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The crop tool is used for selecting a part of a picture, and then cut it, leaving only the part that you selected. media type="file" key="crop tool.wmv" width="300" height="300" Changing layers order is useful for knowing which layer is the background and which others are the smaller layers. If you move the layer from the back to the top, the background will be on top of the other layers, and so on. Steps for Using the Change of Layers media type="file" key="layers.wmv" width="300" height="300" The text tool is use to write in the picture. You can change the text’s font by selecting your text and going to tool box and choosing the color, type of letter and size. Also you can move the place were the text is. This video shows you visualize how to use better the Text Tool media type="file" key="text tool.wmv" width="300" height="300"
 * __ Crop Tool __**
 * Steps for Using Crop Tool **
 * Go to tool box
 * Select Crop Tool[[image:croptool.jpg]]
 * Draw the rectangle, enclosing the part that you want to see in the picture
 * Click on the inside of the rectangle
 * __ Change order of Layers __**
 * Go to layer window
 * Select and drag the layer to the place top or bottom, or to the place that you prefer.
 * __ Text __**
 * Steps for Using Text Tool**
 * 1) Tool Box
 * 2) Click in Text Tool[[image:Text.jpg width="34" height="28"]]
 * 3) Go to the part of the picture where you want to write and drag the rectangle where you are going to write
 * 4) Write your text
 * 5) Select your text and go to tool text
 * 6) Change the font
 * 7) Put Close in the text box

The rectangular selection is a tool in Gimp that is used for Select a part of a picture in a perfect rectangular shape. Also with the rectangular Selection and the Bucket Fill you can select a part of the picture and color it. Another use for the Rectangular Selection is that you can copy, delete, cut and paste in the part that you select.
 * __ Rectangular Selection __**
 * Steps for Using Rectangular Selection**
 * 1) Go to tool box
 * 2) Click in Rectangular Selection Tool[[image:Sin_nombre.jpg width="37" height="27"]]
 * 3) Select the part of the picture you want and drag the Rectangular tool, enclosing the part you want of the picture in the rectangle
 * 4) Color it, paste it, copy it, or whatever you need to do

This video shows you visualize how to use Rectangular Selection Tool media type="file" key="rectangular selection.wmv" width="300" height="300" You use the circular selection tool when you need to select circular or elliptical pieces of an image. When you select the circular or elliptical part you can crop it or delete what is left of the image. You delete what is left of the image by selecting the circular or elliptical part of the image then you edit cut then you the delete the original image and then you click edit paste and you will have the circular part that you selected. You crop the image by selecting the circular selection and then select a place in the image that you want to cut. Do edit cut and that piece of the image will disappear. media type="file" key="Circular Selection Tool .mp3.mp3" width="240" height="20" Video of an examplemedia type="file" key="CST.wmv" width="300" height="300" Examples:
 * Circular Selection **
 * 1) I need to crop the soccer ball of a photo of a game. I select the Circular Selection tool and select the soccer ball of the original image. Then you do edit cut and that part of the image will disappear. Then you delete the original image. On the document you do left click and do edit paste and you will have the soccer ball. You can also delete that part of the image by not deleting the original image.
 * 2) I need to delete the delete a circular border that has the image. I select the image that I want and then I do inverse selection. The next step is to do edit cut and I have the part of the image that I want to have

You use the Magic Wand tool when you want to select a colored area of a layer. For using this tool you need to be very accurate where you select. First you need to click the colored area of the picture. All the pixel of that colored area with be selected, you can control how exactly the color should be by manipulating the threshold of similarity. You reduce by dragging it to the left. You can have feather edges, merge, or selection by. When you select the color and the features that you want you do select inverse selection and do edit cut and that piece of the image will be stay.Then you delete that layer and do edit paste as new layer and you will have what you want. The magic wand tool only works if you are using it in the correct layer. media type="file" key="Magic Wand Tool.mp3" width="240" height="20" Video of a example: media type="file" key="Magic Wand Tool Video.wmv" width="300" height="300" Example: My picture is about a car that has a white scared background. I don’t want to have the white background so I select the magic wand tool and then select thee colored area I want to delete. In this case it will be the white area. Then I select feather edges for my image looking nicer and I do edit cut. Finally I will have my car only.
 * Magic Wand **

Gradient Fill

In the toolbox at the right you will find a gray icon that is called the Blend tool, which is used to fill a selected area with a color gradient. To use this tool you open a new file in gimp, after that you choose a image or just apply color to your background. When you click on the Blend tool in the lower part of the toolbox you’ll find the following options: Mode, Opacity, Gradient, Offset, Shape, and Repeat. You can play with them and see which on you like the most. * But take in mind that if you click the opacity to the maximum the whole image of r background would change to the gradient you are using covering completely what you have in the background. To make a blend, drag the cursor in the direction you want the gradient to go, and release the mouse button when you have the right position and size of your blend. The softness of the blend depends on how far you drag the cursor. Before: After:





You use inverse selection tool when you need to select the other side of what you selected previously. You can use the inverse selection tool by doing select invert or by doing Ctrl+I. media type="file" key="Invert Selection Tool.mp3" width="240" height="20"media type="file" key="Inverse Selection Tool.wmv" width="300" height="300" Example: I have to paint the outer color of a photograph of a cookie. I use the circular selection tool and select the whole cookie. Then I select invert and I click of the bucket tool. I want to have the background color red so I select the color red and then click in the background of my picture.
 * Inverse Selection **

You use the Eye Dropper Tool when you need to get the color sample of a place of the image. For begging you select the Eye Dropper tool then you select the place where the color sample is. The color sample only works if you are using it in the correct layer. media type="file" key="Eye Dropper Tool.mp3" width="240" height="20"media type="file" key="EYE Dropper.wmv" width="300" height="300" Example: I want to have the color of the area of the face of a picture of me. Then I use the Eye Dropper tool and see which color is my skin. Then I you that color for painting with the brush the places on my face that got imperfections like freckle of pimples.
 * Eye Dropper **

MASK TOOL: You can use the mask tool in Gimp in variouts ways. Here in this video I demonstrate how to use it a grayscale picture, so a part of it will be colored. You can use the masl tool in several ways. The main service of it is to show, what you want in your picture to see more and thos parts you dont want to show too much you just leave them in the dark colors. To use this tool you first open a picture as a layer, then you right click on the layer and you Duplicate Layer. After that you rename the new laye to "grayscale", in that layer you will click and apply: COLOR-DESATURATE-LIGHTNESS. After you have done that you right click on the "grayscale" layer and the click on Apply mask to layer. Then you go to the toolbox at the left and choose the Brush tool and you start "painting" the grayscale picture and you will see that the origial color of the picture will start to appear again. So you will apply this effect to whatever part of the picture you'd like to show more.

Before--After This effect uses a feature of GIMP called the Quick mask. For your first step open GIMP and create a new file. The Quick mask button is located at the lower left side of the image. First, make a rectangular selection around the edge of the image. Then click on the red bordered Quick mask icon in the lower left corner of your image. After you click the red Quick mask button, a red mask appears around your selection. This red mask represents the outside of your selection. When you click the dashed Quick mask button to go back into normal selection mode, anything red will not be selected, and anything clear will be selected. First, right click on the image and select Image, Filters, Distorts, Waves, the mask gets all wavy. Then: Image File, Blur ,Gaussian Blur (RLE) .Our last step is to click on the Quick mask button and then use Image Select, Invert and Image Edit, Fill with BG Color. The result, a soft white fade into the background, is shown in the final step. Before: After:
 * Quick Mask **

Is commonly known as the free selection tool, and it permits you to create a selection by drawing it free hand. Click the hand draw tool in the toolbox and take the mouse over your image, click with the left mouse button where you want to start and draw around what you'd like to select. When you lift your finger off the left mouse button, the selected area will close itself with a straight line from where you began the selection to where you stopped. Once you select anything you do will apply only to that area of the image you selected. There are various selection tools for different situations. This tool is not good for a precise definition. You can adjust a selection you made by clicking the SHIFT button while you modify the selection. If you don’t do this, your selection will be erased and you will start a new one. Once you remove the selection it will disappear forever, and you will have to start a new one again. Before: After: media type="file" key="hand drawn selection tool.mp3" width="240" height="20"
 * Hand Drawn Region Selection **

Video of an example: The Clone tool uses the current brush to copy from an image or pattern. It has many uses: one of the most important is to repair problem areas in digital photos, by “painting over” them with pixel data from other areas. If you clone from a pattern, the pattern is //tiled//; that is, when the point you are copying from moves past one of the edges, it jumps to the opposite edge and continues, as though the pattern were repeated side-by-side, indefinitely.
 * Stamp Tool/Clone Tool **
 * Use of the Stamp tool:**
 * Go to the part that you want to clone (it should have the similar color of the part that you want to place the cloning.)
 * Adjust the Opacity to 100%.
 * Pres Ctrl.
 * Then, go to the area that you want to place the cloning, and start moving the stamp tool.
 * The stamp Tool should work as a paintbrush, but it copies the part that you selected before.


 * Before & After**



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 * Merging Pictures **

Merging Pictures is very useful to combine two or more pictures in one. It helps to load directly a picture, without having to load the pictures that contain it.


 * How to Merge Pictures:**
 * First you have to have two pictures (picture 1, picture 2)
 * So you have to open picture 1.
 * Then, you have to open picture 2 as “open as layers”.
 * After that, you have to place picture 2 in the appropriate area on picture 1.media type="file" key="Merging pictures.wmv" width="261" height="222"


 * Picture 1 Picture 2**






 * Paste as New**


 * First you need two pictures.
 * Then, you just have to open them in different windows.
 * Finally you copy one, and paste it in the other one.
 * You have to choose the option Paste as- and choose what you want to use.




 * Save Pictures with a transparent Background**


 * You need a picture with a transparent background.
 * Then you need to add the alpha channel.
 * You save it with PNG Format.