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Instant GIMP Starter

By : Fazreil Amreen
Book Image

Instant GIMP Starter

By: Fazreil Amreen

Overview of this book

<p>Image manipulation is being used by professionals all over the world. Beautiful pictures can be achieved by combining technology with art. GIMP.&nbsp; the GNU Image Manipulation Program, makes them accessible to everyone. GIMP is. With it, anyone can express their emotional and intellectual capability in a new dimension. "Instant GIMP Starter" is a book that provides a new generation of artists with new techniques and tools in a comprehensive format. A range of task from drawing simple images to composing multiple pictures in an image are covered in this book.This book walks you through the journey of learning various tools and gets the reader to create exciting artworks, one after another.Although the book focuses on each step of producing wonderful effects with GIMP to anyone with basic computer skills, it also delivers information that can be used for school projects or corporate presentations. You will have a set of great photos when you learn how to apply special effects.You will have amazing tools to work with to satisfy your creativity and an endless chain of beautiful images you never knew you could come up with.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

Installation


In a few easy steps, you can install GIMP and get it set up on your system.

Step 1 – what do I need?

Before you install GIMP, you will need to check whether you have all of the required elements, as listed in the following items:

  • 256 MB of minimum memory is needed, though 1 GB is recommended for smoother work

  • Disk space of minimum 100 MB

  • For a Linux machine, GIMP requires an X Window System running on the machine

While we're on the subject, in the following screenshot, there is the one and only step shown to get GIMP installed on Ubuntu:

Open up terminal and issue the following command:

sudo apt-get install gimp

Step 2 – downloading GIMP

The easiest way to download GIMP is from http://www.gimp.org/downloads/. There is a link to the latest version of Windows Installer on the website.

Step 3 – setting up installation

To set up the installation, follow these steps:

  1. Find the executable downloaded, and double-click on it to begin, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. Select the preferred language for use during installation.

Step 4 – installing

To begin installing GIMP, follow these steps:

  1. The installation begins after clicking on the Install button, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. On the following screenshot, the installer is unpacking its content and loading it into the machine. Please wait for the process to finish.

  3. The final screen for the installation indicates that the installation is successful. Then, click on the Finish button to end the installation process.

And that's it!

By this point, you should have a working installation of GIMP and are ready to spark creativity.