GNU Image Manipulation Program

Preface

1. GIMP User Manual Authors and Contributors

I. Getting Started

1. Introduction

1. Welcome to GIMP

1.1. Authors

1.2. The GIMP Help system

1.3. Features and Capabilities

2. What's new in GIMP

2. Fire up GIMP

1. Running GIMP

1.1. Known Platforms

1.2. Language

1.3. Command Line Arguments

2. Starting GIMP the first time

3. First Steps with Wilber

1. Basic Concepts

(Channels)

2. Main Windows

(Section 2, “Main Windows”)

2.1. The Toolbox

2.2. Image Window

(3)

(4)

(8)

(9)

(11)

(14)

2.3. Dialogs and Docking

2.3.1. Organizing Dialogs

(Section 2.3.1, “Organizing Dialogs”)

(Section 2.3.1, “Organizing Dialogs”)

2.3.2. Tab Menu

(Section 2.3.2, “Tab Menu”)

(Add Tab)

(Close Tab)

(Detach Tab)

(Lock Tab to Dock)

(Preview Size)

(Tab Style)

(View as List; View as Grid)

(View as Grid)

(Show Button Bar)

(Show Image Selection)

(Auto Follow Active Image)

(Move to Screen)

3. Undoing

4. Common Tasks

4.2. Change the Size of an Image for the screen

4.3. Change the Size of an Image for print

4.4. Compressing Images

4.5. Crop An Image

4.6. Find Info About Your Image

4.7. Change the Mode

4.8. Flip An Image

4.9. Rotate An Image

4.10. Separating an Object From Its Background

5. How to Draw Straight Lines

5.1. Intention

5.2. Examples

4. What to do if you are stuck

1. Introduction

2. Common Causes of GIMP Non-Responsiveness

2.1. There is a floating selection

2.2. The selection is hidden

2.3. You are acting outside the selection

2.4. The active drawable is not visible

2.5. The active drawable is transparent

2.6. You are trying to act outside the layer

2.7. You are trying to act on a layer group

2.8. The image is in indexed color mode.

2.9. No visible effect when trying to use a brush, eraser or other tool

2.10. No visible effect when trying to use the move tool, rotate or other transform tool

2.11. Eraser and brushes no longer work

2.12. Eraser does not make area transparent

2.13. Unexpected colors when trying to use a brush or eraser

2.14. The crop tool leaves an empty area after cropping

2.15. I've been waiting for a long time and GIMP is not responding

2.16. General guidelines on what to check if you are stuck

3. How to fix missing windows and dialogs

3.1. All tool windows are missing

3.2. Tool options dialog is missing

3.3. Some of the tool icons are missing

3.4. The area showing the opened images at the top is missing

4. How to fix problems exporting images

4.1. I am exporting to a jpeg image and my transparent area turned white or black

4.2. I am exporting to a gif image and the colors changed

II. How do I Become a GIMP Wizard?

5. Getting Images into GIMP

1. Image Types

2. Creating new Files

3. Opening Files

3.1. Open File

3.1.1. Import from PDF

3.1.2. Import from PostScript

3.2. Open Location

3.3. Open Recent

3.4. Using External Programs

3.5. File Manager

3.6. Drag and Drop

3.7. Copy and Paste

3.8. Image Browser

6. Getting Images out of GIMP

1. Files

1.1. Save / Export Images

1.2. File Formats

1.2.1. Export Image as GIF

1.2.2. Export Image as HEIF/HEIC

1.2.3. Export Image as JPEG

1.2.4. Export Image as PNG

1.2.5. Export Image as TIFF

1.2.6. Export Image as WebP

1.2.7. Export Image as MNG

2. Preparing your Images for the Web

2.1. Images with an Optimal Size/Quality Ratio

2.2. Reducing the File Size Even More

2.3. Saving Images with Transparency

7. Painting with GIMP

1. The Selection

1.1. Feathering

1.2. Making a Selection Partially Transparent

2. Creating and Using Selections

2.1. Moving a Selection

2.2. Adding or subtracting selections

3. The QuickMask

3.1. Overview

3.2. Properties

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4. Using QuickMask Mode

5. Paths

(Paths)

