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GIMP interface tuning via GIMP Look Suite 1.0

Splash screens

Custom splash screen creation and instalation guide

In brief

Custom font installation

How to install custom fonts to GIMP and Inkscape

Language selection

Changing the interface language by using a simple .bat script

GIMP splash screens

The default GIMP splash screen is located in directory \GIMP-2.0\share\gimp\2.0\images. This is a graphic file having name gimp-splash.png

A set of splash screens
Updated 10.08.11

The following splash screens for GIMP were found in Internet. Unfortunately they were not so much as we would like to be. Not all of them are interesting, but some of them fairly creative.

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As soon as we will find interesting ones they to be added to the collection.

Splash screen replacement

To replace splash screen you just have to override file gimp-splash.png by another one containing your favorite image.

A collection of splash screens presented by standalone package:

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gimp_splash_screens_v1.0.zip (2.5 Mb)

This package gimp_splash_screens_v1.0.zip contains a set of alternative splash screens with their original templates in .xcf (GIMP) and .svg (Inkscape) formats. Also there can be found all the necessary fonts used for template editing.

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Рис. 1. An alternative splash screen "Wilber" originally designed by Paul Davey (http://mattahan.deviantart.com) for GIMP 2.4. Coyote "Wilber", the official GIMP mascot looks at the viewer from the screen

There used two fonts Wide Awake and Wide Awake Black created by Jakob Fischer for splash screens "Wilber" as well as for standart splash screens (www.pizzadude.dk).

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Рис. 2. Fonts used for drawing abbreviature GIMP

After the fonts installation you able to edit the text in downloaded templates. For example, you can change the GIMP version.

noteAttention

If you want to use a custom font in GIMP for Windows it must be intalled to the system at first.

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