Introduction to GIMP, Information & Computer Technology Class 9 NCERT Solutions | Information & Computer Technology (Class 9) - Notes & Video PDF Download

State True(T) /False(F)
(a) Paint.net is most favourite of windows users. (T/F) 
Ans: True

(b) The Corel Paint Shop Photo Pro allows you to adjust and clean-up your photos. (T/F)
Ans:  True

(c) GIMP is open source image editing tool. (T/F)
Ans: True

(d) Faststone image viewer has only 120 image transitional effects.
Ans: False

C. Fill in the Blanks
(a) The Corel Paint Shop Photo Pro allows you to use the ______________ with advanced enhancement tools.
Ans:  photo organizer

(b) The PhotoStudio 6 provides the feature for adding ____________ and stamping facility on high-bit depth images.
Ans:  animated text

(c)  _______________ is the most powerful image editing tool.
Ans:  Inkscape

(d) _______________ is the tool not for detailed editing.
Ans:  Text

(e) GIMP is presented in ________ forms.
Ans:  two

(f) Layers are wonderful for creating ______________.
Ans:  collages

(g) Cropping removes ____________ or everything outside _________________.
Ans:  unwanted parts, selected area

(h) GIMP 2.8 defaults to ________________ window mode.
Ans:  multi

D. Answer the following questions.

Q1. What is image editing?
Answer
Image editing encompasses the processes of altering images, whether they are digital photographs, traditional analog photographs, or illustrations.

Q2. List few image editing tools available.
Answer
1. GIMP
2. FastStone Image Viewer
3. Serif PhotoPlus X4
4. Photo Impression 6.5
5. PhotoStudio 6
6. Picasa
7. Paint.net
8. Photo! Editor
9. Inkscape
10. Corel PaintShop Photo Pro X3

Q3. Explain GNU Image Manipulation Program?
Answer
GNU Image Manipulation Program is free and powerful open source image editing tool that provides retouching of photos, authoring of photos and composition of photos. It is free and consists of many similar features provided by the Photoshop. It’s available for free for download distribution software that allows you to create image composition and image authoring.

Q4. What is Photo retouching?
Answer
Traditional analog image editing is known as photo retouching, using tools such as an airbrush to modify photographs, or editing illustrations with any traditional art medium.

Q6. Write down the expansions of the following:
Answer
(a) .gif: Graphics Interchange Format
(b) .png: Portable Network Graphics
(c) .tff: Tagged Image File format
(d) .jpeg: Joint Photographic Experts Group
(e) .jpg:Joint Photographic Experts Group
(f) .psd: Photoshop Document
(g) .bmp:Bitmap

Q7. Explain functionality of the following :-
Answer
(a) Rectangular Tool: The Rectangle Selection tool is designed to select rectangular regions of the active layer.
(b) Oval Select Tool: The Oval Selection tool is used to select circular and elliptical regions from an image, with high-quality anti-aliasing if we want it.
(c) Lasso Tool: The Free Selection tool, or Lasso, lets you select a drawing it free-hand with the pointer, while holding down the left mouse button. When you release the mouse button, the selection is closed by connecting the current pointer location to the start location with a straight line.
(d) Text Tool: The Text tool places text into an image.

Q8. Discuss how to change the size of an Image.
Answer
We can change the size of an image by following ways:
1. Set the Resolution of image
2. Set the Interpolation Quality
3. Click on “Scale” to confirm.

Q9. How we can prepare images for web?
Answer
We can prepare images for web by following steps:
Step 1: First need to reduce the image to a better width and height for web according to the scale.
Step 2: In File → select Export...
In the JPEG Save Dialog, we can opt for GIMP defaults which reduce the size quite a bit, without hurting the visual quality of the image. If we would like to make it smaller still, change the compression level by moving the “Quality” slider down. We can see the quality of the image changing.

Q10. What do you understand by Layers?
Answer
Layers are wonderful tools, especially to create collages or to delete various portions of an image. In GIMP, the layers are virtually stacked up on top of each other; the lower layers will show through resulting in a composite image that can be exported as a flat file such as a JPEG or PNG.