General GIMP MCQs

1. How do you delete saved options for a tool?

2. What is a Palette?

3. In order to create a symmetrical bi-linear gradient, the Blend Tool must be dragged from the

4. Distort filters are used to do what to an image?

5. How can you see all the images you have open?

6. How can a selection be feathered?

7. Which of the following operations CANNOT be undone with the Undo Tool?

8. What happens to the Undo History when an image is closed?

9. How are palettes accessed in GIMP?

10. Why does the shape of the cursor change when inside the image window?

11. What is meant by the term tileable pattern?

12. What is one use for guides?

13. How do you save specific settings for a tool so you can use them again later?

14. What purpose does the alpha channel serve?

15. How do you start the Paths tool?

16. What mode must the image be in order for the Colorify filter to be used?

17. What tool do you use to trim unwanted information from a photo?

18. What is a gradient?

19. How do group your favorite tools for easy access?

20. What does a palette allow you to do in GIMP?

21. What do the commands in the zoom submenu do?

22. In a JPEG file, what happens if image compression is increased?

23. How does the Emboss filter change the image's appearance?

24. How do you change the active pattern?

25. The term Units refers to what?

26. How do you return tool settings to their default values?

27. How many fonts can you use with GIMP?

28. What must you do to use an image produced in GIMP in another program?

29. What tools may be used to paint on a QuickMask?

30. How do you recall saved settings for a tool?

31. How do you change the size of a brush?

32. How do specifiy which portion of an image you want to modify?

33. How do you change the colors in the basic palette?

34. How do you create new gradients?

35. How does GIMP make text editable?

36. How can you access help for an unfamiliar tool?

37. The GIMP's native format is

38. What must a file have in order to save it with alpha transparency?

39. How do you manipulate text to create special effects outside the text editor?

40. How many images can you open at a time?

41. What must you do with floating selections before you can edit them?

42. A pixmap or set of pixmaps used for painting is called what in GIMP?

43. What does selecting a layer mode do?

44. What images can be used to create brushes?

45. Transparency can be completely eliminated by...

46. What can you do with the Tool Options dialog?

47. How do you toggle QuickMask on and off?

48. What does the HSV noise filter do?

49. After adding a new brush to GIMP's search path, what must you do to make it visible in the toolbox?

50. Instead of tracing around an area of interest, which tool allows you to paint your selection?

51. In order to have varying degrees of transparency in a single layer...

52. How can you quickly restore dialogs that have been closed?

53. What tool can be used to sharpen a slightly blurry image?

54. What is Dot for Dot mode?

55. What is the Curves tool used for?

56. What happens if you paint on a Quickmask with black?

57. How do raster graphics files store graphical elements?

58. What happens if you toggle QuickMask off with an active selection?

59. How can you tell which brush is active?

60. What is a drawable?

61. What happens if you click and drag a selection with handles?

62. If the layers window is closed, how do you open it?

63. What opacity is required to render Difference Clouds?

64. Where is the one place you can always find any tool?

65. What is brush spacing?

66. What is the purpose of the Posterize filter?

67. What happens to a photograph viewed in indexed mode?

68. How do you create a guide?

69. What does the small curved line with 2 arrowheads (next to the color swatches) do?

70. Which tools may be used to paint with gradients?

71. What do brushstrokes look like when painted with a gradient?

72. What happens to non-text changes made to a text layer if you edit the text later?

73. Which of the following are selection tools in GIMP?

74. What happens if you paint on a Quickmask with white?

75. How do you delete a guide?

76. What are the four selection modes?

77. How can you automatically fix an underexposed image?

78. What does it mean when a file is dirty?

79. What does the color area in the toolbox show?

80. What happens if you already have a selection when initializing QuickMask?

81. What is the helpline?

82. How are graphical elements represented in SVG files?

83. How can you change the opacity of a simple selection?

84. Stroking a path created from text give you the possibility to create what?

85. Layers may be rotated

86. Which of these Color Tools have the same basic functionality?

87. Which filter changes affected pixels to a random color?

88. What is the purpose of Dithering an indexed image?

89. How do you change the size of a parametric brush?

90. What is the difference between the Paintbrush and Pencil Tools?

91. What is the Shrink Wrap command used for?

92. How many layer modes are available in GIMP?

93. What is the purpose of the Color Exchange tool?

94. Which distortion filter can be used to produce an image that looks like a sketch?

95. Which tools alter the colors in some part of the image?

96. Which tools alter the color distribution of the entire image?

97. What is the file extension for animated brushes?

98. On the multiwindow interface, closing Toolbox will yield what result?

99. Can you use GIMP to draw complicated drawings?

100. When can you use the Windows menu command?

101. What is the keyboard shortcut for opening the Image menu?

102. What happens if you click and drag a selection without handles?

103. The points of a path may be edited...

104. What does feathering allow you to do?

105. Can text be edited after a text layer has been modified with another tool or filter?

106. How many operations can be done before Undo Memory is used up?

107. How do you separate an object with a complex shape for selection?

108. How do you create multiple views of the same image?

109. "Dilate" is found under which filter category?

110. Where can you find the Colors tools in the default setup?

111. What sort of operation can be performed on an image with the Image Menu items?

112. What is the keyboard shortcut to fit an image in the window?

113. Which tool can be used to add 3D depth and effects to an image?

114. In QuickMask, which area is normally fogged over?

115. How do you reset the palette to the default colors?

116. The Transform tools are used for what purpose?

117. What happens if you paint on a Quickmask with gray?

118. How do you fix a digital photo that's not straight?

119. The clone tool...

120. What happens when you drag and drop an image into the toolbox window?

121. What is the purpose of the Colorize tool?

122. The Pixelize filter is found under which category?

123. In order to use the NL Filter, what property must a layer have?

124. How does GIMP feather objects?

125. What two things must happen in order to use the Paths tool?

126. What must you do to use an image produced in GIMP in another program?