GNU Image Manipulation Program

GNU Image Manipulation Program

User Manual

Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 The GIMP Documentation Team

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Revision $Revision: 1985 $	2007-07-15	romanofski

Table of Contents

1. User Manual Authors and Contributors

I. Getting started

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 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 . . .

2. Fire up the GIMP

1. Running GIMP

1.1. Known Platforms
1.2. Language
1.3. Command Line Arguments

2. Starting GIMP the first time

3. First Steps With Wilber

1. Basic Concepts

2. Main Windows

2.1. The Main Toolbox
2.2. Image Window
2.3. Dialogs and Docking

3.1. Things That Cannot be Undone

4. GIMPLite Quickies

4.1. Intention
4.2. Change the Size of an Image (Scale)
4.3. Make JPEGs Smaller
4.4. Crop An Image
4.5. Find Info About Your Image
4.6. Change the Mode
4.7. Flip An Image

5. How to Draw Straight Lines

5.1. Intention
5.2. Final

4. Getting Unstuck

1. Getting Unstuck

1.1. Stuck!
1.2. Common Causes of GIMP Non-Responsiveness

II. How do I Become a GIMP Wizard?

5. Getting Images Into GIMP

1. Image Types

2. Creating new Files

3. Opening Files

3.1. Open File
3.2. Open Location
3.3. Open Recent
3.4. File Browser
3.5. Drag and Drop
3.6. Copy and Paste
3.7. Image Browser

6. Getting images out of GIMP

1.1. Saving Images
1.2. Saving Files

2. Preparing your Images for the Web

2.1. Images with an Optimal Size/Quality Ratio
2.2. Reducing the File Size Even More
2.3. Saving Images with Transparency

7. Painting with GIMP

1. The Selection

1.1. Feathering
1.2. Making a Selection Partially Transparent

2. Creating and Using Selections

2.1. Moving a Selection
2.2. Creating a Free Selection

3. QuickMask

3.1. Overview
3.2. Properties

4. Using the Quickmask

5.1. Path Creating
5.2. Paths and Selections
5.3. Transforming Paths
5.4. Stroking a Path
5.5. Paths and Text
5.6. Paths and SVG files

7. Adding New Brushes

8. The GIH Dialog Box

9. Creating a Brush with Variable Size

10. Gradients

11. Patterns

12. Palettes

12.1. Colormap

13. Drawing Simple Objects

13.1. Drawing a Straight Line
13.2. Creating a Basic Shape

8. Combining Images

1. Introduction to Layers

1.1. Layer Properties

2. Layer Modes

3. Creating New Layers

4. Text and Fonts

5.1. Embellishing Text
5.2. Adding Fonts
5.3. Font Problems

9. Enhancing Photographs

1. Working with Digital Camera Photos

1.1. Introduction
1.2. Improving Composition
1.3. Improving Colors
1.4. Adjusting Sharpness
1.5. Removing Unwanted Objects from an Image
1.6. Saving Your Results

10. Pimp my GIMP

1. Grids and Guides

1.1. The Image Grid
1.2. Guides

2. Rendering a Grid

3. How to Set Your Tile Cache

4. Creating Shortcuts to Menu Functions

5. Dialogs and Docking

5.1. Creating Docking Dialogs
5.2. Removing Tabs

6. Customize Splash-Screen

11. Scripting

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

2. Using Script-Fu Scripts

2.1. Script-Fu?
2.2. Installing Script-Fus
2.3. Do's and Don'ts
2.4. Different Kinds Of Script-Fus
2.5. Standalone Scripts
2.6. Image-Dependent Scripts

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

III. Function Reference

12. Toolbox

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 (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

13. Dialogs

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 Content Related Dialogs

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

4. Image Management Related Dialogs

4.1. Buffers Dialog
4.2. Images Dialog
4.3. Document History Dialog
4.4. Templates Dialog

5. Misc dialogs

5.1. Tools Dialog
5.2. Preferences Dialog
5.3. Device Status Dialog
5.4. Error Console
5.5. Export File

1. Introduction to Menus

1.1. Context Menus
1.2. Detachable Submenus

2. Toolbox File Menu

2.1. The “File” Menu of the Toolbox
2.2. Acquire
2.3. The Preferences Command
2.4. The Dialogs Sub-Menu

3. The “Xtns” Menu

3.1. Introduction to the “Xtns” Menu
3.2. The Module Manager
3.3. The Unit Editor
3.4. Plug-In Browser
3.5. The Procedure Browser
3.6. The “Script-Fu” Submenu

