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beginning gimp tips home table of contents reviews gimp tips photos from the book writing scripts and plug ins plug ins by the author new in gimp 2 6 errata outside links about the author contact buy it through my amazon link beginning gimp from novice to professional by akkana peck gimp 2 6 tips gimp 2 6 is out but it has a few weird changes that may not suit everyone here are a few modifications to your gimprc file see chapter 8 to make window handling more like 2 4 toolbox window hint normal dock window hint normal window hints are now utility by default while that s good for windows people who want to minimize the number of taskbar entries it s bad for anyone with a small screen because it makes image windows always stay under the toolbox and all dialogs if you want to be able to put image windows on top set the window hints to normal toolbox wilber no another small screen fix this gets rid of the empty area in the toolbox below the menus and above the tool buttons it doesn t do anything so it s just a waste of space more general gimp tips eliminate a solid background behind text or a simple figure for instance if you have a solid white background with antialiased text on it and you want to keep the text but change the background to transparent the color to alpha plug in in the colors menu will usually do a nice job much better than select by color if you need to touch up small areas try drawing with the paintbrush tool with the foreground color set to the background color you want to erase and the tool s mode set to color erase make sure you ve enabled alpha on the layer center a layer cut then paste the pasted layer comes out centered unfortunately this loses text information so if it s a text layer this isn t an ideal solution copy a layer then paste it right on top of the previous version do layer to imagesize before copying then copies of the layer will overlap the original quick color picker when in a drawing tool e g paintbrush pressing ctrl temporarily switches to the color picker eyedropper tool to change the foreground color make a pixmap brush that uses the current foreground color before saving as gbr make sure your image is greyscale with no alpha channel if you have any transparency replace it with white then flatten image before saving preview your image on top of a browser or other app filters animation playback yes even for a single non animated image then click detach you ll get a detached window showing the image without any window borders or menus in the way autocrop all like the plug in in chapter 11 the crop and rect ellipse select tools now offer an auto shrink option use the shrink merged option to take all layers into account not just the current layer preview some text in several different fonts in the font dialog dialogs fonts from the toolbox window right click and choose render font map then give it a pattern e g script
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