Chapter 4. Dialogs

Table of Contents

1. Dialog introduction
2. Layers dialog
2.1. Layers Menu
2.2. Layer masks
3. Channels dialog
3.1. Channels Menu
3.2. Selection masks
3.3. Quick Mask
4. Navigation Dialog
5. Colors dialog
5.1. Dialog Menu
6. Document History dialog
7. Preferences introduction
7.1. New Image
7.2. Default Image Grid
7.3. Interface
7.4. Help System
7.5. Image Windows
7.6. Window Managment
7.7. Environment
8. Dialogs accessed from the Menus
8.1. File
8.1.1. New
8.1.2. Open
8.1.3. Open Recent
8.1.4. Save
8.1.5. Save as
8.2. Edit
8.2.1. Undo
8.2.2. Redo
8.2.3. Undo History
8.2.4. Cut
8.2.5. Copy
8.2.6. Paste
8.2.7. Paste Into
8.2.8. Paste as New
8.2.9. Buffer
8.2.10. Clear
8.2.11. Fill with
8.2.12. Stroke Path
8.2.13. Stroke Selection
8.2.14. Copy Visible
8.3. Select
8.3.1. Select All
8.3.2. None
8.3.3. Invert
8.3.4. From Path
8.3.5. Float
8.3.6. By Color
8.3.7. Feather
8.3.8. Sharpen
8.3.9. Shrink
8.3.10. Grow
8.3.11. Border
8.3.12. Toggle QuickMask
8.3.13. Save to Channel
8.3.14. To Path
8.4. View
8.4.1. New View
8.4.2. Dot for Dot
8.4.3. Zoom
8.4.4. Info Window
8.4.5. Navigation Window
8.4.6. Show Selection
8.4.7. Show Guides
8.4.8. Snap to Guides
8.4.9. Show Grid
8.4.10. Snap to Grid
8.4.11. Show Menubar
8.4.12. Show Rulers
8.4.13. Show Scrollbars
8.4.14. Show Statusbar
8.4.15. Shrink Wrap
8.4.16. Full Screen

1. Dialog introduction

Dialogs are the most common means of setting options and controls in the GIMP. The most important dialogs are explained in this section.