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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,
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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
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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="id3307076" href="#ftn.id3307076">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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<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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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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<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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<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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<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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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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<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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