Peck Beginning GIMP

From Novice to Professional
2. ed
ISBN: 978-1-4302-1069-6
Verlag: Apress
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 584 Seiten

The GIMP Version 2.4 will be released end of 2005. We'll likely be first to market a book about the new version. Other books are pre-Version 2.4 and very outdated Takes a project-based approach. Reader will be taught through real-world examples and projects immediately applicable for their own work GIMP is an emerging technology in Open Source that has been making big headlines. Was used to make the Scooby-Doo movie and the official mascot of Linux (Tux) GIMP works on Mac OSX, Linux, and Windows. This book shows how to install it on each platform.

Akkana Peck is a freelance software developer and writer who has been working with open source software for nearly 20 years. She has worked for a diverse collection of companies including Netscape, Silicon Graphics, Sun Technologies, Hewlett Packard, and Apple, and has written imaging software ranging from GIMP plug-ins, to cartography, to scientific visualization. Akkana is a longtime member of the GIMP community and enjoys giving GIMP courses and presentations, as well as filling up her hard drive with digital images. She lives in San Jose, California with her husband and a motley assortment of old computers. You can find more of her musings at ShallowSky.com.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peck, Akkana

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;From Novice to Professional, Second Edition;2
2;Contents at a Glance;5
3;Contents;6
4;About the Author;17
5;About the Technical Reviewer;18
6;Acknowledgments;19
7;Introduction;20
7.1;Structure of the Book;20
7.2;A Note on GIMP Versions;21
7.3;Downloads and Feedback;21
8;Getting to Know GIMP;22
8.1;What Is GIMP?;22
8.2;A Tour of the Most Important GIMP Windows;23
8.3;Menu Overview;30
8.4;A Few GIMP Settings You Can Customize;33
8.5;A First GIMP Project;35
8.6;Summary;39
9;Improving Digital Photos;40
9.1;Opening Files;40
9.2;Scaling;42
9.3;Saving Files;45
9.4;Image File Types;46
9.5;Experimenting with JPEG and GIF Settings;50
9.6;Cropping;56
9.7;Brightening and Darkening;59
9.8;Rotating;72
9.9;Sharpening;76
9.10;Fixing Red-eye;81
9.11;Summary;87
10;Introduction to Layers;88
10.1;What Is a Layer?;88
10.2;Using Layers to Add Text;90
10.3;Using the Move Tool;96
10.4;Changing Colors;99
10.5;Simple Effects Using Layers;103
10.6;Linking Layers Together;107
10.7;Performing Operations on Layers;108
10.8;Using Layers for Copy and Paste;110
10.9;Aligning Layers;115
10.10;A Tour of the Layers Dialog;116
10.11;Bonus Project: Making Simple GIF Animations;123
10.12;Summary;129
11;Drawing;130
11.1;A New Image;130
11.2;Using Layers for Drawing;132
11.3;Drawing Lines and Curves;133
11.4;The Eraser Tool;148
11.5;Drawing Rectangles, Circles, and Other Shapes;149
11.6;A Drawing Project;161
11.7;Summary;179
12;Selection;180
12.1;Working with Selections;181
12.2;Select by Color and Fuzzy Select;185
12.3;Bezier Paths;189
12.4;The Intelligent Scissors;200
12.5;Modifying Selections with Selection Modes;202
12.6;The QuickMask;206
12.7;Highlighting Foreground Objects;212
12.8;Using Channels to Save a Selection;213
12.9;Layer Masks;219
12.10;Extracting Foreground Objects with SIOX;229
12.11;Summary;233
13;Erasing and Touching Up;234
13.1;Darkroom Work with Dodge and Burn;234
13.2;Smudging Blemishes Away;240
13.3;The Clone Tool, for More Difficult Jobs;244
13.4;Copying Small Regions;252
13.5;The Heal Tool;255
13.6;Perspective Cloning;258
13.7;Enhancing Specific Regions: The Blur/Sharpen Tool;261
13.8;Blurring Backgrounds with Gaussian Blur;266
13.9;Summary;269
14;Filters and Effects;270
14.1;Image Window Filters vs. Toolbox Xtns;270
14.2;Filters for Images;271
14.3;Scripts to Make New Images: The Xtns Menu;312
14.4;Summary;313
15;Color;314
15.1;RGB and CMY Color;315
15.2;Working in HSV;319
15.3;Working for Print: CMYK;321
15.4;GIMP’s Other Color Choosers;321
15.5;Correcting Color Balance;324
15.6;Working with Grayscale or Black and White;329
15.7;Coloring Monochrome Images and Making Sepia Photos;334
15.8;Using Threshold to Clean Up Scanned Images;338
15.9;Indexed Color;340
15.10;Picking Colors from the Image;347
15.11;The Color Channels;348
15.12;Selection Using Color Decomposition;349
15.13;Some Color-mapping Toys;357
15.14;Color Profiles;359
15.15;Summary;362
16;Advanced Drawing;363
16.1;Useful Mask Tricks;363
16.2;Layer Modes;371
16.3;Creating Depth: Drawing with Layer Modes;378
16.4;Drawing Realistic Shadows;387
16.5;Realism and Multipoint Perspective;390
16.6;Adding Reflections and Shading;393
16.7;Making Brushes, Patterns, and Gradients;398
16.8;Summary;410
17;Advanced Compositing;411
17.1;Colorizing Images;412
17.2;Combining Patterns with Textures or Grain;415
17.3;Using Layer Modes to Improve Photos;419
17.4;Making Photos into Art Using Layer Modes;426
17.5;Compositing Unrelated Images;432
17.6;Stacking Images;441
17.7;Stitching Panoramas;446
17.8;Summary;453
18;Plug-ins and Scripting;454
18.1;Plug-ins;455
18.2;Writing GIMP Scripts;459
18.3;User Interface Options for Scripts;475
18.4;A Python Script;478
18.5;Finding Out How to Do Things: The Procedure Browser;481
18.6;A Perl Script;482
18.7;Writing a C Plug-in;484
18.8;Summary;499
19;Additional Topics;500
19.1;Printing;500
19.2;Screen Shots and Scanners: The Acquire Menu;508
19.3;GIMP Preferences;511
19.4;GIMP Configuration Files;521
19.5;Additional Resources;529
19.6;Summary and Conclusion;538
20;Getting and Installing GIMP;539
20.1;Requirements;539
20.2;Where to Find GIMP;540
20.3;Installing on Windows;541
20.4;Installing on Macintosh;541
20.5;Installing on Linux (and Other UNIXy Systems);542
21;Installing GIMP on Older Systems;544
21.1;Older Linux or UNIX Versions;544
21.2;Older Windows Versions;545
21.3;Older OS X Versions;545
22;Building from Source;547
22.1;Getting the Source;547
23;A Preview of GIMP 2.6;551
23.1;No More Toolbox Menus;551
23.2;The Improved Free/Polygonal Select Tool;552
23.3;GEGL;553
23.4;Color Tool Improvements;554
23.5;Brush Dynamics;554
23.6;Text Tool Wrapping;555
23.7;Other Changes;555
24;Index;556