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making a line
Making Selections
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Transparency
when image is created
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all but a selection
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Using Text
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Tips N Tricks
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layers 1
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Examples
GIMP SplashScreen
Blue Heron Moon
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File formats supported by the GIMP Open / Save : * GIMP XCF, the native format (.xcf, or compressed as .xcf.gz or .xcf.bz2) * GIMP brush (.gbr, .gpb, and animated as .gih) * GIMP pattern (.pat) * GIMP compressed XJT image (.xjt, .xjtgz, .xjtbz2) * Alias | Wavefront PIX image (.pix, .matte, .mask, .alpha, .als) * Scalable vector graphics for exporting paths (.svg) * Autodesk flic animations (.fli) * Digital Imaging + Communications in Medicine (.dcm or .dicom) * PostScript documents (.ps, .eps, or compressed as .ps.gz) * FITS astronomical images (.fits, or .fit) * Scalable vector graphics for exporting paths (.svg) * Microsoft Windows icon (.ico) * Microsoft Uncompressed AVI Video (.avi) * Windows bitmap (.bmp) * Paintshop Pro image (.psp or .tub) * Adobe Photoshop PSD (.ps) * PNM image (.pnm, .ppm, .pgm, and .pbm) * Compuserve GIF images and animations (.gif) * JPEG photos (.jpeg, .jpg, or .jpe) * PNG (.png) * KISS CELL (.cel) * Tagged Image File Format (.tiff or .tif) * TARGA (.tga) * Silicon Graphics IRIS image (.sgi, .rgb, .bw, .icon) * Sun Rasterfile image (.im1, .im8, .im24, .im32, .rs, .ras) * X bitmap image (.xpm, .icon, or .bitmap) * X pixmap image (.xpm) * X window dump (.xwd) * Zsoft PCX (.pcx) Open, no save: * PDF document (.pdf) * G3 Fax (.g3) * Windows WMF file (.wmf, .apm) Save, no open: * HTML as a table with coloured cells (.html) * C source files as an array (.c or .h) * MNG animations (like animated GIFs, but using PNGs) (.mng) * gzip compressed image (.xcf, .gz.gz, .xcfgz) * bzip compressed image (.xcf, bz2.bz2, .xcfbz2) * ascii image (if aalib is present) (.txt, .ansi, .text) . . . and if Perl support is present the following: * DATAURL (embed image into HTML, best looking of the embedded variety, works great in Firefox and Opera, but not IE) (.dataurl) * COLORHTML, COLORXHTML (interesting but useless) (.colorhtml, .colorxhtml) |