NAME¶
gimp - an image manipulation and paint program.
SYNOPSIS¶
gimp [-h] [--help] [--help-all] [--help-gtk] [-v] [--version] [--license]
[--verbose] [-n] [--new-instance] [-a] [--as-new] [-i] [--no-interface] [-d]
[--no-data] [-f] [--no-fonts] [-s] [--no-splash] [--no-shm] [--no-cpu-accel]
[--display
display] [--session
<name>] [-g] [--gimprc
<gimprc>] [--system-gimprc
<gimprc>] [--dump-gimprc
] [--console-messages] [--debug-handlers] [--stack-trace-mode
<mode>] [--pdb-compat-mode <mode>]
[--batch-interpreter <procedure>] [-b] [--batch
<command> ] [filename] ...
DESCRIPTION¶
GIMP is the
GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is used to edit and
manipulate images. It can load and save a variety of image formats and can be
used to convert between formats.
GIMP can also be used as a paint program. It features a set of drawing and
painting tools such as airbrush, clone, pencil, and paint brush. Painting and
drawing tools can be applied to an image with a variety of paint modes. It
also offers an extensive array of selection tools like rectangle, ellipse,
fuzzy select, bezier select, intelligent scissors, and select by color.
GIMP offers a variety of plug-ins that perform a variety of image manipulations.
Examples include bumpmap, edge detect, gaussian blur, and many others. In
addition, GIMP has several scripting extension which allow for advanced
non-interactive processing and creation of images.
GIMP ships with a second binary called
gimp-console. This binary is a
console-only version and behaves as if
gimp was called with the
--no-interface command-line option.
On platforms with the D-Bus message bus system, GIMP will by default check if an
instance is already running in this user session. If it detects that, it will
pass all filenames given on the command-line to the already running GIMP
instance and quit.
OPTIONS¶
GIMP accepts the following options:
- -h, --help
- Show GIMP command-line options.
- --help-all
- Show all command-line options.
- --help-gtk
- Show GTK+ command-line options.
- --help-gegl
- Show GEGL command-line options.
- -v, --version
- Output version information and exit. When combined with the
--verbose option, version information about libraries used by GIMP is
shown as well.
- --license
- Output license information and exit.
- --verbose
- Be verbose and create information on standard output.
- -n, --new-instance
- Do not attempt to reuse an already running GIMP instance.
Always start a new one.
- -a, --as-new
- Open filenames passed on the command-line as new images,
don't set the filename on them.
- -i, --no-interface
- Run without a user interface.
- -d, --no-data
- Do not load patterns, gradients, palettes, or brushes.
Often useful in non-interactive situations where startup time is to be
minimized.
- -f, --no-fonts
- Do not load any fonts. No text functionality will be
available if this option is used.
- --display display
- Use the designated X display.
- -s, --no-splash
- Do not show the splash screen.
- --no-shm
- Do not use shared memory between GIMP and its plug-ins.
Instead of using shared memory, GIMP will send the data via pipe. This
will result in slower performance than using shared memory.
- --no-cpu-accel
- Do not use CPU accelerations such as MMX or SSE even if
GIMP detects that your CPU provides this functionality.
- --session <name>
- Use a different sessionrc for this GIMP session. The given
session name is appended to the default sessionrc filename.
- -g, --gimprc <gimprc>
- Use an alternative gimprc instead of the default one.
Useful in cases where plug-in paths or machine specs may be
different.
- --system-gimprc <gimprc>
- Use an alternate system gimprc file.
- --dump-gimprc
- Output a gimprc file with default settings.
- --debug-handlers
- Enable debugging signal handlers.
- -c, --console-messages
- Do not popup dialog boxes on errors or warnings. Print the
messages on the console instead.
- --stack-trace-mode {never|query|always}
- If a stack-trace should be generated in case of fatal
signals.
- --pdb-compat-mode {off|on|warn}
- If the PDB should provide aliases for deprecated
functions.
- --batch-interpreter <procedure>
- Specifies the procedure to use to process batch events. The
default is to let Script-Fu evaluate the commands.
- -b, --batch <command>
- Execute <command> non-interactively. This
option may appear multiple times. The <command> is passed to
the batch interpreter. When <command> is - the
commands are read from standard input.
ENVIRONMENT¶
GIMP respects a number of environment variables.
- DISPLAY
- to get the default host and display number.
- GIMP2_DIRECTORY
- to get the name of the personal GIMP directory. If unset
.gimp-2.8 is used. If this is an absolute path, it is used as is. If it is
a relative path, it is taken to be a subdirectory of the home
directory.
- GIMP2_DATADIR
- to get the base location for data files such as brushes and
patterns. If unset ${datarootdir}/gimp/2.0 is used.
- GIMP2_LOCALEDIR
- to get the base location for translations. If unset
${datarootdir}/locale is used.
- GIMP2_PLUGINDIR
- to get the base location for plug-ins and modules. If unset
${exec_prefix}/lib/gimp/2.0 is used.
- GIMP2_SYSCONFDIR
- to get the location of configuration files. If unset
/etc/gimp/2.0 is used.
On Linux GIMP can be compiled with support for binary relocatibility. This
will cause data, plug-ins and configuration files to be searched relative
to the location of the gimp executable file unless overridden by the
environment variables mentioned above.
FILES¶
GIMP's data files are stored in ${datarootdir}/gimp/2.0, where ${datarootdir} is
set on install, but is typically /usr/share. GIMP's system-wide configuration
files are stored in /etc/gimp/2.0, where ${prefix} is typically /usr.
Most GIMP configuration is read in from the user's init file,
$HOME/.gimp-2.8/gimprc. The system wide equivalent is in /etc/gimprc.
