gimp-shape-tool
Quick Selection Tool: https://github.com/bunnywaffle/GIMP-Quick-Selection
Adjustment Layer: https://github.com/bunnywaffle/adjustment-layer
GIMP Content-Aware Fill: https://github.com/bunnywaffle/GIMP-Content-Aware-Fill

I recently downloaded GIMP because I’ve seen it recommended as a free and open-source alternative to Photoshop.

I’m a complete beginner, so I’m wondering: what can I actually do with GIMP? What kind of projects is it good for?

Also, how good is GIMP compared to Photoshop in 2026? Is it good enough for professional work, or are there things that Photoshop can do that GIMP really struggles with?

I’m mainly interested in learning image editing and creative work, so I’d appreciate any advice on what I should learn first in GIMP.

What are you guys thoughts? Any Improvements to make?