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  6.     <title>3.2.┬áThe Main Toolbox</title>
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  19.           <th colspan="3" align="center" id="chaptername">3.┬áBasic Gimp Usage</th>
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  22.           <td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ch02s03.html">Prev</a>┬á</td>
  23.           <th width="60%" align="center" id="sectionname">3.2.┬áThe Main Toolbox</th>
  24.           <td width="20%" align="right">┬á<a accesskey="n" href="ch02s03s03.html">Next</a></td>
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  33.             <h3 class="title"><a id="gimp-toolbox-using"></a>3.2.┬áThe Main Toolbox</h3>
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  41.       <p>
  42.     The Main Toolbox is the heart of the Gimp.  It is the only part of
  43.     the application that you cannot duplicate or close.  Here is a
  44.     quick tour of what you will find there.  
  45.   </p>
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  47.         <table border="0" summary="Tip">
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  50.               <img alt="[Tip]" src="../images/tip.png" />
  51.             </td>
  52.             <th align="left">Tip</th>
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  55.             <td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">
  56.               <p>
  57.       In the Toolbox, as in most parts of Gimp, moving the mouse on top
  58.       of something and letting it rest for a moment will usually bring
  59.       up a "tooltip" message that may help you understand what the thing
  60.       is or what you can do with it.  Also, in many cases you can press
  61.       the <span><b class="keycap">F1</b></span> key to get help about the thing that is
  62.       underneath the mouse. 
  63.     </p>
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  75.               <p>
  76.       <span class="emphasis"><em>Toolbox Menu:</em></span>
  77.         This menu is special:  it contains some commands that cannot
  78.         be found in the menus that are attached to images.  (Also some
  79.         that can.)  These include commands for setting preferences,
  80.         creating certain types of dialogs, etc.  The contents are
  81.         described systematically in the <a href="ch05.html#gimp-tools-menu" title="1.┬áToolbox Menu">Toolbox Menu</a> section.
  82.       </p>
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  90.               <p>
  91.         <span class="emphasis"><em>Tool icons:</em></span>
  92.         These icons are buttons that activate tools for a wide
  93.         variety of purposes: selecting parts of images, painting on
  94.         them, transforming them, etc.  The <a href="ch03.html#gimp-toolbox-introduction" title="1.┬áThe Toolbox">Toolbox Introduction</a> section gives
  95.         an overview of how to work with tools, and each tool is
  96.         described systematically in the <a href="ch03.html" title="Chapter┬á3.┬áToolbox">Tools</a> chapter.
  97.       </p>
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  104.             <td valign="top" align="left">
  105.               <p>
  106.         <span class="emphasis"><em>Foreground/Background colors:</em></span>
  107.         The color areas here show you Gimp's current foreground and
  108.         background colors, which come into play in many operations.
  109.         Clicking on either one of them brings up a color selector
  110.         dialog that allow you to change to a different color.
  111.         Clicking on the double-headed arrow swaps the two colors,
  112.         and clicking on the small symbol in the lower left corner
  113.         resets them to black and white.
  114.       </p>
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  122.               <p>
  123.         <span class="emphasis"><em>Brush/Pattern/Gradient</em></span>
  124.         The symbols here show you <span class="acronym">Gimp's</span> current
  125.         selections for: the Paintbrush, used by all tools that allow
  126.         you to paint on the image ("painting" includes operations
  127.         like erasing and smudging, by the way); for the Pattern,
  128.         which is used in filling selected areas of an image; and for
  129.         the Gradient, which comes into play whenever an operation
  130.         requires a smoothly varying range of colors.  Clicking on
  131.         any of these symbols brings up a dialog window that allows
  132.         you to change it. 
  133.       </p>
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  141.               <p>
  142.         <span class="emphasis"><em>Active Image:</em></span>
  143.         (This is a new feature in Gimp 2.2) In
  144.         <span class="acronym">Gimp</span>, you can work with many images at
  145.         once, but at any given moment, one of them is the "active
  146.         image".  Here you find a small iconic representation of
  147.         the active image.  Clicking on it brings up a dialog with
  148.         a list of all the currently open images, allowing you to
  149.         make a different one active if you want to.  (Clicking on
  150.         the window where the image is displayed will accomplish
  151.         the same thing, though.)  
  152.       </p>
  153.             </td>
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