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carol.gimp.orgGIMP2 basics PreferencesDefault User Interface |
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Several of the options in this Preference Menu are better demonstrated with screen shots. |
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PreviewsEnable layer & channel previews ON (default)Toggling this option on (which it is by default) gives several options for the size of the thumbnail. If you are using a javascript enabled browser, clicking on the following sizes should display the screen shots of how the configuration looks on my computer. 
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To see the changes you will need to start a new Layers Dialog as the new Preferences are not applied to previously defined docks and/or tabs. With the exception of the Huge preview option, it might be better to configure each individual dock or tab via the gtk style gui. The tooltip for this Preference gives a more technical explanation: "Sets the preview size used for layers and channel previews in newly created dialogs." | |
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Enable layer & channel previews OFFToggling the layer & channel preview off has the effect of replacing the thumbnail with an image icon. The one thing you get from this would be that gimp would run faster. You the user would lose a lot of information. Also, long ago when I was using gimp on an old and slow computer, that gimp always had thumbnails appearing in these dialogs and it did not seem to affect the speed of the gimp as much as working with selections and floating layers did. |
Navigation Preview SizeNew in Gimp2 is a little button (marked like the move tool) at the lower right hand corner of the Image Window. 
With a javascript enabled browser, you can click on the navigation icon in the screen shot of the Image Window to see how the gimp works with this button set at the default preview size (medium). |
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By default, TheGIMP displays the keybindings in the Tooltips.
I don't use them. I am not going to write much about them. I will, however (shamelessly) steal information frome people who do understand these and put it here.
The following explanation was stolen from the LinuxChix Courses Mail list from a Gimp course by Akkana Peck
...if you don't like the bindings, you can change them! [....] In gimp, if you pull up a menu for something you do often that doesn't have a key binding already, move the mouse over the menu item (but don't click), then hit the key you want to use (e.g. hit = or + or whatever), the binding for that function magically changes! You can see it change in the menu as you type the key.
This work(ed) automatically in gimp 1.2. Gimp 2 still has this, but it's harder to find: go into Preferences, click on Interface, and check "Use Dynamic Keyboard Shortcuts". Now you can go back to the menu and assign keys to any function.
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