In Review

This chapter has offered a basic, high-level introduction to GIMP. We looked a little at GIMP’s history, what it does, and where you can get it. We also looked at the layout of GIMP’s UI and its available tools, and we covered the basics of how to work with images in GIMP. We explored the basics of working with tools, filters, layers, and selections and discussed saving, loading, and exporting.

In Chapter 3, we’ll prepare to work on the different projects in this book before we put GIMP and Blender to work in earnest.

Creating a selection (shown highlighted in the top image) lets you restrict GIMP’s tools to a particular area of your image.
Figure 2-5. Creating a selection (shown highlighted in the top image) lets you restrict GIMP’s tools to a particular ...

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