Graphic Documentation Project Copying License i
Karin Kylander xxxix
Olof S Kylander xxxix
Gimp contributions xli
GUM contributions xlii
1.0.0 xliii
0.9 xliii
0.8 xliv
0.7 xliv
0.6 xliv
0.5 xliv
Preface xlv
Part one xlv
Gallery xlvi
Part two xlvi
Part three xlvi
Part four xlvi
Part five xlvi
Part six xlvi
Part seven xlvii
Part eight xlvii
Part nine xlvii
Appendices xlvii
Features and Capabilities 4
Authors 4
What we can say about Gimp 50.54 5
0.60 6
0.99 7
1.0 8
Conventions 10
A Twisted personality 21
Creating a simple pen and an ink stain 22
Making grooved text 23
Handling Glass, Water and Reflections 24
The Wet look 25
How to empty a bottle of wine 26
Cloning away unwanted parts 26
Making a dark and bright layer 26
Recreating missing parts 26Glass Distortion 27
Reflections 27
Transforming a Photograph to a Drawing 28
Manage without artistic plugins 29
Instant cartoon pictures 29
Making a pencil drawing 30
From pencil to ink 30
Digital crayons 31Light, Motion and Texture transformation 32
An Electric Horseman 33
Using a Cow to make a Leopard of a Horse... 33
Making things glow 34
Adding motion 35
Adding scenery 35The Background 37
The Vignette 37
Adding Noise 38
Making an element stand out in a composition 38
Adding depth to text layers 39
How to Install Gimp Personal files 44
What are all these files good for? 45
Installing a Source Distribution 46
Installing a Binary Distribution 48
Installing Extra Packages to Extend Gimp 49
The File Menu 54
Creating Images 55
Guash 55Opening Files 57
Supported File Formats 59
Save dialogs 62GBR 62
GIcon 62
GIF 63
jPEG 64
PAT 64
PNG 65
PNM 65
PostScript & EPS 65
SunRas 66
TGA 66
TIFF 67
Xpm 67Mailing Images 67
Printing Images 68Supported printers 68
Settings 68Display 69
Interface 70
Environment 70
Directories 71Misc. features & extensions 71
Tip of the day 71
DB Browser 71
PDB Help 72
Gimptcl Consolio 72
Screen Shot 72
Waterselect 72
Webbrowser 73
The Basic controls 76
Toggle 76Selection control 76
Once more 78
Guides 78
Rectangular and ellipse selection tools 79Short cuts 79
Short Repetition 80Feather 81
Antialiasing 81The Free-hand selection tool 82
Options 82
Options 82
Use beziers as a simple drawing tool 83
Control points 84Modifying control points 84
Activation and short cuts 86
Options 86
Tips 86
Color info 90
Options 90Adding colors 91
Options 92
The Blend Tool or Gradient Fill 92
Options 92
Gradient Types 93Options 97
Hints 97
Options 98
Options 98
Retouching hints 98The Convolver 99
Brush Selection 99
The Foreground/Background Icon 100The color dialog 100
Cut, Copy, and Paste 102
Paste Into 102
Cut, Copy and Paste Named 102How to 102
Clear 103
Fill 103
Stroke 104Undo and Redo 104
Copy visible 104
Zoom 104
Guides and Rulers 105
Toggle and snap 105
Window info, New view and Shrink wrap 105New view 105
Shrink wrap 106
Window info 106
Moving floating selections 108
Moving the whole image or a single layer 108
Moving empty selections 109Magnifying glass or Zoom tool 109
Options 109
The dialog 110
Rotate 111
Scale 111
Shearing 112
Perspective 112
Options 113
Border matters 117
The dialog 120
Making a brush 120Make a pattern 121
Create a palette from an image 122
The Gradient editor 122
How to use the gradient editor 123
The popup menu 124
Endpoints 124
Segments 124
Blend 125
Coloring 125
Flips 125
Replicate 125
Save, Save as, and POV gradient format 125
Color models 130
RGB 130
CMYK 130
INDEXED 131
HSV 132Hue 132
Saturation 132
Value 132NCS 133
Spot color 133
Grayscale and Line Art 134
Complementary or Inverted colors 134
What is prepress? 136
Printing from Gimp 136File formats for printing 136
Resolution and image size 137
Preparing for the press 138dpi, lpi, ppi and Scanning resolution 138
Color 139
How to transfer images to the print shop 140
Removable drives 140
Internet and BBS 140
Email 141
Filesystem format 141Sane 141
Other scanner programs 141
Commercial scanner programs 142Gamma Calibration 143
Black level and white level adjustment 143
Color calibration 145Plain 145
CMS 145
Frozenriver's plain color calibration 145
Poor man's color calibration 147
Why don't the colors look like they should, even if I have calibrated the system? 147Color 148
Color management 148Resolution 149
Lpi, dpi and screen frequencies 149
Halftone dots 150
Why doesn't my inkjet look like halftone screens? 151
FM Screening 151Lpi table 153
Printer table 153
Image table 153
Shades of gray 154
Screening matrix geometry 154
Equalize 158
Invert 159
Posterize 159
Threshold 160Color Balance 161
