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Gimp User Manual

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16-bit color : 8.4.2 | 17.5

1:1 (zoom magnification) : 20

24-bit color : 8.4.2 | 17.5

3D images : 16

3D Outline script : 17.3

8-bit color : 8.4.2 | 17.5

active channel : 10.2.1 | 12.1.1 | 12.1.1

active layer : 10.1.1 | 11 | 11.6 | 12.1.1

active layer mask : 12.2.2

Add Alpha Channel function : 10.8 | 12.2.1

Add Layer Mask function : 12.2.1 | 15.2 | 15.4 | 16.4 | 16.4

Add Mask Options dialog : 12.2.1

Add Point mode button (Bezier paths) : 11.4.2

Add to Selection function : 12.1.5 | 12.1.6

adding selections : 11.2.1

Addition blending mode : 13.6.2

Airbrush tool : 8.3 | 11.4.4 | 12.3.1 | 12.5.1 | 13.8.1 | 13.8.2 | 15.3 | 15.4 | 20

aliasing : 11.1.2.1

aligning layers with guides : 10.6.1.2

All (selection) function : 11.3.2 | 20

alpha channel

and anti-aliasing : 11.1.2.1

converting to selections/channel masks/layer masks : 12.4

creating : 12.2.1

editing with layer mask : 12.2.2 | 12.2.2

has none : 10.2

linked to layer mask : 12.2

loaded into layer mask : 12.2.1

recovering layer mask : 12.2.2

troubleshooting : 10.8

Alpha to Selection function : 15.4 | 16.2 | 16.5 | 16.7 | 16.7

ambient light : 13.2 | 16.3

Anchor Layer function : 10.4 | 10.5.3 | 10.8 | 20

anchoring floats : 10.5.3

Animation Optimize function : 17.1.5

Animation Playback tool : 17.1.2

animations : 17.1

converting to Indexed format : 17.1.3

Iwarp filter : 17.1.6

optimization : 17.1.5

saving to GIF format : 17.1.3

Ansel Adams : 14

antialiasing : 11.1.2.1 | 12.3.5 | 17.5.4 | 17.6

Apply Layer Mask function : 12.2.2

automatic creation of floats : 10.5.1

background colors, switching with foreground colors : 9.1.4

backgrounds, tileable : 17.4

balancing neutrals : 14.2.2

banding, color distortion : 17.5.1

Behind blending mode : 13.6.1

Bezier Path tool : 8.3 | 10.6.2.3 | 11.1.1.4 | 11.5.1 | 20

Bezier paths

converting selections to : 11.3.12

Paths dialog : 11.4

title changing : 11.4.1

troubleshooting : 11.6

bi-linear gradient : 16.2

blending modes : 13.6

Destination Saturn project : 15.3

for colorization : 13.8.1

for creating shadows and highlights : 13.8.2

Through the Looking Glass project : 15.2

troubleshooting : 13.9

blending tools (gradients) : 12.3.3 | 15.5.3

blurring

Call of the Mermaid project : 15.4

masks : 12.3.5

blurry images, sharpening : 14.4

Border function : 11.3.9 | 15.4

boundaries

layers : 10.4 | 10.6.1.3

selections : 9.7 | 11.3.13

visibility : 10.6.1.3 | 11.3.13

brightness : 13.2 | 13.3

matching : 15.5.2

Brightness-Contrast tool : 14.2.7.2

Brush Selection dialog : 9.1.4 | 12.3.1 | 20

Mode menu : 12.3.3 | 13.6

Bucket Fill tool : 8.3 | 11.1.2.1 | 12.3.1 | 13.8.1 | 16.1 | 20

buffer

default : 9.7 | 10.4

named : 9.7

Bump map filter : 16.3 | 16.3 | 16.6 | 16.7

By Color selection tool : 11.3.11 | 11.5.1

Call of the Mermaid project : 15.4

Canvas Size function : 10.6.2.2

Carved Stencil project : 16.6

center initiated selections : 11.2.4

centering text : 16.2

channel masks : 12.1

Channel Options dialog : 12.1.4

Channels dialog : 10.2.1 | 12.1.1

Channels menu : 12.1.5

combining : 12.1.6

converting from selections : 12.1.5

converting to a selection : 12.1.5

converting to selections/alpha channels/layer masks : 12.4

for refining selections : 12.5.1

partially selected pixels : 12.1.7

relationship with layers : 10.2

saving selections to : 11.3.10

tools for modifying : 12.3

visibility : 12.1.1

Channel Options dialog : 12.1.4

Channel to Selection function : 12.1.5

Channels dialog : 10.2.1 | 12.1.1

Channels menu : 12.1.5

Channels Palette : 12.1.1

Checkerboard plug-in : 17.5.1

Chiseled Text project : 16.7

circular selections : 11.1.1.1

Clear function : 20

clickable image maps : 17.2

clip books : 15.1 | 17.1.4 | 17.1.4

clipping (color distortion) : 17.5.1 | 17.5.4

Clone tool : 8.3 | 14.3 | 15.4 | 15.5.4 | 20

Close function : 20

CMY colorspace : 12.5.3.3 | 13.4

CMYK colorspace : 12.5.3.3 | 13.4

collage : 15

Color Balance tool : 14.2.7.1

Color blending mode : 13.6.5 | 13.8.1

color casts, removing : 14.2

balancing neutrals : 14.2.2

Brightness-Contrast tool : 14.2.7.2

case study : 14.5

Color Balance tool : 14.2.7.1

Curves tools : 14.2.1

finding the shadow/midtone/highlight : 14.2.3

Hue-Saturation tool : 14.2.7.3

improving subject contrast : 14.2.6

perturbation technique : 14.2.5

reference colors : 14.2.4

color clipping : 17.5.1 | 17.5.4

color correction, creating panoramas : 15.5.2

color depth, performance optimization : 8.4.5

Color Palette dialog : 9.1.4 | 20

Color Palette Edit dialog : 9.1.4

Color Picker tool : 8.3 | 13.8.2 | 14.2.2 | 14.2.2 | 14.2.7.1 | 14.5 | 15.5.2 | 17.6 | 20

