About Gimp!

Hello everybody! In this post I'm going to answer some interesting questions about Gimp. I hope it's useful for you!


1-What's Gimp?

It's a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, resizing, cropping, photo-montages, converting between different image formats, and more specialized tasks.

2-How can you get Gimp and use it in your computer, at home?

You can download it through these links:

• Linux downloads can be found here: http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

• Windows installers here: http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/

• Mac downloads here: http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/
  

3-Make a list of windows in Gimp.

•  The main dock window (Formally this is actually 

        called the Empty Image window)

•  An assortment of selection-making tools
•  A menu of selection operations
• Tool box

4-Make a list of words related with digital image.

•  Grid
•  Pixels
• Printing
• Resolution
• Size
• Pixels per inch
• Camera
• Resolution value

5-Make a list of words related with using Gimp.

• TIFF or JPEG file
•  Layers
•  Selection mask
•  Set of channels
•  Set of paths
•  Windows
• Program
• Tool box
• Functions
• Settings
• Tool
• Brushes
• Patterns 
• Gradients
• The main dock window
• Menu

6-Why do we use layers?

Because you can draw on each paper, but still see the content of the other sheets through the transparent areas. You can also move one sheet in relation to the others.

7-Is it important to make a selection, when using Gimp?

 Yes, it is, because when modify an image, you only want a part of the image to be affected. The “selection” mechanism makes this possible. Each image has its own selection, which you normally see as a moving dashed line separating the selected parts from the unselected parts.


8-What can you find out in Internet about me?

In Internet I've found the Gimp logo in different ways, these are some examples:

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