by Michael Davies | Aug 27, 2018 | GIMP Tutorials
Are you just starting out with GIMP, the free photo editing and graphic design software? Congrats! You’re about to discover an amazing alternative to Photoshop that will help you drastically improve your photo retouching game or create designs for personal or... by Michael Davies | Aug 23, 2018 | GIMP Tutorials
Installing fonts in GIMP is, thankfully, a very simple process – especially if you are using a Windows machine. However, if you still aren’t quite sure how to do it – or don’t want to risk screwing anything up when trying to install custom or... by Michael Davies | Aug 15, 2018 | GIMP Tutorials
“There’s more than one way to skin a cat.” I’ll admit this is an odd proverb, but I think it is a great phrase to keep in mind when removing backgrounds from images in GIMP. That is to say, there are many ways to remove image backgrounds in GIMP, and there is truly no... by Michael Davies | Jul 30, 2018 | GIMP Tutorials
In technical terms, an image’s “Hue” is the wavelength of the color in the image, whereas the “Saturation” of an image is the intensity of that color. If you’ll remember in the “Hue and Saturation” lecture from earlier in this course, adjusting the “Hue” slider... by Michael Davies | Jul 22, 2018 | GIMP Tutorials
In May of this year (2018), Davies Media Design created a tutorial on how to edit photos using a luminosity mask in GIMP 2.10. This technique allows you to edit the light, lighter, and lightest parts of an image, the dark, darker, and darkest parts of an image, and... by Michael Davies | Jul 2, 2018 | GIMP Tutorials
GIMP 2.10 comes with a slightly different look than many of you may be used to. In some cases, the user interface may be darker than previous versions, and the icons may take on a different look as well (which can make it more difficult to find the tools you commonly... by Michael Davies | May 2, 2018 | GIMP Tutorials
(UPDATED 5/2/2018) Pat David, a leader on the GIMP Development Team, recently spoke at the SCaLe 16x (Southern California Linux Expo) about upcoming features coming to the recently released GIMP v2.10. Plus, he provided some much-needed updates on the progress of... by Michael Davies | Mar 27, 2018 | GIMP News, GIMP Tutorials
GIMP has just announced (minutes ago at the time of this post) that it has released the “GIMP 2.10.0 Release Candidate 1” – which is a semi-stable version of GIMP designed to test out some final bug-fixes and new features prior to the release of the... by Michael Davies | Mar 18, 2018 | GIMP Tutorials
This summer… one designer… will make an unforgettable movie poster… without… needing… Photoshop! That’s right, in this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to make an awesome movie poster using the free graphic design/photo editing/drawing program GIMP, using the... by Michael Davies | Feb 25, 2018 | GIMP Tutorials
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to paint graphics on a face using GIMP – a free photo editing and manipulation software very similar to Photoshop. This is a pretty simple technique – which makes this tutorial great for beginners – but the...