Brightness-Contrast 162
Hue-Saturation 162Curves 164
Levels 166
Levels on Grayscale 166
Levels on RGB or Alpha 167
Example: Making Carved Text with Levels 167Desaturate 168
Auto-Stretch HSV 169
Contrast Auto-Stretch 169
Normalize 170Duplicate 170
Offset 170Compose and Decompose 172
RGB decomposing 172
HSV decomposing 173
CMYK & CMY decomposing 174
Alpha decomposing 175Indexed options 175
Resize 176
Scale 177Holes 178
Threshold Alpha 178Save palette 178
Transforms 178Autocrop 178
Image 179
Layer 179
Rotate 179
Zealous Crop 179
Toggle 182
Invert 182
Select all or none 182
Float 182
Feather, Sharpen and Border 182Feather 182
Sharpen 183
Border 183Grow and Shrink 183
Save to channel 183
Select by color 184Representation 184
Modes 184
Options 185
Normal Mode 188
Dissolve Mode 189
Multiply Mode 189
Screen Mode 189
Overlay Mode 190
Difference Mode 190
Addition Mode 191
Subtraction Mode 191
Darken only 191
Lighten only 191
Hue 192
Saturation 192
Color 192
Value 193
Behind 193Comparing pictures in different modes 193
Why are there so few colors in Screen, Addition, and Lighten only? 195
What is the difference between Screen, Addition and Lighten only? 195
What is the difference between Multiply and Darken only? 196
What is the difference between Color and Hue? 197
Introduction 200
Adding layers to your image 200The dialog 200
Layers 200
Layer operations 201New layer 201
The active layer 201
Symbols and explanations 201
Naming 202Raise Layer and Lower Layer 202
Duplicate Layer 202
Delete Layer 202
Scale Layer 202
Resize Layer 203
Add Layer Mask 203Description 203
How to 204Apply Layer Mask 204
Anchor layer 204
Merge Visible Layers 205
Flatten Image 205
Alpha to Selection 205
Mask to Selection 206
Add Alpha Channel 206
Align Visible Layers 206Horizontal style 206
Horizontal base 206
Vertical style 207
Vertical base 207
Collect 207
Fill 208
Snap to grid 208
Misc. 208
Channels 212
RGB Channels 212
Alpha Channels 212What are Alpha Channels? 212
Storing selections 213
Editing Alpha Channels 213Using Channels for creating Spot Color Separation 214
Adding color to a Channel 214
Spot Colors 215
Duotones 215
Checklist 216
How to create a duotone 217What is a floating selection? 218
Anchoring a floating selection 218
Moving objects in a floating selection layer 219
Tips on working with floating selections 219
The main categories 225
Animation Playback 228
Animation optimize 228
Animation unoptimize 228
Filter all Layers 229
How to create a Gif animation 229Specifying the delay of each frame 229
Combining frames 229
Replacing frames 229
Tip 232
Tip 233
Tip 234
Map image 234
Blur 235
Texture 235Main Options 236
Secondary Options 237
Other Options 238
Blur 242
Gaussian Blur (IIR) 242
Gaussian Blur (RLE) 242
Motion Blur 243Linear 243
Radial 243
Zoom 243
Alien Map 246
Color exchange 247
Colorify 247
Color Map Rotation 248Main window 248
Range 248
Example 248
The Misc. window 249Advanced options 250
Gradient Map 251
Hot 252
Max RGB 252
Quantize 253
Scatter HSV 253
Semi-Flatten 253Semi transparency in Web images 253
An example 258
How to 260
Parameters 261
Blinds 268
Curtain 268
Emboss 269
Engrave 270
IWarp 270Parameters 271
Page curl 273
Polar Coords 273Examples 274
Ripple 275
Shift 275
Twist 276Functions Effects 276
Parameter settings 277Tips 278
How to use it 289
Examples 294
Variables 296
Built-in Functions 297Universal filter 299
User Filter (Adobe Photoshop Filter Factory) 300
Apply lens 302
Conical Anamorphose & Central-Reflection 302Settings 302
Parameters 303
Main window 306
The Gflare editor 307Back to the main window 311
The main interface 312
Light 313
Type of Light 313
Light color 313
Position for point light 313Materials 314
Bumpmapping 314
Environment mapping 315
A simple tutorial 315Parameters 318
Usage 322
Coordinate Map 323
Displace 323Description 324
Calculations 324
The user interface 324
Examples 325Example 1: basic displacing 325
Example 2: displacing in two directions 326
Example 3 and 4: spreading and curving 326Tips & Tricks 327
What's the difference between Black, Smear and Wrap? 327
More calculations 328Fractal Trace 329
Illusion 329
Make Seamless 330
Map Object 330Main interface 331
Light 332
Materials 333Orientation 334
Example and parameters 338
How to 339
Parameters 340
Randomization types 342
General Settings 346
Functions 346
Composition and Arrangement 346
The Slide Bars 347Advanced settings 347
Example 349
Diffraction patterns 349
Figures 350
Flame 350Main interface 350
The Edit dialog 351
User interface 352
