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A List of the Author's 5 Favorite GIMP Tool Presets:
1. The Pencil Soft Preset - An extremely realistic simulation of drawing with a charcoal pencil.
2. The Blue Pen Preset - An all-purpose way to annotate any picture.
3. The Smudge Soft Preset - Provides the best option for smoothing a painting without making it look dirty.
4. The Eraser Soft Preset - Simulates working with a high-quality eraser.
5. The Splatters Preset - A very handy way of adding blemishes to a picture.
A List of the Author's 5 Favorite GIMP Filters:
1. The IWarp Filter - Allows you to build fun animations of people's portraits.
2. The Edge Filter - Can be used to create extraordinary interpretations of dull photos.
3. The Make Seamless Filter - Offers the ability to generate very simple tiled backgrounds for web pages.
4. The Plasma Filter - The most fundamental filter for building new textures.
5. The G'MIC Selection of Filters - Contains all of the most useful filters.
About the Author
Olivier Lecarme is a professor emeritus in computer science at the University of Nice, France. He has a doctorate in computer science. He has been a professor at the Universities of Grenoble, Montreal, Lausanne, and Nice, and has taught many aspects of computer science, including programming language fundamentals and graphics processing.
Karine Delvare is a web development consultant. She has a Masters in Computer Science, with a specialization in image and sound, and has collaborated on the GIMP development project. She lives in Mérignac, near Bordeaux, France.
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- Paperback: 676 pages
- Publisher: No Starch Press; Tra edition (January 22, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1593273835
- ISBN-13: 978-1593273835
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"The Book of GIMP" (GIMP stands for "GNU Image Manipulation Program", and GNU, I'll leave up to you. There is history here worth exploring...) is a dazzling book full of pictures, illustrations and deeply technical, but fully comprehendible and comprehensive information on GIMP. And, the plethora of pictures only make sense, given what GIMP does.
GIMP is one of the most successful (and this is super-important) free software applications - ever. Free, as in "You don't have to pay for it... No strings attached." Additionally, you don't have to commit to one given platform or operating system to use GIMP. GIMP is developed and maintained for GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows, Apple's Macintosh OS X, Sun's OpenSolaris and FreeBSD. Supported image formats are comparable to the most popular image and graphic formats found in large-scale commercial products, and is extensible through a large library of plug-ins. The Plug-ins allow you to customize and enhance GIMP for what you need.
The feature set in GIMP is huge, and anytime you add lots and lots of features to an application that deals with the complexity of image (let's think photos, and you're a professional photographer) manipulation, there is bound to be LOTS of information that is good to know, or good to have a complete reference. Well, that's this book. GIMP touts itself as the alternative to other commercial products in the same space that cost literally $1000+. To get the full value out of GIMP, one would first think, "Well, it's FREE. My expectations can't be that high!" Think again. YOU might not be paying anything, but there are people that have dedicated themselves and sweat equity to GIMP. In those terms, this application is invaluable. It's full of one thing that many commercial applications isn't: Pride.
The Book of Gimp is an excellent resource for learning how to use the GNU Image Manipulation Program. GIMP is a great photo editor that handles image composition and image authoring with ease. The Book of GIMP covers version 2.8. GIMP is a free open source software maintained by gimp.org
The Book of GIMP is an extensive volume at well over 600 pages. Part One is a series of tutorials that gets the reader involved with using GIMP for real world projects. Subjects covered include photo retouching, drawing and illustration, animation, using GIMP for website design, and others. Part Two is a reference of GIMP tools and features. It goes into greater depth on the individual tools contained within GIMP. Section Two contains a chapter on Obtaining and Printing Images. Since GIMP is a great free photo editing software, digital cameras are mentioned as are scanners and printers.
Part Three contains Appendices. There is a discussion of Vision and Image Representation. Color theory is another included topic. Also found in Part Three are GIMP related resources and installation tips for the more popular Linux distributions, Mac OS X, and Windows.
A tutorial explains how to copy and paste a photo directly to the image window. The text includes all the original images used to start each project. Copying the originals allowed me to follow along with each project. Intermediate steps and final results could be compared with the finished project photos in the book. This made the tutorials much more valuable than just reading along with the text. Each chapter has exercises at the end for those looking to test their newly learned skills.
I found this book to be very helpful. I use GIMP for all my photo editing and web site graphics.
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