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GNU Image Manipulation Program

User Manual

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Revision $Revision: 1.144 $	2006-03-10	romanofski

Table of Contents

1. GIMP User Manual Authors and Contributors

I. Getting started with The GIMP

1. Introduction

1. Welcome to The GIMP

1.1. Authors
1.2. The GIMP-Help system
1.3. Features and Capabilities

2. What's New in The GIMP?

2.1. Interoperability and standards support
2.2. Shortcut editor
2.3. Plug-in previews
2.4. Real-time previews of transform operations
2.5. GNOME Human Interface Guide conformance
2.6. GTK+ 2.4 migration
2.7. Basic vector support
2.8. Also . . .

3. Running GIMP

3.1. Command Line Arguments
3.2. Known platforms
3.3. Language

4. Starting GIMP the first time

2. GIMP Concepts

1. Main Windows in GIMP

1.1. The Main Toolbox
1.2. Image Window
1.3. Dialogs and Docking

2. Basic GIMP Concepts

3. Working with Images

3.1. Image types
3.2. QuickMask
3.3. Layers
3.4. The Selection
3.5. Undoing
3.6. Grids and Guides
3.7. Paths
3.8. Brushes
3.9. Gradients
3.10. Patterns
3.11. Palettes
3.12. Text and Fonts

3. Getting Unstuck

1. Stuck!
2. Common causes of GIMP non-responsiveness

II. How to become the GIMP wizard?

4. Concepts for the intermediate

1.1. Introduction
1.2. Using Plugins
1.3. Installing New Plugins
1.4. Writing Plugins

2. Using Script-Fu Scripts

5. Using GIMP as a Beginner

1.1. Creating new Files
1.2. Opening Files
1.3. Saving Files

2. Drawing Simple Objects

2.1. Drawing a straight line
2.2. Creating a Basic Shape

3. Create and use Selections

3.1. Creating a free selection
3.2. Moving selection

4. Dialogs and Docking

4.1. Creating Dialogs
4.2. Removing Tabs

5. How to Set Your Tile Cache

6. Using GIMP as an Intermediate

1. Using the Quickmask

2. Creating New Layers

3.1. Stroking a Path
3.2. Transforming Paths

4. Working with Digital Camera Photos

4.1. Introduction
4.2. Improving Composition
4.3. Improving Colors
4.4. Adjusting Sharpness
4.5. Removing Unwanted Objects from an Image
4.6. Saving Your Results

5. Preparing your Images for the web

5.1. Images with an optimal Size/Quality Ratio
5.2. Squeezing Filesize a bit more
5.3. Saving images with transparency

6. Adding New Brushes

7. Using GIMP as an Expert

1.1. Embellishing Text
1.2. Adding Fonts
1.3. Font Problems

2. Rendering a Grid

3. A Script-Fu Tutorial

3.1. Getting Acquainted With Scheme
3.2. Variables And Functions
3.3. Lists, Lists And More Lists
3.4. Your First Script-Fu Script
3.5. Giving Our Script Some Guts
3.6. Extending The Text Box Script

4. Creating shortcuts to menu functions

III. The GIMP Function Reference

1. The Toolbox

1.1. Tool Options

2. Selection Tools

2.1. Common Features
2.2. Rectangle Selection Tool
2.3. Ellipse Selection Tool
2.4. Free Selection Tool (Lasso)
2.5. Fuzzy Selection Tool (Magic Wand)
2.6. Select By Color Tool
2.7. Scissors Tool

3. Brush Tools

3.1. Common Features
3.2. Bucket Fill
3.3. Gradient Tool
3.4. Painting Tools (Pencil, Paintbrush, Airbrush)
3.5. Pencil
3.6. Paintbrush Tool
3.7. Eraser
3.8. Airbrush Tool
3.9. Ink Tool
3.10. Clone Tool
3.11. Convolve (Blur/Sharpen)
3.12. Dodge or Burn
3.13. Smudge Tool

4. Transform Tools

4.1. Common Features
4.2. Move Tool
4.3. Crop and Resize Tool
4.4. Rotate Tool
4.5. Scale Tool
4.6. Shear Tool
4.7. Perspective Tool
4.8. Flip Tool

