- 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
Many people contribute to GIMP in various ways. We include here only contributions, not deviations.
code.google.com/p/gps-gimp-paint-studio/ is the site of the GIMP Paint Studio, which is a cleverly built collection of brushes, together with a collection of predefined tool presets. See Chapter 15 for more about this site.
www.pgd-design.com/gimp/ offers a collection of GIMP brushes and patterns.
ljfhutch.blogspot.com.au is the blog of L.J.F. Hutch, a professional 2D painter. The site offers a large collection of brushes.
The following sites contain important and specific plug-ins or plug-in sets:
ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/plug-ins/v2.6/gap/ is not a website but an FTP site for the GAP plug-in. For more about GAP, look at the GIMP documentation or read Chapter 6 and Chapter 18 of this book.
gmic.sourceforge.net is the G’MIC site.
liquidrescale.wikidot.com is the site for the Liquid Rescale GIMP plug-in.
sites.google.com/site/elsamuko/ is the site for the Elsamuko plug-in set.
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