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1. Semka Kuloviae Debals Croatian Sally C Barry English Daniel Egger English Sven Neumann English German Domingo Stephan German Thomas Lotze German Thomas G ttler German Zhong Yaotang Chinese Calum Mackay English Thomas S Lendo German Mel Boyce syngin English Oliver Ellis Red Haze English Markus Reinhardt German Alexander Weiher German Michael H lzen German Raymond Ostertag French C dric G my French S bastien Barre French Niklas Mattison Swedish Daryl Lee English William Skaggs English Cai Qian Z Chinese Yang Hong ZZL Chinese Xceals Chinese Eric Lamarque Chinese Robert van Drunen Dutch Marco Marega Italian Mike Vargas Italian Andrea Zito Italian Karine Delvare French David llicz Klementa Czech Jan Smith English Adolf Gerold German Roxana Chernogolova Russian Alexandre Prokoudine Russian Grigory Bakunov Russian Oleg Fritz Russian Mick Curtis English Vitaly Lomov Russian Pierre PERRIER French Oliver Heesakke Dutch Susanne Schmidt English German Ben German Daniel Hornung English Graphics Stylesheets Jakub Steiner yvind Kol s Build System Technical Contributions Axel Wernicke R man Joost Nickolay V Shmyrev Daniel Egger Sven Neumann Michael Natterer mitch Henrik Brix Andersen brix Thomas Schraitle Chris H bsch Anne Schneider Peter Volkov Dani2. Backwards Compatibility Some old scripts could not be used with GIMP 2 4 This has been improved and 2 6 should run 2 0 and 2 2 scripts Known Problems e The Utility window hint is currently only known to work well in the Linux GNOME desktop environment and on Windows starting with GIMP 2 6 1 e Using the Text Tool is currently not an optimal experience Making it work better is a goal for GIMP 2 8 e If you build GIMP yourself and don t have GVfs support on your platform you need to explicitly pass without gvfs to configure otherwise opening remote files will not work properly 37
3. Gimp User Manual Gimp 2 6 User Manual Gimp User Manual Gimp 2 6 User Manual Copyright 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 The GIMP Documentation Team Legal Notice Permission is granted to copy distribute and or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License Version 1 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation with no Invariant Sections no Front Cover Texts and no Back Cover Texts A copy of the license is included in the section enphrased GNU Free Documentation License The content of this book is provided for informational purposes only Neither the publisher nor the author offers any warranties or representation express or implied with regard to the accuracy of information contained in this book nor do they accept any liability for any loss or damage arising from any errors or omissions Find more eBooks online at http www eBookFrenzy com Gimp User Manual Contents Chapter 1 MTOR CHOI as A ia 30 Td Welcome t GIMP raras 30 TG AU EE N EE MA EE EE NEO N E nih 30 112 The GIMP Help Sy SUI ses cee ki ee SN DR Re ee Ge eas 30 1 1 3 Features and Capabiliti S se seg qued AE aa 31 1 2 Whats New in INE 8 ds iese Re Ee ev iaa 31 Chapter 2 Fire up the GIMP scada 38 2 1 R nninge GIMP Tt 38 2 1 1 O A 38 2 1 2 ERN c ON 38 2 1 3 Command Line Arguments inician 39 22 Starting GIMP the first time conca 41 241 Ola E ENO E E 41 Chapter3 First Steps
