GIMP User's Manual: Learn the Ins and Outs of GIMP from the Masters Who Wrote the Official Manual on the Web |
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O. Kylander, Karin Kylander
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Pages: 960 (Paperback)
ISBN: 1576105202
Pub: Coriolis Group,U.S.
Pub date: 1999-11
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 636303
Editorial Review:
GIMP: The Official Handbook explains virtually everything about this robust, flexible, and freely available graphics editor. Within the nearly 900 glossy pages, users of all levels can learn how to use and become productive with all the tools, filters, scripts, and effects, beginning with how to compile GIMP for a given system.
GIMP is not for everyone. It must be built, configured, and customised on each Unix-based system where it is installed. GIMP: The Official Handbook does a valiant job of explaining the technical details of this process. For instance, if you want to add support for a graphics tablet, chapter 41, "Drawing Tablets and GIMP", describes how to make the necessary configuration changes as well as instructions for recompiling the application so that it recognises the new input source.
Full sections on GIMP's basic usage, navigation, tools and scripting language, Script-fu, as well as how to compile plug-ins, use different filter types (render, distort, colour, artistic, etc.), and create animation using AnimFrames are just a few of the 47 chapters that make this book worthwhile.
There are six appendices covering many technical aspects: GIMP start flags and initialisation files, GIMP manual pages, Perl-Fu scripting, installing scanners, and more. GIMP: The Official Handbook doesn't lack for technical information.
A 32-page colour section includes screenshots and examples of what GIMP can do, and how many of the filters work.
GIMP is emerging as a breakaway application in the never-say-die grassroots movement of the open source initiative. With its powerful scripting languages, plug-in filters, and the free nature of its distribution, the GIMP is a powerful asset to any web artist, or any multi-platform digital artist. GIMP: The Official Handbook can show you how to use, and make the most of, this robust graphics application. --Mike Caputo, Amazon.com
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