Animating in GIMP. How to use gimp [how to draw lines, and collour it] part 2. How To Cut Out An Image Using Gimp. Layering with gimp. 8 Ways to Make Money Online. GIMP Basics Part 1. GIMP Basics Part 2. GIMP: How To Color Eyes On A Black & White Image. Basic GIMP selective coloring - VERY BEGINNER. Getting Started with The GIMP: an informal tutorial. The tutorials at the GIMP site are very good: There are at least two books available online: the GIMP User's Manual, aka GIMP: The Official Handbook available at and Grokking the GIMP available at Of the two, I definitely favour the latter: it's fairly straight-forward, while I find the former difficult to use online and sometimes overly complex. Both are also available in paper versions: I think I'd like the User Manual better in paper, but I don't own it and can't say for sure. Two other good books on the subject are Alex Harford's GIMP: Essential Reference, published in 2000 by New Riders, and Michael Hammel's Essential GIMP for Web Professionals published in 2001 by Prentice Hall PTR.
Of all of these books, I find myself referring to GIMP: Essential Reference the most. The GIMP plugin registry at. 2. Image Structure Related Dialogs. The following dialogs let you control and manipulate image structures, such as layers, channels, or paths. Figure 15.1. Layers Dialog The “Layers” dialog is the main interface to edit, modify and manage your layers. You can think of layers as a stack of slides or clothes on your body. Using layers, you can construct an image of several conceptual parts, each of which can be manipulated without affecting any other part of the image. Layers are stacked on top of each other. Figure 15.2. 2.1.1. The “Layers” dialog is a dockable dialog; see the section Section 2.3, “Dialogs and Docking” for help on manipulating it. You can access it: from the image menu: → → ; from the Tab menu in any dockable dialog by clicking on and selecting → , from the (default) shortcut: Ctrl+L.
In the menu, there is a list of detached windows which exists only if at least one dialog remains open. 2.1.2. Overview Every layer appears in the dialog in the form of a thumbnail. Layer attributes Layer visibility Mode Lock.