Practical Free Alternatives to Commercial Software

© Steve Oualline and Grace Oualline 2018

Steve Oualline and Grace OuallinePractical Free Alternatives to Commercial Softwarehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3075-6_8

8. Getting Started with GIMP

Steve Oualline¹  and Grace Oualline¹

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San Diego, California, USA

 

GIMP is a high-quality, full-featured, image manipulation program. The program is free, but it comes with minimal documentation. This is both good and bad. It’s bad if you want to use the more advanced features, but it’s good for authors who write books like this one to fill the documentation gap. In this chapter, you’ll explore some of the basic uses of this program that you might encounter if you are editing your personal photos. These include the following:

• Rotating pictures

• Managing files ...