En / Starting Gimp in different language

Making an original PF can be tedious task. Hopefully there is the GIMP application available for most platforms, which is somehow comparable to the Photoshop. Anyway one of the issues is that the GIMP gets the locale from the system and then it shows menu texts in the corresponding language. So it is quite uncomfortable to follow nice tutorials when your system language is not English.

Luckily this can be changed. After the standard installation on Windows create the gimp_en.bat file with the following content:

set lang=en
cd c:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\bin
start GIMP-2.4.exe

And put the link to this .bat file into your Start menu folder.

The original tip and help for other platforms is described on Chapter 2. Fire up the GIMP

PS: Contrary to the original tip I added the start command, so the "DOS" window immediately disappear.
PS2: I hope one day the GIMP will have implemented layer effects similar to Photoshop's and therefore it will be easier to create and adjust layer shadows.