1 00:00:21 --> 00:00:24 Welcome to Meet the GIMP tutorial on Setting up the Gimp. 2 00:00:25 --> 00:00:29 Today I want to show how to set up the GIMP when you are using it for the first time. 3 00:00:30 --> 00:00:38 The GIMP uses a lot of small windows instead of one big window like all the other Windows & Macintosh programs. 4 00:00:39 --> 00:00:48 It’s a history from the Unix world and the Unix people love to have windows scattered all over the screen and to have lot of programs running at the same time. 5 00:00:49 --> 00:00:56 If you are really not able to work with these different windows, then you should look at the GIMPshop. 6 00:00:57 --> 00:01:04 It is a program which uses the GIMP and puts a new user interface on it to make it a bit similar to Photoshop. 7 00:01:05 --> 00:01:11 I would like to use the GIMP because all the new and better tools are in the GIMP. 8 00:01:12 --> 00:01:16 This is the tip of the day, which gives useful information and tips. 9 00:01:17 --> 00:01:25 Right now, there is a tip about the Undo option, by which you can do some steps and then change them back with Undo. 10 00:01:26 --> 00:01:27 It works most of the time. 11 00:01:28 --> 00:01:32 Its better to save your work before you do something very different. 12 00:01:33 --> 00:01:35 Now, lets have a look at the other tools. 13 00:01:36 --> 00:01:40 Here’s the main window from the GIMP, the Command Central. 14 00:01:41 --> 00:01:44 And at the top here, is the Toolbox. 15 00:01:45 --> 00:01:52 Then we have the Color box to select colours from and below are the various options of our tools from Toolbox. 16 00:01:53 --> 00:01:55 Let’s make this a bit wider. 17 00:01:56 --> 00:02:08 Here we have dialog boxes for Layers, Channels, Color Channels, Path and Undo History. 18 00:02:09 --> 00:02:14 Below this is the Colour Selection dialog where you can select various colours. 19 00:02:15 --> 00:02:20 There are more dialogs like Brushes, Patterns, Gradient and so on. 20 00:02:21 --> 00:02:27 I want to include some of these dialogs into the Toolbox. It is very easy to do so. 21 00:02:28 --> 00:02:38 Just click on the word Layers in the title of the dialog and pull it over to the word Color Picker here, below the toolbox. 22 00:02:39 --> 00:02:42 And I get a tabbed dialog like this. 23 00:02:43 --> 00:02:45 I'll do this with Channels. 24 00:02:46 --> 00:02:51 I'll do this with Paths. 25 00:02:52 --> 00:02:53 And I'll do this with Undo History. 26 00:02:54 --> 00:03:08 I don’t think I need the Brushes tool because if a tool has a brush then it appears here and I can select it. 27 00:03:09 --> 00:03:15 But I want to have Colours so I click on it and drag it next to Undo History. 28 00:03:16 --> 00:03:22 And this window here can be closed. 29 00:03:23 --> 00:03:29 I can access all the dialog boxes through File >> Dialogs. 30 00:03:30 --> 00:03:37 You can see here there are some dialogs that are not in our Toolbox and we need one of them i.e. Tools. 31 00:03:38 --> 00:03:47 My tool box contains some tools which I have never used and I want to replace them with the tools that I want to use. 32 00:03:48 --> 00:03:50 Let’s start with the tools which I want to have. 33 00:03:51 --> 00:03:57 I want to have Curves, Levels, Threshold. Brightness & Contrast - I don't want to choose. 34 00:03:58 --> 00:04:04 I don’t need Perspective Clone nor do I need Ink or Airbrush. 35 00:04:05 --> 00:04:07 And I need all the remaining tools. 36 00:04:08 --> 00:04:15 I will have a look at this later after I see how much space is left. 37 00:04:16 --> 00:04:25 Now I go to File and Preferences. 38 00:04:26 --> 00:04:31 I leave Environment as it is and Interface also. 39 00:04:32 --> 00:04:34 In Theme, I select Small. 40 00:04:35 --> 00:04:44 And when I pull this window aside, you see all the icons have shrunk and there’s more space available for information of tools. 41 00:04:45 --> 00:04:59 Go to Tool options and change Default Interpolation to SINC , it’s the best interpolation for calculating pixels while resizing or rotating and so on. 42 00:05:00 --> 00:05:02 Leave all the other options as they are. 43 00:05:03 --> 00:05:11 Go to Toolbox and either select if you want to have these options or de-select them. 44 00:05:12 --> 00:05:18 You can have Colors which is a quick way to change the Foreground and Background colours. 45 00:05:19 --> 00:05:28 You can get the Brush and the Gradient tools, here you can have a small image or the thumbnail of the active image. 46 00:05:29 --> 00:05:35 I don’t need it so I de-select it. Its up to you if you want to have it or not. 47 00:05:36 --> 00:05:41 You can leave the Default image, Default grid and Default image window as they are. 48 00:05:42 --> 00:05:44 I am done with all the Preferences. 49 00:05:45 --> 00:05:46 And 50 00:05:47 --> 00:05:51 I haven’t changed the Path so I can use this here. 51 00:05:52 --> 00:06:00 Now I have to get rid of only one tool here to get some more space. But first I’ll make this a bit wider. 52 00:06:01 --> 00:06:05 You can see that the Toolbox dialog is quite cramped. 53 00:06:06 --> 00:06:07 Just pull it over here. 54 00:06:08 --> 00:06:18 I think I can add 3 more tools without getting into a new row here. 55 00:06:19 --> 00:06:23 So I will add Brightness, Hue-Saturation and Color Balance 56 00:06:24 --> 00:06:38 All the tools which are not displayed here can be reached by clicking on File and Dialogs. 57 00:06:39 --> 00:06:41 And now we are set to do our work. 58 00:06:42 --> 00:06:51 When you close the GIMP, all the options are automatically saved and it will start up in the same way in which you had closed it. 59 00:06:52 --> 00:07:01 And by the way, I am using the development version, the unstable version of GIMP 2.3.18 60 00:07:02 --> 00:07:06 I just saw that 2.3.19 was released today. 61 00:07:07 --> 00:07:21 It is called 'unstable' but the GIMP is reaching a point where 2.4 is the next stable version on the horizon and this year it is stable as any other software in the market. 62 00:07:22 --> 00:07:24 That was it for setting up the GIMP. 63 00:07:25 --> 00:07:30 This is Hemant Waidande dubbing for the Spoken Tutorial project.