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6. 6 Rectangle handles Added motion constraints to the Move Tool Improved event smoothing for paint tools Mark the center of rectangles while they are moved and snap the center to grid and rulers Enable brush scaling for the Smudge tool Added ability to save presets in all color tools for color adjustments you use freguently Allow to transfer settings from Brightness Contrast to Levels and from Levels to Curves Allow changing opacity on transform tool previews The Screenshot plug in has been given the ability to capture the mouse cursor using Xfixes 34 Gimp User Manual Display aspect ratio of the Crop and Rectangle Select Tool rectangles in the status bar Desaturate has been given an on canvas preview The Flame plug in has been extended with 22 new variations Data file folders like brush folders are searched recursively for files Replaced the PSD import plug in with a rewritten version that does what the old version did plus some other things for example reading of ICC color profiles Several displays use Cairo library Figure 1 7 Comparing 2 6 display vs 2 4 00 Curves x Adjust Color Curves TE Background 2 0409213 jpg LUK ee curves Presets Adjust Color Curves Background 2 j0409213 jpg Channel Value v Reset C Se RE Channel Value v Reset Channel Help 35 Gimp User Manual Under the Hood GEGL Important progress to
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9. selection tool Figure 1 3 Polygonal Selection Brush Dynamics Brush dynamics let you map different brush parameters commonly at least size and opacity to one or more of three input dynamics pressure velocity and random Velocity and random are usable with a mouse The Ink tool that supported velocity before has been overhauled and now handles velocity dependent painting much better Figure 1 4 Brush Dynamics Brush Dynamics v REN Pressure MOJO O al velocity DOMO ll Random OOO M il 33 Gimp User Manual Brush dynamics have enabled a new feature in stroking paths There is now a check box under the paint tool option for emulating brush dynamics if you stroke using a paint tool What this means is that when your stroke is being painted by GIMP it tells the brush that its pressure and velocity are varying along the length of the stroke Pressure starts with zero ramps up to full pressure and then ramps down again to no pressure Velocity starts from zero and ramps up to full speed by the end of the stroke Minor changes Added a bounding box for the Text Tool that supports automatic wrapping of text within that bounding box Figure 1 5 Text tool bounding box wrapped and the bounding box ican be resized Il 1 i t 4 I Hd mm Move handles for rectangle based tools like Crop and Rectangle Select to the outside of the rectangle when the rectangle is narrow Figure 1
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19. andalobe SEPSA eee ar ee eae E 271 12 2 6 Image Dependent Scripts ccccccccccccecsssessnsecececeescsesseseceeeescessessaeeeeeeeessessees 273 12 3 AsSeriptsFu Tutorial Re acetic ERE RUE Ee VS XR TR eee OE ER ERR ad 274 12 3 4 Getting Acquainted With Scheme cccccnonononoonnononnnnnononnnnnnnnnnnnonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnns 274 12 3 2 Variables and FUNCION Sii are rei e aa dd 278 12 3 3 Lists Lists and More Lists eese eee ee ee ER ener nn nennen ener ee ee 281 12 3 4 Your First Script FU SCrIDLU 1i sk EE Se ater GE ged eo loe Ged aiii 286 12 3 5 Giving Our Script Some Guts EE EE EE EE EE EE Ee EE De EE Ee DE DE DE DE ee ee ee Ge ee se ee ee 294 12 3 6 Extending the Text Box Script snena se se ee RR ER Re AA Ee Ee ee ee ee ee ee nna 299 12 31 Yourseriptand its working si ER e pee a ean UE Ge Ge Ee EK ED ee 303 Chapter 13 FoolbOX enne