Don’t have the funds to purchase a license for Adobe Creative Cloud? Don’t despair. There is a free alternative to Photoshop. This hour-long session will introduce the essential functions of the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP). During this session, you will learn how to GIMP’s considerable number of tools to edit and retouch photos, as well as how GIMP and Microsoft Publisher can be a powerful one-two punch in graphic design..

Date Recorded: 9/1/2017

Format: Archived YouTube Video

Presenter: Matthew Stephenson / Pendleton Community Public Library

Resources for GIMP:

• Official Tutorials:
  • Simple Floating Logo
  • Layer Masks
  • Sketch Effect
• Third Party Tutorials:
  • Smoke Effect
  • Double Exposure Effect
  • Galaxy Silhouette
  • How to Remove Anything from a Photo in GIMP
  • Glitch Text Effect
  • How to Blend Images
  • Turn Photo into Soft Color Pencil Drawing
• GIMP also supports plugins that add additional features.
• Some are outlined at https://beebom.com/best-gimp-plugins/.