5.1. Path Creation

5.2. Path Properties

5.3. Paths and Selections

5.4. Transforming Paths

5.5. Stroking a Path

5.6. Paths and Text

5.7. Paths and SVG files

6. Brushes

7. Adding New Brushes

8. The GIH Dialog Box

9. Changing brush size

9.1. How to change the size of a brush

9.2. Creating a brush quickly

10. Gradients

11. Patterns

12. Palettes

13. Presets

14. Drawing Simple Objects

14.1. Drawing a Straight Line

14.2. Creating a Basic Shape

8. Combining Images

1. Introduction to Layers

1.1. Layer Properties

2. Layer Modes

2.1. Normal Layer Modes

2.2. Lighten Layer Modes

2.3. Darken Layer Modes

2.4. Contrast Layer Modes

2.5. Inversion Layer Modes

2.6. HSV Components Layer Modes

2.7. LCh Components Layer Modes

3. Legacy Layer Modes

4. Creating New Layers

5. Layer Groups

9. Text Management

1. Text Management

1.1. Text Area

1.2. Managing Text Layer

1.3. Text Toolbox

1.4. Text Context Menu

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2. Text

2.2. Adding Fonts

2.3. Font Problems

10. Enhancing Photographs

1. Working with Digital Camera Photos

1.1. Introduction

1.2. Improving Composition

1.2.1. Rotating an Image

1.2.2. Cropping

1.3. Improving Colors

1.3.1. Automated Tools

1.3.2. Exposure Problems

1.3.3. Adjusting Hue and Saturation

1.4. Adjusting Sharpness

1.4.1. Unblurring

1.4.2. Reducing Graininess

1.4.3. Softening

1.5. Removing Unwanted Objects from an Image

1.5.1. Despeckling

1.5.2. Garbage Removal

1.5.3. Removing Red-eye

1.6. Saving Your Results

1.6.1. Files

1.6.2. Printing Your Photos

1.6.3. EXIF Data

11. Color Management with GIMP

1. Color Management in GIMP

1.2. Introduction to a Color Managed Workflow

1.2.1. Input

1.2.2. Display

1.2.2.1. Display Calibration and Profiling

12. Enrich my GIMP

1. Preferences Dialog

1.2. System Resources

1.3. Debugging

1.4. Color Management

1.5. Image Import and Export

1.6. Experimental Playground

1.7. Tool Options

1.8. Default Image Preferences

(Section 1.8, “Default Image Preferences”)

1.9. Default Image Grid

1.10. Interface

1.11. Theme

1.12. Icon Theme

1.13. Toolbox

1.14. Dialog Defaults

1.15. Help System

1.16. Display

1.16.1. Options

(Calibration)

1.17. Window Management

1.18. Image Windows

1.19. Image Window Appearance

1.20. Image Window Title and Statusbar

1.21. Image Window Snapping Behavior

1.22. Input Devices

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1.23. Input Controllers

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1.24. Folders

1.25. Data Folders

(Section 1.25, “Data Folders”)

(Section 1.25, “Data Folders”)

(Section 1.25, “Data Folders”)

(Section 1.25, “Data Folders”)

(Section 1.25, “Data Folders”)

(Section 1.25, “Data Folders”)

(Section 1.25, “Data Folders”)

(Section 1.25, “Data Folders”)

(Section 1.25, “Data Folders”)

(Section 1.25, “Data Folders”)

(Section 1.25, “Data Folders”)

(Section 1.25, “Data Folders”)

(Section 1.25, “Data Folders”)

(Section 1.25, “Data Folders”)

(Section 1.25, “Data Folders”)

2. Grids and Guides

2.1. The Image Grid

2.2. Guides

3. Rendering a Grid

4. How to Set Your Tile Cache

5. Creating Shortcuts to Menu Commands

6. Customize Splash-Screen

13. Scripting

1. Plugins

1.3. Installing New Plugins

1.4. Writing Plugins

2. Using Script-Fu Scripts

2.2. Installing Script-Fu scripts

2.3. Do's and Don'ts

2.4. Different Kinds Of Script-Fus

3. A Script-Fu Tutorial

3.1. Getting Acquainted With Scheme

3.1.4. The Script-Fu Console Window

3.2. Variables And Functions

3.3. Lists, Lists And More Lists

3.4. Your First Script-Fu Script

3.4.8. The Script-Fu parameter API

3.4.9. Registering the Menu Location

3.5. Giving Our Script Some Guts

3.6. Extending The Text Box Script

3.7. Your script and its working

III. Function Reference

14. Tools

1. The Toolbox

1.1. Introduction

1.2. Tool Icons

1.3. Color and Indicator Area

1.3.1. Color Area

(Default colors)

