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The Artist's Guide to GIMP, 2nd Edition: Creative Techniques for Photographers, Artists, and Designers
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
Type effects to create depth, perspective shadows, metallic and distressed text, and neon and graffiti lettering
Advertising effects to produce movie posters and package designs; simulate clouds, cracks, cloth, and underwater effects; and create specialized lighting
Whether you're new to GIMP or you've been playing with this powerful software for years, you'll be inspired by the original art, creative photo manipulations, and numerous tips for designers.
Covers GIMP 2.8
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
Type effects to create depth, perspective shadows, metallic and distressed text, and neon and graffiti lettering
Advertising effects to produce movie posters and package designs; simulate clouds, cracks, cloth, and underwater effects; and create specialized lighting
Whether you're new to GIMP or you've been playing with this powerful software for years, you'll be inspired by the original art, creative photo manipulations, and numerous tips for designers.
Covers GIMP 2.8
731 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 1, 1998
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August 24, 2010
A really helpful book for using GIMP(GNU Image Manipulation Program). I learnt a lot from this book. I would have been lost without it! This book takes you through the effects step by step with pictures of each stage - not only of the effects but also the menus to find each thing. The only down side to this book is that GIMP has been updated since the book came out and so the book is a little behind, but it is still worthwhile if you are new to GIMP or looking for new things to do in GIMP
November 23, 2008
Like all the Gimp books and pattern and design books, currently reading the book as you go back to the book every now and then. Nice book to learn to use Gimp from a more artistic and design point of view than just editing photography. More advanced that the usual image editing book.
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