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GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program)
• is a multi-platform photo
manipulation tool.
• suitable for a variety of image
manipulation tasks, including photo
retouching, image composition, and
image construction.
3. FEATURES AND CAPABILITIES
WHICH GIMP OFFERS:
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• A full suite of painting tools including brushes,pencil,airbrush,cloning.
• Tile-based memory management, so image size is limited only by available disk space
• Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high-quality anti-aliasing
• Full Alpha channel support for working with transparency
• Layers and channels
• A procedural database for calling internal GIMP functions from external programs.
• Advanced scripting capabilities
• Multiple undo/redo
• Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
• Support for a wide range of file formats, including GIF, JPEG, PNG, XPM, TIFF, TGA,
MPEG, PS, PDF, PCX, BMP.
• Selection tools, including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy, bezier and intelligent scissors
• Plug-ins that allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters.
4. THE MAIN PART OF GIMP
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•Work Area and
Menus
•Layers and
Brushes Panel
•Toolbox Panel
5. WORK AREA AND MENUS
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• The Work area most important
part of GIMP where you
actually draw and paint.
• Menus is a graphical control
element which contains drop-
down menus.
6. LAYERS AND BRUSHES PANEL
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• Layers in the GIMP are a powerful tool
allowing you to do many things. You can
also perform several of the operations on
this menu by clicking on buttons in the
Layers dialog, for example, resizing a layer,
managing layer transparency and merging
layers.
• Brush is a pixmap or set of pixmaps used
for painting, brush pixmaps represent the
marks that are made by single “touches” of
the brush to the image.
7. TOOLBOX PANEL
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GIMP provides a
comprehensive toolbox in
order to quickly perform
basic tasks such as making
selections or drawing paths.
Class GIMP has many capabilities:
It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.
menu bar's purpose is to supply a common housing for window- or application-specific menus which provide access to such functions as opening files, interacting with an application, or displaying help documentation or manuals.
Layer –let you organize how you color and edit
Brushes-are one way to color.You can have many shapes for a brush
These tools are available by default in toolbox we have:
Selection tools
Brush tools
Transform tools
Other tools
Color, Indicator and Active Image area
