Chapitre 4. What to do if you are stuck

Table des matières

1. Introduction
2. Causes communes de non-réponse de GIMP
2.1. Il y a une sélection flottante
2.2. La sélection est cachée
2.3. You are acting outside the selection
2.4. Le dessin actif n’est pas visible
2.5. Le dessin actif est transparent
2.6. Vous essayez d’agir en dehors du calque
2.7. You are trying to act on a layer group
2.8. L’image est en mode de couleurs indexées
2.9. No visible effect when trying to use a brush, eraser or other tool
2.10. No visible effect when trying to use the move tool, rotate or other transform tool
2.11. La gomme et les brosses ne fonctionnent plus
2.12. Eraser does not make area transparent
2.13. Unexpected colors when trying to use a brush or eraser
2.14. The crop tool leaves an empty area after cropping
2.15. I've been waiting for a long time and GIMP is not responding
2.16. General guidelines on what to check if you are stuck
3. How to fix missing windows and dialogs
3.1. All tool windows are missing
3.2. Tool options dialog is missing
3.3. Some of the tool icons are missing
3.4. The area showing the opened images at the top is missing
4. How to fix problems exporting images
4.1. I am exporting to a jpeg image and my transparent area turned white or black
4.2. I am exporting to a gif image and the colors changed

1. Introduction

Eh bien voilà, vous êtes bloqué. Vous essayez d’utiliser un outil sur une image, et rien ne se passe, quoi que vous fassiez. Vos poings se serrent, vous transpirez. Allez-vous perdre tout votre travail ?

Well, hold on a second. This happens pretty frequently, even to people who've used GIMP for a long time, but generally the cause is not so hard to figure out and fix if you know where to look. Let's be calm, and go through a checklist that will probably get you GIMPing happily again.