(Swap FG/BG colors)

1.3.2. Tools Indicator Area

1.3.3. Active Image Area

1.4. Tool Options

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2. Selection Tools

2.1. Common Features

2.1.1. Key modifiers (Defaults)

2.1.2. Options

2.2. Rectangle Selection

2.2.3. Tool manipulation

2.2.4. Tool Options

2.3. Ellipse Selection

2.3.3. Tool handling

2.4. Free Selection (Lasso)

2.5. Fuzzy selection (Magic wand)

2.5.4. Options

2.6. Select By Color

2.7. Intelligent Scissors

2.8. Foreground Select

2.8.2. Directions for use

3. Paint Tools

3.1. Common Features

3.1.1. Key modifiers

3.1.2. Tool Options

(Painting Modes)

(Brush Dynamics)

3.1.3. Paint Mode Examples

3.2. Dynamics

3.2.1. The Paint Dynamics Dialog

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3.2.1.1. Dynamics Context Menu

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3.2.2. Editing Paint Dynamics

3.2.6. Dynamics Options

3.3. Brush Tools (Pencil, Paintbrush, Airbrush)

3.4. Bucket Fill

3.5. Gradient

3.6. Pencil

3.7. Paintbrush

3.8. MyPaint Brush

3.9. Eraser

3.10. Airbrush

3.11. Ink

3.12. Clone

3.12.4. Further Information

3.13. Heal

3.14. Perspective Clone

3.15. Blur/Sharpen

3.16. Smudge

3.17. Dodge/Burn

4. Transform Tools

4.1. Common Features

4.1.1. Tool Options

(Interpolation)

(Guides)

4.1.2. Transforming Paths

4.2. Align

4.3. Move

4.4. Crop

4.5. Rotate

4.6. Scale

4.7. Shear

4.8. Perspective

4.9. 3D Transform

4.10. Unified Transform

4.11. Handle Transform

4.12. Flip

4.13. The Cage Tool

4.14. Warp Transform

5. Other

5.1. Overview

5.2. Paths

5.3. Color Picker

5.4. Zoom

5.5. Measure

5.6. Text

5.6.3. Text Editor

5.7. GEGL Operation

15. Dialogs

1. Dialog Introduction

2. Image Structure Related Dialogs

2.1. Layers Dialog

2.1.1. Activating the dialog

2.1.2. Using the Layer dialog

(Layer attributes)

(Visible layer)

(Linked layers)

(Layers characteristics)

(Mode)

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(Opacity)

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(Lock)

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(New Layer)

(New Layer Group)

(Merge layers Anchor layer)

2.1.3. The Layer dialog context menu

2.1.4. Layer masks

2.2. Channels Dialog

2.2.1. Activating the Dialog

2.2.2. Using the Channels dialog

2.2.2.1. Overview

2.2.2.2. Channel lock attributes

(Lock pixels)

(Lock position and size)

2.2.2.3. Channel attributes

(Channel visibility)

(Chain channels)

2.2.2.4. Managing channels

(New Channel)

(Raise Channel)

(Lower Channel)

(Duplicate Channel)

(Replace the Selection with this Channel)

(Add to Selection)

(Subtract from Selection)

(Intersect with Selection)

(Delete Channel)

2.2.2.5. Channels Context Menu

(Edit Channel Attributes...)

(Color tag)

2.2.3. Selection masks

2.2.4. Quick Mask

2.3. Paths Dialog

2.3.1. Activating the dialog

2.3.2. Using the Paths dialog

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2.3.3. Buttons

2.3.4. The “Paths” context menu

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2.4. Colormap Dialog

2.4.1. Activating the dialog

2.4.2. Colormaps and Indexed Images

2.4.3. Using the Colormap dialog

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2.4.4. The Colormap context menu

(Select this Color)

(Add to Selection)

(Subtract from Selection)

(Intersect with Selection)

2.5. Histogram dialog

2.6. Navigation Dialog

2.7. Undo History Dialog

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3. Image-content Related Dialogs

3.1. FG/BG Color Dialog

(Section 3.1, “FG/BG Color Dialog”)

3.1.2. Using the “FG/BG color” dialog

(GIMP Selector)

(CMYK)

(Triangle)

(Watercolor)

(Palette)

(Scales)

(Color picker)

(HTML Notation)

