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ISBN : 1937538265
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Klaus Goelker is a lecturer, designer and photographer who lives and works in Munich, Germany. He teaches courses on image editing at a local art school. He chose GIMP to teach this classes because it is free and yet powerful enough to do serious photographic image editing.
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- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Rocky Nook; Pap/Cdr edition (May 31, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1937538265
- ISBN-13: 978-1937538262
- Product Dimensions: 8 x 10 inches
- Shipping Weight: 3.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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I've used GIMP for a few years at a basic level, mostly relying upon information on the web to get me by. This book addressed many of the features I never quite understood enough to use to their potential. I expect it will help me take my image editing skills to the next level. But it just misses getting five stars from me.
I've used Linux exclusively at home for several years and appreciate the philosophy of solving problems yourself. But the learning curve can be steep. Of all the free and open source software I've used I was least comfortable with GIMP. I attribute this to my knowledge of the processes of image editing being fairly low.
This book does a pretty good job of relating issues in images to their causes and to solutions in GIMP. It also helps explain the differences of tools in GIMP that appear to have the same function, but don't exactly (e.g., the Sharpen Filter vs. the Unsharp Mask Filter). For that I'll give it four stars.
On the other hand it didn't quite have as much useful content as I'd hoped. The first 70 pages were things I'd already learned through the web or the help pages (e.g., installing GIMP, opening and saving different file types). My interest waned further when I noticed the first image editing example in the book discusses how to remove the moire pattern that results from scanning a photo in a newspaper. How does that fit with the "For Photographers" line in the title? Also the book is heavy on screen shots and has quite a bit of white space.
What's left is good, but doesn't go into a lot of depth or take it to a more advanced level.