t AA AA eh ARR N Ge eb es 307 131 TE A N AE RE OR N OT 307 13 1 1 Tool Options sil ii 308 13 2 Selection Tools uni ria GOS GR se EG 309 13 2 1 Common Features aeaniino aisa eene eie eg eed ei he dede 309 13 2 2 Rectangle Selection eise se Ee ee AR ER ee r AA Ee Ee t 313 13 2 3 Ellipse Selecti no ie ES DEE t eo EE P EHE oe EE Ge Re eH FTU een 319 13 2 4 Free Selection Lasso coccnnnnnonocnncnonononanananananacononananan cnn ee ee ee ee ee Re ee cnc ee ee ee 323 13 2 5 Fuzzy selection Magic wand units dina daa das 326 Gimp User Manual 13
20. e e eh 661 15 5 6 Eull SCREAM sconti idos 662 15 5 7 NAVE ION WIN 662 15 5 8 Display El ter A A IE ERO LETS 662 1 ROW SEE ON SNA 670 15 5 10 Show Layer Boundaly siio Eh ene a aed 670 15 5 11 Show dGuldeszus i eno acti 671 15 5 12 Show Grid sois da o ER pi da e a ERE pe aM etis ea UR MUN us te up eI LR 671 15 5 13 Show Sample Points esses enne enhn a enne RA ee isses enne 671 15 5 14 Snap to GUldes Sui ii vie e secedere ES Ge Se EN IERI UE 671 15 5 15 Snap to EA iioi EE ume stb aes ona bad tice bk dedos ene e ud 672 15 5 16 A ie NE o Io EE EE N N 672 15 517 Snap Active Pathr i san eU eet 672 15 518 Padding ColoF TE tem te cea eei exis 672 195 5 19 SHOW Menua ON 673 195 520 shoWRUleFs N adest toa ae as 674 15 5 21 SHOW Scrollbars ioci exse ai 674 I5 527 SHOW StOtusbdi doedecfte textes rint ge e eg lada add 674 15 6 The Image MENU tie terre rer e Pe Hee ere ette oe ine e Pre ees 674 P5 EL OVOLVIBU EA RR EE EE DE RE EE 674 A 525 EE RE SG t eso EE HEN te RR Ge T Gt 675 15 63 MO EN eR REN bedeutete EE Medo i ad Ue dad 676 Gimp User Manual 15 64 RGB IO isa 676 15 5 5 Grayscale mode iaa a i 677 15 6 6 Indexed miode ista tie Erie ee a dt pe 677 15 67 TrafsfoFm s aste di RS SEN ee ge SG ek Ge eN eg ee ea M S eod e ia pet 680 15 6 8 Flip Horizontally Flip Vertically eise sees ss se ee ee ee ee Ge Ee Re ee mnn 681 1569 ROCA ON RE EE ER Aaa 681 1E GO Guillotines ensein ER
21. el Richard 29 Gimp User Manual Chapter 1 Introduction 1 1 Welcome to GIMP GIMP is a multi platform photo manipulation tool GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program The GIMP is suitable for a variety of image manipulation tasks including photo retouching image composition and image construction GIMP has many capabilities It can be used as a simple paint program an expert quality photo retouching program an online batch processing system a mass production image renderer an image format converter etc GIMP is expandable and extensible It is designed to be augmented with plug ins and extensions to do just about anything The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted One of The GIMP s strengths is its free availability from many sources for many operating systems Most GNU Linux distributions include The GIMP as a standard application The GIMP is also available for other operating systems such as Microsoft Windows or Apple s Mac OS X Darwin The GIMP is a Free Software application covered by the General Public License GPL license The GPL provides users with the freedom to access and alter the source code that makes up computer programs 1 1 1 Authors The first version of the GIMP was written by Peter Mattis and Spencer Kimball Many other developers have contributed more recently and thousand
