An Overview of GIMP 2.8 - Beginning Photo Retouching and Restoration Using GIMP - page 12

The Toolbox and Important Tool Functions
The Toolbox groups many of the functions you'll use on a routine basis. To identify each tool, hold the cursor
over the icon and the tool name. A brief description of its function and the keyboard shortcut pop up in a
small call-out (the Perspective Clone tool doesn't use a keyboard shortcut). Below the Toolbox is the Tool
Options dialog. In Figure 1-11 , the Healing tool is active, so such options as brush size, hardness, dynamics,
etc., can be changed to suit the specific task at hand.
Figure 1-11. The call-out describing the Healing tool and the Tool Options dialog
The Selection Tools
GIMP offers a variety of selection tools that will enable you to isolate certain areas of the image you're
editing. This confines the changes you want to make to the pixels within the selection boundary, leaving the
rest of the image unaltered. The Free Select tool is one of the most commonly used selection tools, allowing
you to draw an outline around the area you want to isolate. The Fuzzy Select tool is useful for isolating
regions by color range (Figure 1-12 ).