color shifts, from Unsharp Mask : 14.4.4

colorization, as a use of blending modes : 13.8.1

colors

blending modes : 13.6

brightness : 13.2 | 13.3

channel masks, changing : 12.1.4

converting to grayscale : 13.5

fleshtones : 14.2.4

hue : 13.2 | 13.2 | 13.3

inverting : 12.5.1

lightness : 13.3

luminance : 13.3

primary : 13

saturation : 13.2 | 13.2 | 13.3

switching foreground and background : 9.1.4

tonal range : 14.1

value : 13.2 | 13.3

Web-safe : 17.5

colorspaces : 13

CMY : 13.4

CMYK : 13.4

HSV : 13.2

RGB : 13.1

troubleshooting : 13.9

Combine mode, in animations : 17.1.2

combining

channel masks : 12.1.6

images : 10.4 | 15.3 | 15.4

layers : 10.7

selection tools : 11.5.2

selections : 11.2

compositing : 15

Call of the Mermaid project : 15.4

Destination Saturn project : 15.3

Fish on Holiday project : 15.1

Panoramas project : 15.5

Space Shuttle Animation project : 17.1.4

Through the Looking Glass project : 15.2

compression

with animation optimization : 17.1.5

with JPEG file format : 17.7

conical (symmetric) gradients : 16.2

contrast, improving : 14.2.1 | 14.2.6 | 14.5

control curve : 14.2.1

control curves : 14.2.1

control handles (Bezier Path tool) : 11.1.1.4

Control Point Mode buttons : 11.4.2

control points

Bezier Paths : 11.1.1.4

Curves tool : 14.2.1

converting

animations to Indexed format : 17.1.2

between masks/selections/alpha channels : 12.4

layer masks to alpha channels : 12.2.2

layers masks to selections : 12.2.2

selections

to Bezier paths : 11.3.12

to channel masks : 11.3.10

to grayscale : 13.5

to Indexed color : 17.5.3

Convolve tool : 8.3 | 20

Copy function : 9.7 | 10.4 | 10.4 | 11.3.14 | 20

Copy Named function : 9.7 | 20

Copy Path function : 11.4.3

Copy Visible function : 9.7

copying

images : 10.4 | 15.1

selections : 11.3.14

copyright issues, digital images : 8.5

correcting color casts : 14.2

creating layers : 10.3.1

Crop tool : 8.3 | 10.6.2.2 | 15.5.4 | 20

cube, colorspace : 13 | 13.1 | 13.2 | 13.2

cursor position : 8.3

Curves tool : 14.2.1

compared to Brightness-Contrast tool : 14.2.7.2

compared to Color Balance tool : 14.2.7.1

improving contrast : 14.2.6

perturbation technique : 14.2.5

Cut function : 9.7 | 10.4 | 10.4 | 11.3.14 | 11.3.14 | 20

Cut Named function : 20

Darken Only blending mode : 13.6.4 | 15.3

Decompose function : 10.2.1 | 12.5.3.3 | 13.2 | 13.4 | 13.5

default buffer : 10.4

Default Colors tool : 8.3 | 9.1.4 | 12.5.1 | 12.6 | 20

Delete Layer function : 10.3.5

Delete Point mode button (Bezier paths) : 11.4.2

deleting layers : 10.3.5 | 10.3.5

Desaturate function : 13.5

deselecting selections : 11.3.3

