shadows and midtones of an image without blowing the highlights . . . . 1005 .17 A step-by-step example showing how to recover shadow information using high bit depth GIMP’s floating point “Colors/Exposure” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592 17.1 Simple “Slice” filter example output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 916 17.2 With separate image should be the first in the list. Another GIMP instance Use -n to run multiple instances of GIMP. For example, use gimp-2.10 to start GIMP in the default system language, and LANGUAGE=en gimp-2.10 -n to start

dialog’s context menu, which contains operations specific to that particular type of dialog. For example, the context menu for the Patterns dialog contains a set of operations for manipulating patterns opens into a submenu giving a list of sizes for the items in the dialog (cp. Figure 3.10 ). For example, the Brushes dialog shows pictures of all available brushes: the Preview Size determines how large related dialog will be that of the current image and will change if you select another image. For example, if you have two images and the Histogram dialog on your screen (and this option checked in this

Bold is used the first time important concepts, items or topics are introduced. This can, for example, be words you’ll see onscreen in Gimp — pull-down menu titles, dialog titles, options — but it can catch your attention, so you won’t miss passages of vital importance or essential warnings. For example, don’t do this or your system will crash, or some other unpleasantness will happen! Beware Of Bugs functions marked with this symbol at your own risk. Tutorial Next to this sign, you’ll find an example or a tutorial, helping you to understand the described function. Tip This sign indicates useful

command in the Image menu. Some types of conversions, of course (RGB to grayscale or indexed, for example) lose information that cannot be regained by converting back in the other direction. If you are right selection is the key to getting the result you want, and often it is not very easy to do. For example, in the above GNU Image Manipulation Program Generated by docbook2odf Page 25 of 421 G e n e before they drop out of the Undo History. Some operations (changing layer visibility is again an example) are compressed, so that doing them several times in a row produces only a single point in the Undo

blacks. It can bring out details in your image Draw a box around your image like in this example. Whatever is outside of the box will get erased. Want to print out your photos later? Your computer down or backwards, you can fix it. 1. Click Image 2. Transform 3. Pick an option In this example the words are backwards so it needs to be flipped horizontally. Fix Horizon Lines over the problem spot. 1. Zoom into your image to look at your problem area (circled in this example) 2. Click on the Healing Tool button a. Change the size of your healing brush if you want

other programs are used. The dimensions of images can be described in its width and height. For example, an 800 × 600 image means it has a width of 800 pixels, and a height of 600 pixels. To convert specified for individual images. The ratio of the width and the height is called the aspect ratio. For example a 800 × 600 photo has an aspect ratio of 4 : 3. If the ASPECt RAtio of A photo is chANged in enlArgement working on your image, you must convert it to a suitable standard format for use elsewhere. For example, you can export a file as a JPEG in GIMP. To save an image in the JPEG format using GIMP: 1

in one click. GIMP Basics - 5 Moving Wilbur's head... Wilbur is the mascot of GIMP. In this example we will move Wilbur head into the white space on our main image. 1. First we will take a screen

Figure 5 From the menu shown in Figure 5, you can probe further down into more choices. For example, to make sure the image is full-color, you should move the mouse to select "Filters," then "Conversions