[Pivotus Notes] gimp experiences

1. Gimp introduction:

Gimp is a cross-platform image processing program. Gimp is the abbreviation of GNU Image Manipulation Program. Gimp can meet various image processing requirements, including photo polishing, image synthesis, and image creation.

Gimp has many functions, which can be used as a simple drawing program, as an expert photo processing procedure, or as an online batch processing system, or as a mass image Renderer, as well as image format converter.

GimpWith scalability and scalability, it can complete a variety of things through the extension plug-in. Its advanced script interface allows users to write simple scripts to complete various image processing processes from the simplest to the most complex.

The advantage of gimp lies in its diversity of sources and support for a large number of operating systems. Many GNU/Linux releases use gimp as a quasi-program. Of course, gimp also supports other operating systems such as Microsoft Windows
Or Apple's smac OS X (Darwin ). Gimp is not a free software, but follows the General Public License (GPL
Open source software. GPLThis gives users the freedom to obtain and change computer program source code.

2. Install gimp

sudo apt-get install gimp

3. Start gimp in Chinese

LANGUAGE=zh_CN gimp

4. Gimp Chinese Tutorial: http://docs.gimp.org/2.2/zh_CN/introduction.html

5. Gimp functions and features:

• Complete image tool kit, including paint brush, pencil, spray gun, clone and other tools.

• Tile-based memory management limits the image size to the available disk space.

• The secondary pixel (sub-pixel) sampling is used for all painting tools to produce high-quality anti-sawtooth effects.

• Fully supports Alpha channels.

• Supports layers and channels.

• With a procedural database, you can call gimp Internal commands from external programs (such as script-Fu.

• Advanced scripting capabilities.

• Multi-level undo (redo) (only limited by the disk space ).

• Conversion tools include rotation, scaling, shear, and flip.

• Supports multiple file formats, including GIF, JPEG, PNG, XPM, Tiff, TGA, MPEG, PS, PDF, PCX, and BMP.

• Read, display, convert, and save multiple file formats.

• The selection tool includes rectangle, elliptic, free, fuzzy, bezy curve, and smart scissors.

• The plug-in allows you to easily add support for new file formats and filter effects.