The system wide file is parsed first and the user gimprc can override the
system settings. /etc/gimprc_user is the default gimprc placed in users' home
directories the first time GIMP is run.
$HOME/.gimp-2.8/devicerc - holds settings for input devices together with
the tool, colors, brush, pattern and gradient associated to that device.
$HOME/.gimp-2.8/gtkrc - users set of GIMP-specific GTK+ config settings.
Options such as widget color and fonts sizes can be set here.
/etc/gimp/2.0/gtkrc - system wide default set of GIMP-specific GTK+ config
settings.
$HOME/.gimp-2.8/menurc - user's set of keybindings.
$HOME/.gimp-2.8/parasiterc - Stores all persistent GIMP parasites. This
file will be rewritten every time you quit GIMP.
$HOME/.gimp-2.8/sessionrc - This file takes session-specific info (that
is info, you want to keep between two GIMP sessions). You are not supposed to
edit it manually, but of course you can do. This file will be entirely
rewritten every time you quit GIMP. If this file isn't found, defaults are
used.
$HOME/.gimp-2.8/templaterc - Image templates are kept in this file. New
images can conveniently created from these templates. If this file isn't
found, defaults are used.
/etc/gimp/2.0/unitrc - default user unit database. It contains the unit
definitions for centimeters, meters, feet, yards, typographic points and
typographic picas and is placed in users home directories the first time GIMP
is ran. If this file isn't found, defaults are used.
$HOME/.gimp-2.8/unitrc - This file contains your user unit database. You
can modify this list with the unit editor. You are not supposed to edit it
manually, but of course you can do. This file will be entirely rewritten every
time you quit GIMP.
$HOME/.gimp-2.8/plug-ins - location of user installed plug-ins.
$HOME/.gimp-2.8/pluginrc - plug-in initialization values are stored here.
This file is parsed on startup and regenerated if need be.
$HOME/.gimp-2.8/modules - location of user installed modules.
$HOME/.gimp-2.8/tmp - default location that GIMP uses as temporary space.
${datarootdir}/gimp/2.0/brushes - system wide brush files.
$HOME/.gimp-2.8/brushes - user created and installed brush files. These
files are in the .gbr, .gih or .vbr file formats.
$HOME/.gimp-2.8/curves - Curve profiles and presets as saved from the
Curves tool.
$HOME/.gimp-2.8/gimpressionist - Presets and user created brushes and
papers are stored here.
$HOME/.gimp-2.8/levels - Level profiles and presets as saved from the
Levels tool.
${datarootdir}/gimp/2.0/palettes - the system wide palette files.
$HOME/.gimp-2.8/palettes - user created and modified palette files. This
files are in the .gpl format.
${datarootdir}/gimp/2.0/patterns - basic set of patterns for use in GIMP.
$HOME/.gimp-2.8/patterns - user created and installed gimp pattern files.
This files are in the .pat format.
${datarootdir}/gimp/2.0/gradients - standard system wide set of gradient files.
$HOME/.gimp-2.8/gradients - user created and installed gradient files.
${datarootdir}/gimp/2.0/scripts - system wide directory of scripts used in
Script-Fu and other scripting extensions.
$HOME/.gimp-2.8/scripts - user created and installed scripts.
${datarootdir}/gimp/2.0/gflares - system wide directory used by the gflare
plug-in.
$HOME/.gimp-2.8/gflares - user created and installed gflare files.
${datarootdir}/gimp/2.0/gfig - system wide directory used by the gfig plug-in.
$HOME/.gimp-2.8/gfig - user created and installed gfig files.
${datarootdir}/gimp/2.0/images/gimp-splash.png - the default image used for the
GIMP splash screen.
${datarootdir}/gimp/2.0/images/gimp-logo.png - image used in the GIMP about
dialog.
${datarootdir}/gimp/2.0/tips/gimp-tips.xml - tips as displayed in the "Tip
of the Day" dialog box.
SPLASH IMAGES¶
GIMP comes with a default image for the splash screen but it allows system
administrators and users to customize the splash screen by providing other
images. The image to be used with the splash screen is chosen as follows:
- 1.
- GIMP tries to load a random splash screen from the
directory $HOME/.gimp-2.8/splashes.
- 2.
- It then falls back to using
$HOME/.gimp-2.8/gimp-splash.png.
- 3.
- If the user didn't install any custom splash images, a
random image is picked from ${datarootdir}/gimp/2.0/splashes.
- 4.
- As a last resort, GIMP uses the default splash image
located at ${datarootdir}/gimp/2.0/images/gimp-splash.png.
SUGGESTIONS AND BUG REPORTS¶
Any bugs found should be reported to the online bug-tracking system available on
the web at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/. Before reporting bugs, please check to
see if the bug has already been reported.
When reporting GIMP bugs, it is important to include a reliable way to reproduce
the bug, version number of GIMP (and probably GTK+), OS name and version, and
any relevant hardware specs. If a bug is causing a crash, it is very useful if
a stack trace can be provided. And of course, patches to rectify the bug are
even better.
OTHER INFO¶
The canonical place to find GIMP info is at
http://www.gimp.org/. Here you can
find links to just about many other GIMP sites, tutorials, data sets, mailing
list archives, and more.
There is also a GIMP User Manual available at
http://docs.gimp.org/ that goes
into much more detail about the interactive use of GIMP.
The latest versions of GIMP and the GTK+ libs are always available at
ftp://ftp.gimp.org/.
AUTHORS¶
Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis and the GIMP Development Team.
With patches, fixes, plug-ins, extensions, scripts, translations, documentation
and more from lots and lots of people all over the world.
SEE ALSO¶
gimprc(5),
gimptool(1),