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Product Description GIMP is a free alternative to Adobe Photoshop with tons of professional-grade features. But with so many powerful tools and menu options, GIMP can be difficult to master. Whether you're struggling to get started or trying to master some of GIMP's more complex features, you'll find the answers you're looking for in The Book of GIMP. The tutorials in the first half of the book walk you through essential GIMP skills, like resizing and cropping images, touching up spots and scratches, and customizing your work area. Illustrated, step-by-step instructions show you how to: Improve the lighting and composition of images Remove distortions and noise to make old and damaged photos look like new Create stunning panoramas and digital collages using a series of photos Make, edit, and export custom textures, logos, and animated GIFs Work with selections, channels, and masks to edit images like a pro Create colorful digital art, layer by layer The book's second half offers a comprehensive reference to GIMP's many features, including color balancing, masks, filters, and plug-ins. You'll find tools described in unparalleled detail, with coverage of nearly every option and parameter. With illustrated tutorials and detailed references, The Book of GIMP is sure to become your one-stop guide to just about everything GIMP. Amazon.com Review A Look Inside The Book of GIMP A List of the Author's 5 Favorite GIMP Tool Presets: 1. The Pencil Soft Preset - An extremely realistic simulation of drawing with a charcoal pencil. 2. The Blue Pen Preset - An all-purpose way to annotate any picture. 3. The Smudge Soft Preset - Provides the best option for smoothing a painting without making it look dirty. 4. The Eraser Soft Preset - Simulates working with a high-quality eraser. 5. The Splatters Preset - A very handy way of adding blemishes to a picture. A List of the Author's 5 Favorite GIMP Filters: 1. The IWarp Filter - Allows you to build fun animations of people's portraits. 2. The Edge Filter - Can be used to create extraordinary interpretations of dull photos. 3. The Make Seamless Filter - Offers the ability to generate very simple tiled backgrounds for web pages. 4. The Plasma Filter - The most fundamental filter for building new textures. 5. The G'MIC Selection of Filters - Contains all of the most useful filters. Review "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
