Check out Gimp-Painter


Which essentially is rotating the entire canvas.

Onkel i get a crash using colorize.
Gimp-2.8.7 and Gimp-2.8.5 both have this issue. Does this have anything to do with cairo dlls?

I don't know. I don't use this plug-in and without error message, I have no clue, whats going on.
I tried to compile it once, but I failed, because I dont get libblas, libumfpack, etc. (the whole suitesparse)
to compile. Colorize depends on umfpack, umfpack depends on... and this depends on... and so on...

It didn't give me an error. It just crashed. This is the actual default colorize that comes with Gimp. This isn't a third party plug-in.

hmm, I do not know, what wron there. I have no problems with the 64bit version. I do not think, that it is a a problem with Cairo. I am on a weekend vacation, I will try the 32bit version next week.

I checked the 32bit version also.
There is nothing wrong. Works like expected.
Sorry, but i can't help.

Bonjour,

Here is a 32-bit version of gimp 2.8.7 Windows.
Information is available from viewtopic.php?f=23&t=8111&start=10#p105560

Is Gimp 2.8.6 even worth downloading? I'm happy the version I have which is 2.8 & I use Windows 7 on a 64bit system.

It has some bug fixes, sure.

I'm sorry, I think somewhere in this forum has explained how to fix slow Gimp 2.8.6 start up? What should I do to fix that?

If you have a bunch of your own brushes and patterns in the resource directory using a brush and pattern manager will help immensely.
But even just loading the patterns or brushes you need per GIMP session will allow GIMP to load very quickly.

I upgraded to this version from gimp 2.6.12. It's not bad, really. I see a lot of new tools and folders on it. Perhaps, in a future release, we could have a healing selection script and a background ground selection tool. Maybe, more image effects too.

Okay, I do have a few questions to ask. How do I enable the toolbox to show up, when I open gimp? Everytime I open gimp, i have to click on toolbox to have it show up. In gimp 26. It used to show up right on startup.

The other question is saving the files, I have to click on export to save everything now. Why is it set up that way now? In gimp 2.6.. I used to save files Save as and now, i can't do that anymore.

On 32 bits version at least, not sure if it exists on the 64bits version there's a problem with 2.8.6 that forces the plugin redetection/querying at every start of Gimp, wasting startup time.

Fortunately it seems to be a known bug on bugzilla so hopefully will be fixed for the next version

When you save as: in Gimp 2.8, it will save your XCF file only,
When you export you can name it with any of the extensions like jpg, png, gif, etc. So, if you want to have all your layers intact, save as XCF, if not, EXPORT.

i have another question, how do I add docs to the toolbox? I lost the one that came with it and started new one on accident. I don't know how to retrieve it back.

2.8.6 Partha portable build 32-bit
My Gimpscripter and my glade.exe is not working, works in 2.8.5
has anyone got suggestions

You may need these files for glade - http://www.sullockenzlin.demon.nl/gimp/ ... _32bit.zip
Not sure why gimpscripter no longer works.
Here is the python module if someone wants to check it out.

https://github.com/bootchk/gimpscripter ... cripter.py

Thanks Rod for your suggestion,
however the glade and gimpscripter
did not work. Maybe I'll just keep working
on it till next upgrade.

Good luck with it Mike. If you have any progress let us know will you?
I would like to see GimpScripter working again.

I couldn't get "Line Border" to work until i added glade. Maybe GimpScripter needs some libraries that are missing also?

I've tried Partha's Gimp 2.8.6 portable 32bit build, and that's fixed.