Part III.  The GIMP Function Reference

Table of Contents

13. Toolbox

1. The Toolbox

1.1. Tool Options

2. Selection Tools

2.1. Common Features

2.2. Rectangle Selection Tool

2.3. Ellipse Selection Tool

2.4. Free Selection Tool (Lasso)

2.5. Fuzzy Selection Tool (Magic Wand)

2.6. Select By Color Tool

2.7. Scissors Tool

3. Brush Tools

3.1. Common Features

3.2. Bucket Fill

3.3. Gradient Tool

3.4. Painting Tools (Pencil, Paintbrush, Airbrush)

3.5. Pencil

3.6. Paintbrush Tool

3.7. Eraser

3.8. Airbrush Tool

3.9. Ink Tool

3.10. Clone Tool

3.11. Convolve (Blur/Sharpen)

3.12. Dodge or Burn

3.13. Smudge Tool

4. Transform Tools

4.1. Common Features

4.2. Move Tool

4.3. Crop and Resize Tool

4.4. Rotate Tool

4.5. Scale Tool

4.6. Shear Tool

4.7. Perspective Tool

4.8. Flip Tool

5. Color Tools

5.1. Color Balance Tool

5.2. Hue-Saturation Tool

5.3. Colorize Tool

5.4. Brightness-Contrast tool

5.5. Threshold Tool

5.6. Levels tool

5.7. Curves Tool

5.8. Posterize Tool

6. Other

6.1. Path Tool

6.2. Color Picker Tool

6.3. Magnify Tool

6.4. Measure Tool

6.5. Texttool

7. Color and Indicator Area

7.1. Color Area

7.2. Indicator Area

7.3. Active image area

14. Dialogs

1. Dialog introduction

2. Image structure related dialogs

2.1. Layers dialog

2.2. Channels dialog

2.3. Path dialog

2.4. Colormap dialog

2.5. Histogram dialog

2.6. Navigation Dialog

2.7. Undo History dialog

3. Image content related dialogs

3.1. Colors dialog

3.2. Brushes dialog

3.3. Patterns dialog

3.4. Gradients dialog

3.5. Palettes dialog

3.6. Fonts dialog

4. Image management related dialogs

4.1. Buffers dialog

4.2. Images dialog

4.3. Document History dialog

4.4. Templates dialog

5. Misc dialogs

5.1. Tools dialog

5.2. Preferences dialog

5.3. Device Status dialog

5.4. Error Console

5.5. Export File

15. Menus

1. Introduction to the GIMP Menus

1.1. Context Menus

1.2. Detachable Submenus

2. Toolbox File Menu

2.1. The “File” Menu of the Toolbox

2.2. Acquire

2.3. The Preferences command

2.4. The Dialogs sub-menu

3. Xtns

3.1. Introduction to the “Xtns” menu

3.2. The Module Manager

3.3. The Unit Editor

3.4. Plug-In Browser

3.5. The Procedure Browser

3.6. The “Script-Fu” submenu

4. The “Help” Menu of the Toolbox Window

4.1. Introduction to the “Help” menu

4.2. Help

4.3. Context Help

4.4. Tip of the Day

4.5. About

4.6. GIMP online

5. The “File” Menu of the Image Window

5.1. File menu

5.2. New

5.3. Open

5.4. Open Location

5.5. Open Recent

5.6. Open as Layer

5.7. Save

5.8. Save as

5.9. Save a Copy

5.10. Save as Template

5.11. Revert

5.12. Print

5.13. Close

5.14. Quit

6. The “Edit” Menu of the Image Window

6.1. “Edit” menu entries

6.2. Undo

6.3. Redo

6.4. Undo History

6.5. Cut

6.6. Copy

6.7. Copy Visible

6.8. Paste

6.9. Paste Into

6.10. Paste as New

6.11. Buffers

6.12. Clear

6.13. Fill with FG Color

6.14. Fill with BG Color

6.15. Fill with Pattern

6.16. Stroke Selection

6.17. Stroke Path

7. The “Select” Menu

7.1. Introduction to the “Select” menu

7.2. Select All

7.3. None

7.4. Invert

7.5. Float

