Instant GIMP Starter [Instant]
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- Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results.
- Use GIMP features to draw and color images
- Make a precise infographic
- Compose multiple pictures in an image
Book Details
Language : EnglisheBook : 80 pages
Release Date : January 2013
ISBN : 1782160345
ISBN 13 : 9781782160342
Author(s) : Fazreil Amreen
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Instant, Open Source, Web Graphics & Video
Table of Contents
Instant GIMP Starter- Instant GIMP Starter
- So, what is GIMP?
- Installation
- Step 1 – what do I need?
- Step 2 – downloading GIMP
- Step 3 – setting up installation
- Step 4 – installing
- And that's it!
- Quick start – a tour around GIMP
- Step 1 – creating a new file
- Step 2 – setting the picture for painting
- Step 3 – create layers
- Step 4 – coloring
- Top 5 features you'll want to know about
- Drawing a poster
- Drawing an infographic
- Combining multiple pictures
- Plugins
- Using filters
- People and places you should get to know
- Official sites
- Articles and tutorials
- Community
- Blogs
Fazreil Amreen
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- Draw an image from scratch
- Color images on canvas
- Manage your images with layers
- Draw a graph precisely
- Shade your images with gradient effects
- Scale, transform, and rotate images
- Use filters to beautify the image
- Make a dinosaur appear in your picture
Image manipulation is being used by professionals all over the world. Beautiful pictures can be achieved by combining technology with art. GIMP. the GNU Image Manipulation Program, makes them accessible to everyone. GIMP is. With it, anyone can express their emotional and intellectual capability in a new dimension.
"Instant GIMP Starter" is a book that provides a new generation of artists with new techniques and tools in a comprehensive format. A range of task from drawing simple images to composing multiple pictures in an image are covered in this book.
This book walks you through the journey of learning various tools and gets the reader to create exciting artworks, one after another.
Although the book focuses on each step of producing wonderful effects with GIMP to anyone with basic computer skills, it also delivers information that can be used for school projects or corporate presentations. You will have a set of great photos when you learn how to apply special effects.
You will have amazing tools to work with to satisfy your creativity and an endless chain of beautiful images you never knew you could come up with.
Get to grips with a new technology, understand what it is and what it can do for you, and then get to work with the most important features and tasks. A Starter guide which helps you practically start with GIMP through plenty of examples and screenshots.
This is an excellent handbook for anyone who would like to start drawing using their computers. The approach used within this book is objective so that readers from any age will be able to learn the process. The setup is so basic that you will need only a computer and a very minimal amount of computer literacy to start using this book.
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