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23. hl ee treo ne rn e om He eh erts 747 1882 Colors Tools EER vici ait vitra os Duis URN ades deal QA CT QU QA MESI PO IR E 748 notos MENU mi 749 15 AA Valde beo exei oe dea ai QUI i andi Qa b d ood CONO riesen E TE 750 15 8 5 15 8 6 15 8 7 15 8 8 15 8 9 15 8 10 15 8 11 15 8 12 15 8 13 15 8 14 15 8 15 15 8 16 15 8 17 15 8 18 15 8 19 15 8 20 15 8 21 15 8 22 15 8 23 15 8 24 15 8 25 15 8 26 15 8 27 15 8 28 15 8 29 15 8 30 15 8 31 15 8 32 Gimp User Manual Ii GE Gi p ia 751 The Auto Sube SS ES a a a a a a 751 Ro EUA E R SE E ERE 755 White Balan uni 756 Color ENEE ainda ad o 757 Noria aii dit 758 Stretch CON ERASE rara 759 Stretch Hi o 760 The Components Submenu ss se ee a Re ee ee Ee ee ee 761 CROSS A 762 COMPOST AA ASA ee ai 768 DECOMPOS its 770 RECOMPOSE ii N dh can deseusuesstabeewsisiaieeses 774 The Map SUOMA t eu in 775 Rearrange Colormap Dicen a aaa e ditosa ira 776 SetEAlormap ER AE AEE EEE A E RI e Ets 778 Alien Map d rh eerta e Ee REG ER I ede 779 Color Exchange ioo a A A OE 782 Gradi nt Map ERI EB 784 Palette Map ce oerte ttt eie c Ee A ee eds 785 Rotate Colors Noe WEG cu TONER EUN TRU SRI Tee d AUN P EIU ME dA 786 Sample Colofize EER Re De Ee aaa 792 The Info SUBEERU sis EE EE Ee ee Se GE Ge N ee ke GE AG REG ee aN 795 HIiStO FA roii eret ee A ta 796 Border IE OE N N OE enin N ree N 796 Colorcube Analysis 0 t EE EE EE GEE cem erect Ie
24. lection concocococccncnccononononnnnnonnnnonnnnonnnnnnonnnonnnnnnos 731 15 7 32 The Transparency Submenu of the Layer MENU se ee ee ee ee 732 15 7 33 Add Alpha Channel iine dette S 733 15 7 34 Remove Alpha Channel ee se ea RR Re AA EE Re AA ee EE Ee 733 15 7 35 Colorto Alpha iet er Se did dci e liner ien 734 15 7 36 sefnisflattel EE EE EG Se AE Ee e I B MEM OVER Refs 734 T5 4 37 Threshold Alpha coude dee tp oni epic o cada var ae sator xu aote rem tue E RE T due 734 15 73 38 Alpha to Selection inb eee eb EP ENTRE 735 15 7 38 Add Alpha channel to Selection ss se ee ER ER Re RA ee ee ee ee 736 15 7 40 Subtract from Selection se aa 737 15 7 41 Intersect Alpha channel with Selection esee 737 15 7 42 The Transform UD 738 15 7543 Flip el de te inet re iii 739 15 744 Flip Vertical EG AE RU UNS 740 15 7 45 Rotate 20 degrees CW m 740 15 7 46 Rotate 90 degrees CCW ee dire NE N N N 740 15 7 47 Rotate 180 degrees onina a EN E EE ERE A EEN EEE T aR 740 15 7487 Arbittary RO 741 15 7 49 O n EE to me dre eo aie ted ney Ds o m DIE And M NE 741 15 7 50 Layef Boundary Size cete tee ee eee sede 743 15 7 51 Layerto IMAGESIZE cree onn er gie ce Et reete ene De Cepit ede Peng Poe te eeu e Dg empate 744 15 12 52 Scale Eayer iive Rn ipee ben o EP eh piens 744 15 71 53 Crop to Selectioli i te e rb n o Ie edu 746 15 8 v The Colors Men Urdaneta ou eo aa 747 15 8 1 Introduction to the Colors Me
25. nables window managers to do a much better job of managing the GIMP windows including omitting the Toolbox and Docks from the taskbar and ensuring that the Toolbox and Docks always are above image windows Ability to scroll beyond image border It is now possible to pan beyond the image border making image window navigation much less constrained It is no longer a problem to use the edge of a brush on the edge of an image while being zoomed in and one can adapt the canvas to any utility windows covering parts of the image window Figure 1 2 Scrolling beyond border Minor changes e Renamed Dialogs menu to Windows e Keep a list of recently closed Docks and allow reopening them e Make opening images in already running GIMP instances work better on Windows e You can now enter the image zoom ratio directly in the status bar e Added support for using online help instead of a locally installed GIMP Help package 32 Gimp User Manual e Make it possible to lock tabs in docks to prevent accidental moving Tools Filters and Plug ins Improved Free Select Tool The freehand select tool has been enhanced to support polygonal selections It also allows mixing free hand segments with polygonal segments editing of existing segments applying angle constraints to segments and of course the normal selection tool operations like add and subtract Altogether this ends up making the Free Select Tool a very versatile powerful and easy to use
