Good GIMP Book?

[Matthew Carpenter]

I'm no Gimp expert, but having used the likes of Adobe Photoshop (proper
pause for respect), Publishers Paintbrush, and Paintshop Pro, I will say
that it does take a slightly different approach to a few things, namely the
creation of objects.

Have you checked out "Grokking the Gimp"?  It's included in SuSE's distro
and widely available on the web.  Write me offline if you can't find it and
I'll forward it to you.

Also, Gimp has some online demo's/step-throughs to teach you how to use the
tool a little better.
I have a graphic artist friend who is stuck on Photoshop.  Now that it's
available through CodeWeavers he's chomping at the bit to wipe the Windows
partition off his box.  He is still waiting on DreamWeaver.  But it does
seem that Graphics programs do tend to have religious followings.

I like Gimp for what I do.  I haven't tried it, but perhaps you need to set
the background to transparent and then delete the white.  It is a shame you
don't seem to be able to fill with the background color the way you'd think
you should... (again, haven't tried, but repeating what you've found)

Hope this helps,
Matt

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Hipp" <Michael at hipp.com>
To: <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: Good GIMP Book?


> 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?)
>
> Thanks for all the replies and suggestions. Glad to hear I'm not the
> only one that thinks the UI on GIMP makes OS/360 JCL look intuitive by
> comparison.
>
> I created a simple graphic in OO draw to use as a website banner (just
> some text in a certain font, color and size). But when I exported it as
> a .gif from OO, it comes out with a white background rather than
> transparent like I *told* it to do. Thought it would be simple enough to
> load it in GIMP and bucket-fill the white background with transparent.
> But if the bucket-fill in GIMP even works, I can't prove it.
>
> Think I'll try that online book. After than I'll have to resort to
> Fireworks on a Win box (bah humbug).
>
> Thanks again,
> Michael
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