- The Book of GIMP: A Complete Guide to Nearly Everything
- Introduction
- I. Learning GIMP
- 1. Getting Started
- 2. Photograph Retouching
- 2.1 Tutorial: Enhancing Badly Taken Photographs
- 2.2 Global Transformations
- 2.3 Local Transformations
- 2.4 Retouching a Scanned Photograph
- 2.5 Advanced Techniques
- 2.6 Exercises
- 3. Drawing and Illustration
- 3.4 Dodging, Burning, and Smudging
- 3.5 The Digital Painting Process
- 3.6 Drawing Shapes
- 3.7 Exercises
- 4. Logos and Textures
- 5. Composite Photography
- 6. Animation
- 7.1 Tutorial: Extracting Information from a Picture
- 7.2 The Principles of Preprocessing
- 7.3 Filtering
- 7.4 Edge Detection
- 8. Designing a Website
- 8.5 Exercises
- II. Reference
- 9. The GIMP Interface
- 10. Display
- 11. Layers
- 12. Color
- 13. Selections
- 14. Masks
- 15. Drawing Tools
- 16. Transformation Tools
- 17. Filters
- 17.1 Common Properties
- 17.2 The Blur Filters
- 17.3 The Enhance Filters
- 17.4 The Distorts Filters
- 17.5 The Light and Shadow Filters
- 17.6 The Noise Filters
- 17.7 The Edge-Detect Filters
- 17.8 The Generic Filters
- 17.9 The Combine Filters
- 17.10 The Artistic Filters
- 17.11 The Decor Filters
- 17.12 The Map Filters
- 17.13 The Render Filters
- 18. Animation Tools
- 19. Obtaining and Printing Images
- 20. Image Formats
- 21. Scripts and Plug-ins
- 22. Customizing GIMP
- III. Appendices
- A. Vision and Image Representation
- B. Tips and Hints for Selected Exercises
- C. Resources
- D. Frequently Asked Questions
- D.1 What Does the Future Hold?
- D.2 How...?
- How can I draw a straight line?
- How can I draw a circle?
- How can I create an outline around text?
- How do I save a selection within an image to a file?
- How do I merge an image from another file with the current image?
- How do I get small fonts to look as nice as large fonts?
- How do I set keyboard shortcuts?
- How do I set up GIMP so a layer becomes active when I click an element in that layer?
- How do I fill a layer or selection with transparency?
- How do I draw in a different color?
- How do I add a blur to my image?
- How can I paint along the outline of a rectangle?
- How do I move existing guides?
- How do I get rid of a floating selection?
- How do I paint in a transparent area?
- How can I see the marching ants and know whether my selection has been made?
- How can I add color to a black and white image?
- How do I resize my photo to a precise size, say 5 × 7 cm?
- How do I set the foreground color to a color in my image?
- How can I keep text sharp when scaling it down?
- How do I copy a layer mask to another layer mask?
- How can I search for a specific font, brush, or pattern?
- How do I erase with a tool other than the Eraser?
- How can I use the Scale tool to enlarge an image?
- How can I find a dialog I closed by accident?
- How can I invert grayscale values without changing the colors?
- How do I crop with a defined aspect ratio?
- D.3 Why...?
- Why are some of the filter names grayed out?
- Why is nothing happening?
- Why doesn’t anything happen when I try to cut, paste, or apply a filter to a selection?
- Why can’t I modify the channel I built by saving a selection?
- Why can’t I change my image after I saved a selection to a channel?
- Why do my paint strokes appear on the image when I try painting on a layer mask?
- Why did the size of my file increase when I exported it to JPEG with 100% quality?
- Why can’t I draw in the color I chose?
- E. Installing GIMP
- F. Batch Processing
- Index
- About the Authors
- Copyright
Although several of the GIMP developers have had blogs, only one is presently “active,” at the rate of nine entries in one year: www.chromecode.com is the blog of Martin Nordholts, who spends much less time on it than on GIMP. On this blog, he features some of the most spectacular changes he has made to the GIMP graphic interface.
Other interesting community sites include the following:
libregraphicsworld.org is mainly authored by its maintainer, Alexandre Prokoudine, and is organized as a blog. It’s a very interesting website about all graphics applications in the world of free software, with announcements, short tutorials, reviews, and so on. Certainly you should have it in your bookmarks!
www.gimpusers.com is a rich site with news, tutorials, and many other features. Beware, however, of its forums, which, for the most part, are simply transcripts of the corresponding mailing lists (see later). If you want to send and read messages on the GIMP users list, for example, use the list directly and avoid the corresponding pseudoforum on this site.
gimp-brainstorm.blogspot.com is a rather unusual site. Everybody can contribute with an idea about the GIMP user interface, but the contributions can be only graphic. You must keep silent, and you must remain anonymous. These ideas can be used by the GIMP UI redesign team or entirely ignored.
www.gimptalk.com is another rich site, with news, tutorials, forums, and other resources like brushes, photographs, and plug-ins.
www.gimpgallery.net has about the same purpose as the preceding site, but it is slightly more complicated to use.
www.graphics-muse.org is the blog of Michael J. Hammel, author of the excellent book The Artist’s Guide to GIMP, 2nd Edition (No Starch Press).
blog.mmiworks.net/ is the blog of Peter Sikking, principal interaction architect at m+mi works and responsible for the GIMP UI redesign.
www.ramonmiranda.com is the blog of Ramón Miranda. He is the creator of GPS, the Gimp Paint Studio, and a contributor of the new presets in GIMP 2.8. His blog is written in English and Spanish.
groups.google.com/group/gimp-brushmakers-guild is the site of the GIMP Brushmakers Guild. Though not very active this group is trying to fulfill a very important purpose for GIMP.
gimper.net is another community site with news, help, forums, resources, and so on.
gimpmagazine.org is a brand new GIMP magazine, already downloaded ten thousand times during the first 24 hours of its availability. The first number is really promising.
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