Destination Saturn project : 15.3

Dialogs, keyboard shortcuts : 20

Difference blending mode : 13.6.2

digital images, sources of : 8.5

Dissolve blending mode : 13.6.1

distortion of colors, types of : 17.5.1

dithering (color distortion) : 17.5.1

Divide (Dodge) blending mode : 13.6.3

Dodge & Burn tool : 8.3 | 20

Dodge and Burn tool : 12.3.1

downloading and installing fonts : 8.4.4

Drop Shadow and Punchout project : 16.5

drop shadows

Chiseled Text project : 16.7

creating : 16.4

Drop Shadow and Punchout project : 16.5

Duplicate function : 14.2.3 | 20

Duplicate Layer function : 10.3.4

duplicating layers : 10.3.4

Edit Menu Functions, keyboard shortcuts : 20

Edit Point mode button (Bezier paths) : 11.4.2

Edit Qmask Attributes dialog : 12.5.2

editing masks

layer masks : 12.2.2

painting tools : 12.3.1

selection tools : 12.3.2

to edit alpha channel : 12.2.2

transparency : 12.3.4

using blur filters : 12.3.5

using gradients : 12.3.3

Ellipse Select tool : 8.3 | 11.1.1.1 | 11.5.1 | 20

Emboss filter : 16.3

enhancing photos : 14

Eraser tool : 8.3 | 12.3.1 | 15.4 | 20

explicit creation of floats : 10.5.2

Export Path function : 11.4.3

exporting layers : 10.4

Feather function : 11.3.5 | 20

feathered selections : 11.1.2.2

file formats : 9.2

File Menu Functions, keyboard shortcuts : 20

files, loading multiple : 9.2

Fill function : 20

Filter Menu Functions, keyboard shortcuts : 20

filters

Bump map : 16.3 | 16.6 | 16.7

Emboss : 16.3

Gaussian Blur (IIR) : 12.3.5 | 15.4 | 16.4 | 16.4 | 16.6 | 16.7

Gaussian Blur (RLE) : 16.4

Iwarp : 17.1.6

Semi-Flatten : 17.6

SuperNova : 17.1.4

finding the natural mask : 12.5.3

Fish on Holiday project : 15.1

Flatten Image function : 10.7.2

flattening layers : 10.7.2

fleshtones : 14.2.4

Flip tool : 8.3 | 10.6.3 | 20

flipping layers : 10.6.3

Float function : 10.5.2 | 10.6.2.4 | 11.3.4 | 20

floats : 10.5

anchoring : 10.5.3

automatic creation : 10.5.1

centering : 16.2

explicit creation : 10.5.2

Floyd-Steinberg dithering algorithm : 17.5.1

fonts, downloading and installing : 8.4.4

foreground colors, switching with background colors : 9.1.4

formats, color : 9.4

frames, as animation layers : 17.1.2

Free-Hand Select tool : 8.3 | 11.1.1.2 | 11.5.1 | 12.5.3.1 | 20

freefonts collection : 8.4.4

Fuzzy Select tool : 8.3 | 11.1.1.3 | 11.5.1 | 11.5.2 | 12.5.3.2 | 20

Gaussian Blur (RLE) : 16.4

GBR file format : 9.2

geometric distortions, correcting : 15.5.1

GetWeb mirroring software : 8.5

GIF file format

compared to JPEG : 17.7

for animations : 17.1

saving image to : 17.1.3

GIMP (Gnu Image Manipulation Program)

