Name:

Tovah Lukken

Student Number:

X00015848

GIMP: Chapter 1: Getting to Know GIMP

IMPORTANT NOTE: GIMP has been updated since the printing of this book. Some menus have changed a bit since the book’s publication. For example, the XTNS menu item has disappeared and its contents combined with other menus.

PART 1: READ Chapter 1 from the GIMP book, then:

1. Answer all questions below, briefly but completely.
2. Change the color of the answer to RED.
3. Copy this information and paste in a new post in your DIGITAL GRAPHICS blog.

1.      What does GIMP stand for? GNU Image Manipulation Program.

2.      What is GIMP and when was it developed? A complex program suitable for professional artwork, a free open source software which came about from a 1995 computer science project.

3.      What is a dock in GIMP? Each separate dialog window.

4.      What is a tear-off menu in GIMP? It is a menu that allows you to grab any menu and turn it into a window of it’s own.

5.      Is GIMP available for systems other than Windows? If so, what systems? (See Appendix A for more information about this): Yes, Mac and Linux or UNIX.

6.      Why might you use the NEW VIEW feature of GIMP? To have more than one view of the same image.

7.      Who is WILBER and who created him? He is the GIMP mascot and he was created by contributor Tuomas Kuosmanen or “Tigert.”

8.      What version of GIMP is installed on the computer you are using (either in the classroom or at home)? The version on my home computer is version 2.8.4.

9.      APPENDIX Information: Briefly describe what the following appendices are about  (the appendices are found at the back of the book): Appendix A: Installation. What systems GIMP is compatible with and the method of installation that each requires. Appendix B: Installing GIMP on older systems, such as Linux or UNIX versions, older Windows, older OS X versions. Appendix C: How to unpack the compressed file or “tarball” and how to build GIMP yourself by checking out a copy from the source code repository developers have used. Instruction in files README and INSTALL. Appendix D: This book is based on GIMP 2.4, appendix D gives you a look into GIMP 2.5 and GIMP 2.6, differences, changes.

GIMP Keyboard Shortcut Keys: Go to http://www.keyxl.com/aaae27c/66/Gimp-Photo-software-keyboard-shortcuts.htm to see a list of keyboard shortcuts for GIMP. What are the shortcuts for the following?
Function	Shortcut	Function	Shortcut
Create new image	ctrl+n	Merge visible layers	ctrl+m
Quit GIMP	ctrl+q	Make gradient box visible	ctrl+g
Close an image	ctrl+w	Make layer box visible	ctrl+l
Save	ctrl+s	Transform	shift+t
Undo	ctrl+z	Invert selection	ctrl+
Redo	ctrl+r	Feather selection	ctrl+shift+f
Open a file	ctrl+o	Crop & resize selection	shift+c
Copy selection	ctrl+shift+c	Duplicate image	ctrl+d
Cut selection	ctrl+shift+x	Select all	ctrl+a
Paste selection	ctrl+shift+v	Select none (“deselect”)	ctrl+shift+a