Summary:

As a full-featured, free alternative to Adobe Photoshop, GIMP is one
of the world's most popular open source projects. The latest version
of GIMP brings long-awaited improvements and powerful new tools to
make graphic design and photo manipulation even easier—but it's still
a notoriously challenging program to use.The Artist's Guide to GIMP
teaches you how to use GIMP without a tedious list of menu paths and
options. Instead, as you follow along with Michael J. Hammel's
step-by-step instructions, you'll learn to produce
professional-looking advertisements, apply impressive photographic
effects, and design cool logos and text effects. These extensively
illustrated tutorials are perfect for hands-on learning or as
templates for your own artistic experiments.After a crash course in
GIMP's core tools like brushes, patterns, selections, layers, modes,
and masks, you'll learn:Photographic techniques to clean up blemishes
and dust, create sepia-toned antique images, swap colors, produce
motion blurs, alter depth of field, simulate a tilt-shift, and fix
rips in an old photo Web design techniques to create navigation tabs,
icons, fancy buttons, backgrounds, and borders Type effects to create
depth, perspective shadows, metallic and distressed text, and neon
and graffiti lettering Advertising effects to produce movie posters
and package designs; simulate clouds, cracks, cloth, and underwater
effects; and create specialized lighting Whether you're new to GIMP
or you've been playing with this powerful software for years, you'll
be inspired by the original art, creative photo manipulations, and
numerous tips for designers.

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Dewey Class: 775 -- 775

Book Details:

Physical Description: 7.9"x9.9"x0.7"; 1.9 lb; 320 pages
Edition Info: Paperback; 2012-06-29

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