Get to Know the GIMP
If you have not heard of GIMP by now, this tutorial will introduce you to it. GNU Image Manipulation Program, also known more commonly as GIMP, is an free open source program for creating and editing bitmapped images, which are images that are great for editing your digital photographs and creating graphics that we can use on our websites. GIMP also allows you to make some really nice drawings.
If you have not heard of GIMP until now, you probably have heard of PhotoShop. GIMP is like PhotoShop except unlike PhotoShop, GIMP is free. As you move through the different sections that I will point out to you, I want to encourage you to fool around and play with it on your own so you become more comfortable. This tutorial serves to only introduce you to the program with some of the basic tools you will need to start playing around on your own. In the future, it is my plan to develop my tutorials on GIMP, but for this tutorial, I want to teach you the basics.
History of the GIMP
In 1995, two computer science students developed GIMP as a class project. Their names were Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis. Within a year, this small class project had grown in popularity and became an open source project with users and contributors world-wide.
Today, this program runs worldwide by countless people. You can use GIMP on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux. etc.
Go to GIMP now to get started.
Please Note.....
In this tutorial, I am using GIMP 2.8, but depending on when you access this tutorial (down the line from today) you may be using a more advanced version and some of the screenshots may not be accurate.
I edited a picture in Gimp2 and exported it to a .jpg, but when I upload it to my site, the picture shows up as a box and the picture is not there. I don't know what I did wrong and have tried it a few times. Do you have any thoughts on what I am doing wrong?
Thanks,
Irene
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There used to be some issues with images on the WA hosting server and this may still exist, so, I would recommend you contact SiteSupport and explain to them in as much detail as possible what your issue is and what you did so that they can fix this for you as quickly as possible.
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/websites/support
Hope this helps you.
-Kathy
How about yourself?
All the best from Anke:-)
This tutorial is only an introduction to GIMP - it is not a complete cover everything there to learn about GIMP. I plan on doing multiple separate tutorials on GIMP, but this tutorial scratches the surface. It took me a while to sit down with it and start to learn it.
Steph
