Hello and welcome to this video series on the Gimp. Now in this video, we're gonna becovering the remaining transform tools namely the Crop Tool, the Rotate Tool, the ScaleTool, the Shear Tool, the Perspective Tool, and the Flip Tool. So let's go ahead and jumpright down into this by opening up an image so we can play around with it. I got one herepicked up. It's kind of a funky-looking dude here where I don't know if this is a Mohawkor a comb-over got cut in a windstorm. But in either case so, it will be just fine forour purposes. Now then the Crop tool, we got a couple of ways where we can get here andthat is just as I did. Click on the icon on our toolbox or you can hold the Shift keydown and tap on the letter C, as in cat, on your keyboard. That will get us here as well.Or up along the top here, in the menu, go to tools and remember these are all Transformtools so we go down here to Transform tools, over to Crop, and you can see the rest ofthe Transform tools we'll be working with here as well so you can get here for thoseas well. And here also on the far right, you can see the shortcut keystrokes for those.Or you can just right-click on the image and again go down to Tools and come down to Transformtools in the same thing. So that's the shortcuts and the ways in which we can get to the differentTransform tools when needed. Now with Crop, basically what this is gonna do is cut a sectionof the image you're working with out for us to use and leaving the rest of them to thetrash can. So we've got a few options here that we can work with for the Crop tool. Thebottom on here, the Shrink merged and these top two are basically gonna be used if wehave multiple layers that are working at the same time. Right now, we will have the onelayer; this guy's image. So as far as this video is concerned, we're not gonna be touchingbase on these three items here. Now the "Expand from Center", this is simply an additionaltool to assist you in deciding what's gonna be cropped. You can do this just manually.But "Expand from Center" just as it sounds like, you find this pretty much the centerof what you gonna be hanging on to. In this case, I just basically wanna keep his head.And so we're gonna see right around his nose here and just move this until we get prettymuch what we want. Now then you just let go of the left mouse button. By the way, that'swhat I was doing. I was holding the left mouse button down and dragging it. You've got thesemarkers here. You can use this to find between you selection as such. Then again, play aroundwith this until you're comfy with it because I am not gonna want all of these. I just wantthe head, not as much as the tie and the hairdo. So that's the "Expand from Center". Now we'vegot the "Fixed" here which I'd never really messed with that limits the flexibility ofwhich you can choose. But again, it's here for a reason so I'm sure that at some pointdown the line there would be a need for this so that's what that's for as to fix eitherbased on the Aspect Ratio, which keeps everything in tune the current size, the Width, the Height,and of course, the Size. But I'd just leave that unticked. And the position is where onthe image you're selection is at and these are more manual of what we're doing now. I'drather do it the free form way gonna guess we will more flexibility. The Highlight isbasically as you can see here is gray now it's not. So I'd leave that ticked. Again,that leaves you a little bit more a way to work with. Now this size, if you've got anactual dimension that you're trying to work with, then you could type this in here andeliminate some of the guess work here. For example, if you got 80 by 120 then hit yourenter button and there you go. And that's just about right. Now if you can keep yourmouse so the cursor out pretty much right in the center where you've got the move toolemblem like this guy here, the four arrows, then you can hold your left mouse button downmove this anywhere within the selected region you want. And this sure will work just finefor what we want. Then once you got the area that you want on a crop selected, hit yourenter button and boom, there you have it! Now then, that's the Crop and again you'vegot all these options here you can surround with. Now the Rotate is just like it sounds.Basically, you're gonna be rotating the image that you're working with. Now then for theseremaining five tools, they're all gonna have basically the same, well except for the Flip,they're all gonna have basically the same options available. And I would suggest justleaving the default just as it is. So that way, well again for the sake of this videoanyway, that's what we're gonna do. The Interpolation is really something that will come into playif you're dealing with some high-end graphics, very large pixelated, 300 plus DPI resolutions.Otherwise, for the sake of EBook creations or header/ footer type creations then youcan just leave this as cubic. A quick information, what this Interpolation does is as you makeyour transformations with your making this larger or flipping it, or squeezing the guy'sface together, while you transform it, the Gimp software is trying to determine wherethis particular pixel is gonna be. You know so that keeps the color as the same no matterhow you squeeze his face together so that it keeps the color as blue color are the sameno matter how much you stretch it apart. So the Cubic is the most accurate of these three.I'm not sure what the fourth one does but the