time, and the various previews behave much more consistently. Real-time previews of transform operations The transform tools (shear, scale, perspective and rotate) can now show a real-time preview (with Tool Options) and Layers dialog around at all times. The Toolbox is essential to many GIMP operations; in fact, if you close it, GIMP will exit. (You are asked to confirm that you want to do this areas here show you GIMP's current foreground and background colors, which come into play in many operations. Clicking on either one of them brings up a color selector dialog that allow you to change to

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 1.2.4 Real-Time Previews of Transform Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 1.2.5 GNOME Human Interface Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 10 Pimp my GIMP 129 10.1 Grids and Guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 10.1.2 Guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 12.2 Grids and Guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 12.2.1 The Image Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 12.2.2 Guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 12.3 Boundary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475 16.5.14 Show Guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475 16.5.15 Show

And Paste 146 Multiselect 148 Clear, Fill And Stroke 149 Zoom 150 Rulers And Guides 151 Undo And Redo 152 New View, Shrink Wrap And Window Info 152 Chapter 10: Transform ....... 315 Introduction 316 Basic Layer Operations 317 Mask, Alpha And Selection Operations 322 Layer Align, Adjust And Move Operations 326 Transforms 330 Floating Selections convolve, blend and text • Effects filters (such as blur and edge detect) • Channel and color operations (such as add, composite and decompose) • Plug-ins that allowed for the easy addition of new file

the upper left corner, if for some reason you find one of these more convenient. More: most menu operations can also be activated from the keyboard, using Alt plus an “accelerator” key underlined in the rulers is to create guides. If you click on a ruler and drag into the image display, a guideline will be created, which you can use to help you position things accurately. Guides can be moved by clicking the information that appears here, by changing your Preferences. When you perform time- consuming operations, the status area changes temporarily to show what operation is being performed, and its state

Images • When finished click the rotate button to apply • To remove guideline: Image > Guides > Remove all Guides Cropping Images • Useful to crop unnecessary edges away • Can reduce file size when

canvas wheel Scroll canvas vertically Ctrl wheel Scroll canvas horizontally Rulers and Guides drag Drag off a ruler to create guide Drag off the horizontal or vertical Drag a sample point out of the rulers Shift Ctrl R Toggle rulers Shift Ctrl T Toggle guides Edit Undo/redo Ctrl Z Undo Ctrl Y Redo Clipboard Ctrl C Copy selection This places a copy of

up when you press Shift+arrows. drag 卷动画布 wheel 垂直卷动画布 Shift wheel 水平卷动画布 Rulers and Guides drag Drag off a ruler to create guide Drag off the horizontal or vertical ruler to create Ctrl drag Drag a sample point out of the rulers Shift Ctrl R Toggle rulers Shift Ctrl T Toggle guides Image Ctrl D 复制图像 Alt Return Image properties 图层 Shift Ctrl N New layer Shift Ctrl D Duplicate

fuzzy selection by color, and even bezier selection. The program supports a full host of channel operations and many types of displays from 8 bit to 24 bit. Newer beta versions of the program support layers application "toolbox." From this menu you can perform most of the GIMP's operations. You will also see the menus for files operations. Figure 1 Figure 1 shows the main menu with some of the buttons other image manipulation programs you may have used before. GIMP is structured in this way to make operations more familiar and easier to use. With a little practice, you can be editing images very quickly