Good GIMP Book?

[Klaus-Peter Schrage]

Michael Hipp wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a good book on GIMP suitable for an unsophisticated 
> non-artsy person like me?
> 
> (Better yet, can anyone recommend an easy-to-use alternative to GIMP?)

XnView (http://www.xnview.com/)
You might give it a try if your primary concern is viewing, converting, 
and improving photographs.

If you want to make artsy or more technical drawings, you might try the 
graphics component of openoffice (oo draw) or sodipodi 
(http://www.sodipodi.com/).
But these have an area of application which is quite different from 
XnView and also from the GIMP, they are vector graphics tools, more like 
Coreldraw.

Klaus