4. Customize Splash-Screen
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## 4. 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 personal GIMP folder. The location of this folder depends on your OS:

- Linux: `/home/user_name/.config/GIMP/2.99/`

- macOS: `/Users/user_name/Library/Application Support/GIMP/2.99/`

- Windows: `C:\Users\user_name\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.99\`

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

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Make sure that your images aren't too small.

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