General Public License (GPL license). The GPL provides users with the freedom to access and alter the source code that makes up computer programs. Authors The first version of the GIMP was written by Peter IRIX, OS/2, and BeOS. The GIMP can easily be ported to other operating systems because of its source code availability. Language All being well, GIMP detects the system language. This may fail many fewer); but if you create them by transforming a selection into a path, or by transforming text into a path, the result can easily contain hundreds of anchor points, or even thousands. A path

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 7.5.5 Paths and Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 8.4 Text and Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 8.5 Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 8.5.1 Embellishing Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 8

159 The Flip Tool 162 The Magnify Tool 162 Chapter 11: Text And Fonts .......................................... 165 The Text Tool 166 Chapter 12: Brushes, Gradients, Palettes And Patterns .......... 583 CML Explorer 584 Checkerboard 586 Diffraction Patterns 587 Dynamic Text 588 Figures 591 Flame 592 Fractal Explorer 595 Genetic 599 Gfig 600 First Script-Fu Script 708 Lesson 5: Giving Our Script Some Guts 713 Lesson 6: Extending The Text Box Script 716 The G imp Us e r’s Man u al x v Ta b l e O f C o n ten ts PART IX Perl-Fu

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 7.5.6 Paths and Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 7.5.7 Paths and . . . . 119 iv CONTENTS 9 Text Management 123 9.1 Text Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 9.1.1 Text Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 9.1.2 Managing Text Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 9.1.3 Text Toolbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

General Public License of the Free Software Foundation. That means that you can always obtain the source to the program. Furthermore, it is free for downloading over the Internet. The GIMP fills the need the GIMP, you'll find that it is packed with features. Paint tools include a paintbrush, airbrush, text tools, clone, blur, and sharpen. You can also transform images with rotation, scaling, flipping, built into GIMP on the main menu include moving, magnification, cropping, transforming, flipping, text, color picking, fill, blending, pencil, paintbrush, eraser, airbrush, clone and convolve. Once you

formats used by image editing software Image processing software can store extra information, such as text and layers, in its own file format. If you save the image in these formats, you can open your image and YCbCr. What is GIMP?  GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program.  It is Open Source.  It is Cross Platform.  It is Bitmap Graphics Editor, not for Vector editing. GIMP Interface another. Heal H Heals image irregularities. Perspective Clone (none) Clone from an image source after applying perspective transformation. Convolve (Blur/Sharpen) Shift + U Blurs or

Crop and Resize Shift R Rotate Shift T Scale Shift S Shear Shift P Perspective Shift F Flip T Text Shift B Bucket Fill L Blend N Pencil P Paintbrush Shift E Eraser A Airbrush K Ink C Clone widget Enter Set the new value This accepts the new value you typed in a text field and returns focus to canvas. Space , Enter Activate current button or

tab. 3 To select a layer, simply click on the layer 4 To rename a layer, doubleclick on the text of the layer and type in the new name 5 To reorganise layers, drag/move the layer up and down within

your source area (a clean area on the image that looks just like your problem area, something the same colour or texture) 4. Click & draw on the problem area to ‘heal’ it based on the source area

Manipulation Program • Bitmap Graphics Editor • Open Source • Cross Platform • Not for Vector editing www.gimp.org Vector vs Bitmap Getting GIMP • Open Source • Cross Platform www.gimp.org • View Toolbox