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<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
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<TITLE>The Gimp Help System</TITLE>
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<BODY text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#0000FF" vlink="#FF0000" alink="#000088">
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<TABLE width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1">
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<TR bgcolor="black">
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<TD width="100%" align="center"><FONT size="+2" color="white">Welcome To
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The Gimp Help System</FONT></TD>
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</TR>
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<TR bgcolor="white" >
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<TD width="100%" align="left"><P>
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<H2>
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About Gimp
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</H2>
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<P>
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Gimp is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. Gimp is a software
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suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image
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authoring. It is an extremely capable piece of software with many capabilities.
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It's capabilities as a image manipulation programs makes it a worthy
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contender to other similar programs such as e.g Adobe PhotoShop® or
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PhotoPaint®.
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<P>
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The biggest advantage that Gimp has is that Gimp is a free program,
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and it can be downloaded from the Internet. But even more importantly, it's
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not freeware. Gimp is an OSS (Open Source Software) program covered by the
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GPL license, which gives you the freedom to access and also to change the
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source code that makes up the program. This is how and why Gimp is constantly
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being developed and improved.
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<H4>
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<BR>
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A Brief List of Gimp Features and Capabilities<BR>
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</H4>
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<DL>
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<DT>
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° Full suite of painting tools including brushes, a pencil, an airbrush,
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an ink tool, and cloning, etc.<BR>
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° Tile-based memory management so image size is limited only by available
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disk space<BR>
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° Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high-quality
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anti-aliasing<BR>
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° Full Alpha channel support<BR>
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° Layers and channels<BR>
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° Advanced scripting capabilities provided by a procedural
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database so you can call internal Gimp functions from external
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scripts, such as Script-Fu, Perl-Fu (Perl script) and Python-Fu (Python
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scripts)<BR>
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° Multiple undo/redo (limited only by disk space)<BR>
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° Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip<BR>
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° File formats supported include GIF, JPEG, PNG, XPM, TIFF, TGA, MPEG,
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PS, PDF, PCX, BMP and many others<BR>
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° Load, display, convert and save to many file formats<BR>
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° Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy, paths and
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intelligent scissors<BR>
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° Plug-ins that allow for the easy addition of new functions, new file
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formats and new effect filters
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</DL>
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<P>
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Therefore the whole Gimp developer team is welcoming you to the wonderful
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world of Gimp
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<P>
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<EM>Happy Gimping</EM>
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<P>
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<EM>The Gimp developer team</EM>
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<P>
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<EM></EM>
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<H2>
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About the Help System
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</H2>
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<P>
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The Gimp Help System will provide you with the necessary information how
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to use all the functions provided by Gimp. It will do so in a short and effective
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way so the best way to describe it is as a extended quick reference to Gimp.
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The difference between the Gimp help system and a pure quick reference is
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that the help system will describe the functionality and how to use the function
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in a productive manner.
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<H4>
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How to Use the Help System
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</H4>
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<P>
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The built in Gimp help browser (which we hope that you are using) has three
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note book tabs. The one that you are reading this text in is the main note
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book tab in which all help texts are displayed. The Context note book tab
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will show the context of the help system and the index note book tab will
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show the index of the help system. The advantage of the built in help browser
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is that you can easily navigate the help system in e.g the Context note and
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display the help text in the main note book tab.
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<H4>
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What to Expect of the Help System
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</H4>
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<P>
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Besides the description of the functionality of the functions in Gimp. You
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will also find descriptions of how to organize your work with Gimp, how to
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setup Gimp, various tips and tricks, quick reference page of short cuts and
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modifier keys, News of Gimp 1.2 for old Gimp users, etc. You will find all
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this extra information in the Context note book tab, since they are general
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help items and not specific to a special Gimp function.
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<P>
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You will also find links to the Gimp Users Manual and the Gimp Users Tutorial
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to where you will find more in depth information of the function and how
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to user the function when you work in Gimp. We hope that you will find the
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links useful and that they will enlighten you and give you an extended and
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professional understanding of Gimp, image manipulation and art.
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<H4>
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Misc Information
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</H4>
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<P>
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The Gimp Help System (all help files belong to the Gimp Help system) is licensed
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under GPL and Copyrighted by Karin & Olof S Kylander. An exception of
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the GPL license is that we (Karin & Olof S Kylander) has the possibility
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to include the Help context in the Gimp Users Manual which is licensed under
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the Open Publication License and available at
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<A HREF="http://manual.gimp.org">http://manual.gimp.org</A> and the Gimp
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Users Tutorial (not yet published, but it will be published under the Open
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Publication License and available at manual.gimp.org).
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<P>
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<EM>So Happy Gimping</EM>
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<P>
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<EM> Karin & Olof S Kylander</EM>
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<BR>
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<BR>
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<BR>
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<P>
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<P>
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<H1>
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NOTE!
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</H1>
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<P>
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The help system is under construction and are therefore not complete yet.
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You will find missing pages, links that are incorrect and incomplete pages.
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You will also find "dev" info in the bottom of every page which is of limited
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use for a ordinary Gimp user.
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<P>
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If you want to contribute to the help system we suggest that you mail
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<A HREF="mailto:karin@gimp.org">karin@gimp.org</A> before you do anything!
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It's not to block you from contributing but it is a way for us to coordinate
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the work on the Help System.
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<P>
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<P>
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----DEV----
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<P>
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<A href="index.html">Index</A>
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(/welcome.html)
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Version: 1.1
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/*Sorry but the help file for welcome is not yet done.*/
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<P>
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/Karin & Olof
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