3.2. Brushes Dialog

3.2.1. Activating the Dialog

3.2.2. Using the “Brushes” dialog

3.2.2.2. Brush previews

3.2.2.3. Tagging

3.2.2.4. Buttons at the bottom

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3.2.3. Brush Editor

3.2.3.1. Brush Editor Context Menu

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3.2.4. The Clipboard Brush

3.3. MyPaint Brushes Dialog

3.3.1. Activating the Dialog

3.3.2. Using the “MyPaint Brushes” dialog

3.3.2.2. MyPaint Brush previews

3.3.2.3. Tagging

3.3.2.4. Buttons at the bottom

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3.4. Patterns Dialog

3.4.1. Activating the dialog

3.4.2. Using the pattern dialog

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3.4.2.1. Patterns Context Menu

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3.4.3. Tagging

3.4.4. The Clipboard pattern

3.5. Gradients Dialog

3.5.1. Activating the Dialog

3.5.2. Using the “Gradients” dialog

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(Save as POV-Ray...)

(Copy Gradient Location)

(Show in File Manager)

(Custom Gradient...)

3.5.2.1. Tagging

3.5.3. The Gradient Editor

(Section 3.5.3, “The Gradient Editor”)

3.5.3.1. How to Activate the Gradient Editor

3.5.3.2. Display

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3.5.3.3. The Gradient Editor pop-up Menu

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3.6. Palettes Dialog

3.6.1. Activating the dialog

3.6.2. Using the Palettes dialog

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3.6.3. The “Palettes” context menu

(Edit Palette...)

(New Palette)

(Import Palette...)

(Duplicate Palette)

(Merge Palettes...)

(Copy Palette Location)

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(Delete Palette)

(Refresh Palettes)

(Offset Palette...)

(Palette to Gradient)

(Palette to Repeating Gradient)

(Sort Palette...)

3.6.4. Palette Editor

3.6.5. The Palette Editor pop-menu

(Edit Color)

(New Color from FG; New Color from BG)

(Delete Color)

(Zoom Out)

(Zoom In)

(Zoom All)

(Edit Active Palette)

3.7. Tagging

3.8. Fonts Dialog

3.8.1. Activating the Dialog

3.8.2. Using the Fonts dialog

(Refresh font list)

4. Image Management Related Dialogs

4.1. Buffers Dialog

4.1.1. Activating the Dialog

4.1.2. Using the Buffers dialog

4.1.2.1. Buttons at the bottom

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4.1.2.2. Buffers Dialog Context menu

4.2. Images Dialog

4.3. Document History Dialog

(Section 4.3.2, “Using the Document History dialog”)

(Section 4.3.2, “Using the Document History dialog”)

(Section 4.3.2, “Using the Document History dialog”)

(Section 4.3.2, “Using the Document History dialog”)

4.3.2.1. Document History Context Menu

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4.4. Templates Dialog

(Create a new image from the selected template)

(Create a new template)

(Duplicate the selected template)

(Edit the selected template)

(Delete the selected template)

4.4.3. Edit Template

5. Miscellaneous Dialogs

5.1. Tool Presets Dialog

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5.2. Tool Preset Editor

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5.3. Device Status Dialog

5.4. Error Console

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5.5. Dashboard

(Groups submenu)

(Update Interval submenu)

(History Duration submenu)

(Start/Stop Recording...)

(Add Marker...)

(Add Empty Marker...)

(Reset)

(Low Swap Space Warning...)

5.6. Save File

5.7. Export File

5.7.2. Exporting

(Section 5.7.2, “Exporting”)

5.8. Sample Points Dialog

(Section 5.8.2, “Using sample points”)

5.9. Pointer Dialog

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5.10. Symmetry Painting dialog

5.11. Keyboard Shortcuts Dialog

16. Menus

1. Introduction to Menus

1.2. Context Menus

1.3. Tear-off menus

1.4. Tab menus

2. The “File” Menu

2.1. Overview

2.2. New…

2.3. Create

2.3.2. From Clipboard

2.3.4. Screenshot

2.4. File Open…

(11)

2.4.3. Importing an image with a color profile

2.5. Open as Layers…

2.6. Open Location…

2.7. Open Recent

2.8. Save

(Section 2.8, “Save”)

(Section 2.8, “Save”)

2.9. Save as…

2.10. Save a Copy…

2.11. Revert

2.12. Export… and Overwrite…

(Section 2.12, “Export… and Overwrite…”)

2.13. Export As…

2.14. Create Template…

(Section 2.14, “Create Template…”)

