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<tt>Alt</tt>-click on the layer mask's preview in the Layers dialog toggles viewing the mask directly.
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<tt>Ctrl</tt>-click on the layer mask's preview in the Layers dialog toggles the effect of the layer mask.
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After you enabled "Dynamic Keyboard Shortcuts" in the Preferences dialog, you can reassign shortcut keys. Do so by bringing up the menu, selecting a menu item, and pressing the desired key combination. If "Save Keyboard Shortcuts" is enabled, the key bindings are saved when you exit GIMP.
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If some of your scanned photos do not look colorful enough, you can easily improve their tonal range with the "Auto" button in the Levels tool (Layer->Colors->Levels). If there are any color casts, you can correct them with the Curves tool (Layer->Colors->Curves).
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tips/gimp-tips.xml.in.h:10
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If you stroke a path (Edit->Stroke Path), the paint tools can be used with their current settings. You can use the Paintbrush in gradient mode or even the Eraser or the Smudge tool.
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tips/gimp-tips.xml.in.h:11
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If your screen is too cluttered, you can press <tt>Tab</tt> multiple times in an image window to hide or show the toolbox and other dialogs.
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tips/gimp-tips.xml.in.h:12
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Most plug-ins work on the current layer of the current image. In some cases, you will have to merge all layers (Image->Flatten Image) if you want the plug-in to work on the whole image.
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tips/gimp-tips.xml.in.h:13
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Not all effects can be applied to all kinds of images. This is indicated by a grayed-out menu-entry. You may need to change the image mode to RGB (Image->Mode->RGB), add an alpha-channel (Layer->Transparency->Add Alpha Channel) or flatten it (Image->Flatten Image).
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tips/gimp-tips.xml.in.h:14
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The GIMP supports gzip compression on the fly. Just add <tt>.gz</tt> (or <tt>.bz2</tt>, if you have bzip2 installed) to the filename and your image will be saved compressed. Of course loading compressed images works too.
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tips/gimp-tips.xml.in.h:17
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To create a circle-shaped selection, hold <tt>Shift</tt> while doing an ellipse select. To place a circle precisely, drag horizontal and vertical guides tangent to the circle you want to select, place your cursor at the intersection of the guides, and the resulting selection will just touch the guides.
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