GIMP Toolbox

2008

About GIMP toolbox

Tool Name Description

Rectangle Select Designed to select
rectangular regions of an
image: it is the most basic of
the selection tools, but very
commonly used.

Ellipse Select Designed to select circular

and elliptical regions from an
image, with high-quality anti-
aliasing if you want it.

Free Select Lets you create a selection

by drawing it free hand with
the pointer, while holding
down the left mouse button.

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Fuzzy Select Designed to select areas of

the current layer or image
based on color similarity

Select by Color Designed to select areas of

an image based on color
similarity. It works a lot like
the Fuzzy Select tool

Scissors An interesting piece of

equipment. It is useful when
you are trying to select a
region defined by strong

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color-changes at the edges.

Foreground Select Lets you extract the

foreground from the active
layer or from a selection.

Paths Can make complex

selections by specifying
certain points that are
connected together with a
curve.

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Color Picker Used to select a color on any

image opened on your
screen.

Color picked from the tip of leaf

Zoom Designed to magnify an

image, either enlarging it
(zooming in) or reducing it
(zooming out).
Zooming In

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Zooming Out

Measure Used to gain knowledge

about pixel distances in your
working image.

Move Used to move layers,

selections, paths or guides

Align Used to align the image

layers with various image
objects

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Aligned to the center

Crop Used to crop or clip an

image. It works on all the
layers of the image, visible
and invisible.

Source image
Image after cropping

Rotate Used to rotate the active

layer, a selection or a path.

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Source image

When rotated 180 degrees

Scale Enlarges or reduces the

physical size of the image by
changing the number of
pixels it contains. It changes
the size of the contents of the
image and resizes the
canvas accordingly.

Source image
After scaling

Shear Used to shift one part of an

image, a layer, a selection or
a path to a direction and the
other part to the opposite
direction.

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Perspective Used to change the

“perspective” of the active
layer content, of selection
content or of a path.

Flip Provides the ability to flip

layers or selections either
horizontally or vertically.
When a selection is flipped, a
new layer with a Selection is
created.

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Source image

After flipped

Text Used to create or edit text

layers.

Bucket Fill Fills a selection with the

current foreground color. If
you Ctrl+click and use the
Bucket tool, it will use the
background color instead.

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Blend Fills the selected area with a

gradient blend of the
foreground and background
colors by default, but there
are many options.

Source image

After blending

Pencil Used to draw free hand lines

with a hard edge.

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Paintbrush Paints fuzzy brush strokes.

All strokes are rendered
using the current brush.

Eraser Used to remove areas of

color from the current layer or
from a selection of this layer.

Using eraser

Airbrush Emulates a traditional

airbrush. This tool is suitable

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for painting soft areas of

color.

Ink Uses a simulation of an ink

pen with a controllable nib to
paint solid brush strokes with
an antialiased edge.

Clone Uses the current brush to

copy from an image or
pattern

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Before cloning

After cloning

Heal Is a close relative to the

Clone Tool, but it is more
smart to remove small
failures in images. A typical
usage is the removal of
wrinkles in photographs.

Perspective Clone Allow you to clone according

to the perspective you want.

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Before perspective cloning

After perspective cloning

Uses the current brush to

Blur / sharpen locally blur or sharpen your
image.

Smudge Uses the current brush to

smudge colors on the active
layer or a selection. It takes
color in passing and uses it to
mix it to the next colors it
meets, on a distance you can
set.

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Dodge / Burn Uses the current brush to

lighten or darken the
colors in your image.

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