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Linux Mint Essentials

By : Jay LaCroix
Book Image

Linux Mint Essentials

By: Jay LaCroix

Overview of this book

A task-oriented look at Linux Mint, using actual real-world examples to stimulate learning. Each topic is presented in an easy-to-follow order, with hands-on activities to reinforce the content. If you are starting out with Linux from a different platform or are well versed with Linux Mint and want a guide that shows you how to exploit certain functionality, this book is for you. No previous Linux experience is assumed.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Index

Editing photos with GIMP


The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is another graphics application included in Mint and is able to handle the advanced needs of image editing. GIMP is very much comparable to Adobe Photoshop and is primarily geared toward intermediate to advanced graphic designers or photographers. However, even its most basic features are useful for very common photography tasks. The following screenshot shows how a photo is edited in GIMP:

One example of editing a photo is cropping it. This is something even a photography novice will need to do from time to time. After you've opened a photo in GIMP by clicking on File and then on Open, you'll find the cropping tool under the Tools menu, under Transform Tools. After you crop your photo, you can save your changes. However, what you may think of as saving a file in any other program is known as exporting a file in GIMP. If you want to overwrite the same file, you'll find an Overwrite option in the file menu. However, if you...