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Stephanie Cottrell Bryant, Tillman Hodgson, Bryan Livingston
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Pages: 728 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0764533983
Pub: John Wiley & Sons
Pub date: 2000-03-02
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 443049
Editorial Review:
The Gnu Image Manipulation Program is one of the best image editors available--and it's free. It's part of every Linux distribution but also runs on any Unix. Divided into five parts, the book covers getting and installing The GIMP (a CD complete with GTK library and 200 filters is included), tools, concepts, filters and Script-Fu, and real world uses.
The tools, concepts and menus discussion is good, while the coverage of selections, layers and channels-the most confusing feature for new users though essential to tap into The GIMP's power--is excellent. There are a number of illustrative image editing and creation mini-tutorials, but a lot of the book is more about Linux than for creatives using the GIMP. For example, it starts with editing GIMP configuration files, has heavy coverage of Script-Fu, The GIMP's unfriendly scripting language, and the alternative Gimp-Perl. While most GIMP extensions are written as scripts, it isn't what most people do with The GIMP. Another example is the section on adding fonts. PostScript fonts is a fuss but adding TrueType fonts often involves adding a new font server. Getting this wrong can cripple your system--and is likely to confuse creative types. Similarly, the final 100 pages list The GIMP's procedural database as a reference for those creating scripts. Overall, this is a useful addition to the excellent free GIMP manual, but it does suffer from a confusion of purpose in mixing technical and programming aspects with image editing. --Steve Patient
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