history of : 8.6

native file format (XCF) : 9.2

newsgroup : 19

online resources : 19

performance optimization : 8.4

Web site : 19

Glass Tile filter : 12.3.5

Gradient tool : 8.3 | 16.2 | 20

gradient vectors : 16.3

gradients

Bi-Linear : 16.2

Chiseled Text project : 16.7

Conical (symmetric) : 16.2

Destination Saturn project : 15.3

editing masks : 12.3.3

Panoramas project : 15.5.3

rendering techniques : 16.2

Shapeburst : 16.2

Gradients dialog : 9.1.4 | 20

Graphics Interchange Format : 17.1.1

grays and the neutral axis : 13.1

grayscale

converting to : 13.5

Grayscale function : 9.4 | 13.5 | 20

grid lines (Transform tool) : 10.6.5.1

Grow function : 11.3.8

growing selections : 11.3.8

guides

aligning layers with : 10.6.1.2

positioning selections with : 11.5.4

help browser : 9.9

highlights

creating with the Screen blending mode : 13.8.2

finding : 14.2.3

tonal range : 14.1.1

histogram (Levels tool) : 14.1.1

history of the GIMP : 8.6

Hollywood branch of the GIMP : 10.2

HSV colorspace : 13.2

hue : 13.2 | 13.2 | 13.3

Hue blending mode : 13.6.5

Hue-Saturation tool : 14.2.7.3

Image menu : 8.3 | 9.1.2 | 10.1.1

Image Menu Functions, keyboard shortcuts : 20

image window : 9.1.2

ImageMap plug-in : 17.2

images

animations : 17.1.1

blurring : 16.4

clickable image maps : 17.2

combining : 10.4

compositing : 15

copying and pasting : 10.4

creating new : 9.3

cropping : 10.6.2.2 | 15.5.4

enhancing : 14

loading : 9.2

on Web pages : 17.7

rendering : 16

resizing : 10.6.2.2

resolution : 9.3

rotating : 10.6.4

saving : 9.2

scaling : 10.6.2.1

sharpening : 14.4.1

sources for : 8.5

touchup : 14

zoomed : 9.8.1

Import Path function : 11.4.3

importing layers : 10.4

Indexed Color Conversion dialog : 17.1.3

Indexed format

converting animations to : 17.1.2

for Web page colors : 17.5.3

Indexed function : 9.4 | 17.1.3 | 17.5.3 | 20

indexed images and semi-transparency : 17.6

Info Window dialog : 9.1.2 | 14.2.2 | 20

Ink Pen tool : 8.3 | 12.3.1 | 20

input control slider : 14.1.2

input value domain : 14.1.2 | 14.2.1

inset : 16.6

Intelligent Scissors : 8.3 | 11.1.1 | 11.1.1.5 | 11.5.1 | 20

interpolation : 10.6.2.3

Intersect With Selection function : 12.1.5

intersecting selections : 11.2.3

Invert function : 11.3.1 | 12.5.1 | 20

inverting

colors : 12.5.1

selections : 11.3.1

Iwarp filter : 17.1.6

JPEG file format, compared to GIF : 17.7

keyboard shortcuts

changing : 20

list of default : 20

Lasso Select tool : 8.3 | 11.1.1.2 | 11.5.1 | 12.5.3.1 | 20

Layer Boundary Size : 10.6.2.4

layer masks : 12.2

active : 12.2.2

