does anyone know of a photoshop-like software named GIMP?

Question

i recently downloaded it, but have no idea how to use it...
can anyone help me?
i'm not much of a techie, photoshop-type person....

Answer 1

GIMP originally stood for General Image Manipulation Program. Its creators, Spencer Kimball and Petter Mattis, initially started GIMP as a semester-long project for a class at the University of California, Berkeley. Both were integral members of eXperimental Computing Facility, a student club at Berkeley (the GIMP's file extension, XCF, is taken from the initials of this club). In 1997, after both Kimball and Mattis had graduated from Berkeley, the name was changed to GNU Image Manipulation Program when it became an official part of the GNU project.



GIMP can be used to process digital graphics and photographs. Typical uses include creating graphics and logos, resizing and cropping photos, changing colors, combining images using a layer paradigm, removing unwanted image features, and converting between different image formats. GIMP can also be used to create animated images using an improved layers method. The full capabilities of the GIMP extend much further, however, and include advanced image editing, manipulation, and professional graphics creation.



GIMP is also notable to some as the first major free software end-user application. Previous free software projects, such as GCC and the Linux kernel, were mainly tools created by programmers for programmers. GIMP is considered by some to be proof that the free software development process can create things non-geeks can use productively, and as such psychologically paved the way for such efforts as KDE, GNOME, Mozilla Firefox, OpenOffice.org, and various other applications that followed.



Try this link: http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/

Answer 2

The GIMP and Photoshop are fantastically comparable. there is extra desirable than one way, of which the least complicated, i think of, is to easily use the lasso gadget to opt for the historic past and delete it. there's a link to a number of methods decrease than. they're Photoshop tutorials, in spite of the undeniable fact that it is going to no longer be too no longer hassle-free to replica the outcomes interior the GIMP.

Answer 3

Yes i do...hehe....i only just repied to ure other question with this answer.....



Its a lot harder than photoshop to use.....just spend a while with it just messing and ull get hang of it.

Answer 4

You'll find user documentation and tutorials at:



http://www.gimp.org/