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- <h3 class="title"><a id="gimp-image-window"></a>3.3. Image Window</h3>
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- In Gimp, each image that you have open is displayed in its own
- separate window. (In some cases, multiple windows may all
- display the same image, but this is unusual.) We will begin
- with a brief description of the components that are present by
- default in an ordinary image window. Some of these, in fact,
- can be made to disappear using commands in the <a href="ch05s05.html" title="5. View">View</a> menu; but
- you will probably find that you don't want to do that.
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- <p><b>Title Bar: </b>
- At the top of the image window you will probably see a title bar,
- showing the name of the image and some basic information about
- it. The title bar is actually provided by the windowing system,
- not by Gimp itself, so its appearance may vary with different
- operating systems, window managers, and/or themes. In the <a href="ch04s18.html" title="18. Preferences">Preferences dialog</a> you can
- customize the information that appears here, if you want to.
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- <p><b>Image Menu: </b>
- Directly below the title bar appears the Image Menu (unless it
- has been suppressed). This menu gives you access to nearly every
- operation you can perform on an image. (There are some "global"
- actions that can only be accessed via the Toolbox menu.) You can
- also get the Image Menu by right-clicking inside the
- image<sup>[<a id="id3418949" href="#ftn.id3418949">1</a>]</sup>, or by
- left-clicking on the little "arrow" symbol in the upper left
- corner, if for some reason you find one of these more convenient.
- More: most menu operations can also be activated from the
- keyboard, using Alt plus an "accelerator" key underlined in the
- menu title. More: you can define your own custom shortcuts for
- menu actions, if you enable <a href="ch04s18s04.html" title="18.4. Interface">Use Dynamic Keyboard
- Shortcuts</a> in the Preferences dialog.
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- <p><b>Menu Button: </b>
- Clicking on this little button gives you the Image Menu, except
- in a column instead of a row. Mnemonics users who don't want the
- menu bar visible can acces to this menu by pressing the
- <span><b class="keycap">Shift F10</b></span> key.
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- <a id="gimp-image-window-ruler"></a>
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- <p><b>Ruler: </b>
- In the default layout, rulers are shown above and to the left of
- the image, indicating coordinates within the image. You can
- control what type of coordinates are shown if you want to. By
- default, pixels are used, but you can change to other units,
- using the Units setting described below.
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- <p>
- One of the most important uses of rulers is to create
- <span class="emphasis"><em>guides</em></span>. If you click on a ruler and drag into
- the image display, a guideline will be created, which you can use
- to help you position things accurately. Guides can be moved by
- clicking on them and dragging, or deleted by dragging them out of
- the image display.
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- <p><b>QuickMask Toggle: </b>
- At the lower left corner of the image display is a small button
- that toggles on or off the Quick Mask, which is an alternate, and
- often extremely useful, way of viewing the selected area within
- the image. For more details see <a href="ch04s03s05.html" title="3.5. Quick Mask">QuickMask</a>.
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- <p><b>Pointer coordinates: </b>
- In the lower left corner of the window is a rectangular area used
- to show the current pointer coordinates (that is, the mouse
- location, if you are using a mouse), whenever the pointer is
- within the image boundaries. The units are the same as for the
- rulers.
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- <td valign="top" align="left">
- <p><b>Units menu: </b>
- (This feature is new in Gimp 2.2; it does not appear in Gimp
- 2.0). By default, the units used for the rulers and several
- other purposes are pixels. You can change to inches, cm, or
- several other possibilities using this menu. (If you do, note
- that the setting of "Dot for dot" in the View menu affects how
- the display is scaled: see <a href="ch05s05s02.html" title="5.2. Dot for Dot">Dot for Dot</a> for more
- information.
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- <a id="gimp-image-window-zoom"></a>
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- <p><b>Zoom button: </b>
- (This feature is new in Gimp 2.2; it does not appear in Gimp
- 2.0). There are a number of ways to zoom the image in or out,
- but this menu is perhaps the simplest.
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- <a id="gimp-image-window-status-bar"></a>
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- <p><b>Status Area: </b>
- The Status Area appears below the image display. Most of the
- time, by default, it shows which part of the image is currently
- active, and the amount of system memory that the image is
- consuming. You can customize the information that appears here,
- by changing your Preferences. When you perform time-consuming
- operations, the status area changes temporarily to show what
- operation is being performed, and its state of progress.
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- <p><b>Cancel Button: </b>
- At the lower right corner of the window appears the Cancel
- button. If you start a complex, time-consuming operation (most
- commonly a plug-in), and then decide, while it is being computed,
- that you didn't really want to do it after all, this button will
- cancel it immediately.
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- There are a few plug-ins that respond badly to being canceled,
- possibly leaving corrupted pieces of images behind.
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- Il y a quelques greffons qui répondent mal à l'arrêt et peuvent
- corrompre des morceaux d'image.
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- <p><b>Navigation control: </b>
- This is a small cross-shaped button at the lower right corner of
- the image display. Clicking on it, and holding the left mouse
- button down, brings up a window showing a miniature view of the
- image, with the displayed area outlined. You can pan to a
- different part of the image by moving the mouse while keeping the
- button depressed. For large images of which only a small part is
- displayed, the navigation window is often the most convenient way
- of getting to the part of the image you are looking for. (See
- <a href="ch04s07.html" title="7. Navigation Dialog">Navigation Dialog</a>
- for other ways to access the Navigation Window).
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- <p><b>inactive padding area: </b>
- This padding area seperates the active image display and the
- inactive padding area, so you're able to distinguish between
- them. You cannot apply any Filters or Operations in generall on
- the inactive area.
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- <td width="5%" valign="top" align="left">(13)</td>
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- <p><b>Image Display: </b>
- The most important part of the image window is, of course, the
- image display. It occupies the central area of the window,
- surrounded by a yellow dotted line showing the image boundary,
- against a neutral gray background. You can change the zoom level
- of the image display in a variety of ways, including the Zoom
- setting described below.
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- <p><b>image window resize toggle: </b>
- If this button is pressed, the image itself will be resized if
- the image window is resized.
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- <p><sup>[<a id="ftn.id3418949" href="#id3418949">1</a>] </sup> Users with an Apple Macintosh can use
- <span><b class="keycap">Ctrl</b></span>+left mousebutton.</p>
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