Good GIMP Book?

[Bruce Marshall]

On Wed December 31 2003 03:28 pm, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> 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
>

There were a couple of articles in recent Linux Journals about actually using 
the Gimp.  Pretty amazing things were done including using layers to bring 
out part of a photo to make the entire photo look better.   But it wasn't 
easy stuff to do.

Good reading if you're interested in using the Gimp.



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