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<H1 ALIGN="center"> The RRU GIMP Tutorial </H1>
<H2 ALIGN="center"> Introduction </H2>
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Last updated: <EM>30 August 1998</EM>
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<H3><A NAME="what">What is the GIMP?</A></H3>
In the words of its authors,
Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis...
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``GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation
Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software
suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image
composition and image authoring. Many people find it
extremely useful in creating logos and other graphics for
web pages (all of the graphics on this web page were
created using GIMP). The GIMP has many of the tools
and filters you would expect to find in similar
commercial offerings, and some interesting extras as
well.''
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The GIMP is built on top of the GTK (GIMP Toolit), which
in turn is built on top of the GDK (GIMP Drawing Kit).
The GTK and GDK were developed for the GIMP, but are
extremely useful in their own right and are beginning
to see use in other projects as well.
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The GIMP was originally built on top of Motif. Partially
to make the GIMP more freely available, and partly because
Motif is fairly painful, the authors developed the GTK and
GDK. The GTK provides all the standard GUI components, but
the look and feel is much closer to Windows<SUP><FONT SIZE="-1">TM</FONT></SUP>
than to Motif. The GDK is basically a wrapper around Xlib.
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You may want to find out about <A HREF="starting.html">starting
the GIMP and its command line options</A> or you may just want
to <A HREF="basics.html">jump right in to using it</A>.
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Last updated: <EM>30 August 1998</EM>
<P>Copyright 1997, 1998 Miles O'Neal, Austin, TX. All rights reserved.
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