2.15. Print

2.16. Send by Email

2.17. Copy Image Location

2.18. Show in File Manager

2.19. Close

(Section 2.19, “Close”)

2.20. Close all

2.21. Quit

(Section 2.21, “Quit”)

3. The “Edit” Menu

3.1. “Edit” Menu Entries

3.2. Undo

(Section 3.2, “Undo”)

3.3. Redo

(Section 3.3, “Redo”)

3.4. Undo History

3.5. Cut

3.6. Copy

3.7. Copy Visible

3.8. Paste

3.9. Paste Into Selection

3.10. Paste In Place

3.11. Paste Into Selection In Place

3.12. Paste as

3.12.1. Paste as New Layer

3.12.2. Paste As New Layer In Place

3.12.3. Paste as New Image

3.12.4. Paste as New Brush

3.12.5. Paste as New Pattern

3.13. Buffer

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3.14. Clear

3.15. Fill with FG Color

3.16. Fill with BG Color

3.17. Fill with Pattern

3.18. Fill Selection Outline

3.19. Fill Path

3.20. Stroke Selection

3.21. Stroke Path

3.22. Preferences

3.23. Input Devices

3.24. Keyboard Shortcuts

3.25. Modules

3.26. Units

4. The “Select” Menu

4.2. Select All

4.3. None

4.4. Invert

4.5. Float

4.5.3. Anchor a Floating Selection

4.6. By Color

4.7. From Path

(Section 4.7, “From Path”)

4.8. Selection Editor

4.8.3. The “Selection to Path Advanced Settings” dialog

4.9. Feather

4.10. Sharpen

4.11. Shrink

4.12. Grow

4.13. Border

4.14. Remove Holes

4.15. Distort

4.16. Rounded Rectangle

4.17. Toggle QuickMask

4.18. Save to Channel

4.19. To Path

5. The “View” Menu

5.1. Introduction to the “View” Menu

5.2. New View

5.3. Show All

5.4. Dot for Dot

5.5. Zoom

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(Fit Image in Window)

(Fill Window)

(Zoom to Selection)

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5.6. Flip & Rotate (0°)

5.6.1. Reset Flip & Rotate

5.6.2. “Flip Horizontally” and “Flip Vertically”

5.6.3. Rotate 15° clockwise

5.6.4. Rotate 15° counter-clockwise

5.6.5. Rotate 90° clockwise

5.6.6. Rotate 90° counter-clockwise

5.6.7. Rotate 180°

5.6.8. Other rotation angle…

5.7. Center Image in Window

5.8. Shrink Wrap

5.9. Full Screen

5.10. Navigation Window

5.11. Display Filters

5.11.3. Color Deficient Vision

5.11.4. Gamma

5.11.5. Contrast

5.11.6. Clip Warning

5.12. Color Management

5.13. Show Selection

5.14. Show Layer Boundary

5.15. Show Canvas Boundary

5.16. Show Guides

5.17. Show Grid

5.18. Show Sample Points

5.19. Snap to Guides

5.20. Snap to Grid

5.21. Snap to Canvas

5.22. Snap to Active Path

5.23. Padding Color

5.24. Show Menubar

5.25. Show Rulers

5.26. Show Scrollbars

5.27. Show Statusbar

6. The “Image” Menu

6.1. Overview

6.2. Duplicate

6.3. Mode

6.4. RGB mode

6.5. Grayscale mode

6.6. Indexed mode

6.7. Precision

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6.7.3. Choosing the image precision and channel encoding

6.7.5. The Image Precision Conversion Dialog

6.8. Color Management

6.9. Enable Color Management

6.10. Assign Color Profile

6.11. Convert to Color Profile

6.12. Discard Color Profile

6.13. Save Color Profile to File

6.14. Transform

6.15. Flip Horizontally; Flip Vertically

(Section 6.15, “Flip Horizontally; Flip Vertically”)

6.16. Rotation

(Section 6.16, “Rotation”)

(Section 6.16, “Rotation”)

6.17. Canvas Size

6.18. Fit Canvas to Layers

6.19. Fit Canvas to Selection

6.20. Print Size

6.21. Scale Image

(Section 6.21, “Scale Image”)

6.22. Crop Image

6.22.1. Crop to selection

6.22.2. Crop to content

6.23. Slice Using Guides

6.24. Zealous Crop

6.25. Merge Visible Layers

6.26. Flatten Image

6.27. Align Visible Layers…

6.28. Guides

6.29. New Guide

6.30. New Guide (by Percent)

6.31. New Guides from Selection

6.32. Remove all guides

6.33. Configure Grid…

(Section 6.33, “Configure Grid…”)

