Overview
GIMP is a free alternative to Adobe Photoshop. It's a powerful, full-featured, professional-grade graphics editor with millions of users worldwide, and it can be intimidating. Even professional users find themselves stumped from time to time. The Book of GIMP is a comprehensive guide to GIMP 2.8 with answers to (nearly) all of your questions about GIMP. The first half of the book covers basics like resizing and cropping images, touching up spots and scratches, and customizing your desktop. Illustrated, step-by-step instructions show you how to build custom textures, animate logos, adjust color balance, work with selections and masks, and create digital illustrations. Every chapter is loaded with examples, illustrations, and detailed explanations that are simple enough for a beginner to understand, but thorough enough to satisfy serious users. The book's second half offers a comprehensive reference to GIMP's many features, including drawing, transformation, and color balance tools, selections, masks, filters, and plug-ins. Tools are described in unparalleled detail, with coverage of every option and parameter. You'll also find coverage of GIMP 2.8 's many new features like the new single window interface, layer groups, tool presets, and more. The Book of GIMP will teach you how to: * Make old and damaged photos look like new * Improve the color balance and composition of images, and remove distortions and noise * Create stunning panoramas and digital collages by blending a series of photos * Create colorful digital art, layer by layer * Work with selections, channels, and masks to edit your images like a pro * Make, edit, and export animated GIFs and short digital videos * Customize nearly every aspect of your GIMP experience Written by computer scientists with extensive experience teaching GIMP, the book covers every topic rigorously, and goes well beyond the basics, delving into advanced topics like building animated brushes and writing custom plug-ins. With clear instructions for beginners as well as encyclopedic coverage for experts, The Book of GIMP is your go-to resource for all things GIMP, regardless of your experience level.
Full Product Details
Author: Olivier Lecarme ,
Karine Delvare
Publisher: No Starch Press,US
Imprint: No Starch Press,US
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 1.512kg
ISBN: 9781593273835
ISBN 10: 1593273835
Pages: 676
Publication Date: 01 December 2013
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability: Awaiting stock
Reviews
If any reader is looking for a free and full-featured image-editing program, then by all means consider GIMP, as well as this outstanding tutorial and reference book. --Michael J. Ross, web developer and Slashdot contributor (Read More) Have a copy of this on your desk, and we can't imagine a single GIMP-related question that it won't be able to provide an answer to. --Graham Morrison, Linux Format Whether you are a GIMP beginner or a veteran user, this book will save you hours of trial and error when editing graphics files. --Jack Germain, LinuxInsider (Read More) An excellent introduction to the GIMP and, to an extent, image processing (and pre-processing) in general. --Jesse Smith, DistroWatch (Read More) Featured on examiner.com (Read More) Olivier has included a very complete range of topics. And this book is now on my shelf, because I am still learning things. --Ramon Miranda, creator of GIMP Paint Studio (Read More) Featured on Network World (Read More) I felt like chapters were organized in a way that made it easy for readers to decide exactly how much of the detail they cared about. I was thoroughly impressed by The Book of GIMP and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to anyone. --Dave Rankin, About.com Open Source (Read More) This book really does contain just about everything one needs to know about this great software suite. --Greg Barbrick, Blogcritics (Read More) If I was going to use one word to describe this book, it would be 'masterpiece'. This is one of the most well put together books I have ever read. It is in full-color, covers a wide variety of topics, and covers them in depth. --Tad Anderson, SYS-CON MEDIA (Read More) I highly recommend this excellent all-in-one reference book to all GIMP users. --nixCraft (Read More) GIMP is notoriously a little bit difficult to work with, but The Book of GIMP explains how to make the most out of every feature. --Kevin Wierzbicki, Campus Circle (Read More)
"""If any reader is looking for a free and full-featured image-editing program, then by all means consider GIMP, as well as this outstanding tutorial and reference book."" --Michael J. Ross, web developer and Slashdot contributor (Read More) ""Have a copy of this on your desk, and we can't imagine a single GIMP-related question that it won't be able to provide an answer to."" --Graham Morrison, Linux Format ""Whether you are a GIMP beginner or a veteran user, this book will save you hours of trial and error when editing graphics files."" --Jack Germain, LinuxInsider (Read More) ""An excellent introduction to the GIMP and, to an extent, image processing (and pre-processing) in general."" --Jesse Smith, DistroWatch (Read More) Featured on examiner.com (Read More) ""Olivier has included a very complete range of topics. And this book is now on my shelf, because I am still learning things."" --Ramon Miranda, creator of GIMP Paint Studio (Read More) Featured on Network World (Read More) ""I felt like chapters were organized in a way that made it easy for readers to decide exactly how much of the detail they cared about. I was thoroughly impressed by The Book of GIMP and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to anyone."" --Dave Rankin, About.com Open Source (Read More) ""This book really does contain just about everything one needs to know about this great software suite."" --Greg Barbrick, Blogcritics (Read More) ""If I was going to use one word to describe this book, it would be 'masterpiece'. This is one of the most well put together books I have ever read. It is in full-color, covers a wide variety of topics, and covers them in depth."" --Tad Anderson, SYS-CON MEDIA (Read More) ""I highly recommend this excellent all-in-one reference book to all GIMP users."" --nixCraft (Read More) ""GIMP is notoriously a little bit difficult to work with, but The Book of GIMP explains how to make the most out of every feature."" --Kevin Wierzbicki, Campus Circle (Read More)"
Author Information
"Olivier Lecarme is a Professor Emeritus in Computer Science at the University of Nice, France. He has a doctorate and a ""Those d' tat"" in Computer Science. He has been a professor at the Universities of Grenoble, MontrUal, 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 Master's in Computer Science, with a specialization in image and sound, and has collaborated on the GIMP development project. She lives in MUrignac, near Bordeaux, France."
