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Cannot Drag/Drop jpgs joedaddy 28 Feb 16:38
  Cannot Drag/Drop jpgs Patrick Horgan 28 Feb 17:59
  Cannot Drag/Drop jpgs Burnie West 28 Feb 19:49
2011-02-28 16:38:45 UTC (about 13 years ago)
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Cannot Drag/Drop jpgs

Hello all. I'm new to using GIMP. I was able to drag/drop 1 photo into the canvas but unable to drag anymore into same canvas. I have several layers with 1 photo, border effects, and type. but, cannot drag any additional jpg photos into project. Is there something that I am missing here?

Patrick Horgan
2011-02-28 17:59:08 UTC (about 13 years ago)

Cannot Drag/Drop jpgs

On 02/28/2011 08:38 AM, joedaddy wrote:

Hello all. I'm new to using GIMP. I was able to drag/drop 1 photo into the canvas but unable to drag anymore into same canvas. I have several layers with 1 photo, border effects, and type. but, cannot drag any additional jpg photos into project. Is there something that I am missing here?

Yes. If it's what I'm thinking of, it happens to all of us when learning GIMP. The image is of a certain size. If you created the image by dragging a picture onto GIMP, then it's the size of that picture. If you drag something to a place outside of that image size it won't show up. (Same thing happens with any layer, if you drag something outside the layer boundary if won't be visible.) The fix is to make the image big enough for all the things you want to show. You can do that from the image menu under canvas size. Then you'll be able to drag the layer created when you dragged the second pic into the new area. (I'm assuming it did work when you dragged the picture, but the new image is behind the old image and you can't see it.) If it's behind the first one, you'll not see it, but if you select its layer, click on the move tool and click and drag on the image you'll drag it out from under. Alternatively, you can raise it's layer in the layer dialog so you can see what you're doing. You do that by clicking on the layer label (the label will be the same as the name of the image you dragged onto GIMP), and then clicking the up arrow at the bottom of the layer dialog.

If I'm wrong, and that isn't the problem you were having, perhaps more explanation would help?

Patrick

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Burnie West
2011-02-28 19:49:24 UTC (about 13 years ago)

Cannot Drag/Drop jpgs

On 02/28/2011 08:38 AM, joedaddy wrote:

Hello all. I'm new to using GIMP. I was able to drag/drop 1 photo into the canvas but unable to drag anymore into same canvas. I have several layers with 1 photo, border effects, and type. but, cannot drag any additional jpg photos into project. Is there something that I am missing here?

Another way is simply drag and drop all the images, then click on Image->fit canvas to layers. Look in the layer menu to see their order.