How do i get the toolbar back on gimp

Somehow my toolbar is at Ask. I have Firefox on Mac. I would use Google. How do I get it back? I don't know what happened, but I must have removed the part where I can adjust the size of my brushes on Gimp. I got the toolbar, however, the layout now defaults. How come? Best regards. Even tho the toolbar is gone and Ctrl B doesn't fix it the tools in the toolbox don't work anyway. I tried to download a new version, but that doesn't work either! I installed V2.

I closed the programme accidently and then reopened it. The original side tool box and layer box were no longer there. I went to Facebook to seek an explanation. The original version was much more helpful and easier to manipulate.

I'd appreciate any help please. As a beginner I can't say because I've not had the experience to know there is a difference. I have tried everything I could think of and still I have gotten nowhere. Please help! I have tried: Googling for 2 hours straight trying to find the answer and so far nothing. Please help meeeeeeee.

I think it was caused by: I accidentally pressed the X on the corner of it. If you have problems with any of the steps in this article, please ask a question for more help, or post in the comments section below. Categories : Software. Thanks to all authors for creating a page that has been read 11, times. Meet Donna , She is a stormchaser, photojournalist, and foodie who is into cookie, eclectic crafts and pop culture.

I enjoy hiking, exploring old and haunted buildings, swimming and camping with my fireman spouse. Watching and making movies is my passion. Log In via Login Sign Up. But if you want to think of a tool as a saw, and an image as a piece of wood, it probably won't do you a great deal of harm.

See Main Windows: The Toolbox for an overview of the toolbox and its components. GIMP has a diverse assortment of tools that let you perform a large variety of tasks. The tools can be thought of as falling into five categories:. Selection tools , which specify or modify the portion of the image that will be affected by subsequent actions;.

Paint tools , which alter the colors in some part of the image;. Transform tools , which alter the geometry of the image;. Color tools , which alter the colors in the image as a whole;.

Other tools , which don't fall into the other three categories. With GIMP Tools groups are marked with a small dark triangle at the bottom right corner of the icon.

The group icon displayed is the first icon in the group. Right click on the group icon to display the list of tools in the group. You can get the former display back unchecking the Use tool groups option in Section 1.

The default order of tools in the toolbox is different since GIMP Most tools can be activated by clicking on an icon in the Toolbox. Every tool, in fact, can be activated from the Tools menu; also, every tool can be activated from the keyboard using an accelerator key.

In the default setup, created when GIMP is first installed, not all tools show icons in the Toolbox: the Color tools are omitted. There are two reasons you might want to do this: first, if you only rarely use a tool, it might be easier to find the tools you want if the distracting icon is removed; second, if you use the Color tools a lot, you might find it convenient to have icons for them easily available.

In any case, regardless of the Toolbox, you can always access any tool at any time using the Tools menu from an image menubar. Figure Color and Indicator Area in the Toolbox. This area shows GIMP's basic palette, consisting of two colors, the Foreground and Background, used for painting, filling, and many other operations. Clicking on either of the color displays brings up a Color Editor dialog, which permits you to change it.

Clicking on this small symbol resets the Foreground and Background colors to black and white, respectively. Pressing the D key has the same effect. Clicking on the small curved line with two arrowheads causes the Foreground and Background colors to be swapped. Pressing the X key has the same effect. You can click-and-drag one of these colors directly into a layer: it will fill the whole layer. Active Brush, Pattern and Gradient in the Toolbox.

This part of the Toolbox shows the currently selected brush, pattern, and gradient. Clicking on any of them brings up a dialog that allows you to change it. You can also click and drag this thumbnail to an enabled XDS [9] file manager to directly save the corresponding image. If you have things set up like most people do, activating a tool causes its Tool Options dialog to appear below the Toolbox.

If you don't have things set up this way, you probably should: it is very difficult to use tools effectively without being able to manipulate their options. The Tool Options appear beneath the Toolbox in the default setup. See the section on Dialogs and Docking if you need help. Each tool has its own specific set of options. The choices you make for them are kept throughout the session, until you change them.

In fact, the tool options are maintained from session to session. The persistence of tool options across sessions can sometimes be an annoying nuisance: a tool behaves very strangely, and you can't figure out why until you remember that you were using some unusual option the last time you worked with it, two weeks ago.

This button allows you to save the settings for the current tool, so that you can restore them later. It brings up the Section 5. When you Restore options, only saved presets for the active tool are shown, so you need not worry about including the name of the tool when you assign a name here.

This button allows you to restore a previously saved preset of options for the active tool. If no presets have ever been saved for the active tool, the button will be insensitive. Shows current foreground and background colour. Clicking on either will bring the colour editor dialogue.

Clicking on the symbol in the lower left corner resets the colour to their defaults. The D key has the same effect. Clicking on the symbol in the upper right corner swaps the foreground and background colours. The X key has the same effect. Shows currently selected brush, pattern or gradient.

Clicking on any of these allows to change it. Displays a thumbnail of the active image. Clicking on it will bring the Images dialogue up, allowing you to select an image. From Wikibooks, open books for an open world. Namespaces Book Discussion.

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