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27. nonoonnnnnnnnnnonnannnnnnnnnncnnnnnnnnonnnnnnnnnnnnnnn ee ee ee ee ee ee 164 7 13 1 Drawing a Straight Line cd 164 7 13 2 Creating a Basic Shape EER teen e WEAR 166 Chapter 8 Combining Images se Ee ee AE ER ee ee AR ER RA ee ee Ee ee Re ee ns ee enne n nnn ee 168 81 Introduction to Layens ies Es Ee ee cete rece EN Ee ee Ene EG DER ee gene Es Segoed 168 8 1 1 Layer Properties 168 8 2 LayeriMOd6S EE EE ES EE GE EE sees sas Ge Ee EER GE a 174 8 3 Creating New Layers ide a GE EN ee Ge Se si Se Ee dee ee ge ed 197 8 4 Tekt and FONTS ME EE wn Aia 197 8 5 TOXU EE EE RE AA AO KA N 199 8 5 1 Ermbellishiihg Texta nia dd 199 8 5 2 A RET tes shone dal De Ge hea ae seca 200 8 5 3 FOME Problems us rin 202 Chapter 9 Enhancing Photographs ccccconoccounnncncnnnononoonnnnnnnnnnnnnnononnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnonanananononons 203 9 1 Working with Digital Camera PhOtOS ccccccnonnooononnnnnnnnnnononnnnnnnonnnnnnnnanonnnnnnnnnnnnannnos 203 9 1 1 Introd ON aaa eot hates T 203 9 1 2 Improving COMPOSITION tec ce Ee Se EG Eed ee BE EES ES GE Ge He Ee ede GE Ge Ge Be Ee Gee We EES ee 203 9 1 3 Improving Colors 5 EE EE e SS 205 9 14 Adjusting ShafBNeSS ie A ee eh AA ek ee se 209 9 1 5 Removing Unwanted Objects from an IMage sees esse ee Re AE AA ee RR ee 210 9 1 6 Saving Your Results S e ter e Rei diced laws ae E idee EG 212 Chapter 10 Color Management with GIMP cccccnononocnonncnnnnnononononnno
28. ocumentation LicenS se ee RR ER RA ee ee enne 1266 22 1 1 Version 1 2 November 2002 ee se se ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ER ee ee ee RR ee ee ee ee 1266 22 2 22 3 22 4 22 5 22 6 22 7 22 8 22 9 22 10 22 11 22 12 22 13 Gimp User Manual PREAMBLE RE EA 1266 APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS ddr i n 1266 VERBATIM COPYING cio iS 1268 COPYING IN QUAN Toc iS 1268 MODIFICATION S conan cat data tar dt 1269 COMBINING DOCUMEN Sui a ia 1271 COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS atacada eae do 1271 AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS sesse ee se ee ee ee ee ee se ee se ee eed ee ge de ee se ee 1272 TRANSLATION m 1272 pug ee Ee eo adn 1272 FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE teinte RS Gee C GN Ge GR eg eks N ee 1273 ADDENDUM How to use this License for your documents iese esse eke ee ee ee 1273 28 Gimp User Manual Preface GIMP User Manual Authors and Contributors Content Writers Axel Wernicke German English Roman Joost German English UIf D Ehlert German Marco Ciampa Italian Julien Hardelin French English Alessandro Falappa Italian Manuel Qui ones Spanish Ignacio Antl Spanish Choi Ji Hui amp 3 3 Korean Nickolay V Shmyrev Russian Albin Bernharsson Swedish Daniel Nylander Swedish Patrycja Stawiarska Polish Kolbj rn Stuestgl Norwegian Proof Reading Jakub Friedl Czech English Hans De Jonge Dutch Raymon Van Wanrooij Dutch
