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1. Announce: GIMP course starting (Akkana Peck)
2. [gimp] Lesson 0: Welcome! Get Familiar with the GIMP
(Akkana Peck)
3. Re: [gimp] Lesson 0: Welcome! Get Familiar with the GIMP
(Jacqueline McNally)
4. Re: [gimp] Lesson 0: Welcome! Get Familiar with the GIMP
(Anna Badimo)
5. Re: [gimp] Lesson 0: Welcome! Get Familiar with the GIMP
(Julie Sloan)
6. Re: [gimp] Lesson 0: Welcome! Get Familiar with the GIMP
(Rahime Unver)
7. [gimp] Lesson 0: Welcome! Get Familiar with the GIMP (kristi)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 22:37:35 -0800
From: Akkana Peck <akkana at shallowsky.com>
Subject: [Courses] Announce: GIMP course starting
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[For people who didn't see the announcement last week on the Announce
list]
I'm starting a GIMP course, posting the first lesson tonight under the
topic [gimp]. It's aimed specifically at beginners and near-beginners,
but everyone is welcome. Come twiddle bits with us!
...Akkana
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 22:57:31 -0800
From: Akkana Peck <akkana at shallowsky.com>
Subject: [Courses] [gimp] Lesson 0: Welcome! Get Familiar with the
GIMP
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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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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 21:35:44 +0800
From: Jacqueline McNally
<jacqueline-linuxchix at decisions-and-designs.com.au>
Subject: Re: [Courses] [gimp] Lesson 0: Welcome! Get Familiar with
the GIMP
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Hello
I am looking forward to the course :)
> - Access to some digital images: from a digital camera,
> scans, or images downloaded from the web.
>
www.burningwell.org was a link that was sent to me just last week as
there are a couple of contributors that I know who have submitted some
superb photos.
These are public domain, so for people like me whose photographic skills
are negligible, they will be fun to start playing with as Akkana guides
us through using the GIMP.
Regards
Jacqueline
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:57:43 +0200
From: "Anna Badimo" <anna at cs.wits.ac.za>
Subject: Re: [Courses] [gimp] Lesson 0: Welcome! Get Familiar with
the GIMP
To: Akkana Peck <akkana at shallowsky.com>
Cc: courses at linuxchix.org
Message-ID: <20050125121454.M85448 at cs.wits.ac.za>
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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
--
WITS University
---------- Original Message -----------
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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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:46:00 -0500
From: Julie Sloan <juliesloan at mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: [Courses] [gimp] Lesson 0: Welcome! Get Familiar with
the GIMP
To: courses at linuxchix.org
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Akkana Peck wrote:
> Welcome to "GIMP for beginners"!
>
> For this course, you will need:
>
> - Electricity.
Hahahahaha
> - Access to some digital images: from a digital camera,
> scans, or images downloaded from the web.
What do you mean by "digital images." I have some good scanned images
mostly from a 35mm but my digital camera is poor quality.
> Enough background ... let's get started!
BRB ..."man urpmi update..."
>
> 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.
thanks,
Julie
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:03:51 +0000 (GMT)
From: Rahime Unver <ra_unver at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [Courses] [gimp] Lesson 0: Welcome! Get Familiar with
the GIMP
To: courses at linuxchix.org
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Hello,
Thank you very much for starting such a course, I will try to
participate in the course as long as I can do:) And I want to recommend
a site which has really beautiful digital images:
http://www.fotokritik.com/index.php
the site is in Turkish but I think photos could be used. Also I must add
that the site is a photo critise site so you can directly reach the
photos from following link:
http://www.fotokritik.com/fotograflar.php
And also if you like the photos I try to help you about the language.
Thanks again Akkana.
--- Akkana Peck <akkana at shallowsky.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 18:03:59 +0200
From: "kristi" <kristi at erdves.lt>
Subject: [Courses] [gimp] Lesson 0: Welcome! Get Familiar with the
GIMP
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Hey all,
I've noticed that some of you are having probs with installation of
GIMP. Even though it won't help you at all, I want to note that there is
a fine windows version of GIMP. You just drop in the GTK+ libs and add
GIMP on top of that (there is a full installation package on the web,
http://www.gimp.org/windows/). The apps are identical.
I have actually successfully adopted it at work. Being a big
international organization, we have to follow general IT regulations in
many fields, which includes the requirement for WinXP workstations. Some
of our designers wished to have Adobe Photoshop, and instead of that,
they've got GIMP now. Works perfectly. Everyone's happy.
--
Kristina
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