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Comp Notes GR8

The document provides an overview of the GIMP software and basic concepts for using it. It covers opening and closing GIMP, the main windows, layers, selections, and basic tools for drawing shapes and manipulating images and colors.

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Comp Notes GR8

The document provides an overview of the GIMP software and basic concepts for using it. It covers opening and closing GIMP, the main windows, layers, selections, and basic tools for drawing shapes and manipulating images and colors.

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LESSON 2:

GETTING STARTED WITH GIMP

GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such
tasks a photo retouching, image composition, and image authoring.

Wilber - shortcut icon for GIMP.

Three main windows in GIMP:

- Toolbox-Tool (left)

- Image window (center)

- Brushes-layers (right)

Open and Close GIMP:

To open: to open the GIMP we should double click the GIMP icon or click start, then
look for the GIMP shortcut and click it.

To close: to close GIMP we simply click the X button at the upper right corner.

LESSON 3:
LEARNING BASIC GIMP CONCEPTS
Images - the basic entities used by GIMP.

Layers - stack of layers.

Selection Mechanism - lets us modify only the part of the image we want to modify.

Marching ants - a moving dashed line, separating the selected parts from the
unselected parts.

Quick Mask - mode to treat the selection channel as a color channel, thereby painting
the selection.

Single-Window Mode - combine all three windows in one window.

1920 x 1080 - the default image size of a new image.

LESSON 4:
DRAWING SIMPLE OBJECTS
Brushes - a pixmap or set of pixmaps used for painting.

Brushstrokes - made by moving the pointer across the page with the mouse button
held down.

Patterns - is usually a small image used to fill regions.

Tileable Pattern - if copies can be adjoined left-edge-to-right-edge and top-edgero-


bottom-edge.

Texture - is the same thing as pattern.

Gradients - it is a set of colors arranged in a linear order.

Palette - is a set of discrete colors, allows us to paint with a selected set of colors.

Help line - the thin line

Path - is a curve known as Bézier-curve.

- closed polygonal

- Open and polygonal

- Closed and curved

- Mixture of straight and curved elements

Draw Straight Lines

1. Create a new image

2. Select paintbrush tool or use pencil.

3. Create staring point by clicking the image display area with left mouse button.

4. Press the Shift Key, and move the mouse away from the staring point we created.

Draw Basic Shapes:

1. Click Tools and Selected Tools


2. Choose Rectangle Select from the options.

3. On the image display area, click the left mouse button; then drag the mouse to any
point.

LESSON 5:
USING IMAGE AND COLOR TOOLS
Image Menu - contains commands that use or affect the entire image in some way.

1. Duplicate command - creates a new image that is an exact copy of the current one.

2. Mode Submenu - contains commands to change the color mode of the original
image.

- RGG ( red, green, & blue )

- Grayscale

- Indexed

- Dithering Options - correct the unwanted effects created by palette options.

- Dithering Filter - tries to approximate a color that is missing from the palette.

1. Transformed Submenu - transforms the image by flipping, rotating, or cropping it.

- Rotate Tool - rotate the image at a different angle.

- Layer Transform Menu - can also rotate a layer.

- Guillotine command - slices up the current image based on the image’s guides.

Color Tools - can manipulate image colors in several ways.

1. Color Balance - modifies the color of the balance of the active selection or layer.

2. Hue-Saturation - adjusts the hue, saturation, and lightness levels.

3. Colorize - renders the active layer or selection into a grayscale image, it gives Sepia
effect to the image.

4. Brightness-Contrast - adjusts the brightness and contrast levels for the active layer
or selection.

5. Threshold - transforms the current layer or the selection.

6. Levels - it makes an image lighter or darker.


7. Curves - the most sophisticated tool.

8. Posterize - intelligently weighs the pixel colors of the selection.

9. Desaturate - converts all of the colors on the active layer.

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