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chapter.
10.3.1. Useful Websites
The Web has several sites of interest if you are looking for more detailed information about an appli-
cation 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).
10.3.2. Related Documentation
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 environ-
ment 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