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30. p e Support for a wide range of file formats including GIF JPEG PNG XPM TIFF TGA MPEG PS PDF PCX BMP and many others e Selection tools including rectangle ellipse free fuzzy bezier and intelligent scissors e Plug ins that allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters 1 2 What s New in GIMP 2 6 GIMP 2 6 is an important release from a development point of view It features changes to the user interface addressing some often received complaints and a tentative integration of GEGL the graph based image processing library that will eventually bring high bit depth and non destructive editing to GIMP User Interface Toolbox Menubar removed The toolbox menubar has been removed and merged with the image window menubar To be able to do this a window called the empty image window has been introduced It hosts the menubar and keeps the application instance alive when no images are opened It also acts as a drag and drop target When opening the first image the empty image window is transformed into a normal image window and when closing the last image that window becomes the empty image window Figure 1 1 New Look of the image window in GIMP 2 6 31 Gimp User Manual GNU Image Manipulation Program Toolbox and docks are utility windows With the empty image window acting as a natural main window the default window hints for the Toolbox and Docks have been changed to Utility window This e
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32. re e pe 799 Smooth Paletten eni pde A t duelo e d nat a Ret qua ESSA rad 800 TReColor PIES ae Ge EU 801 Gimp User Manual icc rs ea 801 15 8 34 Color to Alpicat di 803 15 8 35_ Alterado 804 15 8 36 ETE 810 15 8 37 MMECRGB dada tana 811 15 8 38 RetineE DE ER ER en Cat Ee Ee GR den Re ee eed 812 15 8 The Tools MERE EE GR ED GR Ge ee NU ed 815 15 9 1 Introduction to the Tools Menu iss sd ii id cs 815 15 10 The Filters Mena dure Eg EN edere nly ai Rudern vis US da ens dau usa GE ee eg 816 15 10 1 Introduction to the Filters Menu sio daa rq dere tora ba tegat ida 816 15 10 2 hri EE 817 ds 10 3 viResstio Lasa 817 15 10 4 Reset All FilteFS varia a idas 818 15 10 5 The Script Fu SUDIIBIUS aa 818 15 11 The Windows Mehl uio pir EG ORE a 823 15 11 1 Windows Menu Entes se eati eg es Neo GE Ge A 823 15 11 2 The Recently Closed Docks SUBMENU esses 824 15 11 3 The Dockable Dialogs subMENU esse ee ER ER AR RR Re ee ee ee ee 824 1512 The Help Men EE EE EE A ee ge RT 825 15 12 1 Introduction to the Help MENU iss see ee ee ee ee Ee ee ee Ee Ee ee ee ee ee enne 825 UND REM 1 AE N EE NE OE AE 825 15 12 3 Context Help Ss aida 826 15124 MipOfthe Days per e RP Dep ER EG ped EO AG N MM EE 826 15 125 A Ee ee GE ee ee ee ee DE ee 827 15 12 6 Plug In Browser ee ee ee ee ee ee ee AR ER ee AE Re Re AA Ee Ee a 828 15 12 The Procedure BROWSEN SE is ad 830 15
33. s 631 15 3 18 Stroke PAU fe OGE repre N cr 632 15 3 19 The Preferences Cornmard Mi ee OR niger rire GE e qu N ek ke di 635 15 3 20 Keyboard Shortcuts inser ree ie be URINE XE 635 15 3 21 The Module MaHager ea esce be ER VO EE ERI re XS 636 15 3 22 gt oai tetti aceasta ta rar aad dut d ra aterm see dfe ot aa 638 154 The Seleti Menta DAS 640 15 4 1 Introduction to the Select Menu aie ote re p ana tO Ne dani 640 15442 Select All oio er RR ai 641 15 43 No 641 18de UU T cr 642 15 457 ROSE eise OR d pio a AA 642 O LE 644 15 47 From Pat Ee GR aaa HO SE RA TARNEN NUI CRM EROR NUR OS EFL IR De d a DRE 644 15 4 8 Selection Editors aieo meae cda ei s aO P SANARE IO 644 154 9 EE RR IE RR EE AS 649 WE AS EE EE ERE IS VEN Ee ee 650 15311 SIA a 650 15 