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Preface Legalese, Contributions, Changelog and TODO

Legalese

Contributions

Changelog

TODO

Chapter1 What is Gimp?

"About The Gimp

Features and Capabilities

Authors

What we can say about Gimp

Gimp History

Chapter2 Getting and installing Gimp

How to Install the personal files of Gimp.

Installing Gimp if it's not at your system

Installing a source distribution

To install a binary distribution.

Chapter3 Your first Gimp image

Chapter4 File and save

The file menu

A new image

Open a image.

Options when opening a Postscript or Pdf file

To Save an image

File formats supported by GIMP

Different options when saving files in GIMP

Let's mail our image to a friend

How to print in Gimp

Gimp preferences

Chapter5 Selection tools

The Basic controls

Moving selections

Rectangular and ellipse selection tools

The Free selection tool

Fuzzy select

The Bezier selection tool

Intelligent Scissors

Chapter6 Paint Tools

The Color Picker

Palettes

The Bucket fill

The Blend tool or Gradient fill

There are no less than 9 different Gradient types:

The Pencil and Paintbrush

The Eraser tool

The Airbrush tool

The Clone tool

The Convolver

Brush Selection

The Foreground/Background icon

Chapter7 Edit

Cut, Copy, and Paste

Paste Into

Cut, Copy and Paste Named

Clear, Fill and Stroke

Undo and Redo

Chapter8 Transform Tools

The Move Tool

Magnifying glass or Zoom tool

The Crop Tool

The Transform tool

The Flip tool

Chapter9 Text and fonts

The Text tool

Chapter10 Brushes, Gradients, Palettes and Patterns

Brushes

How to make a pattern.

Palettes

Gradients

Chapter11 Color Models

RGB

CMYK

INDEXED

HSV

NCS

Spot color

Grayscale and Line Art

Complementary or Inverted colors

Chapter12 Image Menu

Map

Equalize

Invert

Posterize

Threshold

Adjust

Color Balance

Brightness-Contrast

Hue-Saturation

Curves

Levels

Desaturate

Channel Ops

Duplicate

Offset

Compose and Decompose

RGB, Grayscale, Indexed

Resize and Scale

Histogram

Chapter13 Selection menu

Toggle

Invert

Select all or none

float

feather, sharpen and border

grow and shrink

save to channel

select by color

Chapter14 Layers

Layers

Adding layers to your image

Now, let's take look at the other options in the Layers menu.

Raise Layer and Lower Layer

Duplicate Layer

Delete Layer

Scale Layer

Resize Layer

Add Layer Mask

Apply Layer Mask

Anchor layer

Merge Visible Layers

Flatten Image

Alpha to Selection

Mask to Selection

Chapter15 Modes

Modes

Normal Mode

Dissolve Mode

Multiply Mode

Screen Mode

What is the difference between Screen, Addition and Lighten Only?

Overlay Mode

Difference Mode

Addition Mode

Subtraction Mode

Darken only

Lighten only

Hue

Saturation Mode

Color Mode

Value

Comparing pictures in diffrent modes

Chapter16 Channels and Floating Selections

Channels

RGB Channels

Alpha Channels

What are Alpha Channels?

Storing selections

Editing Alpha Channels

Floating Selections

What is a floating selection?

Moving objects in a floating selection layer (like letters in a text for instance)

Tips on working with floating selections

Chapter17 Script-Fu; description and function

Script Fu

Chapter18 Plug-ins; description and function

Plug-ins

The main categories

Animation

Animation playback

Gif animation: (not a plug-in)

Artistic Plug-ins

Cubism

Mosaic

Oilify

Sparkle

Van Gogh (LIC)

Chapter19 Plug-ins; description and function

Blur Plug-ins

Blur

Gaussian Blur (IIR)

Gaussian Blur (RLE):

Motion Blur

Variable Blur

Darkroom plug-ins

Film

Filter Pack

Color Map Rotation

Chapter20 Plug-ins; description and function

Distorts plug-ins

Apply lens

Blinds

Displace

Emboss

Noisify

Randomize

Ripple

Shift

Spread

Video

Waves

Whirl and Pinch

Conical Anamorphose & Central-Reflection

Coordinate Map:

Polar Coords

Value Propagate:

Encript/Decript:

Map Object:

Edge detect plug-ins

Chapter21 Plug-ins; description and function

Effect plug-ins

Bump map

Depth merge

Super Nova

Gflare

Morph : see the Xmorph doc in appendix X.

Chapter22 Plug-ins; description and function

Image plug-ins

Alien Map

Auto-Strech HSV

Color exchange

Contrast Auto-Stretch

Convolution Matrix

Curtain:

Deinterlace

Despeckle

Destripe

Engrave

Gradient Map

Hot

Max RGB

NL Filter

Normalize

Pixelize

Sharpen

Scatter HSV

Threshold Alpha

Universal

Value Invert

Chapter23 Plug-ins; description and function

Render plug-ins

CML explorer:

Checkerboard:

Figures:

Flame:

Gfig:

Grid:

Ifs Compose:

Mandelbrot Fractal:

Julia Fractal:

Magic Eye:

Maze:

Plasma:

Qbist:

Solid Noise:

Stereogram:

Textures plug-ins

Transform

Rotate

Unspecified plug-ins

Chapter24 Writing a Script Fu

Introduction

Expressions

Functions

Variables and lists

car, cdr and friends (*)

Local variables (*)

The GIMP PDB

Registering the script with Script-Fu

A commented scrip

Painting areas with selections

Loops

Floating selections