The Artist's Guide to GIMP, 2nd Edition

Michael Hammel (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2012
No Starch Press,US (Verlag)
978-1-59327-414-6 (ISBN)

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As a full-featured, free alternative to Adobe Photoshop, GIMP is one of the world's most popular open source projects. The latest version of GIMP (2.8) brings long-awaited improvements and powerful new tools to make graphic design and photo manipulation even easier but it's still a notoriously challenging program to use. The Artist's Guide to GIMP teaches you how to use GIMP without a tedious list of menu paths and options. Instead, as you follow along with Michael J. Hammel's step-by-step instructions, you'll learn to produce professional-looking advertisements, apply impressive photographic effects, and design cool logos and text effects. These extensively illustrated tutorials are perfect for hands-on learning or as templates for your own artistic experiments. After a crash course in GIMP's core tools like brushes, patterns, selections, layers, modes, and masks, you'll learn: Photographic techniques to clean up blemishes and dust, create sepia-toned antique images, swap colors, produce motion blurs, alter depth of field, simulate a tilt-shift, and fix rips in an old photo Web design techniques to create navigation tabs, icons, fancy buttons, backgrounds, and borders Type effects to create depth, perspective shadows, metallic and distressed text, and neon and graffiti lettering Advertising effects to produce movie posters and package designs; simulate clouds, cracks, cloth, and underwater effects; and create specialized lighting Whether you're new to GIMP or you've been playing with this powerful software for years, you'll be inspired by the original art, creative photo manipulations, and numerous tips for designers. Covers GIMP 2.8

Michael J. Hammel has been involved with GIMP since version 0.54 and was a contributor to the early development of the program. Hammel wrote a column on GIMP for Linux Format for three years and is the author of The Artists' Guide to the GIMP and Essential GIMP for Web Professionals. He is an embedded software engineer living in Colorado Springs.

About the AuthorAbout the Technical ReviewerAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Fundamental TechniquesChapter 2: Photographic EffectsChapter 3: Web DesignChapter 4: Advertising and Special EffectsChapter 5: Type EffectsChapter 6: Creative Inspiration

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.12.2012
Verlagsort	San Francisco
Sprache	englisch
Maße	255 x 200 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Fotografieren / Filmen
	Informatik ► Grafik / Design ► Desktop Publishing / Typographie
	Informatik ► Grafik / Design ► Digitale Bildverarbeitung
ISBN-10	1-59327-414-9 / 1593274149
ISBN-13	978-1-59327-414-6 / 9781593274146
Zustand	Neuware