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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] [--con-
       sole-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 ses-
               sion 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 mes-
               sages 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  inter-
               preter. 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 ${dataroot-
               dir}/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 relocati-
               bility.  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 ${data-
       rootdir} 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  set-
       tings. 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  sup-
       posed  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  gradi-
       ent 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  pro-
       viding  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, docu-
       mentation and more from lots and lots of people all over the world.



SEE ALSO
       gimprc(5), gimptool(1),



Version 2.8.14                   March 23 2008                         GIMP(1)
