GIMP User Manual

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
1. Welcome to The GIMP
1.1. Known platforms
1.2. The GIMP-Help system
2. Legalese
3. Using Gimp
1. Using Gimp
2. Image Window
2.1. Introduction
2.2. QuickMask
4. Toolbox
1. The Toolbox
2. Toolbox Menu
3. Tools
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Selection Tools
3.2.1. Rectangle Selection Tool
3.2.2. Ellipse Selection Tool
3.2.3. Free Selection Tool
3.2.4. Fuzzy Selection Tool
3.2.5. Select By Color Tool
3.2.6. Scissors Tool
3.3. Paint Tools
3.3.1. Bucket Fill
3.3.2. Gradient Tool
3.3.3. Pencil Tool
3.3.4. Paintbrush Tool
3.3.5. Eraser Tool
3.3.6. Airbrush Tool
3.3.7. Ink Tool
3.3.8. Clone Tool
3.3.9. Convolver
3.3.10. Dodge or Burn
3.3.11. Smudge Tool
3.4. Transform Tools
3.4.1. Move Tool
3.4.2. Crop Tool
3.4.3. Rotate Tool
3.4.4. Scale Tool
3.4.5. Shear Tool
3.4.6. Perspective Tool
3.4.7. Flip Tool
3.5. Color Tools
3.5.1. Color Balance Tool
3.5.2. Hue-Saturation Tool
3.5.3. Colorize Tool
3.5.4. Brightness-Contrast tool
3.5.5. Threshold Tool
3.5.6. Levels tool
3.5.7. Curves Tool
3.5.8. Posterize Tool
3.6. Other
3.6.1. Path Tool
3.6.2. Color Picker Tool
3.6.3. Magnify Tool
3.6.4. Measure Tool
3.6.5. Texttool
5. Dialogs
1. Dialog introduction
2. Menus
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Image Window Menus
2.2.1. Introduction
2.2.2. Image Window Menu File
3. Layers dialog
3.1. Layers Menu
3.2. Layer masks
4. Channels dialog
4.1. Channels Menu
4.2. Selection masks
5. Colors dialog
5.1. Dialog Menu
6. Document History dialog
6. Filters
1. Filter introduction
2. Blur filters
2.1. Blur filters introduction
2.2. Blur
2.3. Gaussian Blur (IIR)
2.4. Gaussian Blur (RLE)
2.5. Selective Gaussian Blur
2.6. Motion Blur
2.7. Pixelise
2.8. Tileable Blur
3. Color filters
3.1. Color filters introduction
3.2. Adjust FG-BG
3.3. Alien Map
3.4. Alien Map 2
3.5. Two Colors Exchange
3.6. Colormap Rotation
3.7. Map Color Range
3.8. Sample Colorize
3.9. Gradient Map
3.10. Border Average
3.11. Channel Mixer
3.12. Color Cube Analysis
3.13. Colorify
3.14. Color to Alpha
3.15. Compose
3.16. Decompose
3.17. Filter Pack
3.18. Hot
3.19. Max RGB
3.20. Semi-Flatten
3.21. Smooth Palette
3.22. Value invert
4. Noise filters
4.1. Noise filters introduction
4.2. Hurl
4.3. Noisify
4.4. Pick
4.5. Scatter HSV
4.6. Slur
4.7. Spread
5. Edge-detect filters
5.1. Edge-detect introduction
5.2. Edge
5.3. Laplace
5.4. Sobel
6. Enhance filters
6.1. Enhance filters introduction
6.2. Deinterlace
6.3. Despeckle
6.4. Destripe
6.5. NL Filter
6.6. Sharpen
6.7. Unsharp Mask
7. Generic filters
7.1. Generic filters introduction
7.2. Convolution matrix
7.3. Dilate
7.4. Erode
8. Glass Effects filters
8.1. Glass Effects filters introduction
8.2. Apply Lens
8.3. Glass Tile
9. Light Effects filters
9.1. Light Effects filters introduction
9.2. FlareFX
9.3. Gflare
9.4. Lighting Effects
9.5. Sparkle
9.6. SuperNova
Glossary
B. GNU Free Documentation License
1. PREAMBLE
2. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
3. VERBATIM COPYING
4. COPYING IN QUANTITY
5. MODIFICATIONS
6. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
7. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
8. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
9. TRANSLATION
10. TERMINATION
11. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
12. ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
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