(Section 6.33, “Configure Grid…”)

6.34. Image Properties

6.35. Metadata

6.36. Metadata Viewer

6.37. Metadata Editor

7. The “Layer” Menu

7.1. Introduction to the “Layer” Menu

7.2. New Layer

7.2.2. Description of the “New Layer” Dialog

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(Blend space)

(Blend space)

(Composite mode)

7.3. New From Visible

7.4. New Layer Group

7.5. Duplicate layer

7.6. Anchor layer

7.7. Merge Down

7.8. Merge Layer Group

7.9. Delete Layer

7.10. The Text Commands of the Layer Menu

(Text to Selection)

(Add to Selection)

(Subtract from Selection)

(Intersect with Selection)

7.11. Discard Text Information

7.12. “Stack” Submenu

7.13. Select Previous Layer

7.14. Select Next Layer

7.15. Select Top Layer

7.16. Select Bottom Layer

7.17. Raise Layer

7.18. Lower Layer

7.19. Layer to Top

7.20. Layer to Bottom

7.21. The “Reverse Layer Order” command

7.22. The “Mask” Submenu

7.23. Add Layer Mask

7.24. Apply Layer Mask

7.25. Delete Layer Mask

7.26. Show Layer Mask

7.26.1. Activating the Command

7.27. Edit Layer Mask

7.27.1. Activating the Command

7.28. Disable Layer Mask

7.28.1. Activating the Command

7.29. Mask to Selection

7.30. Add Layer Mask to Selection

7.31. Subtract Layer Mask from Selection

7.32. Intersect Layer Mask with Selection

7.33. The “Transparency” Submenu of the “Layer” menu

7.34. Add Alpha Channel

7.35. Remove Alpha Channel

7.36. Color to Alpha

7.37. Semi-flatten

7.38. Threshold Alpha

7.39. Alpha to Selection

7.40. Add Alpha channel to Selection

7.41. Subtract from Selection

7.42. Intersect Alpha channel with Selection

7.43. The “Transform” Submenu

7.44. Flip Horizontally

7.45. Flip Vertically

7.46. Rotate 90° clockwise

7.47. Rotate 90° counter-clockwise

7.48. Rotate 180°

7.49. Arbitrary Rotation

7.50. Offset

(Section 7.50, “Offset”)

7.51. Layer Boundary Size

7.52. Layer to Image Size

7.53. Scale Layer

7.54. Crop Layer

7.54.1. Crop to selection

7.54.2. Crop to content

8. The “Colors” Menu

8.1. Introduction to the “Colors” Menu

8.1.1. Colors Common Features

8.2. Color Balance

8.3. Color Temperature

8.4. Hue Chroma

8.5. Hue-Saturation

8.6. Saturation

8.7. Exposure

8.8. Shadows-Highlights

8.9. Brightness-Contrast

8.10. Levels

8.11. Curves

8.12. Invert

8.13. Linear Invert

8.14. Value Invert

8.15. The “Auto” Submenu

8.15.2. Automatic Color-Stretching

8.16. Equalize

8.17. White Balance

8.18. Stretch Contrast

8.19. Stretch HSV

8.20. Color Enhance

8.21. Color Enhance (legacy)

8.22. The “Components” Submenu

8.23. Channel Mixer

8.24. Extract Component

8.25. Mono Mixer

8.26. Compose

8.27. Decompose

(Section 8.27, “ Decompose ”)

(Decompose to Layers)

8.28. Recompose

8.29. The “Desaturate” Submenu

8.30. Color to Gray

8.31. Desaturate

8.32. Mono Mixer

8.33. Sepia

8.34. The “Map” Submenu

8.35. Rearrange Colormap

8.36. Set Colormap

8.37. Alien Map

8.38. Color Exchange

8.39. Rotate Colors

8.40. Gradient Map

8.41. Palette Map

8.42. Sample Colorize

8.43. The “Tone Mapping” Submenu

8.44. Fattal et al. 2002

8.45. Mantiuk 2006

8.45.1. Overview

8.46. Reinhard 2005

8.47. Stress

8.48. Retinex

8.49. The “Info” Submenu

8.50. Histogram

8.51. Border Average

8.52. Colorcube Analysis

8.53. Export Histogram

8.54. Smooth Palette

8.55. Threshold

8.56. Colorize

8.57. Posterize

8.58. Color to Alpha…

8.59. Dither

(Dithering method)