Call of the Mermaid project : 15.4

converting to selections/alpha channels/channel masks : 12.4

creating : 12.2.1

Destination Saturn project : 15.3

editing : 12.2.2

Fish on Holiday project : 15.1

for refining selections : 12.5.1

Panoramas project : 15.5.2

tools for modifying : 12.3

troubleshooting : 12.6

visibility : 12.2.2

Layer to Bottom function : 10.3.3

Layer to Top function : 10.3.2

layers : 10

active : 10.1.1

aligning with guides : 10.6.1.2

and blending modes : 13.6

as animation frames : 17.1.2

creating : 10.3.1

deleting : 10.3.5

duplicating : 10.3.4

flattening : 10.7.2

flipping : 10.6.3

floats : 10.5

importing/exporting : 10.4

Layers dialog : 10.1

Layers menu : 10.1.2

lowering : 10.3.3

merging : 10.7.1

moving : 10.6.1.1

perspective transforming : 10.6.5.4

positioning : 10.6.1

raising : 10.3.2

relationship to channels : 10.2

relationship to images : 10.1

resizing : 10.6.2.4

rotating : 10.6.4 | 10.6.5.1

scaling : 10.6.2.3 | 10.6.5.2

shearing : 10.6.5.3

transforming : 10.6.5

transparency/opacity : 13.7

troubleshooting : 10.8

Layers & Channels dialog : 9.1.3 | 10.1.1 | 20

Layers dialog : 9.1.3 | 10.1 | 10.1.1

Layers menu : 10.1.2

Layers Menu Functions, keyboard shortcuts : 20

Layers Palette : 10.1.1

legal issues, copyright of digital images : 8.5

Levels tool : 14.1.2

light source

ambient : 13.2

ambient for Bump map filter : 16.3

and shadows : 16.4

Emboss filter : 16.3

Lighten Only blending mode : 12.3.3 | 13.6.4

lightness : 13.3

Load Image dialog : 9.2

loading images : 9.2

low color systems, Web-safe color palettes : 17.5.2

Lower Layer function : 10.3.3

lowering layers : 10.3.3 | 10.3.3

luminance : 13.3

Magic Wand tool : 8.3 | 11.1.1.3 | 11.5.1 | 11.5.2 | 12.5.3.2 | 20

Make Seamless plug-in : 17.4

man pages (GIMP) : 19

Manipulate Paths tool : 8.3

Marching Ants (selections) : 10.4 | 11.1.1.1 | 11.6

Mask To Selection function : 12.2.2

masks : 12

channel masks : 12.1

converting to selections/alpha channels : 12.4

layer masks : 12.2

natural mask, finding : 12.5.3

refining selections : 12.5.1

tools for modifying : 12.3

troubleshooting : 12.6

Measure tool : 8.3 | 10.6.2.3 | 10.6.5.1 | 10.6.5.2 | 15.2 | 15.5.1

memory management : 8.4.1

menus, opening as separate windows : 9.1.2

Merge Down function : 10.7.1

Merge Visible Layers function : 10.7.1

merging layers : 10.7.1

Mermaid project : 15.4

midtones

finding : 14.2.3

Mode menu : 10.1.1 | 12.3.3

mouse cursor position : 8.3

Move tool : 8.3 | 10.1.1 | 10.4 | 10.5.1 | 10.6.1.1 | 15.1 | 15.2 | 15.3 | 15.4 | 15.5 | 20

