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As a full-featured, free alternative to Adobe Photoshop, GIMP is one of the world's most popular open source projects. The latest version of GIMP (2.8) brings long-awaited improvements and powerful new tools to make graphic design and photo manipulation even easier—but it's still a notoriously challenging program to use. The Artist's Guide to GIMP teaches you how to use GIMP without a tedious list of menu paths and options. Instead, as you follow along with Michael J. Hammel's step-by-step instructions, you'll learn to produce professional-looking advertisements, apply impressive photographic effects, and design cool logos and text effects. These extensively illustrated tutorials are perfect for hands-on learning or as templates for your own artistic experiments. After a crash course in GIMP's core tools like brushes, patterns, selections, layers, modes, and masks, you'll learn: – Photographic techniques to clean up blemishes and dust, create sepia-toned antique images, swap colors, produce motion blurs, alter depth of field, simulate a tilt-shift, and fix rips in an old photo – Web design techniques to create navigation tabs, icons, fancy buttons, backgrounds, and borders – Typ

Who reads The Artist's Guide to GIMP, 2nd Edition : Creative Techniques for Photographers, Artists, and Designers?

Author

Michael J. Hammel

Publisher

No Starch Press, Incorporated

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781457166792

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Computer Science, Technology, Arts

Rating

4.3 / 5 (77 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14