GIMP BASICS

GIMP

BYMR. YOUSUF VALI

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(GNU) GENERAL IMAGE MANIPULATION PROGRAM

• IT IS A MULTIPLATFORM PHOTO MANIPULATION TOOL

• GIMP IS AN OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE• IT IS WRITTEN AND DEVELOPPED UNDER UNIX OS• ONLINE PLUGINS ALLOW TO ADD EFFECTS IN

GIMP• WWW.GIMP.ORG 21ST NOV 1995• GIMP WAS INVENTED BY : SPENCER KIMBALL & PETER MATTIS

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SPENCER KIMBALL PETER MATTIS

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FEATURES

• GIMP CONTAINS PAINTING TOOLS LIKE: PENCIL, AIRBRUSH, CLONING

• GIMP CONTAIN LAYRS• GIMP SUPPORTS FILE EXTENSIONS LIKE: gif, jpeg, png, xpm, tiff, tga, mpeg, ps, pdf, pcx,

bmp

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CLASSIFICATION OF IMAGES

BITMAP IMAGES: IT USES PIXELS TO REPRESENT IMAGES IT LOOSES CLARITY WHEN RESIZEDVECTOR IMAGES: YOU CAN RESIZE IMAGES WITHOUT LOOSING

QUALITY OF THE IMAGE. IMAGE FORMATS: .JPG, .GIF, .PNG, .EPS

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JPEG: JOINT PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPERTS GROUP DRAWBACK IS WHILE COMPRESSING THE IMAGE

ORIGINAL DATA FROM FILE WILL DISCARDED.

GIF: GRAPHICS INTERCHANGE FORMAT YOU CAN REDUCE THE SIZE BY

DECREASING NO.OF COLORS IN IMAGE.PNG: (GIF) PORTABLE NETWORK GRAPHICSEPS:ENCAPSULATED POST SCRIPT

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HOW TO START GIMP

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