T385.K866 1999 006.6'869--dc21 99-38515 CIP Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 President, CEO Keith Weiskamp Publisher Steve Sayre Acquisitions Editor Mariann Hansen Gimp................... 43 How To Install Gimp Personal Files 44 Obtaining Gimp 48 Chapter 5: Gimp For Photoshop Users .......................... 55 Why Should I Use Gimp When I Have Photoshop Lesson 3: Lists, Lists And More Lists 703 Lesson 4: Your First Script-Fu Script 708 Lesson 5: Giving Our Script Some Guts 713 Lesson 6: Extending The Text Box Script 716 The G imp Us

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2 Fire up GIMP 5 2.1 Running GIMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.1.1 Known Platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.1.2 Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.1.3 Command Line Arguments . . . . . . . . . Non-Responsiveness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 II How do I Become a GIMP Wizard? 51 5 Getting Images into GIMP 53 5.1 Image Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 GNU Image Manipulation Program 5 / 653 3.3 Undoing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 II How do I Become a GIMP Wizard? 61 5 Getting Images Into GIMP 62 5.1 Image Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637 C.5 MODIFICATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

file formats and new effect filters GNU Image Manipulation Program Generated by docbook2odf Page 5 of 421 G e n e r a t e d b y d o c b o o k 2 o d f What's New in The GIMP? GIMP 1.0 evolved dots per inch for monitors. A 3000 x 5000 image looks huge on a monitor, but it only comes to about 5 inches by 8 inches on paper at 600 dpi. There is usually no good reason to expand the image either: Generated by docbook2odf Page 83 of 421 G e n e r a t e d b y d o c b o o k 2 o d f (+ 3 5) ‚‚‚‚‚‚‚‚ ‚ ‚ ‚‚‚‚‚‚ Typing this in and hitting Enter yields the expected answer of 8 in the center

Select New... 3 Create a New Image (window) 4 Select desired canvas size 5 Image options will appear Click OK 1 2 3 4 5 Sorting Layers 1 This is the layer tab in GIMP 2 To add a new layer, click on the layer 4 To rename a layer, doubleclick on the text of the layer and type in the new name 5 To reorganise layers, drag/move the layer up and down within the tab. 6 The three layer lock options to the surface, press (SHIFT + T) this will prompt the transformation box, hit enter when done. 5 Experiment and see which Layer mode works best, and adjust opacity for a seamless blend to the base

.........................5 1. 照片选择.................................................................5 题材选择..................................................................5 照片构图要注意留白................ ........................................5 照片色调选择..............................................................6 2. 在 GIMP 里调整照片大小和摆放位置...........................................6 如何打开照片............. 到景 物，也容易让文字不好辨认。比较合适的照片是主题景物比较清晰且没有占满整个照片，背 景比较模糊并有连续的颜色区域（蓝色天空，白云，蔚蓝的海洋，大片的绿色草地等）。比 如本文中将要用到莲花图： 5 用 GIMP 图像编辑软件设计简单照片背景贺卡 插图 1: 留白得当的照片示例 安装 如果学员想自己摄影并用作贺卡背景，那么在拍摄的时候可以注意主动“留白”，以便拍出 的照片更适合于贺卡制作。

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) 5. Pick the file type you

right button on the image to bring up a pop-up menu that looks like this: Figure 5 From the menu shown in Figure 5, you can probe further down into more choices. For example, to make sure the image

to obtain a large circular brush • Draw over the entire copy image to make it completely black 5 In-Class Activity: Segmentation Using GIMP Segment the dendrites • Change the color to white using

the Mode Transformation to Black & White The transformation applied 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