تعليمات برنامج جيمب (GIMP)

General Study Notes

• This document is a textbook for 1st year secondary students in Saudi Arabia.
• It covers digital skills, covering theory and practical activities.
• The textbook is distributed free of charge.
• The book includes sections on image editing, robotics, emerging technologies, and health & environmental impacts of technology.
• The book also includes an index with page numbers for each section.

Image Editing

• The textbook emphasizes the use of GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) for image editing.
• Different image editing tools are detailed, including selection tools, layers, copy-paste, erasing, and resizing.
• The text includes how to open, save as, and export images with different formats.
• Image editing tools such as the healing brush, and the eyedropper tool are explained.
• Image aspect ratio, colour systems, and image resolution are covered in detail.

Emerging Technologies

• The text elaborates on various emerging technologies, including Virtual Reality (VR), Mixed Reality (MR), Augmented Reality (AR).
• It describes the role of internet of things (IoT) and its impacts in various fields, such as energy production, distribution, and consumption.
• The book also covers the role of cloud computing and data storage.
• The importance of addressing issues like e-waste are also presented.
• There is a discussion about wearable technologies and their growing role in health, fitness, and everyday life and the potential impacts.
• Information on the internet of things (IoT) and its applications is presented, with discussion of examples.
• Topics on quantum computing and 3D printing technology.

Health & Environmental Impacts

• The impacts of excessive technology use is covered discussing eye strain, body pain, and stress.
• The detrimental effects of e-waste on the environment, alongside solutions are elaborated in detail.
• Safe tech use and recommendations are also highlighted in the text.

Programing using HTML

• Covers the use of HTML in building forms.
• Includes various input elements such as text fields, password fields, email fields, and radio buttons.