GIMP: Missing toolbar

In order to restore the missing toolbar for GIMP, locate and delete the "sessionrc" file in GIMP profile.

Where is the GIMP profile?

• Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\your_username\.gimp-2.8
• Vista and Windows 7: C:\Users\your_username\.gimp-2.8
• Linux: /home/your_username/.gimp-2.8/

How to install GIMP for Linux

These are the commands to install GIMP on various Linux flavour from the distribution package.

Ubuntu/Debian

apt-get install gimp

openSUSE

yast -i gimp

Fedora

yum install gimp

Mandriva

urpmi gimp

Reduce image file size with GIMP

This is an easy way to reduce image file size. What you have to do is to convert the image mode from RGB to Indexed colours.

In GIMP, click on Image > Mode > Indexed.

Finally, change the "Maximum number of colors" property value from 256 to 16 or 32 as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1: Indexed Color Conversion