I art done! Look great!

I am not someone who knows how to draw so It is not that good in artistic way, but I just made this out of boredom.

I can't seem to find that option anywhere, I'm trying to make PS1 style textures using real images and scaling them down to 256x256 from 2048x2048 to get that pixelated look but it comes out blurry when using these options:

Is there a version of gimp with a better UI like maybe a user made theme or something. These endless text menus that you have to google and try 5 times before you get a half right explanations just so you can make a red square or make the eraser erase instead of doing nothing is so painful. Like I imagine to get into hell you have to make it through an UI like this every day for it to start over different.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/10/01/liam-quin-interview-lgm2017/

The interviews were done during the https://www.LibreGraphicsMeeting.org/ conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2017.

I used to use Photoshop a lot to create actions that record image edits so I could apply them to multiple images at once. Does GIMP have a similar feature?
Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-rKI96YooA

Every time I've gone to use it, it's made Gimp crash. This is my third time and I've lost edits every single time. Is anyone else experincing this or is it just me?

I made a Gimp editor VHS and sonic logo.

Made in gimp

I need help in recreating the effect that is used on RED Team text "Reliable Excavation Demotion text", like curl in in a shape of a circle. How you see.

Does anyone know whether one of the recent updates to GIMP changed some functionality of the Python API (possibly the update to 3.2.6 or earlier)?

My specific problem concerns selecting the alpha of a layer and then copying from another layer with this selection. Here is the command flow of what I am doing:

pattern_layer = image.get_layer_by_name("pattern_layer")
image.select_item(Gimp.ChannelOps.REPLACE, pattern_layer) #select alpha
source_layer = image.get_layer_by_name("source_layer")
Gimp.edit_copy([source_layer]) #copy the selection from source layer
target_layer = image.get_layer_by_name("target_layer")
pasted_layers = Gimp.edit_paste(target_layer, False) #paste to target layer
Gimp.floating_sel_anchor(pasted_layers[0])

In previous GIMP versions, this would make an exact selection of the alpha of the "pattern_layer", then copy exactly according to this selection from the "source_layer" and paste it to the "target_layer".

In the most recent version, it still selects the alpha of the pattern_layer but when actually copying from the source_layer, it makes an additional rectangle around the selection and then copies the rectangle instead. (But what I need is copying the alpha-selection, not the rectangle around it.)

Does anyone know something about this new mechanism and when the GIMP devs have changed it? Would help me a lot! Many thanks!

Edit: I just downgraded my GIMP to 3.2.4 and my above code works again (without copying the additional rectangle). So they changed smth about the above python commands in the transition from 3.2.4 to 3.2.6. Would still be cool if someone knows of any exact documentation of the Python API changes or whether this new behavior is intended or rather a bug.

As the title says, I’m looking for some help. I have never used photo editing before, and I hear gimp is pretty good. But there’s so many buttons. And with my limited (non existent) knowledge, I can’t figure out how to do what I’m trying to do. I need my work space to obviously be 8.3x11.7 and I’m trying to have 2 images in that work space. The images I’m working with need to roughly be 4x7. I tried to do it, and the images came out way too small. Like 90% smaller. Wasted material. As I’m printing on water slide paper. Thanks for any help.

First time haven’t used Smearing tool

Hello everyone! I'm back again with some new art from my designated troll den™ and after a lot of time spent on her, I've reworked on Penelope again and brought back some old elements of her older designs. Why, you ask? I liked how one of her older designs looked in the past, so I brought it back but tweaked it to match her current color palette and character design change. I also simplified some things in her design to be much easier for people to draw her whenever they feel like it and changed the design of her shoes a bit as well, too. Back pockets included and no, making her long neck fat wasn't fun for me but I got it done regardless. Enjoy!

In case there's any mistakes with her official artwork, I'll be happy to go back and refine it. All the assets shown here were made in GIMP 2.10.38.

Edit: Resolved

Hello, I just moved some lines since it was kind of far from the center and now there's a layer boundary and I can't paint beyond it. I don't want to make it invisible, I want to draw normally like how I did before I moved the lines.

I need to have huge amount of photos of same size put into one PDF. It should be simple: import photos as layers.

Okay, some photos have wrong orientation, therefore don't fit the document. I try rotating them via some external editor, because it's fast and handy. Photos show as rotated via any image viewer I try.

I open them via GIMP, and THEY STILL HAVE WRONG ORIENTATION

I try rotating them indiviually via GIMP, which takes more time, but whatever. Save them as JPG.

When I open them on GIMP, THEY STILL HAVE WRONG ORIENTATION

There is no single option during import/export, nothing. I just can't have my photos the way I saved them.

What's even problem here?

Or alternatively, how can I create PDF from multiple photos of same size but different orientation?

Disclaimer: complete noobie.

Can someone describe the steps to remove this zoomed in photo of an accidental mark on paper? What's the closest way to make it appear as if it's unedited? I have a pet peeve when it comes to minor details even on my edits.

The smudge tool is too obvious even when zoomed out. And when I copy a rectangle area on a different part of the paper and paste it over this area, I see the borders of the rectangle and don't know how to blend it naturally to hide it.

Much appreciated.

Estuve un buen rato trabajando casi pixel por pixel. Estuve mezclando diferentes efectos de GIMP: combinando capa tras capa sumado a modos de color, y después fue puro jugar con el mezclador y pinceles.

Acepto críticas y sugerencias para seguir mejorando. ¿Qué les parece el resultado?

I am using Arch Linux and few day's ago I update my Arch Linux ( sudo pacman -Syu ) and gimp update as well with it.

Before this update Gimp was working properly but after this update gimp transform tools with text tool dose not work properly.

Gimp version= 3.2.6
OS= Arch Linux

No mater what I type everything have the same problem.

as per the images. I made the taller white version, then used Ctrl + Alt + drag to move the top section down to shrink the body and make the whole model a little shorter. After recolouring, I exported the shorter version to find the tall version still visible in the background.

Is there any way to remove the background faster? Even my iPhone can just crop a person out from an image after pressing on it .... even free AI tools do it in seconds. Is there a function im not aware they added or is gimp on that point still in 2020?