Monday, 14 January 2013

Writer's Guide To Gimp #1 - Installing Gimp

This is the first monthly post in a year-long project of mine to learn Gimp--a GNU Image Manipulation Program. Why am I learning gimp?? Because it's an interesting tool that can help me create book covers, or character locations. And it's fun to learn new things.


Installing Gimp (click image to enlarge)

Step one: Go to www.gimp.org and press the download button...


Step two: Select the option you want to download and press the link...




Step three: Follow the instructions...

 Step four: After it installs, the program should look like this...



Coming Up:
#2 - Fundamental Techniques
#3 - Image Reflections on Glass
#4 - Adding Glow to Images
#5 - Creating Icons/Buttons for Web/Blogs
#6 - Design in Text
#7 - Underwater
#8 - Font Effects Part 1
#9 - Font Effects Part 2
#10 - Font Effects Part 3
#11 - Blending Two Images
#12 - The Poirot Effect

 Sources:
The Artist's Guide to Gimp
http://www.gimpology.com
http://gimpedtutorials.com/
http://gimpmagazine.org/

29 comments:

  1. A simple but effective program. And if it helps you write and create, all the better.

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  2. Cool! I'm going to check this out with you as the year progresses. I like to learn new stuff too!

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  3. A Gimp! A Gnu!! I love these!! Take care
    x

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  4. I think I'll join you. Sounds interesting. I'd never heard of it.

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  5. You are my savior! I just downloaded GIMP a week or so ago so I can do a little designing for swag, and I'm totally lost! I will be watching these posts carefully!

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  8. Hi Clarissa .. sounds like you've hit the nail on the head with this learning guide - great - I'm with you ... and will be learning along in the background ..

    Excellent - good start to the year .. cheers Hilary

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  9. Very exciting, I do love me programmes for working with images. I will try to download it and try it out!

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  10. I put Gimp on all of my client's computers. It's a great free program.

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  11. I'll be right there with you, Clarissa. Downloaded it a while back, but haven't done anything with it yet.

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  12. OK, this is new to me, but so far so good. I'm going to learn from you :) I hope you offer free tech support!

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  13. My SO told me about GIMP. He's shown me a few tricks. I like it a lot. I don't have a huge need for it...yet, but I enjoy the program.

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  14. So looking forward to your instructions on this. I've downloaded the program, but never really done much with it.

    Mason
    Thoughts in Progress

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  15. Someday I fully intend to have a big fancy tablet with Photoshop. I can't wait for that day ;) Just gotta save up $3k first. :D

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  16. Clarissa, I will be following you on this one...I have Gimp installed and yet to use it so you are coming in at the right time! Thanks.

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  17. I'm so glad I came upon this post! I just installed Gimp and have tried figuring it out but I'm generally hopeless at this kind of thing. I'm looking forward to following along with your posts on this!

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  18. I installed Gimp a while back but after gotten around to using it yet. Thanks for the nudge.

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  19. Oh looks like a cool program... and more accessible than photoshop (which is what I use)

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  21. Clarissa - Thanks for this! It definitely looks like a useful tool to learn.

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  22. I used Gimp in a technical writing course a few years ago. I need to try it again.

    T

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  23. Ooh I love gimp! But I actually use Inkscape more. They're fairly similar but I find that Inkscape is a bit more user friendly. I actually created my website logo (the writing nut) using that program.

    Nutschell
    www.thewritingnut.com

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  24. I feel really stupid because it looks way too difficult for me to learn. I bought Adobe, a long time ago and finally, after days (not hours), I had to give up. The learning curve was way over my head. It sounds like a useful tool, especially for book covers, but I have accepted that we cannot all excel in all areas and this particular area is my weakest.

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  25. I've downloaded GIMP, but I've never used it before.

    www.modernworld4.blogspot.com

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  26. I've tried using Gimp before but had little success with it.

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  27. I downloaded Gimp some time ago but didn't get very far with it. I shall watch these posts with interest, Clarissa.

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  28. I should know this and GIMP has indeed been my friend for the last year or so. I would also recommend "INKSCAPE" which is a open source to create vectors and drawings. ( it's like adobe illustrator only it is free) I should know because I did the cover for my own e-book- Any feedback on this would be great. Also anyone willing to like my page, would get to read this one for FREE- Just email me and i will send you a coupon. This will be valid until Valentine's day. Valentine's day can't be romantic without a romantic read. https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/140051

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  29. Very interesting! Thanks for the link. I'm going to download and check it out.

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