gimp tips - en to en_CA translation catalogue (14 entries)

en: <tt>Ctrl</tt>-click with the Bucket Fill tool to have it use the background color instead of the foreground color. Similarly, <tt>Ctrl</tt>-clicking with the eyedropper tool sets the background color instead of the foreground color.
en_CA: <tt>Ctrl</tt>-click with the Bucket Fill tool to have it use the background colour instead of the foreground colour. Similarly, <tt>Ctrl</tt>-clicking with the eyedropper tool sets the background colour instead of the foreground colour.

en: <tt>Ctrl</tt>-clicking on the layer mask's preview in the Layers dialog toggles the effect of the layer mask. <tt>Alt</tt>-clicking on the layer mask's preview in the Layers dialog toggles viewing the mask directly.
en_CA: <tt>Ctrl</tt>-clicking on the layer mask's preview in the Layers dialogue toggles the effect of the layer mask. <tt>Alt</tt>-clicking on the layer mask's preview in the Layers dialogue toggles viewing the mask directly.

en: <tt>Shift</tt>-click on the eye icon in the Layers dialog to hide all layers but that one. <tt>Shift</tt>-click again to show all layers.
en_CA: <tt>Shift</tt>-click on the eye icon in the Layers dialogue to hide all layers but that one. <tt>Shift</tt>-click again to show all layers.

en: A floating selection must be anchored to a new layer or to the last active layer before doing other operations on the image. Click on the &quot;New Layer&quot; or the &quot;Anchor Layer&quot; button in the Layers dialog, or use the menus to do the same.
en_CA: A floating selection must be anchored to a new layer or to the last active layer before doing other operations on the image. Click on the &quot;New Layer&quot; or the &quot;Anchor Layer&quot; button in the Layers dialogue, or use the menus to do the same.

en: After you enabled &quot;Dynamic Keyboard Shortcuts&quot; in the Preferences dialog, you can reassign shortcut keys. Do so by bringing up the menu, selecting a menu item, and pressing the desired key combination. If &quot;Save Keyboard Shortcuts&quot; is enabled, the key bindings are saved when you exit GIMP. You should probably disable &quot;Dynamic Keyboard Shortcuts&quot; afterwards, to prevent accidentally assigning/reassigning shortcuts.
en_CA: After you enabled &quot;Dynamic Keyboard Shortcuts&quot; in the Preferences dialogue, you can reassign shortcut keys. Do so by bringing up the menu, selecting a menu item, and pressing the desired key combination. If &quot;Save Keyboard Shortcuts&quot; is enabled, the key bindings are saved when you exit GIMP. You should probably disable &quot;Dynamic Keyboard Shortcuts&quot; afterwards, to prevent accidentally assigning/reassigning shortcuts.

en: GIMP supports gzip compression on the fly. Just add <tt>.gz</tt> (or <tt>.bz2</tt>, if you have bzip2 installed) to the filename and your image will be saved compressed. Of course loading compressed images works too.
en_CA: GIMP supports gzip compression on the fly. Just add <tt>.gz</tt> (or <tt>.bz2</tt>, if you have bzip2 installed) to the filename and your image will be saved compressed. Of course, loading compressed images works too.

en: If a layer's name in the Layers dialog is displayed in <b>bold</b>, this layer doesn't have an alpha-channel. You can add an alpha-channel using Layer→Transparency→Add Alpha Channel.
en_CA: If a layer's name in the Layers dialogue is displayed in <b>bold</b>, this layer doesn't have an alpha-channel. You can add an alpha-channel using Layer→Transparency→Add Alpha Channel.

en: If some of your scanned photos do not look colorful enough, you can easily improve their tonal range with the &quot;Auto&quot; button in the Levels tool (Colors→Levels). If there are any color casts, you can correct them with the Curves tool (Colors→Curves).
en_CA: If some of your scanned photos do not look colourful enough, you can easily improve their tonal range with the &quot;Auto&quot; button in the Levels tool (Colours→Levels). If there are any colour casts, you can correct them with the Curves tool (Colours→Curves).

en: If your screen is too cluttered, you can press <tt>Tab</tt> in an image window to toggle the visibility of the toolbox and other dialogs.
en_CA: If your screen is too cluttered, you can press <tt>Tab</tt> in an image window to toggle the visibility of the toolbox and other dialogues.

en: You can create and edit complex selections using the Path tool. The Paths dialog allows you to work on multiple paths and to convert them to selections.
en_CA: You can create and edit complex selections using the Path tool. The Paths dialogue allows you to work on multiple paths and to convert them to selections.

en: You can drag a layer from the Layers dialog and drop it onto the toolbox. This will create a new image containing only that layer.
en_CA: You can drag a layer from the Layers dialogue and drop it onto the toolbox. This will create a new image containing only that layer.

en: You can drag and drop many things in GIMP. For example, dragging a color from the toolbox or from a color palette and dropping it into an image will fill the current selection with that color.
en_CA: You can drag and drop many things in GIMP. For example, dragging a colour from the toolbox or from a colour palette and dropping it into an image will fill the current selection with that colour.

en: You can perform many layer operations by right-clicking on the text label of a layer in the Layers dialog.
en_CA: You can perform many layer operations by right-clicking on the text label of a layer in the Layers dialogue.

en: You can save a selection to a channel (Select→Save to Channel) and then modify this channel with any paint tools. Using the buttons in the Channels dialog, you can toggle the visibility of this new channel or convert it to a selection.
en_CA: You can save a selection to a channel (Select→Save to Channel) and then modify this channel with any paint tools. Using the buttons in the Channels dialogue, you can toggle the visibility of this new channel or convert it to a selection.
