. . . . . . . . . . . . 53 5.2 Creating new Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 5.3 Opening Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 6 Getting Images out of GIMP 59 6.1 Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 7.5.7 Paths and SVG files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 7.6 Brushes . . . .

Installation Chapter 4: Obtaining And Installing Gimp................... 43 How To Install Gimp Personal Files 44 Obtaining Gimp 48 Chapter 5: Gimp For Photoshop Users .......................... 55 III Basic Functions Chapter 6: Files And Preferences .................................. 75 The File Menu 76 Creating Images 77 Guash 77 Opening Files 79 Saving Images 81 Save Switches AKA Flags (Options) 786 Installing A New Version Of Gimp 789 Initialization Files AKA rc-files 789 Appendix B: Gimp Man Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 799 The Gimp Man Page

. . . . . . . 62 5.2 Creating new Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 5.3 Opening Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 6 Getting images out of GIMP 67 6.1 Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 6.1.2 Saving Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

others. • GIMP can load gradients from SVG files, and palettes from ACT and RIFF files. • Drag-and-drop support has been extended. You can now drop files and URIs onto an image window, where they The transform tools (shear, scale, perspective and rotate) can now show a real-time preview of the result of the operation when the tool is in "Traditional" mode. Previously, only a transforming grid was generate menu structure dynamically from XML data files. • A completely revamped File Chooser is used everywhere in the GIMP for opening or saving files. The best thing about it is that it lets you create

direction. Instead of LISP, the students decided to write an image manipulation project in C. The result has quickly grown into a full-fledged image editing program. One critical aspect of the GIMP is | tar xvf -". Once the program is unpacked, change into the "gimp" directory. You'll see README files and a file called "gimprc". You should execute "cp gimprc ~/.gimprc" to make a copy of your own gimp " From this menu you can perform most of the GIMP's operations. You will also see the menus for files operations. Figure 1 Figure 1 shows the main menu with some of the buttons labeled. The

(They are referred as RAW despite having other file extensions.) A good digital camera can store files in raw image formats, having minimal processing. They can be processed later with the highest quality PhotoImpact (Corel / Ulead) PNG Fireworks (Adobe / Marcomedia) It is possible to open these files with other programs. However, the image may have subtle differences if other programs are used. e d B y - S a r o j J u n g h a r e Page 12 SAVING FILES The cross-platform image editor can save files in many formats. GIMP NOTES UNIT IV D e v e l o p e d B y -

Tutorial on basic setup, key tools, exporting files and quick demo. GIMP Overview GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux,OS X, Windows and more Photoshop GIMP Photoshop -FREE. -20x smaller than Photoshop,space saving. -GIMP will open PSD files, but you need to export and save the images onto your desktop and reopen into the software. This plug-ins. -Cloud subscription. -Takes up more space on the computer/RAM intensive. -Easily open files between Adobe softwares (e.g Lightroom to Photoshop). -Photoshop has RGB, CMYK and other colour

(Ctrl + O) • After opening, save a working copy of the file • GIMP saves files as XCF files by default, but you can export files in other formats (e.g. PNG) Straightening Images • Drag a horizontal

editing work in the same way. We only tend to see the last layer. So we need to visualize the end result into different layers with different orders. Just like an Apple! Whenever you Paste as a