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20.7 For More Information

The following resources are very useful for users of The GIMP. They contain much
more information about The GIMP than this chapter. If you want to use The GIMP for
more advanced tasks, you should not miss these resourses.
• http://www.gimp.org
The GIMP and related software are regularly posted on the frontpage.
• Help provides access to the internal help system including extensive GIMP User
Manual. The package gimp-help has to be installed. This documentation is also
available online in HTML and PDF formats at http://docs.gimp.org.
Translations into many languages are available.
• A collection of many interesting GIMP tutorials is maintained at
.org/tutorials/. It contains basic tutorials for complete begginers as well
as tutorials for advanced or expert users.
• Printed books about The GIMP are published regularly. You will find selection of
the best ones with short annotations at http://gimp.org/books/.
• GIMP functionality can be extended with scripts and plug-ins. Many such scripts
and plug-ins are distributed in the GIMP package, but other can be downloaded
from the Internet. At http://registry.gimp.org/, you will find a database
of GIMP scripts and plug-ins.
You can also use mailing lists or IRC channels to ask questions about The GIMP. Please
always try to find answer in documentation mentioned above or in mailing list archives
before asking your question. The time of experienced users present on GIMP lists and
channels is limited and it is better spent on answering questions that are not covered in
available documentation. Be polite and patient. It may take some time before your
question is answered. And don't ask to ask, just ask.
• There is number of mailing lists about The GIMP. You will find them at
gimp.org/mail_lists.html. The GIMP User list is the most appropriate
to ask user questions in. If you do not want to subscribe to the list but want to read
its archives, visit
gimp-user/.
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is the official home page of The GIMP. News about
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http://gimp
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