moving

layers : 10.6.1.1

selection boundaries : 11.2.5

selections : 10.4

moving dashes (Marching Ants) : 10.4

multiple files, loading : 9.2

Multiply (Burn) blending mode : 12.3.3 | 13.6.3 | 13.8.1 | 13.8.2

name completion feature (Load Image dialog) : 9.2

named buffers : 9.7

natural mask, finding : 12.5.3

Navigation Window : 9.8.1 | 11.5.3 | 20

neutral axis : 13.1

neutrals, balancing : 14.2.2

New function : 9.3 | 20

New Image dialog : 9.3

New Layer function : 10.3.1

New Point mode button (Bezier paths) : 11.4.2

New View function : 9.8.2

newsgroup (GIMP) : 19

noise, amplification : 14.4.4

None function : 11.3.3 | 20

Normal blending mode : 13.6.1

Offset function : 16.4 | 16.4 | 16.4 | 16.5 | 16.6 | 16.7 | 20

online resources for the GIMP : 19

opacity : 13.7

channel masks, setting : 12.1.4

editing layers masks : 12.3.4

Opacity slider : 10.1.1

Open function : 9.2 | 20

opening menus as separate windows : 9.1.2

optimizing performance : 8.4

animations : 17.1.5

color depth : 8.4.2

fonts : 8.4.4

RAM : 8.4.1

tile cache size : 8.4.3

video RAM : 8.4.2

output control slider : 14.1.2

output value range : 14.2.1

Overlay blending mode : 13.6.3

Paintbrush tool : 8.3 | 12.3.1 | 12.5.3.1 | 20

painting tools, blending modes : 13.6

painting tools, for editing masks : 12.3.1

palettes

Channels Palette : 12.1.1

Color Palette dialog : 9.1.4

Layers Palette : 10.1.1

Paths Palette : 11.4.1

Visibone2 color palette : 17.5.2

Web-safe color palette : 17.5.2

panner window : 9.1.2

panning in zoomed images : 9.8.1

Panoramas project : 15.5

panoramas, creating : 15.5

color and brightness corrections : 15.5.2

cropping and merging : 15.5.4

geometric distortion correction : 15.5.1

gradient blending : 15.5.3

repairing with the Clone tool : 15.5.4

partially selected pixels : 11.1.2.1

channel masks : 12.1.2

feathered selections : 11.1.2.2

sharpening : 11.3.6

Paste As New function : 9.7

Paste function : 9.7 | 10.4 | 11.3.14 | 20

Paste Into : 9.7

Paste Named : 9.7 | 20

Paste Path function : 11.4.3

pasting

layers : 10.4

selections : 11.3.14

PAT file format : 9.2

Path Transform Lock : 10.6.2.3 | 10.6.5.4 | 11.4.1

Paths dialog : 9.1.3 | 11.4

button bar : 11.4.3

Control Point mode buttons : 11.4.2

Paths menu : 11.4.3

Paths Palette : 11.4.1

Paths menu : 11.4.3

Paths Palette : 11.4.1

Pattern Selection dialog : 9.1.4 | 16.1 | 17.3 | 20

Pencil tool : 8.3 | 12.3.1 | 20

perfectly square/round selections : 11.2.4

performance optimization : 8.4

animations : 17.1.5

color depth : 8.4.2

fonts : 8.4.4

RAM : 8.4.1

tile cache size : 8.4.3

video RAM : 8.4.2

Perspective option (Transform tool) : 10.6.5.4

Perspective Transform dialog : 10.6.5.4

perturbation technique : 14.2.5

Call of the Mermaid project : 15.4

case study : 14.5

Through the Looking Glass project : 15.2

photo touchup : 14

case study : 14.5

Clone tool : 14.3

improving tonal range : 14.1

removing color casts : 14.2

sharpening images : 14.4.1

photo-montage : 15

pixels : 10

interpolation of values : 10.6.2.3

remapping value ranges : 14.2.1

plug-ins

Checkerboard : 17.5.1

Glass Tile : 12.3.5

ImageMap : 17.2

Make Seamless : 17.4

Semi-Flatten : 17.6

Spread : 12.3.5

Tile : 17.4

troubleshooting : 9.10

Waves : 12.3.5

positioning

layers : 10.6.1 | 15.1

selections : 11.5.4

posterization (color distortion) : 17.5.1

Preferences dialog : 9.5

primary colors : 13

project

Panoramas : 15.5

projects

Call of the Mermaid : 15.4

Carved Stencil : 16.6

