GNU Image Manipulation Program

Introduction

Welcome to The GIMP

Known platforms

The GIMP-Help system

Authors

What's New in The GIMP?

Gimp History

Reporting Bugs and Requesting Enhancements

Gimp Concepts

Starting Gimp the first time

Running Gimp

Basic Gimp Usage

The Main Toolbox

Image Window

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Dialogs and Docking

Docking Bars

Docking Drag Handles

Image Menu

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Basic Gimp Concepts

Working with Images

QuickMask

Layers

The Selection

Undoing

Grids and Guides

Paths

Brushes

The GIH dialog box

Gradients

Patterns

Palettes

Text and Fonts

Stroking a Selection or Path

Plugins

Installing New Plugins

Using Script-Fu Scripts

Using Gimp

How to Set Your Tile Cache

Drawing Simple Objects

Drawing a straight line

The dialog shows a new image, filled with a white background.

The dialog shows a new image, with the first dot indicating the start of the straight line. The dot has a black foreground color.

The screenshot shows the helpline, which indicates how the finished line will look like.

The created line appears in the image window after drawing the second point (or end point), while still having the Shift key pressed.

Creating a Basic Shape

The screenshot shows how a rectangular selection is created. Move the mouse in the direction of the red arrow by holding the left mouse button pressed.

The screenshot shows how a rectangular selection fill with the foreground color.

Dialogs and Docking

Removing Tabs

Using the Quickmask

Creating New Layers

Paths

Adding New Brushes

Text

Adding Fonts

Rendering a Grid

Files

Saving Files

Getting Unstuck

Working with Digital Camera Photos

Preparing your Images for the web

A Script-Fu Tutorial

Toolbox

The Toolbox

Tool Options

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Selection Tools

Common Features

Rectangle Selection Tool

Ellipse Selection Tool

Free Selection Tool (Lasso)

Fuzzy Selection Tool (Magic Wand)

Select By Color Tool

Scissors Tool

Brush Tools

Common Features

Bucket Fill

Gradient Tool

Painting Tools (Pencil, Paintbrush, Airbrush)

Pencil

Paintbrush Tool

Eraser

Airbrush Tool

Ink Tool

Clone Tool

Convolve (Blur/Sharpen)

