tonal range with Image/Levels. To create the illusion of water, I needed to displace the background where the drops were, so I opened a new Channel and painted a mask for the drops. The channel selection and unnatural. Re-creating Missing Parts To cover the flat and dull-looking part of the bot- tle (where the wine was) the bottom part was re- created by cloning different parts of the high- light bottle blur- ring it, adding some ripples with Distort/Ripple and lowering the opacity level. The waterline (where bottle meets water) was a little trickier and had to be painted by hand in a cou- ple of Overlay layers

not load patterns, gradients, palettes, or brushes. Often useful in non-interactive situ- ations where start-up time is to be minimized. -f, --no-fonts Do not load any fonts. This is useful to load GIMP instead of the default one. The gimprc file contains a record of your preferences. Useful in cases where plugins paths or machine specs may be different. --system-gimprc=filename Use an alternate system member. It has the same effect as dragging the tab out of the dock and releasing it at a location where it cannot be docked. It’s a way to create a paradoxical new window in single-window mode! If the

• Drag-and-drop support has been extended. You can now drop files and URIs onto an image window, where they will be opened in the existing image as new layers. Note Please note, that Drag and Drop will Do not load patterns, gradients, palettes, or brushes. Often useful in non-interactive situations where startup time is to be minimized. --display display Use the designated X display (does not apply to instead of the default one. The gimprc file contains a record of your preferences. Useful in cases where plugins paths or machine specs may be different. -c, --console-messages Do not popup dialog boxes

Drag-and-drop support has been extended. You can now drop files and URIs onto an image window, where they will be opened in the existing image as new layers. Shortcut editor You can now edit your open images, allowing you to make a different one active if you want to. (Clicking on the window where the image is displayed will accomplish the same thing, though.) The "Active Image" preview is disabled most cases the effects are too subtle to be detected by the human eye, but in some cases, mainly where there are large areas with slowly varying color gradients, the difference may be perceptible.

to make a copy of your own gimp configuration file. You'll need to edit ~/.gimprc to add the path where you unpacked the directory. Alternatively, you can try the program out by running "gimp" while you Image B and selecting an X and Y displacement of about 20 pixels in each direction, we get an image where the black rectangle has moved some: Image C To make the shadow of the picture blurry, do the using Image B as our mask. The mask will take the pixels from Image A where Image B is black and take pixels from Image D where Image B is white. The composite window will have pull- down menus for your

panel). 2. The image appears in Panel 2, the workspace (you can think of it as a digital pasteboard where you are looking at the photo in the middle of your work area which is flanked by tools and information GIMP Basics - 3 Saving an Image To Save an image, select File-->Save as from the main work area where the image is shown. Save the image we scaled as a JPEG Here is the scaled picture being saved as 2. We will Edit-->Copy the selected area (Wilbur) 3. We will edit paste into the other window where the dialog box is. Select Wilbur GIMP Basics - 6 Wilbur is now ready to move into position...

editing in GIMP Open your image file in GIMP 1. File 2. Open 3. Find your image based on where it is saved on your computer Set up Single Window Mode GIMP often launches in a multi-window healing tool (the brush) here Before After 5 3. Name your file 4. Choose where you want to save the file to on your computer (your Pictures folder is a great place)

you need to export and save the images onto your desktop and reopen into the software. This is where editing the images and saving can be a problem. Especially as the editing processes are destructive

Image Properties And determine the size of the new canvas For our exercise 1280 x 800 From where you wish your original image to start Move Tool Move Tool will help you drag to layer or Object

Select File > Export As. 2. Enter a name for the file in the Name field, then navigate to where you want to save the image. GIMP NOTES UNIT IV D e v e l o p e d B y - S a r o j