Fonts To Gimp” starting on page 759. FONT PARAMETERS There are eight font parameters (Foundry, Weight, Slant, Set width, Spac- ing, Registry, Encoding and Border) in the Text Tool dialog box. 168 T fonts exist and you need to specify which one you mean if you have several ver- sions installed. Weight Weight shows what typographic “blackness” options you have for the font you have chosen (black, bold will generate new patterns. Each pattern swatch is equipped with a small Weight Scale slider. This slider determines the weight or influence of this pattern for the next generation, so when you have found

this option is checked, two setting areas appear, Quality and Weight. You can change the default values to adapt them to your skill. High weight values rigidifies the brush stroke. Figure 14.44 “Smooth Stroke” stroke If this option is checked, strokes are smoother. Two options are available: • Quality: TODO • Weight: TODO Brush The icon of the active brush is displayed. If you click on it, the MyPaint brushes list the color channels while keeping a good visual ratio between them. So, you can change the relative weight of the colors without changing the overall luminosity. 585 CHAPTER 16. MENUS 16.8. THE “COLORS”

make your jpegs smaller without changing the pixel width of the image. Actually you can change the weight of the image a lot. I used an(other) image from APOD [APOD04]. The original image is huge (3000 pixels