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The last application that we'll take a quick look at is a very popular one that's been around for quite a few years and it's been used across different Linux distributions for a long time and it's called the GIMP. Basically, GIMP is a graphics image editor and it's a very good graphics image editor and, in fact, it's probably the most popular one out there for, uh, people who use Linux. Now, I will point out that it's basically equivalent to more expensive programs such as Adobe Photoshop and a few other ones, so it, uh, is actually a world-class, professional class program that comes for free and it's built into openSUSE. Let's take a look at it so we can see some of the features that it has and how easy it is to use. Now, we're looking at the application browser and I've selected the graphics applet. Of course, this lists all the graphics programs, uh, that are loaded by default in openSUSE and the one we want to look at it is the GIMP, which is an image editor. Now, the GIMP basically can do different things. It can manipulate images, it can, uh, use different graphics and, and so forth that you might normally edit in other, uh, applications such as Photoshop and things like that. When we first start on, we have to, uh, go through a quick user installation and it's going to ask us different questions about performance and, uh, where to cache and so forth. We can select those. And then it's going to start up. It's called the GNU Image Manipulation Program. That's why it's called GIMP. So if you ever wondered that, it kind of tells you when it installs. And the newest version at the time of this recording is version 2.2, but I would suggest you go and look on the Internet for, uh, more updated versions. When it first starts up, you get tips of the day, which are great, little educational items that you can basically, uh, get some, uh, get some good tips out of before you start and you have the option of turning that off if you like. Or just closing it. And by default, you'll get a couple of different tool panels and, uh I have to tell you straight up, I'm not an artist and, uh, I don't pretend to be so I'm not going to, uh, to give you the, uh, unfortunate benefit of my artistic abilities by using GIMP, but I just want to point out a couple of tools and features it has. Essentially anything you can think of, such as in Paint Shop or Adobe Photoshop or whatever, you can do in GIMP. Now it can layer it, it can create drawings, it can edit drawings, it can, uh, make transparencies, it can change colors, it can do a whole host of things that normally come with a professional graphics editing program. We can select options, we can fill in, we can select colors, we can add text, um, paint fuzzy brushstrokes, airbrush, draw in ink, just tons and tons of, uh, things that are great for the artistic person. And again, I'm not one, so, uh, I would encourage you to, uh, experiment with the GIMP on your own, especially if you kind of know what you're doing and have some artistic talent. But it's a very great program to create professional-level graphics and drawings. Some of the different options that you'll see down here include modes and changing your brush, uh, styles and so forth, pressure sensitivity, fade out, um, just, just a wide variety of very delicate and intricate things you can do to a drawing with GIMP. Change your brush sizes and patterns and so forth. There's actually some pretty cool stuff in here. Again, if you know what you're doing and you have the artistic, uh, uh, talent to work with it. You can create some very professional pieces of art or professional presentations with the GIMP. And you could also import these into Impress or any other presentation software that you like. You can also use them to create web graphics and insert those into OpenOffice Writer to create fantastic, professional-looking web pages. That's just a quick tour of the, of the GIMP and again, I would suggest you get into it and actually look at it and play with it and that's the best way to learn any of the applications that we've covered in openSUSE is to get into them and play with them. Don't be afraid of them, don't be intimidated by them. Again, one of the biggest factors that people attribute to making it difficult to transition from Windows to Linux is that they think applications are difficult to use or they have to do a lot of typing at the command prompt. And as you can see over the past several applications that we've demonstrated for you, that's not the case. They're very easy to use, very intuitive, very user-friendly. Get into them, play with them, have fun with them and learn them.