GIMP

= GIMP = = = “//The GNU Image Manipulation Program, or GIMP, is a raster graphics editor used to process digital graphics and photographs. Typical uses include creating graphics and logos, resizing and cropping photos, altering colors, combining multiple images, removing unwanted image features, and converting between different image formats.// // IMP // //can also be used to create basic animated images in GIF format. It is often used as a free software replacement for Adobe Photoshop, the most widely used bitmap editor in the printing and graphics industries; however, it is not designed to be a Photoshop clone. The project's mascot is named Wilber//.” (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP ) Also see Graphic Images, Photoshop, Animations GIMP http://www.gimp.org/ “GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.” GIMP Shop http://www.gimpshop.com/ “GIMPshop is a modification of the free/open source GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), intended to replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop. Its primary purpose is to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable using GIMP.” Grokking the GIMP by Carey Bunks http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/ An online book with everything about GIMP. GIMP Tutorial – VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aR3o7rYdx0 GIMP Tutorials Pointer Page [|http://empyrean.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/~nem/gimp/tuts/] “This page is to help not only to //find// a particular tutorial, but also to promote the creation of more tutorials … of what the GIMP can do for you.” The site is a bit hard to look at, design-wise, but it has little ‘how-to’s by a number of people. GIMP Tutorials http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/ GIMPLite Quickies http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Lite_Quickies/

The GIMP Documentation http://docs.gimp.org/ GUG – GIMP User’s Group http://gug.sunsite.dk/ Mac GIMP http://www.macgimp.org/ Using Gimp to rescue an underexposed portrait photograph http://www.ephotozine.com/article/Using-Gimp-to-rescue-an-underexposed-portrait-photograph