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Akkana Peck
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Pages: 552 (Paperback)
ISBN: 1590595874
Pub: APRESS
Pub date: 2006-05-01
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 114001
Reader Reviews:
Invaluable (7/7 people found this helpful)
Who needs to spend hundreds of quid on Photoshop when you can get Gimp for free? The problems with Gimp are that if you learned Photoshop it can take a while to get used to the quite different Gimp layout, and some features work very differently, and the manual - such as there is one - is in a permanent state of being not quite finished. Peck's book is a simple but thorough guide to the numerous features and formidable power of one of the greatest pieces of free software ever devised. I'll never be nostalgic for Adobe again, since with this book at my side Gimp is no longer scary.
Great book, Great way to Learn the Gimp (9/10 people found this helpful)
The book takes you at a good pace through most of the features of the Gimp. Very easy to follow, practical examples that you can easily try in the Gimp whilst you are working through the book. Good reference to earlier versions of the Gimp so you can still find things as menu's have changed between the latest version of the Gimp and earlier versions.
It's made be value the Gimp more than I used to and also given me greater confidence to experiment by myself.
For a first time author, Akkana Peck really gets to grips with GIMP (36/37 people found this helpful)
I've only just received "Beginning GIMP, From Novice to Professional", but already I find I can't live without it. Just dipping in to a few chapters, it has answered every single question I ever asked (or didn't even know I needed to ask) about this great open-source software.
The book is full of colour examples and screen-shots. Her text is straight to the point and informative from the word go. I can't wait to read the book from cover to cover. Gimp is a great tool and I've used it a lot, but spent many frustrating evenings (and through the night) trying to complete the simplest of tasks. With Akkana Peck's book by my side, I feel confident in tacking even the most taxing graphical task.
A+ More books like this please!
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