4 12 GROW c RE Ee cea EE ee Ee OG RE ea EO AG N eS 651 iS Ek BORSE tees Id N ON EO Ed OE OR OAR 652 15 4 14 Rounded Rectangle iii ss se ee ee ER AA AA Ge Re Re AA Ee Ee RA ee ee ee ee 654 15 415 Go ud d utet sitat beide EE DAE RE EE OE N 655 15 4 16 Toggle QuickMaske be ei ec Pe GER Ee bee Ee See i eH Se sk se ee 656 15 4 17 Save to Channel N Ge Ge ee ie de 656 Gimp User Manual 15 418 O 656 155 mhe View Menta daa 657 15 5 1 Introduction to the View Menu riori aget rr tate Ak goe ge eN es AAR 657 HONDA IU VIW EE 658 e A I tue A EE OO AE 658 15 503 ZOOM ea IO dct etse aes Uto tas 659 15 5 5 Shrink Wrap oie ee he e te EN et
34. s have provided support and testing GIMP releases are currently being orchestrated by Sven Neumann and Mitch Natterer and the other members of the GIMP Team 1 1 2 The GIMP Help system The GIMP Documentation Team and other users have provided you with the information necessary to understand how to use GIMP The User Manual is an important part of this help The current version is on the web site of the Documentation Team in HTML format The HTML version is also available as context sensitive help if you installed it while using GIMP by pressing the F1 key Help on specific menu items can be accessed by pressing the F1 key while the mouse pointer is focused on the menu item Read on to begin your GIMP journey 30 Gimp User Manual 1 1 3 Features and Capabilities The following list is a short overview of some of the features and capabilities which GIMP offers you e A full suite of painting tools including brushes a pencil an airbrush cloning etc e Tile based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space e Sub pixel sampling for all paint tools for high quality anti aliasing e Full Alpha channel support for working with transparency e Layers and channels e A procedural database for calling internal GIMP functions from external programs such as Script Fu e Advanced scripting capabilities e Multiple undo redo limited only by disk space e Transformation tools including rotate scale shear and fli
35. wards high bit depth and non destructive editing in GIMP has been made Most color operations in GIMP are now ported to the powerful graph based image processing framework GEGL meaning that the internal processing is being done in 32bit floating point linear light RGBA By default the legacy 8bit code paths are still used but a curious user can turn on the use of GEGL for the color operations with Colors Use GEGL In addition to porting color operations to GEGL an experimental GEGL Operation tool has been added found in the Tools menu It enables applying GEGL operations to an image and it gives on canvas previews of the results The screenshot below shows this for a Gaussian Blur Figure 1 8 GEGL operation G GEGL Operation Ang T LOMA Out FARM ey Opera ker Operation Settings EO az p Say r3 C A MEUS Minor Changes Ported many widgets to use the 2D graphics library cairo for drawing See this comparison for an example of how much better this looks Miscellaneous Plug in Development There are new things for a plug in developer to enjoy as well For example procedures can now give a detailed error description in case of an error and the error can be propagated to the user 36 Gimp User Manual GIMP 2 6 also further enhances its scripting abilities In particular there is now a much richer API for the creation and manipulation of text layers Here is a list of new symbols in GIMP 2 6 GIMP NEWSYM 26
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