7.6. By Color

7.7. From Path

7.8. Selection Editor

7.9. Feather

7.10. Sharpen

7.11. Shrink

7.12. Grow

7.13. Border

7.14. Rounded Rectangle

7.15. Toggle QuickMask

7.16. Save to Channel

7.17. To Path

8. View

8.1. Introduction to the “View” Menu

8.2. New View

8.3. Dot for Dot

8.4. Zoom

8.5. Shrink Wrap

8.6. Full Screen

8.7. Info Window

8.8. Navigation Window

8.9. Display Filters

8.10. Show Selection

8.11. Show Layer Boundary

8.12. Show Guides

8.13. Snap to Guides

8.14. Show Grid

8.15. Snap to Grid

8.16. Padding Color

8.17. Show Menubar

8.18. Show Rulers

8.19. Show Scrollbars

8.20. Show Statusbar

9. The “Image” Menu of the Image Window

9.1. The “Image” Menu of the Image Window

9.2. Duplicate

9.3. Mode

9.4. RGB mode

9.5. Grayscale mode

9.6. Indexed mode

9.7. Decompose

9.8. Compose

9.9. Transform

9.10. Flip Horizontally; Flip Vertically

9.11. Rotation

9.12. Guillotine

9.13. Canvas Size

9.14. Print Size

9.15. Fit Canvas to Layers

9.16. Scale Image

9.17. Crop Image

9.18. Autocrop Image

9.19. Zealous Crop

9.20. Merge Visible Layers

9.21. Flatten Image

9.22. Guides

9.23. Remove all guides

9.24. New Guide (by Percent)

9.25. New Guide

9.26. New Guides from Selection

9.27. Configure Grid

10. Layers

10.1. Introduction to the “Layer” Menu

10.2. New Layer

10.3. Duplicate layer

10.4. Anchor layer

10.5. Merge Down

10.6. Delete Layer

10.7. The “Stack” Submenu

10.8. Select Previous Layer

10.9. Select Next Layer

10.10. Select Top Layer

10.11. Select Bottom Layer

10.12. Raise Layer

10.13. Lower Layer

10.14. Layer to Top

10.15. Layer to Bottom

10.16. The “Colors” Submenu

10.17. Desaturate

10.18. Invert

10.19. Layer Color-Stretching Commands

10.20. The “Auto” Submenu

10.21. Equalize

10.22. White Balance

10.23. Stretch Contrast

10.24. Color Enhance

10.25. Stretch HSV

10.26. Normalize

10.27. Autocrop Layer

10.28. The “Mask” Submenu

10.29. Add Layer Mask

10.30. Apply Layer Mask

10.31. Delete Layer Mask

10.32. Edit Layer Mask

10.33. Disable Layer Mask

10.34. Show Layer Mask

10.35. Mask to Selection

10.36. Add Layer Mask to Selection

10.37. Subtract Layer Mask from Selection

10.38. Intersect Layer Mask with Selection

10.39. The “Transparency” Submenu of the “Layer” menu

10.40. Add Alpha Channel

10.41. Color to Alpha

10.42. Semi-flatten

10.43. Threshold Alpha

10.44. Alpha to Selection

10.45. Add to Selection

10.46. Subtract from Selection

10.47. Intersect with Selection

10.48. The “Transform” Submenu

10.49. Flip Horizontally

10.50. Flip Vertically

10.51. Rotate 90 degrees CW

10.52. Rotate 90 degrees CCW

10.53. Rotate 180 degrees

10.54. Arbitrary Rotation

10.55. Offset

10.56. Layer Boundary Size

10.57. Layer to Image Size

10.58. Scale Layer

10.59. Crop Layer

10.60. Align Visible Layers

11. Tools

11.1. Introduction to the “Tools” Menu

12. The “Filters” Menu of the Image Window

12.1. Introduction to the “Filters” menu

12.2. Repeat Last

12.3. Re-show Last

12.4. Reset All Filters

16. Filters

1. Filter introduction

1.1. Preview

2. Blur filters

2.1. Blur filters introduction

