| Red Hat Linux 7.3: The Official Red Hat Linux Getting Started Guide | ||
|---|---|---|
| Prev | Chapter 10. Working with Images | Next |
While this chapter covers several applications briefly, there is so much more you can do with them. Refer to the following resources if you are interested in learning more about the applications in this chapter.
The Web has several sites of interest if you are looking for more detailed information about an application covered in this chapter:
http://gqview.sourceforge.net — The official GQview home page.
http://www.gimp.org/ — The official GIMP website.
http://www.rru.com/~meo/gimp/faq-user.html — A Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list for questions commonly asked about the GIMP by GIMP users (as opposed to developers).
http://manual.gimp.org/manual/ — The GIMP User Manual website.
http://gimp-savvy.com/ — The companion website to the book Grokking the GIMP, by Carey Bunks. The entire book is also available on the site for download!
http://tigert.gimp.org/gimp/ — The GIMP website of tigert (Tuomas Kuosmanen).
Some applications discussed have online documentation included with the package, accessible right from your PC.
For more information about using GQview, refer to the documentation in /usr/share/doc/gqview-<version-number>/README (where ><version-number> is the version of GQview installed on your system).
The GIMP manual page contains some of the more advanced command-line options and environment variables associated with it. You can read the manual page by typing man gimp at a shell or terminal prompt.
If you need in-depth information about the many capabilities of the GIMP, try your favorite bookstore. The following books were available at the time of this writing:
The Artists' Guide to the GIMP by Michael J. Hammel; Frank Kasper and Associates, Inc.
GIMP Essential Reference by Alex Harford; New Riders Publishing
GIMP for Linux Bible by Stephanie Cottrell Bryant, et al; Hungry Minds, Inc.
GIMP: The Official Handbook by Karin Kylander and Olof S. Kylander; Coriolis Group
Grokking the GIMP by Carey Bunks; New Riders Publishing
Sams Teach Yourself GIMP in 24 Hours by Joshua and Ramona Pruitt; Sams