operations, the status area changes temporarily to show what operation is being performed, and its state of progress. Note Note that the amount of memory consumed by the image is quite different from the shown in the image display. (This does not alter the image, though: it reverts back to its original state when the JPEG dialog is closed.) Advanced settings Some information about the advanced settings: 255. The examples below show the effects of each of the modes. The image on the left is the normal state and the image on the right shows the results of the layer mode. GNU Image Manipulation Program 105

operations, the status area changes temporarily to show what operation is being performed, and its state of progress. Cancel Button: At the lower right corner of the window appears the Cancel button you a very ominous-looking message telling you that the plugin may have left GIMP in a corrupted state, and you should consider saving your images and exiting. Strictly speaking, this is quite correct can't get results that you are happy with, press Cancel and the image will revert to its previous state. A more sophisticated, and only slightly more difficult, way of correcting exposure problems is

shown in the image display. (This does not alter the image: the image reverts back to its original state when the JPEG dialog is closed.) Keep metadata If the image you loaded has Exif, XMP, IPTC metadata Okay for it to take effect. Pressing Cancel instead will cause your image to revert to its previous state. If you can find a point in the image that ought to be perfect white, and a second point that ought can’t get results that you are happy with, press Cancel and the image will revert to its previous state. A more sophisticated, and only slightly more difficult, way of correcting exposure problems is to

youmaywellaskyourself, “WhyshouldIbotherlearningsomeobscureUNIXscriptinglanguage?”Well,let’s first state that there is no absolute requirement to learn a scripting language to use Gimp.YoucanhappilyuseG not satisfied with a distortion, click the Reset button and the image will return to its original state. Similar to Power Goo, you can also animate the distortions you’ve just made and play them like a the correction will appear in one of your frames. • Reset: Simply resets the image to its original state. • Bilinear: If checked, the warping effects will become more smooth. • Adaptive Supersample: An

and you overwrite the original image you will not be able to get the image back to its original state. That is why it is called a Lossy Format Josianne Mallia 7 Brief Notes on Introduction

operations, the status area changes temporarily to show what operation is being performed, and its state of progress. Cancel Button: At the lower right corner of the window appears the Cancel button. If