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====== GIMP ====== Gimp stands for "GNU Image Manipulation Program", it has little to envy to "Adobe Photoshop", which is the //de-facto// reference in this field. If you're a seasoned Photoshop user, you'll need a little time to get acquainted to the GIMP interface and some principals that are a little different between those two very complete programs. But you'll eventually discover that there is very little Photoshop can do that GIMP doesn't! ===== Installing Plugins ===== GIMP comes installed along Linux Mint LMDE, but you'll probably have to add some plugins to it in order to have GIMP offering the exact function you need. For a deeper introduction on GIMP plugins, you're invited to read the [[http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GIMP/Installing_Plugins|GIMP wiki about plugins]], otherwise here is a quick introduction on how to install a plugin for GIMP: === Download the plugin === You first need to download the plugin. Where you download it from depends on the plugin you want but many can be found in the [[http://registry.gimp.org/|GIMP plugin registry]]. === Expand the archive === The downloaded plugin package will come compressed (.zip, .gz, .bz2). So you need to decompress it first.\\ Locate you downloaded file in the file browser, right click it and select: "Extract Here". === Copy the plugin to the GIMP plugin directory === The easiest way to activate your downloaded plugin is to simply put it into your //~/.gimp-x.x/plugins// directory. To do so: * Right click on the extracted plugin folder, from your download location, and select "copy" * Open your "Home" directory: from the Menu > Places > Home Folder for example * Show hidden files and folders by typing "CTRL-h": you now see all files and folders starting with a "." * Expand (or enter) the .gimp-x.x folder * Right click the plug-ins folder and select "Paste Into folder" * Quit and relaunch the GIMP application to have the plugin available (quitting the application means selectin "Quit" from the File menu) Here below are some plugins of interest: ===== Save for Web ===== [[http://registry.gimp.org/node/33|Save for Web]] is one of the most immediate plugin you'll want if you're a web developer and are used to the "Save for web..." menu in Photoshop. As stated on the plugin page: //it allows to find compromise between minimal file size and acceptable quality of image quickly//. It can be downloaded from: [[http://registry.gimp.org/node/33]]