Chiseled Text : 16.7

Destination Saturn : 15.3

Drop Shadow and Punchout : 16.5

Fish on Holiday : 15.1

Through the Looking Glass : 15.2

punchouts

Carved Stencil project : 16.6

creating : 16.4

drop shadow and punchout project : 16.5

Quick Mask : 9.1.2 | 12.5.2

Quit function : 20

Raise Layer function : 10.3.2

raising layers : 10.3.2 | 10.3.2

RAM requirements : 8.4.1

Re-show last function : 9.6 | 14.4.3 | 20

Rectangle Select tool : 8.3 | 10.6.2.4 | 11.1.1.1 | 11.5.1 | 20

Redo function : 9.5 | 20

remapping pixel value ranges : 14.2.1

removing color casts : 14.2 | 14.2

removing geometric distortion : 15.5.1

removing unwanted parts of images : 14.3

rendering images : 16 | 16

Bucket Fill tool : 16.1

Bump map filter : 16.3

Carved Stencil project : 16.6

Chiseled Text project : 16.7

drop shadow and punchout project : 16.5

Emboss filter : 16.3

gradients : 16.2

shadows : 16.4

Repeat last function : 20

Replace mode (frame animations) : 17.1.2

requirements : 8.4

fonts : 8.4.4

RAM : 8.4.1

video RAM : 8.4.2

resizing

selections : 11.3.7

resizing images : 10.6.2.2

resizing layers : 10.6.2.4

resolution, setting : 9.3

resources for the GIMP : 19

RGB colorspace : 9.4 | 13.1 | 13.3

RGB function : 9.4 | 20

Rotate function : 10.6.4

rotating images : 10.6.4

rotating layers : 10.6.4 | 10.6.5.1

Rotation Information dialog : 10.6.5.1

Sample Merged option (Tool Options dialog) : 11.1.2.3

saturation : 13.2 | 13.2 | 13.3

Saturation blending mode : 13.6.5

Save As function : 9.2 | 17.1.3

Save as GIF options dialog : 17.1.3

Save function : 20

Save Image dialog : 9.2 | 17.1.3

Save Options menu, file formats : 9.2

Save to Channel function : 11.3.10 | 12.1.2 | 16.5

saving

images : 9.2 | 10.7 | 10.8

selections to channel masks : 11.3.10

Scale Image dialog : 10.6.2.1

Scale Image function : 10.6.2.1

Scale Layer function : 10.6.2.3

Scaling dialog : 10.6.5.2

scaling images : 10.6.2.1

Scaling Information dialog : 15.1

scaling layers : 10.6.2.3 | 10.6.5.2 | 15.1

Screen blending mode : 12.3.3 | 13.6.3

Script-Fu : 17.3

scripts, type effects : 17.3

scroll bars : 9.1.2

Select Menu Functions, keyboard shortcuts : 20

selection tools, for editing masks : 12.3.2

selections : 11

adding : 11.2.1

antialiasing : 11.1.2.1

borders : 11.3.9

boundaries, moving : 11.2.5

By Color function : 11.3.11

Call of the Mermaid project : 15.4

clip books : 15.1 | 17.1.4 | 17.1.4

combining : 11.2

combining uses of : 11.5.2

converting

to Bezier Paths : 11.3.12

to channel masks : 11.3.10

to layer masks : 12.4

converting to layer masks/alpha channels/channel masks : 12.4

cutting/copying/pasting : 11.3.14

deselecting everything : 11.3.3

everything : 11.3.2

feathering : 11.1.2.2 | 11.3.5

floats : 11.3.4

growing : 11.3.8

guidelines : 11.5.1

intersecting : 11.2.3

inverting : 11.3.1

Marching Ants : 11.1.1.1

moving, boundaries : 11.2.5

positioning : 11.5.4

refining with masks : 12.5.1

saving to channel masks : 11.3.10 | 12.1.2

sharpening : 11.3.6

shrinking : 11.3.7

Stroke function : 11.3.15

subtracting : 11.2.2

Toggle Selection function : 11.3.13

troubleshooting : 11.6

types of : 11.1

zoom view : 11.5.3

Semi-Flatten plug-in : 17.6

semi-transparency and indexed images : 17.6

Set Canvas Size dialog : 10.6.2.2

Settings (ImageMap) dialog : 17.2

shadows : 16.4

creating with the Multiply blending mode : 13.8.2

drop shadows : 16.4

finding : 14.2.3

punchouts : 16.4

tonal range : 14.1 | 14.1.1

uses for blending modes : 13.8.2

