GIMP Quick Tips

GIMP Quick Tips

19mBeginner2020-03-16

Authors

Mike Rankin

Mike Rankin

Editor in Chief of InDesign Secrets and CreativePro.com

Course details

Explore solutions to some of the most common GIMP questions in this collection of concise, straightforward videos. Learn to adjust exposure in photos, improve shadows and highlights, apply artistic effects, create vignettes, paint with patterns, and more.

Topics include:
- Aligning layers
- Watermarking images
- Adding metadata to images
- Simulating color deficient vision
- Using grids and guides
- Fixing exposure problems in photos
- Improving shadows and highlights
- Creating double exposure effects
- Creating embossed text effects
- Straightening crooked images
- Adding contrast to images
- Restoring erased pixels

Skills covered

GIMPQuick TipsImage EditingPhotographyOpen Source

Concepts

Introduction

  • Improve your images with GIMP

Working with GIMP

  • Customize the GIMP interface
  • Align layers
  • Add contrast to photos
  • Create a sticker effect
  • Simulate color deficient vision
  • Use grids
  • Use guides
  • Add metadata to images
  • Create a double exposure effect
  • Improve shadows and highlights
  • Adjust color temperature in photos
  • Measure distances and angles
  • Straighten a crooked image
  • Find the right command
  • Create embossed text
  • Paint with patterns
  • Watermark an image
  • Create a vignette
  • Fix an underexposed photo
  • Restore erased pixels