image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted. One of The GIMP's strengths is its free availability from many sources for many operating systems. Most GNU/Linux distributions include The GIMP as image size is limited only by available disk space • Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high-quality anti-aliasing • Full Alpha channel support for working with transparency • Layers and and BeOS. The GIMP can easily be ported to other operating systems because of its source code availability. Language All being well, GIMP detects the system language. This may fail on some machines

image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted. One of The GIMP’s strengths is its free availability from many sources for many operating systems. Most GNU/Linux distri- butions include The GIMP disk space GNU Image Manipulation Program 23 / 653 • Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high-quality anti-aliasing • Full Alpha channel support for working with transparency • Layers and channels and BeOS. The GIMP can easily be ported to other operating systems because of its source code availability. 2.1.2 Language All being well, GIMP detects the system language. This may fail on some machines

Deinterlace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661 17.4.4 High Pass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662 17.4 . . . . . . . . 1001 X Tone Mapping and Shadow Recovery Using GIMP’s ‘Colors/Exposure’ 1003 .16 High bit depth GIMP’s floating point “Colors/Exposure”: much better than Curves for lightening the shadows highlights . . . . 1005 .17 A step-by-step example showing how to recover shadow information using high bit depth GIMP’s floating point “Colors/Exposure” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Gomulinski (Documentation) • George J. Carret (Documentation) • PhotoDisc (For their kind donation of high-quality images for this book project) • Thom van Os (Images in Selective Gaussian Blur) • Eric Galluzzo standard Gimp distribution. These features can be found in the developer’s version, or at the Plug-in Registry. We have covered all available Gimp features up to August 1999, with the exception of how to use and probably compile it yourself. The primary source of extra func- tions and plug-ins are http://registry.gimp.org or ftp:// ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp. If you bought the printed version of this book, the non-standard

xach.html. For developers interested in writing a plug-in, you should visit the GIMP Plug-in Registry by Adam Moss at http://www.worldserver.pipex.com/home/adam/ gimp/plug.html first. This page has

green and 240° stands for blue. High saturation means that the pixel is coloured, while pixels with zero saturation are black, grey or white pixels. Finally, high value means that the pixel is bright