1st Sorry if this post is not ok to be here. But i don´t know where to put it. but becouse is very close to digital art and it is useful for all i will post here

Hello everybody,
I can finally announce the original GPS manual in English. I hope you enjoy it. Thanks to those who have worked to make a good translation. The manual is completely revised and reorganized. In addition, this manual includes steps for both windows and linux OS. This will cover more people. I have tried everything to correct this guide as well as possible, but if you see a bug do not hesitate to send me a mail.We will gradually improve the documentation. This is important because many of the developers of GIMP communicate in English. So with this step we have a guide that can reach many more people including themselves.

Regardless, I hope you enjoy it. you can download in open document format. or in printable version in PDF
http://gps-gimp-paint-studio.googlecode ... manual.odt
http://gps-gimp-paint-studio.googlecode ... manual.pdf

Main project page:
http://code.google.com/p/gps-gimp-paint-studio/

This is a tip (which I obviously could not post in the tutorials + tips section, so I posted it here. Perhaps a moderator would be so kind as to move it ), passed on from Sven Neumann on the GIMP-User mailing list:

"Press Ctrl-F (or Ctrl-S, it depends on your GTK+ keybindings) in the
list view to open the search field, then enter the first letter(s).
"

CTRL+F works for me, and I will refer to that in the remainder of this post. Use CTRL+S instead if that doesn't work for you.

Now let me clarify:

* you *MUST* be using the list view, not the tiled view. For the dockables, use the dockable menu (triangle in a box next to the dockable name) to choose list view. For the popups, there is an icon near the center at the bottom to choose list view.

* Use Up and Down arrows to move through the different results. This works just the same as standard 'type a prefix' (without the need for CTRL+F) searching. Press Enter to select a result

* in conjunction with distinctive naming conventions, this can entirely eliminate time spent trying to visually point at the resource you want. For example, renaming the standard 'Circle (03)' type brushes to the form 'c03' means that you can select them very quickly using this mechanism.
(as it is, typing CTRL+F ci gives you all the 'Circle' brushes and all the 'Circle Fuzzy' brushes as options)

* You can search both in the popup dialogs (eg from tool options when you click the brush icon)
and in the dockables ('Gradients', 'Patterns', 'Brushes','Fonts')
but ONLY when they are set to list view. The popups have an icon at the center which will
choose list view; for the dockables, the option appears in the menu popped up when you click that box with a triangle inside near the top of the dockable.

* The actual list must be focused (not the tag field above it or below it, for 2.6.x+ users

* You can also search in TreeViews, such as these dockables:
Layers, Images, Paths, Document History, Channels, Undo History

* The search finds prefixes, not substrings -- that is, if you have items named 'flower' and 'lowered',
typing '<CTRL+F>lower' will immediately select 'lowered' without ever considering 'flower'

* This is a feature of GTK+, not GIMP. However GIMP is one of the few programs where the standard mechanism of 'simply type something in, anytime, to search' is not feasible.

* GIMP requires the CTRL+F beforehand because many alphabetical keys have a keybinding, thus the standard 'type a prefix' operation would simply trigger a lot of random tool switching rather than providing input for the searching.

This needs to be promoted in the GIMP documentation!

EDIT: clarified that you cannot use this in tiled view, only in list view.