Preface xxxvii

Frozenriver and the authors of GUM xxxix

Contributions xli

Changelog and TODO xliii

How to read GUM xlv

Part I         About Gimp 1

1    What is Gimp? 3

2    Default short cuts and dynamic keybinding 9

Gallery         17

3     Gimp around in 80 minutes 19

Part II          Gimp installation 41

4    Obtaining and Installing Gimp 43

Part III          Basic functions 51

5    Files and Preferences 53

6    Selection tools 75

7    Paint Tools 89

8    Edit & View 101

9    Transform Tools 107

10    Text and fonts 115

11    Brushes, Gradients and Patterns 119

Part IV         Color knowledge 127

12    Color Models 129

13    Pre-press and color in Gimp 135

Part V         Extend Gimp 155

14    Image Menu 157

15    Selection menu 181

16    Modes 187

17    Layers 199

18    Channels, Floating Selections and Duotones 211

Part VI         Filters 221

19    An introduction to filters 223

20    Animation filters 227

21    Artistic filters 231

22    Blur filters 241

23    Color filters 245

24    Combine filters 257

25    Cryptographic filters 263

26    Distort filters 267

27    Edge detect filters 283

28    Enhance filters 287

29    Generic filters 293

30    Glass effect filters 301

31    Light effect filters 305

32    Map filters 321

33    Misc. Filters 337

34    Noise filters 341

35    Render filters 345

Part VII             Animations 379

36    Advanced animation 381

Part VIII             Script-Fu 393

37    Script-Fu; description and function 395

38    Writing a Script Fu 405

39    Mike Terry's school of Script-Fu 419

Part IX            Adv installations 439

40    How to get fonts to Gimp 441

41    Compiling plug-ins 451

Appendix         461

A    Gimp start flags and rc-files 463

B    Gimp man pages 477

C    Commercial Gimp support 483

D    SIOD: Scheme reference appendix 485

E    Links and References 517

Index                523