When I move anything around, the canvas (or whatever I am moving) starts to tear (the rendering of the canvas tears up). The movements also start to lag quite a bit. The canvas takes about half a second to refresh properly (i.e. the tears start to disappear).

Attached is a screenshot of a torn canvas while moving it around.

I have tried this on 3 PCs so far. Two PCs have ATI cards and the third PC has an NVIDIA card. I have updated the graphics card drivers (does Gimp 2.8 use the GPU to draw the canvas?)

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I have a 25 layer animated gif done. I also have a png of the same size with a transparent background. I want to run that png image on each layer so the background is animated while the foreground is not.

How do I add that layer to each one of the 25 layers of the gif so that the background looks animated while the foreground looks still? Thank you so much. Version 2.6.11

I have attached the 25 layer background and the single top layer.

I have a great picture of Jet Jaguar. I'm interested in pixel art, so I reduced the colors to an indexed 16 colors. I am quite pleased with the result:
   
I want to save the 16 colors in this pic to a palette for later, but how?

I've been looking in vain through the menus for a way to save this colormap as a palette. Maybe there's a script or plugin somewhere, but it is hard for me to believe there isn't a built-in way to do this.

Hi everyone,

I notice with GIMP 2.8 that I can't type in numeric values if I want to scale/rotate/etc. a selection. I can use the mouse to manipulate my selection freely, but I'm pretty out of luck if I want an exact value (though I know that I can hold Ctrl for certain snapping, which is extremely helpful). Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this, or if I am missing something? I'd very much appreciate any and all help!

I'm fairly new to GIMP (been a user for the past couple of months), so please forgive any noobishness!

Thanks,
Chris

Hi all-
I need to design a vinyl banner using GIMP. The size of the banner will be 4'X8'. What size should I set the starting image size WXH ?? Should I keep it at pixels instead of footage?
Thanks in advance!

is there a setting that i can have whatever i scan automatically open up in gimp when i scan it...?
greatly appreciate your help in advance. not a huge, huge ordeal, it would save maybe 2 steps in my daily drill. more just to please the boss.

I installed Gimp 2.8 for Windows tonight on an XP SP3 system and it hangs for more than 30min when starting (never completes initializing). Gimp 2.8 takes 50% CPU and 184Mb RAM and sits "Gathering Data" with no further progress. I end up killing the process.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled into a fresh directory with no change. I gave up and tried to reinstall 2.6 and get almost the same issue except RAM usage goes up to 550Mb and it sits at the startup screen.

Any ideas/suggestions appreciated.

Wardie

I'm a newbie so if this is the wrong section, forgive me.

I just downloaded GIMP 2.8 for Max Snow Leopard. I like a lot of the new features, particularly being able to use the one window feature.

I'm having some challenges with Text along path. I found it under the context menu okay. However, when I use it, only part of the words I'm trying to put on the selected path show up. I was using three words that amount to a total of 20 letters. The last half of the last word is getting cut off. I've tried several different things to no avail.

Anyone else had that issue?

In Gimp 2.6 the User Interface was nearly perfect translated to Dutch.
Now I upgraded Gimp (via ppa) to 2.8 and the translation is nearly complete gone.

My questions:
- is there a possibility to copy the translation from 2.6 to 2.8?
- how can I support the translation of the UI to Dutch?
- in what file and directory can I find the translation?

In GIMP 2.8, I've been having a great deal of trouble getting good edges around elements that must be overlaid onto new items.

Such items seem to need (a) a progressive blur around the edges and inward to its center, and (b) a decreasing opacity from the edges and inward toward the center.

I cannot figure out how to satisfactorily achieve this. I use this all the time, but now in 2.8 I cannot. (The only "solution" I can think of is using a fuzzy brush around the entire perimeter, but that does not blur it, and, of course, it takes forever....there's no point in even having a matte if you're going to do it manually!)

This is very significant for me. If anybody could provide solutions, I'll be hugely grateful.

(Also....I understand that this is a horrible cut-out of Batman! I did that intentionally just to demonstrate the problem.)