2.2. Blur

2.3. Gaussian Blur

2.4. Selective Gaussian Blur

2.5. Motion Blur

2.6. Pixelise

2.7. Tileable Blur

3. Color filters

3.1. Introduction to Color Filters

3.2. Adjust FG-BG

3.3. Alien Map 2

3.4. Two Colors Exchange

3.5. Colormap Rotation

3.6. Map Color Range

3.7. Sample Colorize

3.8. Gradient Map

3.9. Border Average

3.10. Channel Mixer

3.11. Colorcube Analysis

3.12. Colorify

3.13. Color to Alpha

3.14. Compose

3.15. Decompose

3.16. Filter Pack

3.17. Hot

3.18. Max RGB

3.19. Retinex

3.20. Semi-Flatten

3.21. Smooth Palette

3.22. Value invert

4. Noise filters

4.1. Noise filters introduction

4.2. Hurl

4.3. Scatter RGB

4.4. Pick

4.5. Scatter HSV

4.6. Slur

4.7. Spread

5. Edge-detect filters

5.1. Edge-detect introduction

5.2. Difference of Gaussians

5.3. Edge

5.4. Laplace

5.5. Neon

5.6. Sobel

6. Enhance filters

6.1. Enhance filters introduction

6.2. Deinterlace

6.3. Despeckle

6.4. Destripe

6.5. NL Filter

6.6. Sharpen

6.7. Unsharp Mask

7. Generic filters

7.1. Generic filters introduction

7.2. Convolution matrix

7.3. Dilate

7.4. Erode

8. Glass Effects filters

8.1. Glass Effects filters introduction

8.2. Apply Lens

8.3. Glass Tile

9. Light Effects filters

9.1. Light Effects filters introduction

9.2. FlareFX

9.3. Gflare

9.4. Lighting Effects

9.5. Sparkle

9.6. SuperNova

10. Distort filters

10.1. Distort filters introduction

10.2. Blinds

10.3. Curve Bend

10.4. Emboss

10.5. IWarp

10.6. Mosaic

10.7. Page Curl

10.8. Polar Coords

10.9. Ripple

10.10. Shift

10.11. Newsprint

10.12. Video

10.13. Value Propagate

10.14. Waves

10.15. Whirl and Pinch

10.16. Wind

11. Artistic filters

11.1. Artistic filters introduction

11.2. Apply Canvas

11.3. Cartoon

11.4. Cubism

11.5. GIMPressionist

11.6. GIMPressionist - Orientation Map Editor

11.7. GIMPressionist - Size Map Editor

11.8. Oilify

11.9. Photocopy

11.10. Soft Glow

12. Map filters

12.1. Map filters introduction

12.2. Bump Map

12.3. Displace

12.4. Fractal Trace

12.5. Illusion

12.6. Make Seamless

12.7. Map Object

12.8. Paper Tile

12.9. Small Tiles

12.10. Tile

12.11. Warp

12.12. Van Gogh (LIC)

13. Rendering filters

13.1. Render filters introduction

13.2. Plasma

13.3. Solid Noise

13.4. Flame

13.5. IFS Compose

13.6. Diffraction Patterns

13.7. CML Explorer

13.8. Grid

13.9. Maze

13.10. Jigsaw

13.11. Qbist

13.12. Checkerboard

13.13. Sinus

13.14. Fractal Explorer

13.15. Gfig

13.16. Sphere Designer

14. Combine filters

14.1. Combine filters introduction

14.2. Depth Merge

14.3. Film

15. Animation filters

15.1. Optimize

15.2. Playback

16. Web filters

16.1. ImageMap

I. GIMP keys and mouse reference

Help — Key reference for Help menu

Toolbox — Key reference for Toolbox menu

File — Key reference for File menu

Dialogs — Key reference for Dialogs menu

View — Key reference for View menu

Edit — Key reference for Edit menu

Layers — Key reference for Layers menu

Selections — Key reference for Selections menu

Plug-ins — Key reference for Plug-ins menu

Zoom tool — Key reference for Zoom tool menu