8.60. RGB Clip

8.61. Hot…

9. The “Tools” Menu

9.1. Introduction to the “Tools” Menu

10. The “Filters” Menu

10.1. Introduction to the “Filters” Menu

10.2. Repeat Last

10.3. Re-show Last

10.4. Reset All Filters

10.5. The “Python-Fu” Submenu

10.5.2. The Python-Fu Console

10.6. The “Script-Fu” Submenu

10.6.2. Refresh Scripts

10.6.3. Script-Fu Console

10.6.4. Start Server

11. “Windows” Menu

(1)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

12. The “Help” Menu

12.1. Introduction to the “Help” Menu

12.2. Help

12.3. Context Help

12.4. Tip of the Day

12.5. About

12.6. Search and Run a Command

12.6.2. Description of the dialog

12.7. Plug-In Browser

12.8. The Procedure Browser

12.9. Bug Reports and Feature Requests

12.10. GIMP online

12.11. User Manual

17. Filters

1. Introduction

2. Common Features

3. Blur Filters

3.1. Introduction

3.2. Focus Blur

3.3. Gaussian Blur

3.4. Lens Blur

3.5. Mean Curvature Blur

3.6. Median Blur

3.7. Pixelize

3.8. Selective Gaussian Blur

3.9. Variable Blur

3.10. Circular Motion Blur

3.11. Linear Motion Blur

3.12. Zoom Motion Blur

3.13. Tileable Blur

4. Enhance Filters

4.1. Introduction

4.2. Antialias

4.3. Deinterlace

4.4. High Pass

4.5. Noise Reduction

4.6. Red Eye Removal

4.7. Symmetric Nearest Neighbor

4.8. Sharpen (Unsharp Mask)

4.9. Despeckle

4.10. Destripe

4.11. NL Filter

4.11.4. Operating Modes

4.12. Wavelet Decompose

5. Distort Filters

5.1. Introduction

5.2. Apply Lens

5.3. Emboss

5.4. Engrave

5.5. Lens Distortion

5.6. Kaleidoscope

5.7. Mosaic

5.8. Newsprint

5.9. Polar Coordinates

5.10. Ripple

5.11. Shift

5.12. Spherize

5.13. Value Propagate

5.14. Video

5.15. Waves

5.16. Whirl and Pinch

5.17. Wind

5.18. Curve Bend

5.19. Emboss (legacy)

5.20. Page Curl

6. Light and Shadow Filters

6.1. Introduction

6.2. Bloom

6.3. Supernova

6.4. Lens Flare

6.5. Gradient Flare

6.5.4. Gradient Flare Editor

6.5.4.1. General

6.5.4.2. Glow

6.5.4.3. Rays

6.5.4.4. Second Flares

6.6. Lighting Effects

6.7. Sparkle

6.8. Drop Shadow

6.9. Long Shadow

6.10. Vignette

6.11. Drop Shadow (legacy)

6.12. Perspective

6.13. Xach-Effect

7. Noise Filters

7.1. Introduction

7.2. CIE lch Noise

7.3. HSV Noise

7.4. Hurl

7.5. Pick

7.6. RGB Noise

7.7. Slur

7.8. Spread

8. Edge-Detect Filters

8.1. Introduction

8.2. Difference of Gaussians

8.3. Edge

8.4. Laplace

8.5. Neon

8.6. Sobel

8.7. Image Gradient

9. Generic Filters

9.1. Introduction

9.2. Convolution Matrix

9.3. Distance Map

9.4. GEGL graph

9.5. Normal Map

9.6. Dilate

9.7. Erode

10. Combine Filters

10.1. Introduction

10.2. Depth Merge

10.3. Filmstrip

11. Artistic Filters

11.1. Introduction

11.2. Apply Canvas

11.3. Cartoon

11.4. Cubism

11.5. Glass Tile

11.6. Oilify

11.7. Photocopy

11.8. Simple Linear Iterative Clustering (SLIC)

11.9. Softglow

11.10. Waterpixels

11.11. Cartoon (legacy)

11.12. Clothify

11.13. GIMPressionist

11.13.3.5. Orientation tab

11.13.3.6. Size tab

11.13.4. Orientation Map Editor

11.13.5. Size Map Editor

11.14. Oilify (legacy)

11.15. Predator

11.16. Softglow (legacy)

11.17. Van Gogh (LIC)

11.18. Weave

12. Decor Filters

12.1. Introduction

12.2. Add Bevel

12.3. Add Border

12.4. Coffee Stain

12.5. Fog

12.6. Fuzzy Border

12.7. Old Photo

12.8. Round Corners

12.9. Slide

12.10. Stencil Carve

12.11. Stencil Chrome

13. Map Filters

13.1. Introduction

13.2. Bump Map

13.3. Displace

13.3.3. Options

