GIMP/C2/Setting-Up-GIMP/English
From Script | Spoken-Tutorial
| Time | Narration |
|---|---|
| 00:21 | Welcome to Meet the GIMP tutorial on Setting up the Gimp. |
| 00:25 | Today I want to show how to set up the GIMP when you are using it for the first time. |
| 00:33 | The GIMP uses a lot of small windows instead of one big window like all the other Windows & Macintosh programs. 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. |
| 1:01 | If you are really not able to work with these different windows, then you should look at the GIMPshop. It is a program which uses the GIMP and puts a new user interface on it to make it a bit similar to Photoshop. |
| 1:23 | I would like to use the GIMP because all the new and better tools are in the GIMP. |
| 1:32 | This is the tip of the day, which gives useful information and tips. Right now, there is a tip about the Undo option, by which you can do some steps and then change them back with Undo. It works most of the time. |
| 1:51 | Its better to save your work before you do something very different. |
| 1:58 | Now, lets have a look at the other tools. |
| 2:01 | Here’s the main window from the GIMP, the Command Central. |
| 2:06 | And at the top here, is the Toolbox. Then we have the Color box to select colours from and below are the various options of our tools from Toolbox. |
| 2:18 | Let’s make this a bit wider. |
| 2:21 | Here we have dialog boxes for Layers, Channels, Color Channels, Path and Undo History. Below this is the Colour Selection dialog where you can select various colours. You can see the changes here. |
| 2:42 | There are more dialogs like Brushes, Patterns, Gradient and so on. |
| 2:50 | I want to include some of these dialogs into the Toolbox. It is very easy to do so. |
| 2:58 | 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. |
| 3:13 | And I get a tabbed dialog like this. |
| 3:17 | I'll do this with Channels. |
| 3:21 | I'll do this with Paths. |
| 3:26 | And I'll do this with Undo History. |
| 3:32 | 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. |
| 3:48 | But I want to have is Colours so I click on it and drag it next to Undo History. |
| 3:59 | And this window here can be closed. |
| 4:04 | Click on yes to close all the tabs. |
| 4:08 | I can access all the dialog boxes through File >> Dialogs. You can see here there are some dialogs that are not in our Toolbox and we need one of them i.e. Tools. |
| 4:27 | 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. |
| 4:38 | Let’s start with the tools which I want to have. |
| 4:40 | I want to have Curves, Levels, Threshold. Brightness & Contrast - I don't want to choose. |
| 4:53 | I don’t need Perspective Clone nor do I need Ink or Airbrush. |
| 5:06 | And I need all the remaining tools. |
| 5:16 | Ok, I will have a look at this later after I see how much space is left. |
| 5:25 | Now I go to File and Preferences. |
| 5:36 | I leave Environment as it is and Interface also. |
| 5:42 | In Theme, I select Small. And when I pull this window aside, you see all the icons have shrunk and there’s more space available for information of tools. |
| 5:55 | Go to Tool options and change Default Interpolation to SINC (Lanczos 3), it’s the best interpolation for calculating pixels while resizing or rotating and so on. |
| 6:14 | Leave all the other options as they are. |
| 6:16 | Go to Toolbox and either select if you want to have these options or de-select them. |
| 6:25 | You could have Colors which is a quick way to change the Foreground and Background colours. |
| 6:33 | You can get the Brush and the Gradient tools. And here you can have a small image or the thumbnail of the active image. |
| 6:43 | I don’t need it so I de-select it. Its up to you if you want to have it or not |
| 6:51 | You can leave the Default image, Default grid and Default image window as they are. |
| 6:57 | I am done with all the Preferences. |
| 7:03 | And |
| 7:05 | I haven’t changed the Path so I can use this here. |
| 7:10 | Now I have to get rid of only one tool here to get some more space. But first I’ll make this a bit broader. |
| 7:21 | You can see that the Toolbox dialog is quite cramped. |
| 7:27 | Just pull it over here. |
| 7:31 | Oh! I think I can add 3 more tools without getting into a new row here. So I will add Brightness, Hue-Saturation and Color Balance. |
| 7:47 | All the tools which are not displayed here can be reached by clicking on File and Dialogs. |
| 8:02 | And now we are set to do our work. |
| 8:05 | 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. |
| 8:17 | And by the way, I am using the development version, the unstable version of the GIMP 2.3.18 |
| 8:27 | I just saw that 2.3.19 was released today. |
| 8:31 | 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. |
| 8:47 | That was it for setting up the GIMP and I hope to see you around next time. |
| 8:54 | This is Hemant Waidande dubbing for the Spoken Tutorial project. |
