6. Customize Splash-Screen
| Chapter 11. Pimp my GIMP |

## 6. Customize Splash-Screen

When you start GIMP, you see the splash-screen displaying short status messages while the program is loading all its components.

Of course, you can customize the splash-screen: Create a `splashes` directory in your in your personal GIMP folder (`/home/user_name/.gimp-2.6` on Linux, `C:\Documents and Settings\user_name\.gimp-2.6\` on Windows).

Copy your image(s) into this `splashes` directory. On start, GIMP will read this directory and choose one of the images at random.

| Tip
Make sure that your images aren't too small.

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