Cubic is the most accurate of these three.But it takes a little bit longer for Gimp to figure out what where. The None is a littleless accurate but it happens a lot quicker and then the Linear is as it is in the kindof the middle, it takes the best of both. It's little faster than the cubic but a littleless accurate than the None if that makes any sense. Now to give you an idea as to whyit is really makes no difference whatsoever, the Cubic is as far as we're working withhere, again it's most accurate and when i say it's the longest, this might take a matterof say one second. Whereas the None, which is faster but less accurate, might take a10th of the second. So again, there's really no difference for what we're gonna be usinghere. So we can just leave pretty much all these alone. Now the 15 degree down here,if you hold the control button down your keyboard, what this will do is it will allow you torotate in 15 degree increments. So with this ticked, let's say we wanna rotate this guy'sface a 90 degrees, it will do it in 15 degree increments. So if you're watching up here,you can see that it's happening in 15 degree increments. That's one way you can rotatethe image you're working with and this works pretty good too if you're working with textand say you wanna put this along this side of your EBook creation and you type out thetext horizontally, then you grab your Rotate tool and you wanna flip it 90 degrees. Nowyou could either do so this way with this box ticked or you can type it in here 90 degreesor you can just use the slider bar here and do the same thing. And that's the Rotate tool.Now the Scale tool, I usually have never really mess with this on the toolbox because I geta little more accuracy for what I'm wanting to do because the Scale is basically changingthe size. You either increasing or decreasing this size of the image. So I go up here tothe Image on the menu bar and come down here to Scale Image and let's say this is the originalimage that we're working with right now, the original dimensions. Let's say I want 100in the width. Well it's going to maintain the aspect ratio here so that it doesn't lookand fatty. So we type in 100 and then hit Scale. Go to Image, click Scale and as youcan see how it adjusted this from 120 to 150 because we increased this by 80 but it increasedthis automatically by 30. So that's why I use the image up here and not so much theScale tool down here in our toolbox because it gives us a little more flexibility up herefor some odd reason. Now then if for say you wanted a certain part of this guy's face righthere then I've used the scale for that but then again I don't have that need very often.I'm gonna show you what I�m talking about. Okay so we got this and click on the imagehere. We're gonna make it pretty big and you can see the part that is selected, where littleants right around here. Okay so this here we just wanna keep this part of his face selected.So then we hit the enter key and boom! That's not selected. But then again I don't havethe need for that very often so that's why I don't mess with whatever I'm trying to changethe size of the image I always use the Image up here. There's other options you can doup here too that are not available here. And that is, let's say we wanted to transform.We could flip it, we can rotate it a 180 or 90 degrees. So that's pretty much what I woulduse as far as the scale tool is again you've got the ability to do so here but I find moreaccuracy and more abilities here under the image menu. So let's move on to the Sheartool. Now the Shear and the Perspective tool, I've find that they're most useful for makingsome odd-looking shapes namely shadow effect on the base of an EBook cover that you'remaking. Let's go ahead and click on this icon so we can get to the Shear tool rather thanleaving it up the Scale tool. So again as I was saying, this is where you can kindamanipulate the image a little bit. Give it that little look there. And this is the Sheartool and you can get the same type of manipulation ability by using a Perspective tool only a little bit different. I'll showyou what I�m talking about here. Kinda like a page turned or page flipped. That's whatI found before is a people abuse the Perspective tool for those little cornered turndowns,ad type deals, and that's how they make those or a part of that anyway is to the Perspectivetool. Go ahead and get back to the original here. But that's pretty much the Shear andthe Perspective tool, that's just kinda manipulate the make a little more funky-looking, a betterwork. We've kinda made him even funnier than what he originally was. The last in our Transformtools is the Flip tool. And we go and click on this and again we've got two options herebasically horizontal, or we gonna flip it left or right, or the vertical, or we gonnamake him upside down or right-side up. So these are gonna have some pretty useful needs.The Transform tools here again the one that I've finally used the most is the Crop, theRotate, and the Scale tool because these here and I've from time to time will use the Fliptool as well. But the Shear, Perspective those are more specialty tools that I have usedin the past but not as often as these other four. So I hope you enjoyed this video onthe final items in our Transform tools section and I'm sure you're gonna be able to finda good use for all these tools. So thank you very much for watching and have a great day!
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