13.3.3.1. Cartesian Displacement Mode

13.3.3.2. Polar Displacement Mode

13.3.6. Displacement Calculation

13.4. Fractal Trace

13.5. Illusion

13.6. Little Planet

13.7. Panorama Projection

13.8. Recursive Transform

13.9. Paper Tile

13.10. Tile Seamless

13.11. Fractal Trace (legacy)

13.12. Map Object

13.13. Tile

14. Rendering Filters

14.1. Introduction

14.2. Flame

14.3. Fractal Explorer

14.4. IFS Fractal

(IFS Fractal)

14.5. Cell Noise

14.6. Perlin Noise

14.7. Plasma

14.8. Simplex Noise

14.9. Solid Noise

14.10. Difference Clouds

14.11. Bayer Matrix

14.12. Checkerboard

14.13. Diffraction Patterns

14.14. Grid

14.15. Linear Sinusoid

14.16. Maze

14.17. Sinus

14.18. Spiral

14.19. Checkerboard (legacy)

14.20. CML Explorer

14.21. Grid (legacy)

14.22. Jigsaw

14.23. Qbist

14.24. Spyrogimp

14.25. Circuit

14.26. Gfig

14.26.3. Options

14.26.3.1. The Gfig tool bar

14.26.3.2. The Gfig main window

14.27. Lava

14.28. Line Nova

14.29. Sphere Designer

15. Web Filters

15.1. Introduction

15.2. ImageMap

15.3. Semi-Flatten

15.4. Slice

16. Animation Filters

16.1. Introduction

16.2. Blend

16.3. Burn-In

16.4. Rippling

16.5. Spinning Globe

16.6. Waves

16.7. Optimize

(Optimize (for GIF))

(Optimize (Difference))

16.7.4. Unoptimize

16.8. Playback

(Playback)

I. Keys and Mouse Reference

File

Edit

Select

View

Image

Layers

Tools

Filters

Windows

Help

Zoom tool

Bibliography

Books

Online resources

A. GIMP History

1. The Very Beginning

2. The Early Days of GIMP

3. The One to Change the World

4. Version 2.0

5. What's New in GIMP 2.2?

6. What's New in GIMP 2.4?

7. What's New in GIMP 2.6?

8. What's New in GIMP 2.8?

9. What's new in GIMP 2.10?

(Updated user interface and initial HiDPI support)

(GEGL port, high bit depth support, multi-threading, and more)

(Linear color space workflow)

(Color management revamped)

(Layers and masks)

(More use for CIE LAB and CIE LCH)

(New and improved tools)

(Unified Transform)

(Warp Transform)

(Handle Transform)

(Blend tool becomes Gradient tool and gets on-canvas editing)

(Better selection tools)

(Color tools)

(Text tool supports CJK and more writing systems)

(Experimental tools)

(Digital painting improvements)

(Digital photography improvements)

(Effects)

(Usability improvements)

(File formats support)

(Metadata viewing, editing, and preservation)

(On-canvas interaction)

(Simplified bug reporting and crash recovery)

(API changes)

(Roadmap and what's next)

B. Reporting Bugs and Requesting Enhancements

1. Making sure it's a Bug

2. Reporting the Bug

C. How to Contribute

D. Tone Mapping and Shadow Recovery Using GIMP’s ‘Colors/Exposure’

1. High bit depth GIMP’s floating point “Colors/Exposure”: much better than Curves for lightening the shadows and midtones of an image without blowing the highlights

2. A step-by-step example showing how to recover shadow information using high bit depth GIMP’s floating point “Colors/Exposure”

3. Use Notes

4. Conclusion

E. GNU Free Documentation License

1. PREAMBLE

2. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS

3. VERBATIM COPYING

4. COPYING IN QUANTITY

5. MODIFICATIONS

6. COMBINING DOCUMENTS

7. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS

8. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS

9. TRANSLATION

10. TERMINATION

11. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE

12. ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents

(Index)