The GIMP user interface is now available in two modes:
multi-window mode,
single window mode.
When you open GIMP for the first time, it opens in multi-window mode by default. You can enable single-window mode through
→ ) in the image menu bar. After quitting GIMP with this option enabled, GIMP will start in single-window mode next time.위 스크린샷은 효과적으로 사용할 수 있도록 배치된 김프 기본 창의 모습입니다.
You can notice two panels, left and right, and an image window in middle. A second image is partially masked. The left panel collects Toolbox and Tool Options dialog together. The right panel collects layers, channels, paths, undo history dialogs together in a multi-tab dock, brushes, patterns and gradients dialogs together in another dock below. You can move these panels on screen. You can also mask them using the Tab key.
The Main Toolbox: Contains a set of icon buttons used to select tools. By default, it also contains the foreground and background colors. You can add brush, pattern, gradient and active image icons. Use → → to enable, or disable the extra items.
Tool options: Docked below the main Toolbox is a Tool Options dialog, showing options for the currently selected tool (in this case, the Move tool).
Image windows: Each image open in GIMP is displayed in a separate window. Many images can be open at the same time, limited by only the system resources. Before you can do anything useful in GIMP, you need to have at least one image window open. The image window holds the Menu of the main commands of GIMP (File, Edit, Select...), which you can also get by right-clicking on the window.
An image can be bigger than the image window. In that case, GIMP displays the image in a reduced zoom level which allows to see the full image in the image window. If you turn to the 100% zoom level, scroll bars appear, allowing you to pan across the image.
The Layers, Channels, Paths, Undo History dock — note that the dialogs in the dock are tabs. The Layers tab is open : it shows the layer structure of the currently active image, and allows it to be manipulated in a variety of ways. It is possible to do a few very basic things without using the Layers dialog, but even moderately sophisticated GIMP users find it indispensable to have the Layers dialog available at all times.
붓/무늬/그라디언트: 붓, 무늬, 그라디언트 등의 관리를 위한 대화 상자들로 레이어 대화 상자 아래에 연결되어 있습니다.
Dialog and dock managing is described in 2.3절. “대화 상자와 도킹”.
You find the same elements, with differences in their management:
Left and right panels are fixed; you can't move them. But you can decrease or increase their width. If you reduce the width of a multi-tab dock, there may be not enough place for all tabs; then arrow-heads appear allowing you to scroll through tabs.
As in multi-window mode, you can mask these panels using the Tab key.
The image window occupies all space between both panels.
When several images are open, a new bar appears above the image window, with a tab for every image. You can navigate between images by clicking on tabs or either using Ctrl+PageUp or PageDown or Alt+Number. “Number” is tab number; you must use the number keys of the upper line of your keyboard, not that of keypad (Alt-shift necessary for some national keyboards).
This is a minimal setup. There are over a dozen other types of dialogs used by GIMP for various purposes, but users typically open them when they need them and close them when they are done. Knowledgeable users generally keep the Toolbox (with Tool Options) and Layers dialog open at all times. The Toolbox is essential to many GIMP operations. The Tool Options section is actually a separate dialog, shown docked to the Main Toolbox in the screenshot. Knowledgeable users almost always have it set up this way: it is very difficult to use tools effectively without being able to see how their options are set. The Layers dialog comes into play when you work with an image with multiple layers: after you advance beyond the most basic stages of GIMP expertise, this means almost always. And of course it helps to display the images you're editing on the screen; if you close the image window before saving your work, GIMP will ask you whether you want to close the file.
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실수로 김프의 대화 상자를 닫아도
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다음 절에서는 스크린샷에 있는 각 창의 구성 요소들과 그것들의 기능에 대해 이야기할 것입니다. 다음 절과 김프 이미지의 기본 구조에 대한 절을 통해 김프를 이용한 기본적인 이미지 편집의 다양한 방법을 배울 수 있습니다. 또 시간이 허락한다면 메뉴얼의 나머지 부분을 통해 수많은 정교한 방법들을 배우고, 활용할 수 있게 될 것입니다. Have fun!
The Toolbox is the heart of GIMP. Here is a quick tour of what you will find there.
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김프의 다른 부분과 마찬가지로 도구 상자의 특정 부분에 마우스 커서를 올려놓고 잠시 기다리면, 해당 부분에 대한 간단한 설명과 사용법이 “도구 설명”으로 표시됩니다. 도구 설명에는 키보드 단축키도 표시됩니다. 또 원하는 부분에 마우스 커서를 올려놓고 F1 키를 누르면 조금 더 상세한 도움말을 볼 수 있습니다. |
By default, only the Foreground-background icon is visible. You can add Brush-Pattern-Gradient icons and Active Image icon through Tools configuration.
→ → :Tool icons: These icons are buttons which activate tools for a wide variety of purposes: selecting parts of images, painting an image, transforming an image, etc. 1절. “도구 상자” gives an overview of how to work with tools, and each tool is described systematically in the Tools chapter.
전경색/배경색: 이 부분에는 김프의 현재 전경색과 배경색이 표시됩니다. 각 부분을 클릭하면 색상 선택 대화 상자가 나타나고 그곳에서 다른 색상으로 변경할 수 있습니다. 그리고 양방향 화살표를 클릭하면 두 색상을 맞바꿀 수 있으며, 왼쪽 하단의 조그만 심볼을 클릭하면 기본값인 검정색과 흰색으로 초기화할 수 있습니다.
붓/무늬/그라디언트 여기에는 현재 선택된 도구들의 상태를 보여줍니다. : 이미지에 색칠을 할 수 있는 모든 도구(지우기나 문지르기도 포함), 이미지의 선택된 부분을 채우데 사용되는 무늬, 색상을 부드럽게 변화시키는 작업에 사용하는 그라디언트 등. 이 버튼들을 클릭하면 각각의 대화 상자가 나타나는데, 그 대화 상자에서 원하는 것으로 바꿀 수 있습니다.
Active Image: In GIMP, you can work with many images at once, but at any given moment, only one image is the “active image”. Here you find a small iconic representation of the active image. Click the icon to display a dialog with a list of the currently open images, click an image in the dialog to make it active. Usually, you click an image window in multi-window mode, or an image tab in single-window mode, to make it the active image.
You can “Drop to an XDS file manager to save the image”. XDS is an acronym for “X Direct Save Protocol”: an additional feature for the X Window System graphical user interface for Unix-like operating systems.
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매 시작때마다 김프는 도구, 색상, 붓, 무늬 등을 기본값으로 초기화합니다. 그러므로 마지막에 사용했던 값들을 그대로 유지시키고 싶다면, 기본 설정/입력 장치에서 마칠 때 입력 장치 설정 저장 항목을 선택합니다. |
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도구 상자의 윗 부분에 있는 “윌버의 눈”을 도구 상자에서 없앨 수 있습니다. 이를 없애려면 |
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Drag and drop an image from a file browser into the Toolbox window to open the image in its own Image window or tab. |