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Gimp

Post by Mattybcd » 28 Sep 2012, 15:33

I downloaded gimp earlier today, and when I got on... There was TONS of buttons everywhere and I had no idea how to use it. I was wondering if any of you guys know a program that similar to gimp.organd that's free. And maybe a link to how to use it, as for some reason I can't find any tutorials or anything, thanks guys. -MaTt
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Re: Gimp

Post by Jake55778 » 28 Sep 2012, 15:58

Depends what you need to do with it. Photography? Image manipulation? Digital painting? Graphic design?

Those myriad of buttons may be daunting when you start out, but you only need a handful for most tasks and you'll pick up on the others as you go.
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Re: Gimp

Post by Wildwill002 » 28 Sep 2012, 16:00

You should try paint. An example that paint isn't crap is everything zin has ever made on it.
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Re: Gimp

Post by J4Numbers » 28 Sep 2012, 16:05

I use it to make all my banners, it's pretty much the same as photoshop, except its freewhere.

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Re: Gimp

Post by LS13 » 28 Sep 2012, 16:40

Wildwill002 wrote:You should try paint. An example that paint isn't crap is everything zin has ever made on it.
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Re: Gimp

Post by Mattybcd » 28 Sep 2012, 18:05

Sadly... I know nothing about photoshop, or anything else tbh, I want to edit and make pictures, but all I can do us place text :/
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Re: Gimp

Post by LS13 » 28 Sep 2012, 18:39

When I first started using Gimp I had never used anything more advanced than paint. Play around with the stuff, figure out what it all does. And if you want to do something specific you can google it and find videos and how-to's.
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Re: Gimp

Post by Sti_Jo_Lew » 29 Sep 2012, 05:09

If you're trying to make art in GIMP... use layers. They are good. Other than that, look up tutorials on google or something, or get someone you know IRL to help teach you.
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Re: Gimp

Post by J4Numbers » 29 Sep 2012, 05:28

If you need it, I can work on a GIMP tutorial to post in here.

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Re: Gimp

Post by Mattybcd » 10 Oct 2012, 20:08

M477h3w1012 wrote:If you need it, I can work on a GIMP tutorial to post in here.
I just saw this, if you got time (I know your quite busy in enigma and such) that would be great thanks!
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Re: Gimp

Post by MrWhales » 10 Oct 2012, 20:24

One of the things that helped me out was looking for image creation tutorials on google, if it's a decent one, it will tell you what does what and you'll get examples of everything.

It's what I use for image manipulation.
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