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carol.gimp.orgGIMP2 basics guiPreferences |
I am using a gnu/linux operating system, xfree to draw my computer display and Xfce to determine how my windows behave and a theme (Platinum) to tell them how to look. I get all of this software from Debian testing. TheGIMP pictured and discussed here was acquired from cvs on 2005-01-10 (January 10, 2005 or 10 January 2005). This is all I can talk honestly about and get screenshots of.
TheGIMP comes with a set of Preferences that each user can use to make their experience more productive and more specialized to their needs.
The information on these pages was written for several different audiences: people with a background in different operating systems, people who are used to different graphic arts applications and yes, people like me who have a background in linux and wonder the reason that this application is doing things such a way. While I tried not to write this to show off my skills, I did write them to show off my opinions occasionally. One of those opinions is that people with a background of using other operating systems and other graphic arts applications are more difficult to educate than other populations of people I have encountered in these four decades I have been alive in, like people with traumatic head injuries and people who have had a "learning disabled" label attached to them for whatever reason.
With all this said, TheGIMP might be the first application where setting these preferences can really be a benefit to people using it. Just like it is the application that seriously uses the gtk widget collection, it is also the might be the first application in which these preferences can have a major impact on your work flow and your computers resources, simply because working with images is an actual task.</rant> Lets have some fun and I will try to keep my opinions either mostly to myself or entertaining and informative.
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After changing the default gimp's docks and tabs so that the tools and dialogs appear on the desktop in a way I like, the next step is to tweak the Preferences. This document describes what I did to make gimp work even more the way I like it to work. It is by its very nature opinionated and by no means implies that it is the best way, nor that others need to use it this way. It is an example of how one user changes the defaults found in the Preferences. I am making these changes to my current gimp, which I got from cvs and calls itself gimp-2.2.3. listed as the menu lists them
my personal preferences for preferencesHere, for editorial purposes only, are the changes I immediately made to newly installed gimps. |
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like the old gimp
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gimp-1.2The no Status bar just makes the resizing work like old gimps. Old gimps had status bar information, the window did not adjust for the information it contained though. It is interesting here to note that the new gimp has a pope-like way of starting the image count at 1 where old gimps started like a mathematician with 0. gimp-1.0 |
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