Grokking the GIMP

Gimp User Manual

1273 Pages
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by
Carey Bunks

• Copyright Notice and Open Publication License
• About the Author
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• README
  • Book Overview
  • Mouse Clicks
  • Function Names, Menus, and Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Setting up Your Computer to Get the Most from the GIMP
    • Notes on RAM
    • Notes on Video RAM
    • Notes on Swap and GIMP Memory Management
    • Loading Fonts
    • Setting the X Window System to Run More Than 8 bpp
  • Sources of Raw Image Materials
  • The History of the GIMP
• 1. GIMP Basics
  • 1.1 Introducing the GIMP Windows and Dialogs
    • 1.1.1 The Toolbox
    • 1.1.2 The Image Window
    • 1.1.3 The Layers, Channels, and Paths Dialogs
    • 1.1.4 The Dialogs for Color, Brushes, Patterns, Gradients, and Palettes
  • 1.2 Loading and Saving Images
  • 1.3 Creating New Images
  • 1.4 RGB, Grayscale, and Indexed Images
  • 1.5 Undoing and Redoing
  • 1.6 Recalling the Last Filter Dialog
  • 1.7 Copy, Cut, and Paste Buffers
  • 1.8 Zoom and New View
    • 1.8.1 Zoom
    • 1.8.2 New View
  • 1.9 The Help System
  • 1.10 Common Problems and
    Frequently Asked Questions
• 2. Review of Layers
  • 2.1 Layers and the Role They Play in Images
    • 2.1.1 The Layers Dialog
    • 2.1.2 The Layers Menu
  • 2.2 Channels and Their Relationship
    to Layers
    • 2.2.1 The Channels Dialog
  • 2.3 Layer Creation, Deletion, Duplication, and Organization
    • 2.3.1 Creating New Layers
    • 2.3.2 Raising Layers
    • 2.3.3 Lowering Layers
    • 2.3.4 Duplicating Layers
    • 2.3.5 Deleting Layers
  • 2.4 Layer Export and Import
  • 2.5 Floats
    • 2.5.1 Automatic Creation of Floats
    • 2.5.2 Explicit Creation of Floats
    • 2.5.3 Anchoring Floats
  • 2.6 Manipulating Layers
    • 2.6.1 Positioning Layers
      • 2.6.1.1 Moving Layers
      • 2.6.1.2 Aligning Layers with Guides
      • 2.6.1.3 Toggling the Layer Boundary
    • 2.6.2 Resizing and Scaling
      • 2.6.2.1 Image Scaling
      • 2.6.2.2 Image Resizing
      • 2.6.2.3 Layer Scaling
      • 2.6.2.4 Layer Resizing
    • 2.6.3 Flipping
    • 2.6.4 Rotating in 90^o Increments
    • 2.6.5 The Transform Tool
      • 2.6.5.0.1 Rotation
      • 2.6.5.0.2 Scaling
      • 2.6.5.0.3 Shearing
      • 2.6.5.0.4 Perspective
  • 2.7 Combining Layers
    • 2.7.1 Merging
    • 2.7.2 Flattening
  • 2.8 Common Problems and
    Frequently Asked Questions
• 3. Selections
  • 3.1 The Basic Selection Tools
    • 3.1.1 The Six Selection Tools from the Toolbox
      • 3.1.1.1 The Rectangle Select and Ellipse Select Tools
      • 3.1.1.2 The Lasso (the Free-Hand Selection Tool)
      • 3.1.1.3 The Magic Wand (the Fuzzy Select Tool)
      • 3.1.1.4 Bezier Paths
      • 3.1.1.5 The Intelligent Scissors
    • 3.1.2 Selection Tool Options
      • 3.1.2.1 Antialiasing
      • 3.1.2.2 Feathering
      • 3.1.2.3 Sample Merged
      • 3.1.2.4 Threshold
  • 3.2 Combining Selections
    • 3.2.1 Adding
    • 3.2.2 Subtracting
    • 3.2.3 Intersecting
    • 3.2.4 Using Add, Subtract, and Intersect with the Rectangle and Ellipse Selection Tool Features
    • 3.2.5 Moving a Selection Boundary
  • 3.3 The Select Menu and Friends
    • 3.3.1 The Invert Function
    • 3.3.2 The All Function
    • 3.3.3 The None Function
    • 3.3.4 The Float Function
    • 3.3.5 The Feather Function
    • 3.3.6 The Sharpen Function
    • 3.3.7 The Shrink Function
    • 3.3.8 The Grow Function
    • 3.3.9 The Border Function
    • 3.3.10 The Save to Channel Function
    • 3.3.11 The By Color Function
    • 3.3.12 The To Path Function
    • 3.3.13 The Toggle Selection Function
    • 3.3.14 Copy, Cut, and Paste
    • 3.3.15 Stroke
  • 3.4 The Paths Dialog
    • 3.4.1 The Paths Palette
    • 3.4.2 The Control Point Mode Buttons
    • 3.4.3 The Paths Menu
    • 3.4.4 The Paths Button Bar
  • 3.5 Using Selections Effectively
    • 3.5.1 General Selection Tool Guidelines
    • 3.5.2 Tool Conjugation
    • 3.5.3 Using Zoom
    • 3.5.4 Selections and Guides
  • 3.6 Common Problems and
