As a full-featured, free alternative to Adobe Photoshop, GIMP is one of the wolrd'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.
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 advertisments, 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 produce movie posters and package designs; simulate clouds, cracks, cloth, and underwater effects; and create specialized lighting
Whether you're ne 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.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"A really instructive book that is expanding my knowledge of the program. Users who are looking to get more out of the GIMP might want to check it out."
-Ryan Paul, Ars Technica
"All in all I feel this is a brilliant book."
-Jayson Broughton, Linux Journal
"For anyone wanting to familiarize themselves with GIMP, The Artist's Guide, either as paper or an ebook, is one of the best resources on its subject available in any medium."
-Bruce Byfield, Linux Magazine
"This resource is a solid stepping stone."
-Oma Dial, GIMP Magazine
"The design is clear and concise, while the structure of the book will take the reader from a complete GIMP beginner to a confident designer."
-Graham Morrison, Linux Format
"This is a really, really good book. It explains everything well, in detail, without expecting any prior knowledge from you."
-Tony Mobily, Free Software Magazine
"A very good book if you want to create your own artistic pieces with GIMP. It's well explained with big photos, good design and it will teach you lot of things covering a wide range of GIMP's uses."
-Ramon Miranda, creator of GIMP Paint Studio
"It's a good book, with decent instructions and engaging projects that any competent computer user should be able to handle, whether or not they have previous experience with an image editing package."
-Phil Bull, author of the official Ubuntu documentation
"I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to learn photo manipulation, advertising style and creating your own web graphics, such as buttons, logos or mouseover menus."
-Ken Hess, The Frugal Networker
"The Artist's Guide to GIMP, 2nd Edition was easy for me to read and helped me do exactly what I set out to do in a short amount of time."
-Beginlinux.com
"I would definitely recommend The Artist's Guide to GIMP to those who want an all-round, practical book on how to use GIMP."
-Kevin Unhammer, Software Engineer
"Hammel has done an excellent job of creating a number of chapters focused on creating beautiful artwork with GIMP. The chapter on setting up GIMP would be especially useful to absolute beginners."
-Partha Bagchi, GIMP advocate and blogger
"The material is extremely solid, well organized, and pertinent for new or mid-level GIMP practitioners."
-Matt Paddock, Game Vortex
"This is what I want from a book."
-John D. Cook, The Endeavour
Auflage
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Millions of GIMP users
- Students and open source advocates
- Artists, designers, creative types
Produkt-Hinweis
Illustrationen
komplett in Farbe
komplett in Farbe
Maße
Höhe: 260 mm
Breite: 205 mm
Dicke: 18 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-59327-414-6 (9781593274146)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Michael J. Hammel has been a contributor to GIMP since 1996 (version 0.59). A former contributor to Linux Format magazine, Hammel is the author of several books on the GIMP, including The Artist's Guide to the GIMP (SSC, 1998), Essential GIMP for Web Professionals (Prentice Hall, 2001). Hammel currently works as an embedded software engineer in Colorado Springs.
About the AuthorAbout the Technical ReviewerAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Fundamental TechniquesChapter 2: Photographic EffectsChapter 3: Web DesignChapter 4: Advertising and Special EffectsChapter 5: Type EffectsChapter 6: Creative Inspiration
