![]() ![]() ![]() With the eraser tool selected, navigate to the bottom left-hand side of your screen to the tool settings. This will prevent the eraser from doing its job. Having it set at anything less than 100 will reduce the size of the space your eraser erases, so make sure you have it set to 100.Īnother reason why your eraser may not be erasing to transparency is because you have anti erase enabled in the tool settings. In GIMP version 2.10 and later, there’s now a Hardness option in the Eraser tool menu. This is unlikely to be a problem, but it’s possible if you’ve selected a corrupted brush. While you’re at it, go ahead and check which brush head you’re using with the eraser as well. Check the Tool Options panel and make sure the Opacity slider is all the way up at 100%. Eraser OpacityĪ less common reason why you may be having trouble erasing your image could be because the eraser opacity is set to 0. To rectify this, go to Select -> None and see if that does the trick. If you have an active selection within GIMP at the moment, the eraser is only going to erase whatever is inside of that selection. Double check to make sure you’ve activated the correct later. The eraser will only work on the layer you have selected, so if you’re furiously trying to erase an image and nothing is happening on your canvas, it’s probably because you have a different layer selected. This may seem like common knowledge, but it’s a mistake that even I foolishly make once in a while. However, if the selection is grayed out (meaning there’s already an alpha channel added,) then something else has gone wrong. I hate that this guy is out there making my fun little project into an abomination.If the selection isn’t grayed out and you can actually click on it, there’s your problem. “I originally created Gimpshop, but I’m not the jerk who owns that domain and added adware & spyware to the source. If you’re still wondering if GIMPshop is more than just a curiosity, here’s a final word from creator Scott Moschella: A recent update also included the ability to create custom themes that can alter the layout even more. GIMP has also massively redesigned its user interface since GIMPshop was first created, and almost turned itself into a Photoshop clone whether that was the intention or not. The official version of GIMP has released several important updates, the latest as recently as October 2020 with more on the way. GIMPshop is a novel idea, but it’s based on a very outdated version of GIMP from 2006 and hasn’t been updated since. ![]() Of course, that’s also how you could define adware, and it’s always better to download your software from a trusted source. Since then, the domain carries a message that it simply offers extra free software that users don’t have to install. I assumed the guy would just give it up as I sadly let the project stagnate, but that hasn’t happened.” It has been five years, the software has stagnated (due in no small part to my becoming discouraged by this one profiteer who trumped me, stole much of my traffic and bumped my site down to the second result when you search for “Gimpshop”). I questioned his motives and he said he was just a fan and that the site was a “fan-site”. I asked that the owner stop hot-linking my files (and draining my bandwidth), so he hosted them somewhere else. Soon, there were donate buttons, my name in the site’s title, and much more – making it look like my website. “Not more than a few days after the OS X version was released and spread virally, someone who isn’t me bought “”, put up a site with hot-links to the files on my site, and began advertising – LOTS of advertising. In a question and answer post on the social sharing site Metafilter in 2010, Moschella gave a quick overview of what went wrong: Partly because of his tech world credentials, and partly because it was an idea whose time had come, GIMPshop went as viral as anything could in those days, and began to build a serious following.īut almost immediately, things began to go sideways. And maybe along the way, I can convert a Photoshop pirate into a GIMP user,” Moschella explained in an archived post from 2006. “My original purpose for GIMPshop was to make the GIMP accessible to the many Adobe Photoshop users out there. It reskinned parts of the interface, renamed features to match those found in Photoshop, and added extra filters. GIMPshop started in the mid-2000s as the brainchild of TechTV producer Scott Moschella, with the goal of turning GIMP into Photoshop. If you don’t already have a good malware scanner, my personal favorite is Malwarebytes which offers a free version as well as a 14-day trial of their premium features here. The original open-source GIMPshop project has been duplicated by scammers using it as a way to install spyware and adware. Important: If you have already installed GIMPshop, stop reading right now and run a full anti-virus and malware scan of your computer. ![]()
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