GIMP

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Overview

GIMP, often referred to as "The GIMP", is an open-source image editing and painting program, with approximately the same capabilities as PhotoShop and PaintShop Pro. It is available for Linux, Microsoft Windows, and other platforms.

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Links

Reference

• official site

GIMPShop

GIMPshop is a fork of GIMP which reworks the interface to be more like that of PhotoShop.

• Announcing GIMPshop
• 2005-09-13 A GIMP In Photoshop's Clothing

Questions

Answered

• Q: How do you paint with transparency?
  • A: Use the "eraser" tool - between the paintbrush and airbrush tools.
• Q: How do you dock the dockable dialogs (aka toolboxes)?
  • A: Supposedly you can drop toolboxes onto a horizontal bar in the main toolbar, but this doesn't seem to work in some versions of Gimp (the bar may display a popup claiming you can do this, but it doesn't work). Alternatively, you can click on the left-pointing triangle-in-a-box on the right hand side of the main toolbar, which opens a menu that allows (among other things) adding any toolbox to the main toolbar as a tab.

Unanswered

• How do you draw simple shapes, e.g. a circle? --Woozle 11:09, 14 July 2007 (EDT)