On 04/14/2015 09:10 PM, Sunniva wrote:

I downloaded a new version of Gimp on my new Notebook. Earlier it was ICONS to raise or lower a layer. Is that a bug?

This was an old installer version. If you go to http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ you'll get the current version.

What site was the installer you got linked from?

Regards,
Michael
GPG: 96A8 B38A 728A 577D 724D 60E5 F855 53EC B36D 4CDD

I think it was Cnet... so- shall I uninstall and download from that page you are
referring to?

Yes, the official website is the best place to look for obtaining GIMP.

On 04/14/2015 06:01 PM, Pat David wrote:

I think it was Cnet... so- shall I uninstall and download from that page you are
referring to?

Yes, the official website is the best place to look for obtaining GIMP.

You might also want to run Spybot Search & Destroy and Malwarebytes, plus make sure that your antivirus installation is one of the "good ones" and has the latest database: Sabotaged GIMP installers have been found "in the wild." Scanning the installer for known malware - which most sites like CNet do - is not even close to a reliable defense.

http://blog.meetthegimp.org/yay-mainstream-and-trojaned-gimp-installers/

GIMP installers for Windows don't get more official than this:

http://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/stable/windows/

I'm not at all current on any issues with GIMP versions and recent Microsoft operating systems, but if the "latest and greatest" version from gimp.org does not seem to be working right, try version 2.6 - if I remember, that has worked for other posters here in the past.

:o)

On 04/14/2015 03:10 PM, Sunniva wrote:

Also wondered how to make an invisible transition on profile picture and cover photo - facebook

Attachments:
* http://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/190/original/fbgimp.jpg

VERY cool concept, love teh cat.

What I have done in the past is open up the FB [yourname] page, make sure that the browser's View is set to "zoom 100%". Take a screen shot of the page with some image editor or other (File > Create > Screenshot), crop it down to just the header image and avatar image, save that, and use it as a layout template for the project. Useng separate layers for the header and background images, so they can be saved as two different images for The Facebook to use.

With any luck, The Facebook will put these two images together as they appeared when you saved them as individual images. Actually seamless is not a likely outcome, because The Facebook will put frame around the avatar image; but if the alignment comes out as intended, it should look like the frame is overlaying one image, rather than combining two.

:o)

On 15/04/15 02:26, Steve Kinney wrote:

You might also want to run Spybot Search & Destroy and Malwarebytes, plus make sure that your antivirus installation is one of the "good ones" and has the latest database: Sabotaged GIMP installers have been found "in the wild." Scanning the installer for known malware - which most sites like CNet do - is not even close to a reliable defense.

http://blog.meetthegimp.org/yay-mainstream-and-trojaned-gimp-installers/

Still points to SourceForge for a trustable source :)

On 04/15/2015 01:50 PM, Sunniva wrote:

http://blog.meetthegimp.org/yay-mainstream-and-trojaned-gimp-installers/

GIMP installers for Windows don't get more official than this:

http://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/stable/windows/

Thanks for your reply! I don't think there is any virus or malware on that installation...since GIMP is working well else. But I 'll consider uninstall and download a new version when I have the time to do so :) My version is supposed to 2.8.

Have no clue what is the better version?..

The suggestion to run some malware scans was kind of generic; I suggested scanning the system because you got the installer from an "unknown" source and sabotaged GIMP installers do exist. But a sabotaged GIMP installer that includes a botnet or etc. should work normally if whoever rigged it was at all competent. A comparable case would be "freeware" that includes, for instance, an unrelated browser toolbar that nobody wants.

Another thing to try is changing the GIMP's theme setting: Go to Edit > Preferences, find the Theme menu, and use the "Reload current theme" button. Close out the Preferences menu and see if that fixed it. If not, go back into the Preferences menu and try switching from Default to Small (or vice versa) and see if that does the trick. This is the first thing I should have suggested but, brain fart.

If tweaking the Theme setting does not work, the missing icons may be due to some glitch during the installation process itself; installing a "known good" copy of the GIMP might fix that; in this case that would probably be version 2.8, available here:

http://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/stable/windows/

Version 2.6 is also available at the same address. If installing version 2.8 from a "known good" source does not fix the problem, some kind of incompatibility between version 2.8 for Windows and your installed operating system may be the problem. If so, installing an earlier version i.e. GIMP 2.6 might give better results.

For best results, installing something like this will remove numerous stability, security and usability issues once and for all - it's a rather radical solution, but then, so are the problems it solves:

http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php

(ha ha, only serious)

:o)