Thursday, June 02, 2011
GIMP: GNU Image Manipulation Program is one of the powerful Open Source Image Editing Software. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.
GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.
GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. But basically the same code also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X.
Keyboard shortcuts can be a great time saver when working within GIMP. Rather than navigating through the menu structure to find what you are looking for, if you learn some of the common shortcuts it will increase your productivity greatly.
| File Menu - Shortcuts | Function |
|---|---|
| Ctrl + N | New Image |
| Shift+Ctrl+V | Create a new Image from Clipboard |
| Ctrl + O | Open Image |
| Ctrl+Alt+O | Open as Layers |
| Ctrl+S | Save Image |
| Shift+Ctrl+S | Save As |
| Ctrl+P | |
| Ctrl+W | Close |
| Shift+Ctrl+W | Close All |
| Ctrl+Q | Quit |
| Edit Menu - Shortcuts | Function |
| Ctrl+Z | Undo |
| Ctrl+Y | Redo |
| Ctrl+X | Cut |
| Ctrl+C | Copy |
| Shift+Ctrl+C | Copy Visible |
| Ctrl+V | Paste |
| Shift+Ctrl+V | Past as New Image |
| Delete | Clear |
| Ctrl+, | Fill with FG Color |
| Ctrl+. | Fill with BG Color |
| Ctrl+; | Fill with Pattern |
| Select Menu - Shortcuts | Function |
| Ctrl+A | Select All |
| Shift+Ctrl+A | Select None |
| Ctrl+I | Invert Selection |
| Shift+Ctrl+L | Create a Floating Selection |
| Shift+O | Select by Color |
| Shift+V | Select from Path |
| Shift+Q | Toggle Quick Mask |
| View Menu - Shortcuts | Function |
| Ctrl+E | Shrink Wrap - Reduce image window to size of image |
| F11 | Toggle Fullscreen View |
| Ctrl+T | Show Selection |
| Shift+Ctrl+T | Show Guides |
| Shift+Ctrl+R | Show Rulers |
| Image Menu - Shortcuts | Function |
| Ctrl+D | Duplicate Image |
| Ctrl+M | Merge Visible Layers |
| Alt+Return | Display Image Properties |
| Layer Menu - Shortcuts | Function |
| Shift+Ctrl+N | New Layer |
| Shift+Ctrl+D | Duplicate Layer |
| Ctrl+H | Anchor Layer |
| Page Up | Select Previous Layer |
| Page Down | Select Next Layer |
| Home | Select Top Layer |
| End | Select Bottom Layer |
| Tools Menu - Shortcuts | Function |
| Selection Tools | |
| R | Rectangle Select |
| E | Ellipse Select |
| F | Free Select |
| U | Fuzzy Select |
| Shift+O | Select by Color |
| I | Intelligent Scissors |
| Paint Tools | |
| Shift+B | Bucket Fill |
| L | Blend |
| N | Pencil |
| P | Paintbrush |
| Shift+E | Eraser |
| A | Airbrush |
| K | Ink |
| C | Clone |
| H | Heal |
| Shift+U | Blur / Sharpen |
| S | Smudge |
| Shift+D | Dodge / Burn |
| Transfrom Tools | |
| Q | Align |
| M | Move |
| Shift+C | Crop |
| Shift+R | Rotate |
| Shift+T | Scale |
| Shift+S | Shear |
| Shift+P | Perspective |
| Shift+F | Flip |
| General | |
| B | Paths |
| O | Color Picker |
| Z | Zoom |
| Shift+M | Measure |
| T | Text |
| Ctrl+B | Toolbox |
| D | Default Colors (Sets foreground to black and background to white) |
| X | Swap Colors |
| Filters Menu - Shortcuts | Function |
| Ctrl+F | Repeat Last |
| Shift+Ctrl+F | Re-Show Last |
| Windows Menu - Shortcuts | Function |
| Dockable Dialogs | |
| Ctrl+L | Layers |
| Shift+Ctrl+B | Brushes |
| Shift+Ctrl+P | Patterns |
| Ctrl+G | Gradients |
| Ctrl+B | Toolbox |
| Help Menu - Shortcuts | Function |
| F1 | Help |
| Shift+F1 | Context Sensitive Help |
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