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help system Piers Cornwell <piers.cornwell@bigfoot.com> who has taken the burden to continue this project Karin and Olof started. --Sven
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HTML
66 lines
2.7 KiB
HTML
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
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<HTML>
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<HEAD>
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<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
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<TITLE>New Image</TITLE>
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</HEAD>
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<BODY text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#0000FF" vlink="#FF0000" alink="#000088">
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<TABLE width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1">
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<TR bgcolor="black">
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<TD width="100%" align="center"><FONT size="+2" color="white">New Image</FONT></TD>
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</TR>
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<TR bgcolor="white" >
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<TD width="100%" align="left"><P>
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<P>
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File New will create a new Gimp image in either RGB (color) or Grayscale
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mode. You can't create an Indexed image since you will not know which colors
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your palette should have. Besides, working in Indexed mode is not a good choice
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instead work in RGB and convert to Indexed just before saving the image.
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<P>
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How to create a new image:
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<P>
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<DL>
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<DT>
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<EM>Set the resolution:</EM>
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<DD>
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The resolution is how many pixels per length unit you what your image to
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built up with. The default 72ppi (72 pixels/inch) is good if you want to
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create web graphics (you can alter the default value in the preferences dialog).
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However if you going to print your image you will probably need a lot more
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than 72ppi.<BR>
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You have several choices about how you want to measure the resolution pixels
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per inch, mm, points or picas (there is also an option which will bring
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up a dialog with even more choices). We suggest that you stick to ppi since
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that the most common format when you are dealing with images.<BR>
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You can have different X and Y resolutions by unchecking the chain but that
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is not recommended.
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<DT>
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<EM>Set the size:</EM>
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<DD>
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You have two options either you can set it directly in pixels in the
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top frame or in a real world unit in the middle frame. If you are working
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with web graphics we suggest that you deal with pixels directly. If you going
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to print your image then setting in a real world unit is the preferred.
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<DT>
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<EM>Set the mode/type of image:</EM>
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<DD>
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Set the mode to either RGB or Grayscale
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<DT>
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<EM>Set fill type:</EM>
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<DD>
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Foreground takes the currently active foreground color from the toolbox<BR>
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Background take the currently active background color from the toolbox<BR>
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White sets the fill color to white no matter what the toolbox
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color is<BR>
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Transparent prevents the image from filling instead you will get a
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totally "empty" image to start with.
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</DL>
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<P>
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The Reset button resets all values their default values. OK creates a new
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image.
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<P>
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<A href="index.html">Index</A>
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</TD>
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</TR>
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</TABLE>
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</BODY></HTML>
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