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- The GIMP: The GNU Image Manipulation Program: The Hadjaha Release
- =================================================================
-
- The GIMP is designed to be a professional image manipulation program
- suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image
- authoring.
-
- For installation instructions, see the file INSTALL.
-
- 1. Web Resources
- ================
-
- The GIMP's home page is at:
-
- http://www.gimp.org/
-
- Please be sure to visit this site for information, documentation,
- tutorials, news, etc. All things GIMP-ish are available from there.
-
- The automated plug-in registry is located at:
-
- http://registry.gimp.org/
-
- There you can get the latest versions of plug-ins using a convenient
- forms-based interface.
-
- The latest version of The GIMP can be found at:
-
- http://www.gimp.org/download/
-
- 2. Mailing Lists
- ================
-
- We have several mailing lists dedicated to GIMP user and development
- discussion. To subscribe, send an empty message to
-
- <listname>-subscribe@xcf.berkeley.edu
-
- substituting <listname> for "gimp-user", "gimp-announce" or
- "gimp-developer" (without the quotes, of course) depending on the list you
- want to subscribe to. The mailing list archives can be found at:
-
- http://www.egroups.com/messages/gimp-developer/
- http://www.egroups.com/messages/gimp-user/
-
- Gimp-user is a mailing list dedicated to user problems, hints and
- tips, discussion of cool effects, etc. Gimp-announce is a low-traffic list
- with announcements about new releases of GIMP and plug-ins. Gimp-developer is
- oriented to GIMP core and plug-in developers. Most people will only want to
- be subscribed to gimp-user. If you want to help develop The GIMP, the
- gimp-developer mailing list is a good starting point.
-
- There are two mailing lists dedicated to the Win32 port,
- "gimpwin-users" and "gimpwin-dev". Especially the latter also carries
- traffic about the GTk+ port to Win32 in general. To subscribe, send an
- empty message to
-
- gimpwin-users-subscribe@egroups.com
- or
- gimpwin-dev-subscribe@egroups.com
-
- respectively. You can also use the web interface at
- http://www.egroups.com/group/gimpwin-users/ and
- http://www.egroups.com/group/gimpwin-dev/ . Note that as these mailing
- lists are hosted on egroups.com, the messages from the list contain
- relatively unintrusive and easily ignored advertisements at the
- end. But if you are absolutely allergic to ads, don't subscribe.
-
-
- 3. IRC
- ======
-
- And finally, for the real junkies, there is an IRC channel devoted to
- the GIMP. On Byxnet (a private mostly-GIMP network) there is #gimp.
- Many of the developers hang out there. One of the Byxnet servers are:
-
- irc.gimp.org:6667
-
- 4. Customizing
- ==============
-
- The look of GIMP's interface can be customized like any other GTK app
- by editing the ~/.gtkrc file or by using "themes" (ready-made
- customizations). For downloadable themes and further details, see
- http://gtk.themes.org. Additionally GIMP reads ~/.gimp-1.2/gtkrc so you
- can have settings that only apply to The GIMP.
-
- Included is a set of keybindings similar to those in Adobe Photoshop (tm).
- You can find them in the ps-menurc file. To use them, copy this file to
- ~/.gimp-1.2/menurc. You can also manually change the keybindings to any of
- your choice by editing ~/.gimp-1.2/menurc.
-
- 5. Bugs
- =======
-
- We sincerely hope you enjoy the program. Please report problems to
- bugs@gimp.org. Before reporting a problem, you may want to see if someone
- else did already - check http://bugs.gnome.org/db/pa/lgimp.html for this.
-
- Have fun,
-
- Spencer Kimball
- Peter Mattis
- Federico Mena
- Manish Singh
-
-