shapeburst gradients : 16.2

sharefonts collection : 8.4.4

Sharpen function, selections : 11.3.6 | 20

sharpening

images : 14.4 | 14.4.1

selections : 11.3.6

Shear Information dialog : 10.6.5.3

shearing layers : 10.6.5.3

shortcuts, keyboard : 20

Shrink function : 11.3.7

Shrink Wrap function : 9.8.1 | 20

shrinking selections : 11.3.7

Smudge tool : 8.3 | 12.3.1 | 20

snapping property of guides : 10.6.1.2

Spread filter : 12.3.5

square selections : 11.1.1.1

status bar : 9.1.2

stencils, Carved Stencil project : 16.6

Stroke function : 11.3.15

Subtract blending mode : 13.6.2

Subtract From Selection function : 12.1.5

subtracting selections : 11.2.2

SuperNova filter : 17.1.4

Swap Colors tool : 8.3 | 9.1.4 | 20

switching background and foreground colors : 9.1.4

system requirements : 8.4

fonts : 8.4.4

RAM : 8.4.1

video RAM : 8.4.2

text

Chiseled Text project : 16.7

Text tool : 8.3 | 8.4.4 | 20

Threshold Option (Tool Options dialog) : 11.1.2.4

Threshold tool

compared to Magic Wand : 12.5.3.2

finding shadows/midtones/highlights : 14.2.3

finding the natural mask : 12.5.3

improving contrast : 14.2.6

Through the Looking Glass project : 15.2

Tile plug-in : 17.4

tileable backgrounds in Web pages : 17.4

timing information (for animations) : 17.1.2

title of Bezier path, changing : 11.4.1

To Path function : 11.3.12

Toggle Guides function : 10.6.1.2 | 20

Toggle Rulers function : 9.1.2 | 20

Toggle Selection function : 11.3.13 | 20

Toggle Statusbar function : 9.1.2 | 20

tonal range : 14.1

case study : 14.5

highlights and shadows : 14.1.1

levels tool : 14.1.2

Tool Options dialog : 9.1.1 | 11.1.1.3 | 12.3.3 | 12.5.1 | 15.2 | 15.3

Toolbox Functions, keyboard shortcuts : 20

Toolbox window : 9.1.1

touching up photos : 14

Transform tool : 8.3 | 10.6.2.3 | 10.6.5 | 20

transparency : 13.7

channel masks, setting : 12.1.4

editing masks : 12.3.4

semi-transparency and indexed images : 17.6

troubleshooting : 10.8

troubleshooting

blending modes : 13.9

colorspaces : 13.9

layers : 10.8

masks : 12.6

plug-in filters : 9.10

saving images : 9.10

selections : 11.6

type effects : 17.3

Undo function : 9.5 | 20

Undo History function : 9.5

unions, adding selections : 11.2.1

Unsharp Mask : 14.4.1

value : 13.3

Value blending mode : 13.6.5

Value channel

improving contrast : 14.2.6

video RAM requirements : 8.4.2

View Menu functions, keyboard shortcuts : 20

views, New View function : 9.8.2

visibility

channel masks : 12.1.1

image layer with layer mask : 12.2.2

layer masks : 12.2.2

layers : 10.1.1

VisiBone2 palette : 17.5.2

warping images (Iwarp filter) : 17.1.6

Waves filter : 12.3.5

Web mirroring software : 8.5

Web pages

animations : 17.1

clickable image maps : 17.2

colors : 17.5

converting to indexed : 17.5.3

types of distortion : 17.5.1

Web safe : 17.5.2

GIF format : 17.7

semi-transparency of image : 17.6

tileable backgrounds : 17.4

type effects : 17.3

Web sites

digital image sources : 8.5

GIMP : 19

GIMP News : 19

Web-safe color palette : 17.5

Window Info dialog : 9.1.2 | 14.2.2 | 20

windows

help browser : 9.9

image window : 9.1.2

Layers & Channels dialog : 9.1.3

Navigation Window : 9.8.1

opening menus as : 9.1.2

panner window : 9.1.2

Toolbox window : 9.1.1

XCF file format : 9.2 | 9.10 | 10.8

Xinput Airbrush tool : 8.3 | 20

Zoom In function : 9.8.1 | 20

Zoom Out function : 9.8.1 | 20

Zoom tool : 8.3 | 9.8.1 | 11.5.3 | 12.5.1 | 20

zoomed images

panning in : 9.8.1

using with New View function : 9.8.2