GIMP for Windows (version 2.8.2)
GIMP requires Windows XP with Service Pack 3, or a newer version of Windows to run.This version of GIMP also requires a CPU with SSE instruction set (Pentium III, Athlon XP or better). GIMP 2.8.2 released 2012-08-24 Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.8.0 to GIMP 2.8.2 Core: – Make tag matching always case-insensitive – [...]
Gimp Preset Tools
13. Presets If you often use tools with particular settings, presets are for you. You can save these settings and get them back when you want. Paint tools, which are normally in Toolbox, have a preset system that have been much improved with GIMP-2.8. Color tools (except Posterize and Desaturate), which are not normally in Toolbox, [...]
Palettes
12. Palettes A palette is a set of discrete colors. In GIMP, palettes are used mainly for two purposes: They allow you to paint with a selected set of colors, in the same way an oil painter works with colors from a limited number of tubes. They form the colormaps of indexed images. An indexed image [...]
Patterns
11. Patterns A pattern is an image, usually small, used for filling regions by tiling, that is, by placing copies of the pattern side by side like ceramic tiles. A pattern is said to be tileable if copies of it can be adjoined left-edge-to-right-edge and top-edge-to-bottom-edge without creating obvious seams. Not all useful patterns are tileable, [...]
Gradients
10. Gradients Figure 7.23. Some examples of GIMP gradients. Gradients from top to bottom: FG to BG (RGB); Full saturation spectrum; Nauseating headache; Browns; Four bars A gradient is a set of colors arranged in a linear order. The most basic use of gradients is by the Blend tool, sometimes known as the “gradient tool” or “gradient [...]
Creating a brush quickly
9.2. Creating a brush quickly Two methods to create a new brush easily: First, the “superfast” method. You have an image area you want make a brush from it, to be used with a tool like pencil, airbrush… Select it with the rectangular (or elliptical) select tool, then do a Copy of this selection and immediately [...]
Varying brush size
9. Varying brush size From GIMP-2.4, all brushes have a variable size. 9.1. How to vary the height of a brush You can get the brush size varying in three ways: Using the Scale slider of the tool that uses the brush. Pencil, Paintbrush, Eraser, Airbrush, Clone, Heal, Perspective Clone, Blur/Sharpen and Dodge/Burn tools have a slider [...]
The GIH Dialog Box
8. The GIH Dialog Box When your new animated brush is created, it is displayed within the image window and you would like save it into a gih format. You select File → Save as… menu, name your work with the gih extension in the new window relevant field and as soon as you pressed [...]
Adding New Brushes
7. Adding New Brushes To add a new brush, after either creating or downloading it, you need to save it in a format GIMP can use. The brush file needs to be placed in the GIMP’s brush search path, so that GIMP is able to index and display it in the Brushes dialog. You can hit [...]
Brushes
6. Brushes Figure 7.15. Brush strokes example A number of examples of brushstrokes painted using different brushes from the set supplied with GIMP. All were painted using the Paintbrush tool. A brush is a pixmap or set of pixmaps used for painting. GIMP includes a set of 10 “paint tools”, which not only perform operations [...]