The GIMP is a freely available open source application for creating and manipulating graphic images. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and other Unix-based operating systems. Among GIMP's features are photo retouching, image composition, and image authoring, and it is often compared favorably with Adobe's Photoshop and Illustrator applications.
The GIMP is a free alternative to Photoshop that can be used for photo retouching, image composition, and image authoring. In The Artist's Guide to GIMP Effects, artists and graphics professionals will learn how to use the GIMP and its tools to produce specific effects. Short, extensively illustrated tutorials cover a broad range of real-world projects that will be useful to those working in areas such as print advertisements, web design, photography, and user interface design. Includes material on how to use brushes, patterns, and shapes, and how to produce effects like flag-waving, contrast, rollovers, and duotones. The book also shows how to create objects like metal and gel buttons, and screws, nuts, and bolts, plus faceplates, wires, tabs, and more.
-A very practical book of step-by-step tutorials for the savvy user
-Covers the GIMP 2.2 for Linux, Windows, and Mac
-4-color throughout

Autorentext
Michael J. Hammel has been involved with GIMP since version 0.54 and was a contributor to the early development of the program. Hammel wrote a column on GIMP for Linux Format for three years and is the author of The Artists' Guide to the GIMP and Essential GIMP for Web Professionals. He is an embedded software engineer living in Colorado Springs.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Fundamental Techniques Chapter 2: Photographic Effects Chapter 3: Web Design Chapter 4: Advertising and Special Effects Chapter 5: Type Effects Chapter 6: User Interface Design