Acrylic 3 and 4 are best brushes ever, change my mind

Hi, I downloaded GIMP on my Mac (Tahoe 26, Apple M5 chip) and was disappointed to see that no one had instructions to install G'MIC-Qt on GIMP v3. So I made my own!

Script and installation instructions: https://github.com/thefluffyslipper/mac-gimp3-gmic-installer/tree/main

Thanks to essigwurst on Github for making the initial script which I then tweaked.

Instructions:

1. Download the ./install-gmic-for-gimp-macos.sh file locally. I suggest placing it on your Desktop.

2. Run:

sh cd ~/Desktop chmod +x ./install-gmic-for-gimp-macos.sh ./install-gmic-for-gimp-macos.sh

1. Restart your machine, and then run it again:

sh cd ~/Desktop ./install-gmic-for-gimp-macos.sh

The script can take 10–30 minutes to finish compiling.

1. Open GIMP, open an image, and verify Filters → G'MIC-Qt exists. Done!

Hello there, i want create a Board Game. For the map i got a picture. Now i want to add fields on this picture. The lines should be really slim and the fields should be transparent. So only lines. In best Case hexagon fields.

I tried YouTube and everything but nothing that helps. And iam really new to gimp

Thank you all

We cannot yet stroke a vector layer with a brush, can we?
It's only full color or pattern?

Now if I do it the old fashion way via right click on the path I can stroke with a brush - but the stroke is cut off by the layer size. I can't make the vector layer larger - unless I rasterize it?

So why use a vector layer ... or better stay with the old pre GIMP3 habits?

Hi, reddit! I'm having a bit of an issue with the clone tool on GIMP. I know I must have done something wrong, but I'm at a loss as to what. I was using GIMP, my buddy asked me to bring up a YouTube video, so I minimized it, and when I brought up the application again, the clone tool suddenly wasn't working. Everything else was working fine--just not clone. I'm about ready to pull my hair out. Please! Someone help me!!

GIMP rasterizes a text layer the moment you rotate, scale, flip, or shear it. That means you can't edit the wording anymore. GIMP’s built-in "Recursive Transform" filter doesn't help here either because it's just a GEGL filter effect layered over stale text rather than a true non-destructive transform, and its main job (creating faded trailing copies) makes it the wrong tool for a clean single transform anyway.

GIMP will probably never have real 3D text (that's Blender's job), but when it comes to 2D text transforms and non-destructive text editing GIMP already has a working core for these features. The developer(s) who worked on it just got partway through, then shelved the whole thing...including the parts that were already finished.

If you dig into gimptextlayer-transform.c, you'll find pretty solid implementations for gimp_text_layer_rotate() and gimp_text_layer_flip(). The scale() and transform() functions are sitting there as empty stubs with / TODO / comments, left unfinished. The whole mechanism is wrapped in an #if0 / #endif block inside GimpTextLayer's class initialization, so it’s completely disabled at compile time. The other pieces are sitting right there in gimptextlayout-render.c and in gimptextlayout.c.

This isn't about designing a new system from scratch. It's mostly just about finishing code that GIMP already has. Anyone want to take a crack at it? It's a bit beyond my pay grade.

I have a layer that can be anywhere inside or outside the frame, and I want my python script to move it to the center.

transform_translate() uses relative coordinates, so I can't just find the center of the frame (I know how to do that), I also need to find the current location of the layer.

Also, getting the height/width of the layer would be useful, so I can align the center, not just the top left corner.

Edit: Gimp 3.2.4

I recently installed GIMP 3 and I have terrible time with it.

I use GIMP for work daily for last 15 years so I have quite a bit of practice with it, which combined with deadlines means I work very fast. Or I used to. In GIMP 3 every action has considerable delay and lag.

Opening files, exporting them, but crucially also panning and zooming the view, moving the layers... I opened GIMP 2 and GIMP 3 side by side and the performance decrease in the new one is very noticeable, frustrating and disruptive.

Did anyone else had similar issues? Did you manage to fix them?

Specs: Windows 10 Pro, 4770k, 16 GB RAM, GTX 1660, external ssd, GIMP 2.10.34 and GIMP 3.2.4.

I tried installing G'MIC so I could see if I could apply some film filters on my photos but G'MIC isn't showing up in the Filters tab. Help! I have GIMP v3.0.6. on Windows 11.

Just installed latest version 3.2.4 appimage on Kubuntu 26.04.

I can right click on the bucket fill to get the submenu, then left click on Gradient.

However, you can also long press with left click, get the same submenu but then you can't select either option.

This seems like a bug.

I use both gimp and darktable for my editing and im not sure if its better to use gimp before or after color grading?

im making a whole new genre 'ere

i used a online image compressor for the horrible quality so have fun with that

this is the result of me blasting in the hall of the mountain king too

the characters were made using vroid

i put the characters and text in using gimp (which is kinda obvs but i guess SOMEONE couldnt tell)

So I just started using Gimp, and I downloaded the photoshop plug and everything, but Its still not like the actual photoshop.
I've been trying to do a single rectangle for half an hour now, and I am starting to loose my patience.

So I made a square with the selection-tool (apparently cannot put in the actual measurements I need?), have to make a path, color in the path in another step, and then the square is on the wrong layer.
So I tried to cut it and wanted to paste it into the correct layer. I am already struggling to move it, because it will only let me if I grab exactly the outline, which is too thin, but I cannot get to change it. The selection tool is genuinely driving me crazy because its not doing what I am used to it doing. And cutting it didn't work at all, it keeps cutting the background, even when I specifically locked that layer.

I tried a new square on the correct layer, but now the lines don't show up at all.

This cannot be that complicated guys. What am I doing wrong?

Using the above picture as the base image, I would like to superimpose another picture on to this but have the second image only appear in the light sections of the above picture (and be faded out in the dark strip regions).

Now, I know a very basic way of doing this would be to have the second image selected and have it as a separate layer and then erasing over each dark section. But this seems like a rudimentary method that would leave hard edges.

Is there a way of creating a mask where the second image automatically fades into appropriate transparency depending on if its a dark region or a light region. So, I want the second image to only show on the light regions of the above pic and be transparent om the darker red bits.

I hope I made myself clear. I've been messing around with GIMP for years, here and there but would still consider myself a amateur.

I am very new to using gimp, how could i make this better, especially the text

Our Google Summer of Code students have been making great progress this year!

Here is just some of what they have been doing.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/07/18/gsoc-2026-midpoint-progress/

I'm creating a map for my dnd campaign (based on the real world map so I'm using gimp instead of any map generators) and there's going to be a lot of cities, so I'm wondering whether I can make it so that all the city names (which are going to be in different places and probably different colors) are all on the same layer?

I use the foreground select tool, trace around the whole thing, then press enter.

What then?

Driving me nuts.

I had a problem with the tool windows disappearing so I did a reset of the GIMP gui recently. Also did an update around the same time.

Now, the tool an dialog boxes are not crashing (at least so far). But, the text in the dialog boxes and tools is insanely small. Probably 4px if I was to gander a guess!

Is there something I need to reset to get it back to normal?

also for some reason i couldnt warp the background but yeah its still good without the hills

im also kinda new to gimp