Gimp

wolf63 | 21:35 Sun 01st Jul 2012 | Technology

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I wanted Photoshop but was too tight fisted to buy it so have downloaded Gimp. I have no doubt that it is great and easy to use when you know what you are doing - I don't. I have 'mastered' a couple of easy tasks but that's about all.

Can someone recommend a little booklet/book that will give me help doing what I want to do and to show me what I could also do but didn't know about.

I know that there are 'Help' screens etc but a hard copy would be better for me to use.

Thanks

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ChuckFickens

Gimp has a lot of online help guides..

http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/

Anngel123

..can't believe there is photoshop type thing called after a S&M object...

ChuckFickens

It originally stood for general image manipulation program and then later GNU image manipulation program when it was incorporated into the GNU project (gnu is a Unix like operating system that Linux steams from)

wolf63

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Chuck - Linux 'steams' from. Is that like chug, chug chug?

I will check out the on-line tutorials in the morning, my brain is tired.

Thanks

ChuckFickens

And the dyslexia says hello again :)

bazwillrun

Youtube has lots of tutorial vids.

A lot cheaper than the full Photoshop but with all the essential functions is Photoshop Elements, its around £70 and will do just about everything you are likely to want to do to your pics.

GimpTutorials

I recommend going to http://www.gimpedtutorials.com and checking out the gimp for beginners page. There are a number of lessons there that will get you started. Also, you can get a free ebook that teaches a bit more on gimp, and there are a few very low-cost books offered by the site. All in all it's a great resource for anyone looking to learn how to use gimp.

wolf63

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Thanks to all of you. I will toddle off to see the gimp tutorials and see what great masterpiece I can create with the software.

:-)