    Frequently Asked Questions
• 4. Masks
  • 4.1 Channel Masks
    • 4.1.1 The Channels Dialog
    • 4.1.2 Saving Selections to Channel Masks
    • 4.1.3 Making Channel Masks Visible
    • 4.1.4 Setting a Channel Mask's Color, Transparency, and Title
    • 4.1.5 The Channels Menu
    • 4.1.6 Combining Channels
    • 4.1.7 Partially Selected Pixels
  • 4.2 Layer Masks
    • 4.2.1 Creating a Layer Mask
    • 4.2.2 Manipulating the Layer Mask
  • 4.3 Basic Tools for Working with Channel and Layer Masks
    • 4.3.1 Painting Tools
    • 4.3.2 Selection Tools
    • 4.3.3 Gradients
    • 4.3.4 Transparency as a Tool for Editing Masks
    • 4.3.5 Blurring of Masks and Other Effects
  • 4.4 Conversions of Selections, Channel Masks,
    Layer Masks, and Alpha Channels
  • 4.5 Masks and Selections
    • 4.5.1 Using Masks to Refine Selections
    • 4.5.2 The Quick Mask
    • 4.5.3 Finding the Natural Mask
      • 4.5.3.1 Working with the Threshold Tool
      • 4.5.3.2 The Threshold Tool Versus the Magic Wand
      • 4.5.3.3 Threshold and Decompose
  • 4.6 Common Problems and
    Frequently Asked Questions
• 5. Colorspaces and Blending Modes
  • 5.1 The RGB Colorspace
  • 5.2 The HSV Colorspace
  • 5.3 Relating HSV to RGB
  • 5.4 The Subtractive Color Systems CMY
    and CMYK
  • 5.5 Conversion to Grayscale
  • 5.6 The Blending Modes
    • 5.6.1 The Normal, Dissolve, and Behind Blending Modes
    • 5.6.2 The Addition, Subtract, and Difference Blending Modes
    • 5.6.3 The Multiply (Burn), Divide (Dodge), Screen, and Overlay Blending Modes
    • 5.6.4 The Darken Only and Lighten Only Blending Modes
    • 5.6.5 The Hue, Saturation, Value, and Color Blending Modes
  • 5.7 Opacity and Transparency
  • 5.8 Practical Uses of Blending Modes
    • 5.8.1 Colorization
    • 5.8.2 Realistic Shadows and Highlights
  • 5.9 Common Problems and
    Frequently Asked Questions
• 6. Touchup and Enhancement
  • 6.1 Improving Tonal Range
    • 6.1.1 Highlights and Shadows
    • 6.1.2 Using the Levels Tool
  • 6.2 Removing Color Casts
    • 6.2.1 The Curves Tool
    • 6.2.2 Color Correcting by Balancing the Neutrals
    • 6.2.3 Finding the Shadow, Midtone, and Highlight
    • 6.2.4 Other Colors We Know
    • 6.2.5 The Perturbation Technique
    • 6.2.6 Getting More Detail into the Subject
    • 6.2.7 Other Color Correcting Tools
      • 6.2.7.1 The Color Balance Tool
      • 6.2.7.2 The Brightness-Contrast Tool
      • 6.2.7.3 The Hue-Saturation Tool
  • 6.3 Repairing Blemishes with the Clone Tool
  • 6.4 Sharpening
    • 6.4.1 The Unsharp Mask Concept
    • 6.4.2 A Simplified but Illustrative Example
    • 6.4.3 A Representative Example of Applying
      the Unsharp Mask
    • 6.4.4 Unsharp Mask Pitfalls
  • 6.5 A Case Study
• 7. Compositing
  • 7.1 Project 1: Fish on Holiday!
  • 7.2 Project 2: Through the Looking Glass
  • 7.3 Project 3: Destination Saturn
  • 7.4 Project 4: The Call of the Mermaid
  • 7.5 Project 5: Panoramas
    • 7.5.1 Correcting Geometric Distortions
    • 7.5.2 Color and Brightness Matching
    • 7.5.3 Blending
    • 7.5.4 Final Touches
• 8. Rendering Techniques
  • 8.1 The Bucket Fill Tool
  • 8.2 Gradient Rendering Techniques
  • 8.3 The Emboss and Bump map Filters
  • 8.4 Shadows
  • 8.5 Rendering Project I: Drop Shadow and Punchout
  • 8.6 Rendering Project II: A Carved Stencil
  • 8.7 Rendering Project III: Chiseled Text
• 9. Web-Centric GIMP
  • 9.1 Web Animations
    • 9.1.1 Using GIF Files for Animation
    • 9.1.2 GIMP Layers Can Behave Like Animation Frames
    • 9.1.3 Saving Animations to GIF
    • 9.1.4 A Second Example of Creating a GIF Animation
    • 9.1.5 Animation Optimization
    • 9.1.6 IWarp
  • 9.2 Clickable Image Maps
  • 9.3 Type Effects
  • 9.4 Tileable Backgrounds
  • 9.5 Web-Safe Color
    • 9.5.1 Types of Color Distortion
    • 9.5.2 Low-Color Systems and Web Browser
      Color Palettes
    • 9.5.3 Converting to Indexed Color
    • 9.5.4 What Is the Best Choice?
  • 9.6 Semi-Transparency and Indexed Images
  • 9.7 Which Format GIF or JPEG?
• Bibliography
• 10. GIMP Resources
• 11. Keyboard Shortcuts
• Index