GIMP User Manual

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
1. Welcome to The GIMP
1.1. Known platforms
1.2. The GIMP-Help system
1.3. Language
1.4. Features and Capabilities
1.5. Authors
2. What's New in The Gimp 2.0?
3. Gimp History
4. Reporting Bugs and Requesting Enhancements
4.1. Making sure it's a Bug
4.2. Reporting the Bug
4.3. What Happens to a Bug Report after you Submit it
2. Using Gimp
1. Starting Gimp the first time
2. Running Gimp
3. Basic Gimp Usage
3.1. Introduction
3.2. The Main Toolbox
3.3. Image Window
3.4. Dialogs and Docking
3.5. Basic Gimp Concepts
4. Working with Images
4.1. Image types
4.2. QuickMask
4.3. Layers
4.4. The Selection
4.5. Undoing
4.6. Grids and Guides
4.7. Paths
4.8. Brushes
4.9. Gradients
4.10. Patterns
4.11. Palettes
4.12. Text and Fonts
4.13. Stroking a Selection or Path
5. Files
6. Working with Digital Camera Photos
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Improving Composition
6.3. Improving Colors
6.4. Adjusting Sharpness
6.5. Removing Unwanted Objects from an Image
6.6. Saving Your Results
7. Plugins
7.1. Introduction
7.2. Using Plugins
7.3. Installing New Plugins
7.4. Writing Plugins
8. Using Script-Fu Scripts
9. A Script-Fu Tutorial
9.1. Getting Acquainted With Scheme
9.2. Variables And Functions
9.3. Lists, Lists And More Lists
9.4. Your First Script-Fu Script
9.5. Giving Our Script Some Guts
9.6. Extending The Text Box Script
10. Getting Unstuck
3. 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 Tool (Magic Wand)
2.6. Select By Color Tool
2.7. Scissors Tool
3. Brush Tools
3.1. Common Features
3.2. Painting Tools (Pencil, Paintbrush, Airbrush)
3.3. Pencil
3.4. Paintbrush Tool
3.5. Eraser
3.6. Airbrush Tool
3.7. Ink Tool
3.8. Clone Tool
3.9. Convolve (Blur/Sharpen)
3.10. Dodge or Burn
3.11. Smudge Tool
4. Transform Tools
4.1. Move Tool
4.2. Crop Tool
4.3. Rotate Tool
4.4. Scale Tool
4.5. Shear Tool
4.6. Perspective Tool
4.7. 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. Other
6.1. Path Tool
6.2. Bucket Fill
6.3. Gradient Tool
6.4. Color Picker Tool
6.5. Magnify Tool
6.6. Measure Tool
6.7. Texttool
7. Color and Indicator Area
4. Dialogs
1. Dialog introduction
2. Layers dialog
2.1. Layer masks
3. Channels dialog
3.1. Channels Menu
3.2. Selection masks
3.3. Quick Mask
4. Path dialog
4.1. Paths Menu
5. Indexed Palette dialog
6. Histogram dialog
7. Navigation Dialog
8. Undo History dialog
9. Colors dialog
10. Brushes dialog
10.1. Brush Editor
11. Patterns dialog
12. Gradients dialog
12.1. Gradient Editor
13. Palettes
13.1. Dialog
13.2. Palettes Menu
13.3. Palette Editor
13.4. Palette Editor Menu
14. Fonts dialog
15. Buffers dialog
16. Tools dialog
17. Document History dialog
18. Preferences
18.1. Introduction
18.2. New Image Preferences
18.3. Default Image Grid
18.4. Interface
18.5. Theme
18.6. Help System
18.7. Tool Options
18.8. Toolbox
18.9. Image Windows
18.10. Image Window Appearance
18.11. Image Window Title and Statusbar
18.12. Display
18.13. Window Managment
18.14. Environment
18.15. Folders
18.16. Data Folders
5. Menus
1. Toolbox Menu
2. File
2.1. Open
2.2. Save
2.3. Save as
3. Edit
3.1. Cut
3.2. Undo
3.3. Undo History
3.4. Redo
3.5. Copy
3.6. Paste
3.7. Paste Into
3.8. Paste as New
3.9. Buffers
3.10. Clear
3.11. Fill with
3.12. Fill with FG Color
3.13. Fill with BG Color
3.14. Fill with Pattern
3.15. Stroke Path
3.16. Stroke Selection
3.17. Copy Visible
4. Select
4.1. Select All
4.2. None
4.3. Invert
4.4. From Path
4.5. Float
4.6. By Color
4.7. Feather
4.8. Sharpen
4.9. Shrink
4.10. Grow
4.11. Border
4.12. Toggle QuickMask
4.13. Save to Channel
4.14. To Path
5. View
5.1. Dot for Dot
5.2. Info Window
5.3. Navigation Window
5.4. Show Selection
5.5. Show Layer Boundary
5.6. Show Guides
5.7. Snap to Guides
5.8. Show Grid
5.9. Snap to Grid
5.10. Show Menubar
5.11. Show Rulers
5.12. Show Scrollbars
5.13. Show Statusbar
5.14. Shrink Wrap
5.15. Full Screen
6. Image
6.1. Mode
6.2. Transform
6.3. Canvas Size
6.4. Scale Image
6.5. Duplicate
6.6. Merge Visible Layers
6.7. Image Flatten
6.8. Configure Grid
7. Layers
7.1. Main Menu
7.2. Stack
7.3. Colors
7.4. Mask
7.5. Transparency
7.6. Transform
8. Tools
8.1. Tools
9. Filters
10. New Image Dialog
11. New Layer Dialog
12. Configure Grid Dialog
6. Filters
1. Filter introduction
2. Blur filters
2.1. Blur filters introduction
2.2. Blur
2.3. Gaussian Blur (IIR)
2.4. Gaussian Blur (RLE)
2.5. Selective Gaussian Blur
2.6. Motion Blur
2.7. Pixelise
2.8. Tileable Blur
3. Color filters
3.1. Color filters introduction
3.2. Adjust FG-BG
3.3. Alien Map
3.4. Alien Map 2
3.5. Two Colors Exchange
3.6. Colormap Rotation
3.7. Map Color Range
3.8. Sample Colorize
3.9. Gradient Map
3.10. Border Average
3.11. Channel Mixer
3.12. Color Cube Analysis
3.13. Colorify
3.14. Color to Alpha
3.15. Compose
3.16. Decompose
3.17. Filter Pack
3.18. Hot
3.19. Max RGB
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. Noisify
4.4. Pick
4.5. Scatter HSV
4.6. Slur
4.7. Spread
5. Edge-detect filters
5.1. Edge-detect introduction
5.2. Edge
5.3. Laplace
5.4. 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. 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. Artistic filters introduction
11.2. Apply Canvas
11.3. Cubism
11.4. GIMPressionist
11.5. GIMPressionist- Orientation Map Editor
11.6. GIMPressionist- Size Map Editor
11.7. Oilify
12. Rendering filters
12.1. Render filters introduction
12.2. Diffraction Patterns
12.3. Flame
12.4. Grid
12.5. IFS Compose
12.6. Jigsaw
12.7. Maze
12.8. Plasma
12.9. QBist
12.10. Sinus
12.11. Solid Noise
13. Combine filters
13.1. Combine filters introduction
13.2. Depth Merge
13.3. Film
Glossary
Bibliography
A. 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
B. Eeek! a help is missing

List of Examples

4.1. Usage