GIMP

Gimp: The Official Handbook is written by two Gimp experts and is the most comprehensive source of information available on this freely distributed image-manipulation program for the Open Source community.

The only book to teach the entire program, including all built-in filters and third-party plug-ins. Beats the competition by teaching the program from cover to cover. Other books gloss over key features and focus on learning the program quickly, or are theoretical and provide no practical information on the product. Features a 32-page Color Studio with inspiring images readers can create by learning all of the program's techniques in the book.

• Part I: About Gimp
1. What Is Gimp?
• About the Gump
• Gimp History
• The Future Of Gimp
2. Default Shortcuts And Dynamic Key Bindings
• Dynamic Keybindings
• Default Shortcuts In Gimp
3. Don't Underestimate The Power Of Gimp
• Creating Image Objects
• Handling Glass, Water and Reflections
• Transforming A Photograph To A Drawing
• Part II: Gimp Installation
4. Obtaining And Installing Gimp
• How to Install Gimp Personal Files
• Obtaining Gimp
5. Gimp For Photoshop Users
• Why Should I Use Gimp When I Have Photoshop?
• Migrating To Gimp
• Some Final Notes
• Part III: Basic Functions
6. Files And Preferences
• The File Menu
• Creating Images
• Guash
• Opening Files
• Saving Images
• Save Dialogs
• Mailing Images
• Displaying Images In The Root Window
• Printing Images
• Gimp Preferences
• Miscellaneous Features And Extensions
7. Selection Tools
• Basic Controls
• Selection Controls
• Moving Selections
• Rectangular And Elliptical Selection Tools
• Selection Options
• The Free-Hand Selection Tool
• Intelligent Scissors
8. Paint Tools
• The Color Picker
• Palettes
• The Bucket Fill
• The Blend Tool Or Gradient Fill
• The Pencil And Paintbrush
• Brush Selection
• The Eraser Tool
• The Airbrush Tool
• The Clone Tool
• The Convolver
• The Foreground/Background Icons
9. Edit And View
• Cut, Copy And Paste
• Multiselect
• Clear, Fill And Stroke
• Zoom
• Rulers And Guides
• Undo And Redo
• New Views, Shrink Wrap And Window Info
10. Transform Tools
• The Move Tool
• The Crop Tool
• The Transform Tool
• The Flip Tool
• The Magnify Tool
11. Text And Fonts
• The Text Tool
12. Brushes, Gradients, Palettes And Patterns
• Brushes
• Patterns
• Palettes
• The Gradient Editor
• Part IV: Pre-press Knowledge
13. Color Models
• RGB
• CMYK
• Indexed
• HSV
• NCS
• Spot Color
• Gray Scale And Line Art
• Complementary Or Inverted Colors
14. Pre-press And Color In Gimp
• What Is Pre-press?
• Printing From Gimp
• Preparing For The Press
• At The Print SHop
• Scanning Using A UNIX Or Linux System
• Calibration
• Color Calibration
• In-Depth Information
• Rsolution
• Tables
15. Scanning And Scanners
• Scanning In Gimp
• What Scanner To Buy
• What All Those Specs really Mean
• Installing Sane
• Using Sane In Gimp
• Scanning With A Flatbed Scanner
• Scanning, The Web And Printing
• Scanning Other Objects
• Part V: More Gimp Functions
16. Image Menu
• RGB, Grayscale And Indexed
• Resize and Scale
• Histogram
• Save Palette
• Transforms
17. Image Menu: Colors
• Colors
• Equalize
• Invert
• Posterize
• Threshold
• Color Balance
• Brightness-Contrast
• Hue-Saturation
• Curves
• Levels
• Desaturate
• Auto-Stretch Contrast
• Auto-Stretch HSV
• Normalize
• Colorcube Analysis
18. Image Menu: Channel Ops And Alpha
• The Channel Ops Menu
• Alpha
19. Select Menu
• Creating Selections
• Adjusting Selections
• Special Selection Commands
20. Layers And Floating Selections
• Introduction
• Basic Layer Operations
• Mask, Alpha And Selection Operations
• Layer Align, Adjust And Move Operations
• Transforms
• Floating Selections
21. Modes
• What Are Modes?
• Comparing Different Modes
22. Channels And Duotones
• RGB Channels
• Alpha Channels
• Using Channels For Spot Color Separation
• Part VI: Filters
23. An Introduction To Filters
• Plug-ins
24. Animation Filters
• Automation Filters In The Filters Menu
• How To Create A GIF Animation
25. Artistic Filters
• Apply Canvas
• Apply Carpet
• Cubism
• GAG
• Gimpressionist
• Mosaic
• Newsprint
• Oilify
• Van Gogh (LIC)
• Warp
