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In this tutorial we will install GIMP on our Windows Vista operating system so let's go ahead and go to our Start menu and go to our home folder where we will see that we have our downloads as well as our documents, I'm going to go ahead and go into our documents for a moment and show that I have taken the liberty to extract out the exercise files here for the GIMP 2.6 files so that's where all the pictures are going to be located that we will be working with throughout this video tutorial series. I'm going to go ahead and go back to the downloads folder here where we will see the files that we have downloaded including the setup file and the help file so let's go ahead and click on the setup file and yes, I do want to run it and then I will need to allow the program to continue if I'm in Windows Vista and I will click next and the license agreement we'll see that we have the GNU general public license and this tells us about the nature of the GPL, so it talks a lot about that so if you're really interested in finding out more about how open source software and free software is intended to work it is a good idea to kind of read this license a little bit. It is pretty thorough on how things are described and it is a good legal document. I'm going to go ahead here and click on next and we have two options, we can either install now or we can customize the installation, now if you were going to be doing development with GIMP and you've installed the PyGTK you'll need to click on customize and it will take you through the necessary steps on how to configure your installation of GIMP to find the appropriate Python extensions for development. Now if you are not interested in development all you need to do is click on this install now. Now because most typical users are not going to want to do development I'm going to go ahead and click on install now so what that does is it takes the default location of program files GIMP -2.0 and it uses that as the base installation directory where everything is going to be installed. Now in addition to this installation folder, GIMP is also going to be storing some information to your own personal user folder and we're going to talk about that more as we talk about customizing and building our own custom items inside of GIMP such as brushes and patterns. So there we are, OK, now GIMP has completed an installation and we have an option to launch GIMP, I'm going to go ahead and uncheck that for now because I also want to install the Help files so I'll go ahead and click finish and then I'll come back into my downloads and click on the Help so I'll go ahead and click run and this will start up that installation wizard and one of the things to note about the GIMP help system is that it typically lags behind in terms of the most recent release of GIMP and what you'll see here is that this help system is for 2.4 and the most recent release that we're working with is 2.6.4 so there's a little bit of lag time between the versions that the help system covers and the most recent release and of course one of the ways that a lot of people contribute to GIMP is to write that documentation. So let's go ahead and install our help here, next it, and it's saying that GIMP 2 was found at this location, do I want to install and it goes through the process of extracting and installing our help system. And if everything went OK it tells us that it has finished installing GIMP to the computer and we can click finish to exit and there we go, now we have a fully functional copy of GIMP on our computer so let's go ahead and launch GIMP I'm going to go ahead and close that folder and then go to my start menu and then I need to locate the GIMP so I'll go to All programs and scroll down to GIMP and then click on GIMP 2 so that will launch GIMP for the first time and it takes a while to load the very first time, notice here it says Querying new plug ins, now this is core to the nature of GIMP because GIMP has a lot of core functionality on its own but it also relies on a lot of different plug ins and extensions to provide additional functionality. Now once GIMP has launched you'll see that the windows are kind of placed wherever they want to be and you can simply click and drag the little title bars of this to different locations so that you have your own little customized workspace, now we're going to be talking more about how to customize our workspace in a later tutorial however this gets GIMP into position for us to use it. Now by default, whenever I close GIMP down it will remember the location of the windows so I don't really have to reposition these every single time that I use GIMP so I'm going to go ahead and close those now and that concludes this tutorial on installing and running GIMP.