5. Color Tools

5.1. Color Balance Tool
5.2. Hue-Saturation Tool
5.3. Colorize Tool
5.4. Brightness-Contrast tool
5.5. Threshold Tool
5.6. Levels tool
5.7. Curves Tool
5.8. Posterize Tool

6.1. Path Tool
6.2. Color Picker Tool
6.3. Magnify Tool
6.4. Measure Tool
6.5. Texttool

7. Color and Indicator Area

7.1. Color Area
7.2. Indicator Area
7.3. Active image area

1. Dialog introduction

2. Image structure related dialogs

2.1. Layers dialog
2.2. Channels dialog
2.3. Path dialog
2.4. Colormap dialog
2.5. Histogram dialog
2.6. Navigation Dialog
2.7. Undo History dialog

3. Image structure related dialogs

3.1. Colors dialog
3.2. Brushes dialog
3.3. Patterns dialog
3.4. Gradients dialog
3.5. Palettes
3.6. Fonts dialog

4. Image structure related dialogs

4.1. Buffers dialog
4.2. Images dialog
4.3. Document History dialog
4.4. Templates
4.5. Edit Template

5. Misc dialogs

5.1. Tools dialog
5.2. Preferences

1. GIMP Menus

2. Toolbox File Menu

2.1. Toolbox File Menu
2.2. Acquire
2.3. Preferences
2.4. Dialogs

3.1. Xtns
3.2. Module Manager
3.3. Unit Editor
3.4. Plug-In Browser
3.5. Procedure Browser
3.6. Script-Fu

4.1. Help
4.2. Context Help
4.3. Tip of the Day
4.4. About
4.5. The GIMP Online

5.1. File
5.2. New
5.3. Open
5.4. Open Location
5.5. Open Recent
5.6. Open as Layer
5.7. Save
5.8. Save as
5.9. Save a Copy
5.10. Save as Template
5.11. Revert
5.12. Page Setup
5.13. Print
5.14. Close
5.15. Quit

6.1. “Edit” menu entries
6.2. Undo
6.3. Redo
6.4. Undo History
6.5. Cut
6.6. Copy
6.7. Copy Visible
6.8. Paste
6.9. Paste Into
6.10. Paste as New
6.11. Buffers
6.12. Clear
6.13. Fill with
6.14. Fill with FG Color
6.15. Fill with BG Color
6.16. Fill with Pattern
6.17. Stroke Selection
6.18. Stroke Path

7.1. Selection
7.2. Select All
7.3. None
7.4. Invert
7.5. Float
7.6. By Color
7.7. From Path
7.8. Selection Editor
7.9. Feather
7.10. Sharpen
7.11. Shrink
7.12. Grow
7.13. Border
7.14. Rounded Rectangle
7.15. Toggle QuickMask
7.16. Save to Channel
7.17. To Path

8.1. View
8.2. New View
8.3. Dot for Dot
8.4. Zoom
8.5. Shrink Wrap
8.6. Full Screen
8.7. Info Window
8.8. Navigation Window
8.9. Display Filters
8.10. Show Selection
8.11. Show Layer Boundary
8.12. Show Guides
8.13. Snap to Guides
8.14. Show Grid
8.15. Snap to Grid
8.16. Padding Color
8.17. Show Menubar
8.18. Show Rulers
8.19. Show Scrollbars
8.20. Show Statusbar

9.1. Image
9.2. Duplicate
9.3. Mode
9.4. The RGB mode
9.5. The Grayscale mode
9.6. The Indexed mode
9.7. Decompose
9.8. Compose
9.9. Transform
9.10. Flip Horizontally / Vertically
9.11. Rotation
9.12. Guillotine
9.13. Canvas Size
9.14. Print Size
9.15. Fit Canvas to Layers
9.16. Scale Image
9.17. Crop Image
9.18. Autocrop Image
9.19. Zealous Crop
9.20. Merge Visible Layers
9.21. Flatten Image
9.22. Guides
9.23. Remove all guides
9.24. New Guide (Per percentage)
9.25. New Guide
9.26. New Guides (From Selection)
9.27. Configure Grid