26. Blur Filters
• Antialias
• Blur
• Gaussian Blur
• Motion Blur
• Pixelize
• Selective Gaussian Blur
• Tileable Blur
• Variable Blur
• Antialias…
27. Color Filters
• Adjust Fgrd. - Bgrd.
• Alien Map
• Alien Map2
• Border Average
• Color Mapping
• Color Exchange
• Colorify
• Colormap Rotation
• Filter Pack
• FS-Dither
• Gradient Map
• Hot
• Max RGB
• Quantize
• RGB Displace
• Sample Colorize
• Scatter HSV
• Semi-Flatten
• Smooth Palette
• Value Invert
28. Combine Filters
• Depth Merge
• Film
• Fuse
29. Cryptographic Filters
• Digital Signature
• Encrypt & Decrypt
• Gimp Mask
• Stegano
30. Distort Filters
• Bend
• Blinds
• Curtain
• Emboss
• Engrave
• IWarp
• Pagecurl
• Polar Coords
• Ripple
• Shift
• Twist
• Value Propagate
• Waves
• Whirl And Pinch
• Wind
31. Edge-Detect Filters
• Introduction
• Edge
• Laplace
• LoG
• Sobel
32. Enhance Filters
• Adaptive Contrast
• Deinterface
• Despeckle
• Destripe
• NL Filter
• Sharpen
• Unsharp Mask
33. Generic Filters
• Convolution Matrix
• Universal Filter
• User Filter (Adobe Filter Factory Emulator)
34. Glass Effect Filters
• Apply Lens
• Conical Anamorphose And Central Reflection
• Ellipse
• Glass Tile
• RaX Structurizer
• Refract
35. Light Effect Filters
• FlareFX
• Gflare
• Light Effects
• Sparkle
• Super Nova
36. Map Filters
• Bump Map
• Coordinate Map
• Displace
• Fractal Trace
• Illusion
• Make Seamless
• Map Object
• Paper Tile
• Small Tiles
• Tile
37. Miscellaneous Filters
• Diff
• ImageMap
• Magic Eye
• Sterogram
• Video
38. Noise Filters
• Noisify
• Randomize, Hurl, Pick And Slur
• Spread
39. Render Filters
• CML Explorer
• Checkerboard
• Diffraction Patterns
• Dynamic Text
• Figures
• Flame
• Fractal Explorer
• Genetic
• Gfig
• Grid
• HFG
• Harmonic Colors
• IFS Compose
• Jigsaw
• L-Systems
• Maze
• NCP
• Plasma
• Photo Mosaic
• Random Path
• Qbist
• Sinus
• Solid Noise
• Part VII: Miscellaneous Gimp Functions
40. Advanced Animation With Gimp Or How To Use AnimFrames
• Basic Concepts
• How To Create An Animation With AnimFrames
• Your First Animation
• Move Beyond The Basics With The Move Path Tool
• The AnimFrame Menu
• Filter Layers
• Animation Gallery/Tutorial
41. Drawing Tablets And Gimp
• Introduction
• Using The Pen As A Mouse Replacement
• The Wacom Intuos Tablet
• A Sneak Preview Of Gimp 1.1.x
• Using Tablets With Gimp
• Part VIII: Script-Fu
42. Script-Fu: Description And Function
• Script-Fu?
• Standalone Scripts
• Image-Dependent Scripts
43. Mike Terry's Black Belt School Of Script-Fu
• The Road To Script-Fu Mastery
• Lesson 1: Getting Acquainted With Scheme
• Lesson 2: Of Variables And Functions
• Lesson 3: Lists, Lists And More Lists
• Lesson 4: Your First Script-Fu Script
• Lesson 5: Giving Our Script Some Guts
• Lesson 6: Extending The Text Box Script
• Part IV: Perl-Fu
44. A Perl Introduction
• Introduction
• Perl-Fu Installation And Configuration
• Crash Course
45. A Tutorial For Perl Gimp Users
• Background
• What You Need
• The Gimp Module
• The Gimp PDB
• Object-Oriented Syntax
• Painting Areas With Selections
• Creating Text
• Floating Selections
• The Perl Server And Standalone Scripts
• End Notes, Links And References
• Part X: Advanced Installations
46. How to Get Fonts to Gimp
• How Fonts Work In Gimp
• Installing Fonts
• Tables
47. Compiling Plug-Ins
• Compile
• How To Obtain And Install The Source Code
• Compiling The Code
• Part XI: Appendixes
1. Gimp Start Flags And rcfiles
• Gimp Command Line Switches AKA Flags (Options)
• Installing A New Version Of Gimp
• Initialization Files AKA rc-files
2. Gimp Man Pages
• The Gimp Man Page
• The gimp-tool Man Page
3. SIOD: Scheme In One Defune, Reference Appendix
• Reference Section For Built-in Procedures
4. Perl-Fu Man Pages
• Gimp Man Page
• Gimp:Fu Man Page
• Gimp::OO Man Page
• Gimp::Data Man Page
• Gimp::Util Man Page
• Gimp::Pixel Man Page
• Gimp::Compat Man Page
• Gimp::Feature Man Page
• Gimp::Config Man Page
• Gimp::Pod Man Page
• Gimp::Net Man Page
• Gimp::Lib Man Page
• Gimp::PDL Man Page
• Gimp::UI Man Page
5. Sane-Supported Scanners
• Legend
6. Links And References
• Links

A very good handbook. Recommended if you're going to utilise GIMP.