Dodge or Burn

Smudge Tool

Transform Tools

Move Tool

Crop Tool

Rotate Tool

Scale Tool

Shear Tool

Perspective Tool

Flip Tool

Color Tools

Color Balance Tool

Hue-Saturation Tool

Colorize Tool

Brightness-Contrast tool

Threshold Tool

Levels tool

Curves Tool

Posterize Tool

Path Tool

Color Picker Tool

Magnify Tool

Measure Tool

Texttool

Text Editor

Color and Indicator Area

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Indicator Area

Dialogs

Dialog introduction

Layers dialog

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Layer masks

Channels dialog

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Channels Menu

Selection masks

Quick Mask

Path dialog

Paths Menu

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Colormap dialog

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Histogram dialog

Navigation Dialog

Undo History dialog

Colors dialog

Brushes dialog

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Brush Editor

Patterns dialog

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Gradients dialog

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Gradient Editor

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Palettes

Palettes Menu

Edit Palette

New Palette

Import Palette

Duplicate Palette

Merge Palettes

Delete Palette

Refresh Palettes

Palette Editor

Palette Editor Menu

Edit Color

New Color from FG; New Color from BG

Delete Color

Zoom Out

Zoom In

Zoom All

Fonts dialog

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Buffers dialog

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Images dialog

Document History dialog

Templates

Edit Template

Tools dialog

Preferences

New Image Preferences

Default Image Grid

Interface

Theme

Help System

Tool Options

Toolbox

Image Windows

Image Window Appearance

Image Window Title and Statusbar

Display

Get Monitor Resolution

Window Managment

Environment

Folders

Data Folders

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Menus

Toolbox Menu

File

New

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Open

Open Recent

Open as Layer

Save

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Save as

Save a Copy

Save as Template

Revert

Page Setup

Print

Close

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Quit

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Edit

Undo

Redo

Undo History

Cut

Copy

Copy Visible

Paste

Paste Into

Paste as New

Cut named

Copy Named

Clear

Fill with

Fill with FG Color

Fill with BG Color

Fill with Pattern

Stroke Selection

Stroke Path

Select

Select All

None

Invert

From Path

Float

By Color

Selection Editor

Feather

Sharpen

Shrink

Grow

Border

Rounded Rectangle

Toggle QuickMask

Save to Channel

To Path

View

New View

Dot for Dot

Zoom

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Shrink Wrap

Full Screen

Info Window

Navigation Window

Show Selection

Show Layer Boundary

Show Guides

Snap to Guides

Show Grid

Snap to Grid

Padding Color

Show Menubar

Show Rulers

Show Scrollbars

Show Statusbar

Image

Duplicate

Mode

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Decompose

Compose

Transform

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Canvas Size

Print Size

Fit Canvas to Layers

Scale Image

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Crop Image

Autocrop Image

Zealous Crop

Merge Visible Layers

Flatten Image

Guides

Configure Grid

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Layers

New Layer

Merge down

Layer Boundary Size

Layer to Image Size

Scale Layer

Stack

Select Previous Layer

Select Next Layer

Select Top Layer

Select Bottom Layer

Raise Layer to top

Layer to bottom

Colors

Desaturate

Invert

Equalize

Color Enhance

Normalize

Stretch Contrast

Stretch HSV

Mask

Add Layer Mask

Apply Layer Mask

Delete Layer Mask

Mask to Selection (or Add; Subtract; Intersect)

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Transparency

Add Alpha Channel

Threshold Alpha

Alpha to Selection [or Add, Subtract, Intersect]

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Transform

Flip Horizontally [or Vertically]

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Rotate 90 degrees CW [or CCW, or 180 degrees]

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Offset

Crop Layer

Autocrop Layer

Align Visible Layers

Tools

Tools

Filters

Repeat Last

Re-show Last

Filters

Filter introduction

Blur filters

Blur filters introduction

Blur

Gaussian Blur

Selective Gaussian Blur

Motion Blur

Pixelise

Tileable Blur

Color filters

Color filters introduction

Adjust FG-BG

Alien Map

Alien Map 2

Two Colors Exchange

Colormap Rotation

Map Color Range

Sample Colorize

Gradient Map

Border Average

Channel Mixer

Color Cube Analysis

Colorify

Color to Alpha

Compose

Decompose

Filter Pack

Hot

Max RGB

Semi-Flatten

Smooth Palette

Value invert

Noise filters

Noise filters introduction

Hurl

Scatter RGB

Pick

Scatter HSV

Slur

Spread

Edge-detect filters

Edge-detect introduction

Edge

Difference of Gaussians

Laplace

Sobel

Enhance filters

Enhance filters introduction

Deinterlace

Despeckle

Destripe

NL Filter

Sharpen

Unsharp Mask

Generic filters

Generic filters introduction

Convolution matrix

Dilate

Erode

Glass Effects filters

Glass Effects filters introduction

Apply Lens

Glass Tile

Light Effects filters

Light Effects filters introduction

FlareFX

Gflare

Lighting Effects

Sparkle

SuperNova

Distort filters

Distort filters introduction

Blinds

Curve Bend

Emboss

IWarp

Mosaic

Page Curl

Polar Coords

Ripple

Shift

Newsprint

Video

Value Propagate

Waves

Whirl and Pinch

Wind

Artistic filters

Artistic filters introduction

Apply Canvas

Cartoon

Cubism

GIMPressionist

GIMPressionist- Orientation Map Editor

GIMPressionist- Size Map Editor

Oilify

Rendering filters

Render filters introduction

Plasma

Solid Noise

Flame

IFS Compose

Diffraction Patterns

Grid

Jigsaw

Maze

QBist

Sinus

Combine filters

Combine filters introduction

Depth Merge

Film

Glossary

Alpha

Antialiasing

BMP

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Bitmap

Channels

Clipboard

Color modes

Dithering

File Format

Feathering

Floating Selection

Floyd-Steinberg Dithering

GIF

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GNU

Guides

Hextriplet

HSV

Image Hose

Incremental, paint mode

Interpolation

JPEG

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Layer

Marching Ants

Layer Modes

Masks

Path

PDF

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Postscript

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PNG

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PSD

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Sample Merge

Supersampling

TGA

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TIFF

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URL

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XCF

Bibliography

Grokking the Gimp

GNU Free Documentation License

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PREAMBLE

APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS

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VERBATIM COPYING

COPYING IN QUANTITY

MODIFICATIONS

COMBINING DOCUMENTS

COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS

AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS

TRANSLATION

TERMINATION

FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE

ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents

Index