The Gimp
About the class
April, 2005 will be first time MNR offers a class on the Gimp at Free Geek, but it's far from the first time he's taught the subject. The Gimp is the image editing software distributed on FreekBoxes - and used by all kinds of people to make cool pictures. This is an introductory-level class, and should be accessable to anyone who has mastered the material taught in the FreekBox Adoption Class.
Oso Says "Take the Gimp Class!"
Related Links
From the project's web site, gimp.org:
Class 1: Starting and Selections
- Finding and starting the Gimp
- Navigating the Gimp
- Opening files, Saving Files
- Offline storage!
- Palettes: Tools & Layers, (but not Channels or Paths)
- Making selections
- Dealing with Floating Selections
Class 2: Color select and Magic wand
- Brief review
- Resizing images, resizing selections
- Color Select Tool vs select by color
- Magic Wand
Class 3: Edges, tools, fills, paths
- Edge Select
- Move, Rotate, shear, perspective & flip
- Fill, Gradient, pattern paint
- Quick mask & save to path
- path to selection
- Manipulating Selections
- Filters
Class 4: animations
Today's image (warning, 4 megabytes) contains XCF files for use with GIMP
- Animations