Gimp: Unable to draw in whole canvas

Linux howto's, compile information, information on whatever we learned on working with linux, MACOs and - of course - Products of the big evil....
Post Reply
User avatar
^rooker
Site Admin
Posts: 1483
Joined: Fri Aug 29, 2003 8:39 pm

Gimp: Unable to draw in whole canvas

Post by ^rooker »

[PROBLEM]
Example:
In an image 200x200 px, you can only draw in the upper left corner, but not in the whole canvas.

[SOLUTION]
Each layer has its own size.
Turn the layer border visible by selecting
"View > Show Layer Boundary".

You should now see a yellow/black dotted line indicating the layer's boundary. You can resize this by choosing either
"Layer > Layer Boundary Size" or
"Layer > Layer to Image Size"
User avatar
^rooker
Site Admin
Posts: 1483
Joined: Fri Aug 29, 2003 8:39 pm

Keep layer transparency

Post by ^rooker »

[PROBLEM]
You cannot paint in transparent parts of a layer.

[SOLUTION]
In the "Layers, Channels, Paths, Undo" toolbox you can choose to "Keep transparency" of each layer by enabling the checkbox right of the "Mode" dropdown box above the layer list.

Uncheck this option and you should be able to draw normally.
Post Reply