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The Artist's Guide To Gimp, 2nd Edition Michael Hammel

The Artist's Guide To Gimp, 2nd Edition By Michael Hammel

The Artist's Guide To Gimp, 2nd Edition by Michael Hammel


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The Artist's Guide To Gimp, 2nd Edition Summary

The Artist's Guide To Gimp, 2nd Edition by Michael Hammel

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 (2.8) 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, pr

The Artist's Guide To Gimp, 2nd Edition Reviews

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

About Michael Hammel

Michael J. Hammel has been involved with GIMP since version 0.54 and was a contributor to the early development of the program. Hammel wrote a column on GIMP for Linux Format for three years and is the author of The Artists' Guide to the GIMP and Essential GIMP for Web Professionals. He is an embedded software engineer living in Colorado Springs.

Table of Contents

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

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GOR008092318
9781593274146
1593274149
The Artist's Guide To Gimp, 2nd Edition by Michael Hammel
Used - Very Good
Paperback
No Starch Press,US
20120612
320
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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