Preview area 352Lines 353
Circle 353
Ellipse 353
Curve 353
Poly(gon) 353
Star 353
Spiral 354
Bezier 354
Move 354
MvPNT 354
Copy 354
Delete 354
Misc. 354Settings 355
The Tab folders 356
Example 359
How to use Ifs Compose 361
Main options 363
Render Options 364Parameters 365
Min and Xmax 365
Ymin and Ymax 365
ITER 366
CX and CY 366
Load, Reset and Save 366
Fractal type 366Colors 366
Color Function 366Gradients 367
Fractals 367A Simple Example 368
Graphic Representation 369
Using the L-Systems Plug-in 371
Advanced Features 372Using Braces 372
The Purpose of Last Rules 372
Effective Use of Special Rules 373
Where to Look for More Information 373
Examples 373Maze 374
Plasma 374
Qbist 375
Sinus 376Functions 376
X/Y scale 376
Complexity and Random Seed 377
Force tiling 377
Ideal/Distorted 377The Color tab folder 377
The Blend tab folder 377
Basic concept 382
How to create an animation with AnimFrames 382Making a frame 382
How to navigate our frames 382Moving along 383
How far can AnimFrames take me? 384
The Move Path tool 384The SourceImage/Layer 385
Mode 385
Handle 385
Step mode 385Move path preview and control points 385
The Frame Slidebars 386
The Layerstack 387The AnimFrame menu 387
Undo and preview? 387
Frames LayerDel 387
Frames Convert and Exchange 387
Frames Flatten and Frames to Image 387
Frame Duplicate 388
Script Fu? 396
Installing Script-Fu's 396
Do's and Don'ts 396
Different kinds of Script Fu's 397Stand alone scripts 397
Patterns 397
Web page themes 397
Logos 398
Make Buttons 398
Utils 399
Misc. 399
Make Brush 399Image dependent scripts 400
Decor 400
Modify 401
Animators 401
Stencil Ops 401
Alchemy 402Unsharp Mask 402
Drop Shadow 403
Perspective Shadow 403
Introduction 406
Expressions 406
Functions 406car, cdr and friends (*) 407
Local variables (*) 408The Gimp PDB 408
Registering the script with Script-Fu 409
A commented script 410Hanging a script in the image menu 411
Painting areas with selections 413
Loops 414
Floating selections 414Hello World - writing text in an image 415
Copying a selection 416
The road to Script-Fu Mastery 420
Course outline 420
Lesson 1: Getting acquainted with Scheme 421
Let's start Scheme'ing 421
Watch out for extra parens. 422Lesson 2: Of Variables and Functions... 423
Variables 423
Declaring global variables with "set!" 423
Declaring local variables with "let" 423
White space 424
Assigning a new value to a variable 424
Functions 424Lesson 3: '(Lists Lists and More Lists) 425
Defining a list 425
Concatenating variables to lists 426
Accessing values in a list 426
car 426
cdr 426
Accessing other elements a list 427Lesson 4: Your First Script-Fu Script 427
Getting started 427
Editing and storing your scripts 427
The bare essentials 428
Naming conventions 428
Registering the function 428
Steps for registering the script 430
The required parameters 430
Registering the script's parameters 431Lesson 5: Giving our script some guts 432
Creating a new image 432
Adding a new layer to the image 433
Adding the text 434
Clearing the "dirty" flag 435
Enabling and Disabling undo 435Lesson 6: Extending the Text Box Script 436
The game plan 436
Modifying the parameters and the registration function 436
Adding the new code 437
Scalable fonts 442
Where are the fonts and font PATH 442Type 1 fonts installation & the type1inst program 443
Preparing for installation 443
Copying the fonts to the fonts dir 443
Font management 443
Running type1inst 443
Loading the fonts into X 444Installing type 1 fonts by hand 444
The font field in the font file 444
Foundry table 446
Weight table 447
Slant table 447
Set Width table 448
Additional style table 448
What is a plug-in? 452
Compile? 452What way to go when you want to compile 452
How to obtain and install the source code 452
Unpacking the source code 453
Finding out how to compile the plug-in 453
Using GCC to compile the plug-in straight off 454A first try 454
Libraries 455
Another try 455
Include file 455
The -L flag and how to find out which libs to link 455
The -I flag 456
What to do when there are several source files 456How to create a Makefile and how to use it 457
Configure: a way to automate the building process 459
Gimp command line switches aka flags (options) 464
Batch mode and "no-interface" 465
More options 465Initiations files aka rc files 467
gimprc and ~/.gimp/gimprc 467
menurc 475
pluginrc 475
gtkrc 475
Web 518
Mail 518
IRC (dev chat) channel #Gimp 519
FTP 519
Commercial Support 521
Books 521
The Gimp User Manual
Last modified: 19 May 1998
