Practical Glimpse: Learn to Edit and Create Digital Photos and Art with This Powerful Open Source Image Editor

© Phillip Whitt 2020

P. WhittPractical Glimpsehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6327-3_1

1. An Overview of Glimpse

Phillip Whitt¹ 

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Columbus, GA, USA

 

Are you ready to enter the world of digital image editing and give this powerful program a try? Great! This chapter will guide you in a few things to help you get up and running.

Note

Before getting too far ahead, it should be mentioned that Glimpse does not work on Mac OS at this time. However, the GNU Image Manipulation Program (which is the program Glimpse is based on) does. The content in this book applies to this program equally well.

Here are the topics that will be covered in this chapter:

1. 1.

   Downloading and installing Glimpse

    
2. 2.

   An overview of the workspace

    
3. 3.

   Customizing the workspace

    
4. 4.

   Menus, ...