10.1. Introduction to Layers
10.2. New Layer
10.3. Duplicate layer
10.4. Anchor layer
10.5. Merge down
10.6. Delete layer
10.7. Stack
10.8. Select Previous Layer
10.9. Select Next Layer
10.10. Select Top Layer
10.11. Select Bottom Layer
10.12. Raise Layer
10.13. Lower layer
10.14. Raise Layer to top
10.15. Layer to bottom
10.16. The “Colors” sub-menu
10.17. Desaturate
10.18. Invert
10.19. Submenu: Auto
10.20. Equalize
10.21. Stretch Contrast
10.22. Color Enhance
10.23. Stretch HSV
10.24. Normalize
10.25. Mask
10.26. Add Layer Mask
10.27. Apply Layer Mask
10.28. Delete Layer Mask
10.29. Edit Layer Mask
10.30. Disable Layer Mask
10.31. Show Layer Mask
10.32. Mask to Selection
10.33. Add Layer Mask to Selection
10.34. Subtract Mask Layer from Selection
10.35. Intersect Layer Mask with Selection
10.36. The “Transparency” sub-menu of the “Layer” menu
10.37. Add Alpha Channel
10.38. Color to Alpha
10.39. Semi-flatten
10.40. Threshold Alpha
10.41. Alpha to Selection
10.42. Add to Selection
10.43. Subtract from Selection
10.44. Intersect with Selection
10.45. Transform
10.46. Flip Horizontally
10.47. Flip Vertically
10.48. Rotate 90 degrees CW
10.49. Rotate 90 degrees CCW
10.50. Rotate 180 degrees
10.51. Arbitrary Rotation
10.52. Offset
10.53. Layer Boundary Size
10.54. Layer to Image Size
10.55. Scale Layer
10.56. Crop Layer
10.57. Autocrop Layer
10.58. Align Visible Layers

11.1. Tools

12. Filters

12.1. Filters
12.2. Repeat Last
12.3. Re-show Last
12.4. Reset All Filters

11. Filters

1. Filter introduction

2. Blur filters

2.1. Blur filters introduction
2.2. Blur
2.3. Gaussian Blur
2.4. Selective Gaussian Blur
2.5. Motion Blur
2.6. Pixelise
2.7. Tileable Blur

3. Color filters

3.1. Introduction to Color Filters
3.2. Adjust FG-BG
3.3. Alien Map 2
3.4. Two Colors Exchange
3.5. Colormap Rotation
3.6. Map Color Range
3.7. Sample Colorize
3.8. Gradient Map
3.9. Border Average
3.10. Channel Mixer
3.11. Colorcube Analysis
3.12. Colorify
3.13. Color to Alpha
3.14. Compose
3.15. Decompose
3.16. Filter Pack
3.17. Hot
3.18. Max RGB
3.19. Retinex
3.20. Semi-Flatten
3.21. Smooth Palette
3.22. Value invert

4. Noise filters

4.1. Noise filters introduction
4.2. Hurl
4.3. Scatter RGB
4.4. Pick
4.5. Scatter HSV
4.6. Slur
4.7. Spread

5. Edge-detect filters

5.1. Edge-detect introduction
5.2. Difference of Gaussians
5.3. Edge
5.4. Laplace
5.5. Sobel

6. Enhance filters

6.1. Enhance filters introduction
6.2. Deinterlace
6.3. Despeckle
6.4. Destripe
6.5. NL Filter
6.6. Sharpen
6.7. Unsharp Mask

7. Generic filters

7.1. Generic filters introduction
7.2. Convolution matrix
7.3. Dilate
7.4. Erode

8. Glass Effects filters

8.1. Glass Effects filters introduction
8.2. Apply Lens
8.3. Glass Tile

9. Light Effects filters

9.1. Light Effects filters introduction
9.2. FlareFX
9.3. Gflare
9.4. Lighting Effects
9.5. Sparkle
9.6. SuperNova

10. Distort filters

10.1. Distort filters introduction
10.2. Blinds
10.3. Curve Bend
10.4. Emboss
10.5. IWarp
10.6. Mosaic
10.7.