[Courses] [gimp] Lesson 0: Welcome! Get Familiar with the GIMP
Anna Badimo
anna at cs.wits.ac.za
Wed Jan 26 01:57:43 EST 2005
Dear Akkana,
I am a bit behind because I am battling to install GIMP.
I have the following directory structure:
HOME\GIMP\gimp-2.2.0
Within gimp-2.2.0 I have the following subdirectories:
fontconfig-2.2.0
gtkmm-2.4.4
pkgconfig-0.15.0
freetype-2.1.9
libart_lgpl-2.3.17
The libraries are in:
usr/lib/ and usr/include
The INSTALL file says I must do the following:
% tar xvfz gimp-2.2.x.tar.gz # unpack the sources
% cd gimp-2.2.x # change to the toplevel directory
% ./configure # run the `configure' script
% make # build the GIMP
% make install # install the GIMP
When I type ./configure, I get the message "Command not found" even when I
type the full pathname.
Please help and thanks in advance. I don't want to miss a session.
Best Regards
Anna Badimo
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WITS University
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From: Akkana Peck <akkana at shallowsky.com>
To: courses at linuxchix.org
Sent: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 22:57:31 -0800
Subject: [Courses] [gimp] Lesson 0: Welcome! Get Familiar with the GIMP
> Welcome to "GIMP for beginners"!
>
> Lesson 0: Get familiar with the GIMP.
>
> What is the GIMP? The name stands for "the GNU Image Manipulation
> Program", and image manipulation is the GIMP's primary purpose.
>
> This course is aimed at people with an interest in image processing,
> but not much experience with actual image editing. But anyone
> is welcome! Feel free to ask questions, or jump in with discussion
> or corrections. And if you know an easier way to do something I
> talked about, don't hesitate to point it out!
>
> If you have a question like "How would I accomplish this thing
> that I can do in [proprietary app]?", feel free to ask, but keep
> in mind that not everyone may be familiar with the app.
> So describe what the function does, or post "before" and "after"
> images: don't just give the name of the function.
>
> For this course, you will need:
> - Access to a computer with GIMP installed.
>
> I will generally be using GIMP 2.2, the current version,
> for the examples. But since I realize a lot of people are
> using earlier versions, I'll try to give an idea where to look
> for things which might have moved around.
>
> If possible, try to use at least GIMP 2.0, since the user interface
> changed quite a bit from 1.2. But if you need to use 1.2, and
> can't find something, feel free to ask about it!
>
> - Electricity.
>
> - Access to some digital images: from a digital camera,
> scans, or images downloaded from the web.
>
> - Access to the internet, and willingness to share some of
> your creations. Each lesson will have "homework", where
> you're encouraged to produce an image using some of the
> techniques discussed. Please participate! Sharing images
> is fun, and I think students will have fun with it too.
> If nobody shares their images, I'll probably get demotivated
> and quit writing lessons. Fair warning. :-)
>
> If you have a web site to post your own images, that's ideal.
> If you don't have any web space, there are lots of places that
> offer free hosting of photos (the hook is usually that they hope
> you'll order prints from them). Try googling for something like:
> free photo "web site"
>
> Enough background ... let's get started! Start up the GIMP on your
> own machine, either from your system menus, by double-clicking the
> gimp icon, or by running "gimp" from the commandline. (You can also
> run "gimp file1.jpg file2.png ..." if you have a specific set of
> images to edit.)
>
> If you run gimp from the commandline, you may want to put an ampersand
> ("&") at the end of the line, so that gimp will run in the
> background, and you will be able to use your terminal for other
> things while gimp is running. Something like: gimp file1.jpg
> file2.png &
>
> Depending on version, GIMP will usually pop up several windows.
> Let's go through the important ones:
>
> The Toolbox Window
>
> This is the GIMP's main window: the titlebar just says "The GIMP.
> It has a very simple menubar, which you can use to call up functions
> that aren't specific to any particular image. Let's go over the
> three menus:
>
> The toolbox File menu contains file operations such as Open a new image.
> It also has an Open Recent submenu, which you can use as a shortcut
> to revisit images which you've edited recently. This can be a real
> timesaver versus poking through the filesystem looking for where you
> stored the image. The File menu also includes Preferences (which
> I'll discuss in a later lesson), a Dialogs submenu which allows you
> to bring up or shoo away some of the GIMP's other dialogs, and Quit.
>
> The toolbox Xtns menu contains various scripts to do fun things.
> I'll discuss some of them in a later lesson; meanwhile, you might
> enjoy exploring the Python-Fu and Script-Fu submenus. There are
> tons of cool scripts in there.
>
> The Help menu brings up the GIMP's help system. The help system for
> GIMP 2.0 is based on gnome help, and unfortunately a lot of systems
> don't have all the necessary pieces installed. Try it, but if it
> doesn't work, don't panic. There's lots of GIMP help available
> online, and if you're in this course, then you have a place to ask
> questions about anything you're having problems with!
>
> Below the menubar, most of the GIMP toolbox is taken up by the "tool
> palette": small icons representing various GIMP tools. We'll talk about
> those tools in future courses. For now, if you move the mouse over a
> tool and stop there, you'll get a tooltip telling you what tool the
> icon represents. Feel free to play around with changing tools and
> experiment with what some of the tools do.
>
> Below the tool palette is a color selector, on the left, showing
> foreground and background color; and on the right, an area showing
> the currently selected brush, fill pattern, and gradient. These are
> used by the text tool and various drawing and painting tools; we'll
> be talking about them in future lessons. For now, clicking on them
> will bring up a dialog allowing you to change them.
>
> If you see anything else below the color/brush/pattern/gradient
> selectors, it probably means you have another dialog docked at the
> bottom of the toolbox window. Since this varies by user, anything
> which might be docked there will be discussed later.
>
> The Layers Window
>
> Another window which GIMP will show, in addition to the toolbox
> window, is the Layers, Channels, and Paths window. Most beginners
> immediately close this window when they start GIMP; but in this
> course, we'll be using it, so I encourage you to leave it open.
>
> Image Windows
>
> Each image GIMP opens will have its own window. In GIMP 2.0 and 2.2,
> these windows have their own menubars across the top (this is
> configurable in Preferences); in 1.2, they don't. But in any version
> of GIMP, whether or not there's a menubar, you can always get to the
> image window menus by right-clicking inside the image window.
>
> Other Windows
>
> Depending on your GIMP version, you may see other windows, such as
> Tool Options, Brushes, or Devices. We'll talk about those later,
> but for now, you don't need them.
>
> This concludes the (rather long) intial lesson. Your only homework
> for this lesson is to look through the gimp menus, mouse over the
> tools in the toolbox to see their tooltips, and generally get
> familiar with how the app looks. Try opening an image, or maybe
> running some of the scripts in the Xtns menu. Have fun!
>
> Next lesson: Basic Photo Editing. Stuff you'll want if you upload
> pictures from your camera and want to crop and resize them for the web.
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