Good GIMP Book?

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quoth Ian Stephen:

| Depending on what you want to do the Draw component in OpenOffice.org
| might be what you're looking for.

one of the really irritating things about openoffice is how the graphics 
apps in it have been detuned from the staroffice version. staroffice, 
even 5.2, contained some really nifty features including a series of 
effects that could transform artwork very strikingly, as well as one 
very cool and subtly powerful feature, which was the ability to select 
"transparent" as a color. this was the functional equivalent of 
bluescreening in television. but all that stuff is gone in oo; when i 
need to do anything graphical i end up at some point having to take the 
thing over to the notebook machine, which still has staroffice on it.

a lot of things can be done with the gimp, and the gimp is the excuse 
given for nobody developing graphics editing stuff worth the download, 
but the gimp makes coreldraw seem intuitive.
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