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
2. Using Gimp
1. Using Gimp
2. Image Window
2.1. Introduction
2.2. QuickMask
3. Toolbox
1. The Toolbox
2. Toolbox Menu
3. Tools
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Selection Tools
3.2.1. Rectangle Selection Tool
3.2.2. Ellipse Selection Tool
3.2.3. Free Selection Tool
3.2.4. Fuzzy Selection Tool
3.2.5. Select By Color Tool
3.2.6. Scissors Tool
3.3. Paint Tools
3.3.1. Bucket Fill
3.3.2. Gradient Tool
3.3.3. Pencil Tool
3.3.4. Paintbrush Tool
3.3.5. Eraser Tool
3.3.6. Airbrush Tool
3.3.7. Ink Tool
3.3.8. Clone Tool
3.3.9. Convolver
3.3.10. Dodge or Burn
3.3.11. Smudge Tool
3.4. Transform Tools
3.4.1. Move Tool
3.4.2. Crop Tool
3.4.3. Rotate Tool
3.4.4. Scale Tool
3.4.5. Shear Tool
3.4.6. Perspective Tool
3.4.7. Flip Tool
3.5. Color Tools
3.5.1. Color Balance Tool
3.5.2. Hue-Saturation Tool
3.5.3. Colorize Tool
3.5.4. Brightness-Contrast tool
3.5.5. Threshold Tool
3.5.6. Levels tool
3.5.7. Curves Tool
3.5.8. Posterize Tool
3.6. Other
3.6.1. Path Tool
3.6.2. Color Picker Tool
3.6.3. Magnify Tool
3.6.4. Measure Tool
3.6.5. Texttool
4. Dialogs
1. Dialog introduction
2. Layers dialog
2.1. Layers Menu
2.2. Layer masks
3. Channels dialog
3.1. Channels Menu
3.2. Selection masks
3.3. Quick Mask
4. Navigation Dialog
5. Colors dialog
5.1. Dialog Menu
6. Document History dialog
7. Preferences introduction
7.1. New Image
7.2. Default Image Grid
7.3. Interface
7.4. Help System
7.5. Image Windows
7.6. Window Managment
7.7. Environment
8. Dialogs accessed from the Menus
8.1. File
8.1.1. New
8.1.2. Open
8.1.3. Open Recent
8.1.4. Save
8.1.5. Save as
8.2. Edit
8.2.1. Undo
8.2.2. Redo
8.2.3. Undo History
8.2.4. Cut
8.2.5. Copy
8.2.6. Paste
8.2.7. Paste Into
8.2.8. Paste as New
8.2.9. Buffer
8.2.10. Clear
8.2.11. Fill with
8.2.12. Stroke Path
8.2.13. Stroke Selection
8.2.14. Copy Visible
8.3. Select
8.3.1. Select All
8.3.2. None
8.3.3. Invert
8.3.4. From Path
8.3.5. Float
8.3.6. By Color
8.3.7. Feather
8.3.8. Sharpen
8.3.9. Shrink
8.3.10. Grow
8.3.11. Border
8.3.12. Toggle QuickMask
8.3.13. Save to Channel
8.3.14. To Path
8.4. View
8.4.1. New View
8.4.2. Dot for Dot
8.4.3. Zoom
8.4.4. Info Window
8.4.5. Navigation Window
8.4.6. Show Selection
8.4.7. Show Guides
8.4.8. Snap to Guides
8.4.9. Show Grid
8.4.10. Snap to Grid
8.4.11. Show Menubar
8.4.12. Show Rulers
8.4.13. Show Scrollbars
8.4.14. Show Statusbar
8.4.15. Shrink Wrap
8.4.16. Full Screen
5. 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. Combine filters
12.1. Combine filters introduction
12.2. Depth Merge
12.3. Film
Glossary
6. Legalese
B. Eeek! a help is missing

List of Examples

4.1. Usage