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Hi,
  I was wondering how I might go about recreating something like this:

http://lostinwonderlandxx.tumblr.com/post/10064605078

My concerns lie only with the excution (i.e. making gifs, possibly from video clips, sizing of gifs and canvas so everything is equal, etc.) and not the coloring. :) As detailed as possible would be great; I'm rusty with GIMP and even worse with animations. I use Windows and GIMP 2.2.4.  Thanks!

I'm sure anyone who used Microsoft Paint knew that if you wanted to add a background to something, you made sure that the image's "background" was white before opening a new document and pasting your intended background in, then paste your image in on top of it, click the second little button with the shapes under the toolbox that doesn't have a name, and voila! Your image would have a crappy background.

...GIMP doesn't do that, apparently. Or maybe it does, but I just haven't noticed because I'm new to it.

I've been messing around with it for over an hour, and the closest I've gotten is meshing the two images together into a kinda 2-in-1 type thing, but sadly, that's not quite what I want.

If there's a way to make an image into an actual background for another one in GIMP, I would be so thankful to know. I'd love to be able to put backgrounds on images and have it actually look good...

I have a logo that I need to shrink. The PTBs have text on the logo, so while the image shrinks pretty well, the text looks fuzzy.
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Like that.

If I remember what I was doing to get it smaller, I stepped it down a few times and did the enhancement-sharpent filter at 20 on each step.

I'm by no means genius with GIMP, mostly just having used it to follow some icon tutorials, so any advice would be greatly appreciated.

it's not exactly to do with gimp, but with the formats, rather.

so i want to colour a picture, and i work with several layers. but when i don't manage to finish the whole picture in one go - under which format can i save the picture so that the layers remain? i know it works when i save it as .gif - but then the problem is that the colour palette is reduced to the mere necessities and even the colouration of the picture itself has gone all weird.

is there a way i can save a picture in a format - WITH keeping the colours the way they are and with every colour available to further use? and, of course, ALL layers too?

any help would be greatly appreciated :)

Hi everyone. I noticed that there is a new version of Gimp out and I wondered what you think of it. Is there anything significantly different about 2.6 than 2.4? Any cool new features or bugs I should know about? I'd like a bit more information before I decide to update. Thanks!

Hello! So, I just downloaded GIMP like an hour ago maybe and I have a question, though the amount of tutorials and basic information out there is a little daunting to sift through.

I'm used to making icons in photoshop, and with black and white images, going to Layers, then clicking the Channels tab, then clicking the little dotted circle button on the bottom (I can't remember what it's called for the life of me, haha) so that it will select all the white space in the image. Then you can just click delete so that you're left with the line art and can color as you please. I figured out how to make layers and whatnot pretty fast in GIMP, but I was wondering what the equivalent tool for deleting the white out of your image was? If anyone could even just point me to the appropriate tutorial or anything, I would be extremely grateful.

Thank you!

Um, I know I sound like a complete fucktard idiot, but I'm quite stuck: I've made some random things as newb which I quite like the look of, but it won't let me upload the images onto my photobucket account. I've also tried copying the images onto word to save as a web page for easier loadage, but nothing happens.

Am I quite losing the plot or is there some obvious way that's just invisible to me?

Thank you!

Okay, I just downloaded GIMP a few days ago and I've been fooling around with it. I'm really confused how to upload textures, fonts or brushes. I'm also confused on how to use layers and stuff. Is it kind of like photoshop with the clicking and dragging thing? My sister uses photoshop but I don't. I downloaded GIMP because I heard it was easier so I want to learn the basics and stuff. Do I need to download anything more then just GIMP itself?

Can anyone help me? It will be greatly appreciated. ;;

I've been messing around in the Gimp over the past few days and I think I've done a pretty good job learning on my own (so to speak...I made the userpic I'm using. I'm fairly proud of it xD)

So I feel kind of stupid since these seem like things I should be able to find on the net (I searched before I posted, honest!) but first of all when making icons:

1. how do you make borders or rounded edges? 

2. what, exactly, do brushes DO? I mean, I understand the concept, but when I was messing with them all they seemed to do was make my picture look like a 5 year old made it  -____-

3. where or how does one make cute little hearts (sometimes see them in speech bubbles) they look like they are outlined like how you do with text (I know how to do that)...I'm guessing it involves adding it as a layer xD thats all I know. 

Any help would be super appreciated! Thank you :)

Okay, let me just preface this by saying that I'm not entirely sure how to word this, or even really what I'm talking about, so bear with me...

You know how when you have an image open in GIMP, there's a little dashed border around it (the image, I mean)?

Is there any way to remove that?! It drives me absolutely insane. There's been a couple times where I had to go back and edit icons because I couldn't tell that when I cropped them, I had a little sliver of the widescreen frame left on the bottom.

Right now, I'm working on a mood theme, and I can't tell how the border I'm putting on it looks unless I continuously drag around the side of the GIMP box!

Can anyone help me with this, or is it just a universal annoyance?