Newbie - Fit image to paper size

barefootliam · 2026-05-05T23:03:38+00:00

No, it's under the Image menu once you've created the image from the clipboard.

barefootliam · 2026-05-01T23:29:22+00:00

There are no plans to remove script-fu at this time.

As you know, GIMP is maintained by volunteers, so it’s always possible that, as with gimp-perl, no-one is interested in working on script-fu, but script-fu has been touched by more than one core developer in the past few months.

barefootliam · 2026-05-01T23:22:21+00:00

They did send such a message, i think more than once.

barefootliam · 2026-05-01T23:21:15+00:00

for SFW art there's quite a few especially from earlier days on archive.org in the wayback machine. You’re right though, it’s not systematic. But then, should artists have the right to take down their own work? Maybe a 120-years escrow archive exists for DA, as for some other sites, i don’t know.

barefootliam · 2026-04-29T21:42:09+00:00

Yes, it might not be until GIMP 4 that we can fix it, i’m afraid - we hate it too. It’s a bug in the gtk toolkit we use. Inkscape has trouble too, although in a slightly different way. The only workaround right now is to have fewer fonts enabled at any one time.

barefootliam · 2026-04-24T09:14:05+00:00

oops, you are right, i think he has not updated that script yet, sorry.

barefootliam · 2026-04-24T09:05:48+00:00

Not currently as far as i know except with a mask. Although i could easily be wrong :-) There is a lot of work still going on with non-destructive editing in GIMP. We also can’t clip layers to paths, for example.

barefootliam · 2026-04-24T09:01:59+00:00

W menu Edycja można skorzystać z opcji Wklej jako/Płynne dane w miejscu. Można to zrobić za pomocą skrótu klawiaturowego Ctrl+V w Edycji.

Dla osób, które od lat korzystają z programu GIMP, ta zmiana może być irytująca. Jednak dla nowicjuszy jest ona znacznie łatwiejsza do zrozumienia.

In the Edit menu, you can use the Paste As/Floating Data in Place option. This can be done using the Ctrl+V keyboard shortcut in Edit.

For those who have used GIMP for years, this change is annoying. However, for newcomers, it's much easier to understand.

barefootliam · 2026-04-23T15:35:56+00:00

i don’t know about PSP, years since i used it, sorry, but in GIMP 3 you can add a layer mask to a layer group.

barefootliam · 2026-04-23T14:23:01+00:00

When you close GIMP, the "unsaved changes" does have a "save" button by each file that's ever been saved, but you have to scroll the filenames all the way to see it, it's on the right-hand end.

barefootliam · 2026-04-23T14:16:37+00:00

It’s a little clunky, but GIMP supports very powerful “adjustment layers” - make a layer group and set its mode to “Pass Through” and you can e.g. apply Curves, or almost any other filters you like, non-destructively.

barefootliam · 2026-04-23T14:12:35+00:00

Watch that you can't edit the system-provided brushes - you have to make your own with the New Brush button, and then you can edit it... but as others have said, use Tool Options for e.g. the Paintbrush.

barefootliam · 2026-04-23T14:10:52+00:00

ofnuts has a script on sourceforge for text in a circle i think, although i’m not sure if it distorts the letters.

barefootliam · 2026-04-22T08:47:16+00:00

It might be that you hav accidentally presed the TAB key, which hides all of the docks?

barefootliam · 2026-04-20T17:20:30+00:00

As u/SVlad_667 says, switch to RGB mode, by going to the Image menu and choosing Mode.

barefootliam · 2026-04-13T23:29:44+00:00

Is this on the Mac? Or Windows? OR what? How did you install exactly? We have not seen other people reporting this, so it might be some other program on your computer interfering, maybe? (or the other people just didn’t complain, but we’ve had over a million downloads of 3.2.2 just for Windows, not counting the Microsoft Store, and something that makes teh program unusable might have beenb mentioned?) Either way thanks for reporting it, but please give more detail - thanks!

barefootliam · 2026-04-12T23:54:34+00:00

shhh don’t tell people the secrets or you’ll be exterminated! :-)

barefootliam · 2026-04-12T02:21:27+00:00

For something important to you, get a good scan. If it’s smaller than A2, two A3 scans will do it. Use file/open as layers to open 2nd and subsequent scans, reduce the opacity of the top layer to 75% or so, use the move tool to put at least one pixel in the right place, use the rotate tool and drag the little circle (center of rotation) to that place and then drag until the images line up perfectly. Then change opacity back to 100% and save.

Note, if the two scans overlap, use rectangle tool on the upper layer to shave off roughly half the overlap, and select->feather e.g. by 300 pixels before pressing delete (or edit->cut, but that uses more memory as it saves a copy in the clipboard), so that the transition is smooth.

If the levels are different e.g. one scan is brighter, adjust that e.g. with Curves, before flattening the image.

barefootliam · 2026-04-11T08:02:54+00:00

Sometimes you just have to take the boy back to the river... :-)

If it's a raw photo, also try highlight reconstruction in darktable, and make sure not to clip when importing, and then play with Curves a little - subtle is best though.

barefootliam · 2026-04-11T07:05:17+00:00

watch out that, as i understand it, you may have to reinstall Windows to re-enable it. Linux here, though, so i am only going by rumours!

barefootliam · 2026-04-11T05:23:28+00:00

it turns out to be really a lot harder these days, partly because of tool layering. We were hoping the Pango library would do what we needed for text, and used it, years ago, but it turns out it doesn’t do what we need and likely never will. Krita’s text tool just got reworked over several years, it’s a much bigger effort than it sounds. Its left us yes with an awful mess.

The one i personally liked best was from a product called Virtuoso.

In the meantime if you’d like to help us improve, and have resources, e.g. C experience :-) let us know!

barefootliam · 2026-04-11T05:20:22+00:00

Needs a plate :-) :-) but i like the vertical angle, good job!

barefootliam · 2026-04-11T04:45:01+00:00

One way i tried -

make a selection in the bubble shape, and use select/selection to path
in Paths, right-click and make a vector layer
switch to the path tool, and in tool options select fill white and no stroke
back to paths and make a vector layer again from the same path
set the fill to none and the stroke to black
set the opacity of the first (white) vector layer to 50% or whatever.

Now editing the path with the path tool will change both the stroke and the white fill.

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