Open up the GIMP and it will show one of these stylish new splash screens. GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, macOS, Windows and more operating systems. Extract the archive and move (or copy) the splash screens inside into the ‘splashes’ folder you created in step 1. Download the ‘GIMP Splash Collection’ from :ģ. The Crop overlay will appear, darkening the areas of your image. Open your image, choose the Crop tool, then click and drag over the section of your image that you want to keep. It can be found in the Tools palette or by pressing the keyboard shortcut Shift + C (or Option + C on macOS). Remember: to view hidden files and folders (those prefixed with a period) you need to press Ctrl + H.Ģ. For most cropping tasks, the Crop tool is your best option. Create a new folder called ‘splashes’ inside the ~/.gimp-2.8/ directory in your Home folder.
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Technically you don’t, but because GIMP is awesome it will automatically select one image at random each time it starts, so the more you have the more variety you’ll see each time you open the app! How To Change GIMP Splash Screenġ. You may be wondering why you might need 12 images. Each image is colourful and creative, and helps inject a little more punch and personality into open-source’s premier image editor. GIMP Splash Collection is a set of 12 replacement splash screens for GIMP. A quick Google image search will throw up plenty.įor this article we’re going to use a pre-made pack called “ GIMP Splash Collection“. You most certainly can, and over the years open-source design enthusiasts have created hundreds upon hundreds of replacement GIMP splash screens. But did you know that can change the GIMP loading screen to virtually any other image you want? …but these replacements aren’t! It’s decent enough, right? Perhaps a little dull. You can see what it looks like by default in the image to the right. When you start GIMP it shows a small loading screen that displays short status message while the program loads all of its components and plugins. GIMP loads pretty quickly on my PC but not so fast that I never see the brush-chewing coyote splash screen.Īnd it’s this splash screen that is the focus of today’s how to.
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