Painting Areas With Selections 743 Creating Text 747 Floating Selections 750 The Perl Server And Standalone Scripts 752 End Notes, Links And References 753 PART X Advanced Installations years of working experience. That’s how big the difference is. • Gimp can be a backend in your web server, serving your web site with stunning graphics. • Gimp has functions such as revision control, so enable image editing from the web with the help of Net-Fu which is a way to access Gimp from a web server. A lot of Gimp users make scripts, and you can easily download all sorts of scripts from various

shape. The button in the toolbox is the easiest way to get to any of the tools. Figure 3.28 Select a Region to Crop Click on one corner of the desired crop area and drag your mouse to create the crop rectangle Wilber image with transparency Mid-Tone Checks in the background layer represent the transparent region of the exported image while you are working on it in GIMP. 70 Chapter 7 Painting with GIMP 7 GIMP there are three main uses for patterns: • With the Bucket Fill tool, you can choose to fill a region with a pattern instead of a solid color. 93 CHAPTER 7. PAINTING WITH GIMP 7.11. PATTERNS Figure

some of those features is below. • It is now possible to run the GIMP in batch mode without an X server. • We have a GIMP binary (GIMP-console) which is not linked to GTK+ at all. • Improved interface GIMP there are three main uses for patterns: • With the Bucket Fill tool, you can choose to fill a region with a pattern instead of a solid color. • With the Clone tool, you can paint using a pattern crop rectangle. It will also pop up a dialog that allows you to adjust the dimensions of the crop region if they aren't quite right. When everything is perfect, hit the Crop button in the dialog. Improving

some of those features is below. • It is now possible to run the GIMP in batch mode without an X server. • We have a GIMP binary (GIMP-console) which is not linked to GTK+ at all. • Improved interface the tools. I have chosen one of the huge and beautiful APOD images [APOD05]. Figure 3.22: Select a Region to Crop I always click on the approximate upper left corner and drag to the lower right corner. it in PNG format. Figure 6.9: Mid-Tone Checks in the background layer represent the transparent region of the saved image while you are working on it in GIMP. GNU Image Manipulation Program 75 / 653

colour in an image. Scissors I Create paths to select shapes. Foreground (none) Select a region containing foreground objects. Transform tools Move M Moves layers and selections.