best efforts in preparing the book and the programs contained in it. These efforts include the development, research, and testing of the theories and programs to determine their effectiveness. The author unpleasantness will happen! Beware Of Bugs! This sign indicates that a filter or function is still in development stage, and that it may suffer from bug problems. Install or use functions marked with this symbol 1 VERSION 0.60 When 0.60 was released in July 1996, it had been under S&P (Spencer & Peter) development for four months. Main programming advantages were the new tool- kits, GTK (Gimp Toolkit) and gdk

evolved gradually into the very stable and widely used 1.2 release. Three years later, as the GIMP development came closer to the next stable release, they decided that the level of fundamental change to the first time you run GIMP, it goes through a series of steps to set up options and directories. This process creates a subdirectory of your home directory called .gimp-2.2. All of the information about the is the amount of memory to allocate for GIMP’s tile cache. Here is a walk-through of the setup process: GNU Image Manipulation Program 27 / 653 1. Since this window mentions the GNU General Public License

evolved gradually into the very stable and widely used 1.2 release. Three years later, as the GIMP development came closer to the next stable release, they decided that the level of fundamental change to the first time you run GIMP, it goes through a series of steps to set up options and directories. This process creates a subdirectory of your home directory called .gimp­2.2. All of the information about the is the amount of memory to allocate for GIMP's tile cache. Here is a walk-through of the setup process: 1. Since this window mentions the GNU General Public License you know it is truly a Welcome dialog

Mattis and Spencer Kimball. Over the years many other people have contributed by helping with development, testing, providing support, translating and writ- ing documentation. GIMP releases are currently as integrate with the ongoing work enabling general color-space support for BABL formats in the development branch. • Consolidated user interface for merging down and anchoring layers: Merge layers Anchor commands are read from standard input. --batch-interpreter=proc Specify the procedure to use to process batch commands. The default proce- dure is Script-Fu. --console-messages Do not display dialog boxes

g h a r e Page 18 - The New Image and New Layer option do not require any additional process. Just click it and the image gets pasted. - The New Brush and New Pattern demand an extra action