4. The “Help” Menu

4.1. Introduction to the “Help” Menu
4.2. Help
4.3. Context Help
4.4. Tip of the Day
4.5. About
4.6. GIMP online

5. The “File” Menu

5.1. File menu
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. Print
5.13. Close
5.14. Quit

6. The “Edit” Menu

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 FG Color
6.14. Fill with BG Color
6.15. Fill with Pattern
6.16. Stroke Selection
6.17. Stroke Path

7. The “Select” Menu

7.1. Introduction to the “Select” Menu
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. The “View” Menu

8.1. Introduction to the “View” Menu
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. The “Image” Menu

9.1. The “Image” Menu of the Image Window
9.2. Duplicate
9.3. Mode
9.4. RGB mode
9.5. Grayscale mode
9.6. Indexed mode
9.7. Decompose
9.8. Compose
9.9. Transform
9.10. Flip Horizontally; Flip Vertically
9.11. Rotation
9.12. Guillotine
9.13. Canvas Size
9.14. Fit Canvas to Layers
9.15. Print Size
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. New Guide
9.24. New Guide (by Percent)
9.25. New Guides from Selection
9.26. Remove all guides
9.27. Configure Grid

10. The “Layers” Menu

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

11. The “Tools” Menu

11.1. Introduction to the “Tools” Menu

12. The “Filters” Menu

12.1. Menu “Filters” Introduction
12.2. Repeat Last
12.3. Re-show Last
12.4. Reset All Filters

15. Filters

1. Introduction

1.1. Preview

2. Blur Filters

2.1. 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
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. Decompose
3.15. Compose
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. 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. Introduction
5.2. Difference of Gaussians
5.3. Edge
5.4. Laplace
5.5. Neon
5.6. Sobel

6. Enhance Filters

6.1. 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. Introduction
7.2. Convolution Matrix
7.3. Dilate
7.4. Erode

8. Glass Effects Filters

8.1. Introduction
8.2. Apply Lens
8.3. Glass Tile

9. Light Effects filters

9.1. Introduction
9.2. FlareFX
9.3. Gflare
9.4. Lighting Effects
9.5. Sparkle
9.6. SuperNova

10. Distort filters

10.1. Introduction
10.2. Blinds
10.3. Curve Bend
10.4. Emboss
10.5. IWarp
10.6. Mosaic
10.7. Page Curl
10.8. Polar Coords
10.9. Ripple
10.10. Shift
10.11. Newsprint
10.12. Video
10.13. Value Propagate
10.14. Waves
10.15. Whirl and Pinch
10.16. Wind

11. Artistic filters

11.1. Introduction
11.2. Apply Canvas
11.3. Cartoon
11.4. Cubism
11.5. GIMPressionist
11.6. GIMPressionist - Orientation Map Editor
11.7. GIMPressionist - Size Map Editor
11.8. Oilify
11.9. Photocopy
11.10. Soft Glow

12. Map Filters

12.1. Introduction
12.2. Bump Map
12.3. Displace
12.4. Fractal Trace
12.5. Illusion
12.6. Make Seamless
12.7. Map Object
12.8. Paper Tile
12.9. Small Tiles
12.10. Tile
12.11. Warp
12.12. Van Gogh (LIC)

13. Rendering Filters

13.1. Introduction
13.2. Plasma
13.3. Solid Noise
13.4. Flame
13.5. IFS Compose
13.6. Diffraction Patterns
13.7. CML Explorer
13.8. Grid
13.9. Maze
13.10. Jigsaw
13.11. Qbist
13.12. Checkerboard
13.13. Sinus
13.14. Fractal Explorer
13.15. Gfig
13.16. Sphere Designer

14. Combine Filters

14.1. Introduction
14.2. Depth Merge
14.3. Film

15. Animation Filters

15.1. Optimize
15.2. Playback

16. Web Filters

16.1. ImageMap

I. Keys and Mouse Reference

Help — Key reference for Help menu
Toolbox — Key reference for Toolbox menu
File — Key reference for File menu
Dialogs — Key reference for Dialogs menu
View — Key reference for View menu
Edit — Key reference for Edit menu
Layers — Key reference for Layers menu
Selections — Key reference for Selections menu
Plug-ins — Key reference for Plug-ins menu
Zoom tool — Key reference for Zoom tool menu

Bibliography

A. GIMP History

1. The Very Beginning
2. The Early Days of GIMP
3. The One to Change the World
4. New in GIMP 2

B. Reporting Bugs and Requesting Enhancements

1. Making sure it's a Bug
2. Reporting the Bug
3. What Happens to a Bug Report after you Submit it

C. GNU Free Documentation License

1. PREAMBLE
2. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
3. VERBATIM COPYING
4. COPYING IN QUANTITY
5. MODIFICATIONS
6. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
7. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
8. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
9. TRANSLATION
10. TERMINATION
11. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
12. ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents

D. Eeek! There is Missing Help


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