GIMP TUTORIAL FOR

BEGINNERS
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Gimp is very similar as

adobe photoshop

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The key difference is

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Gimp is free!

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Installing gimp

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Open your internet browser

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Type the link in the address bar

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This is the download page

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Click here for the direct download

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Alternative download link

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Torrent link

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Alternative link

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Boy, theres so many

links!

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Scrolling down further

the page reveals more
links
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As shown here

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With corresponding regions specified

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After you have clicked a

link

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Save the installer in a

folder that is easily
accessible
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Like so

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Open the installer

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Run as admin when prompted

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This is to ensure a safe

and clean installation

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Select your desired language

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Click customize

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The license agreement of gimp

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After reading, click next

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You can click here to change the installation type

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Choosing compact installation halves the disk

space used

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But less features will be installed

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Lets select full installation for this tutorial

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Click next

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Selecting file associations

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You can select here which file extensions

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You wish to open with gimp

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When you double click a file in explorer

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If you wish to open all files available with gimp

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Click select all

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I do recommend leaving
this part as is

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Since I only want to use

gimp for editing
purposes
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Click next when youre done

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Make sure to check this part

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Then click next

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Confirmation window

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Check all parts and when you are ready

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Click install

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Wait for the installation to finish

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Click finish

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Look for the gimp icon on your desktop

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This is the icon that you will double click

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If you are to use gimp

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Gimp interface

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This is the default window of gimp

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To get started with gimp

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Well need a canvas

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Click file

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Click new

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Gimp will then ask for the image size

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Not sure about manually typing the resolution?

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You can click the template dropdown menu

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And now you can choose from the choices

provided

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Do note that some resolutions are really large

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Like this a3 template here

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To elaborate, we compare it to this template

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Notice that the difference is quite huge

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This is important to
remember

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For you to avoid

consuming too much disk
space
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You can click reset if you wish to redo

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This will default to the 600x400 resolution

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however, you can click ok if you are satisfied

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Congratulations! You now have your canvas

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Congratulations! You now have your canvas

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Next step is to utilize this area

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Click windows

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Highlight dockable docks

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And choose from the selection

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I have chosen brushes, gradients, and palletes

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Now we will move these dialogs here

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Simply by dragging them

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You have to click this part

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You will know when you have successfully

dragged it

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When it now occupies the space

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Lets add these two now

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Lets add these two now

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The end result should look like this

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Notice the tabs now are only pictures

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You can arrange them separately like so

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To do that

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youd drag the tab you wish to seperate

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And highlight it slightly above the tabs

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Until a blue line appears in the area

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Once the line appears you can drop the tab

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And it should look like this now

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Now you have easy to access tools

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Now you have easy to customize tools

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And next is maybe youd want a picture

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To add pictures, you click file

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Click open

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This window will open

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Select your image

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Click open

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And a separate window with the image will open

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And now your gimp window should look like this

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It looks messy because of the window

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Lets merge the image into one window

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By dragging this part here

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Into the white canvas here

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Once you begin dragging

the window minimizes

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Giving you lots of space

to drop the image

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If the image is larger

than the canvas size

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The image will overlap the canvas

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But it will not show the full image

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As shown by the yellow lines here

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They signify the size of the image

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If this happens, just create a new canvas

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Always remember the image size!

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Merging/overlapping 2 pictures

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Its preferable that you

have different sized
images
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You will need to open a new image

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I chose the image of kuya jobert

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Fresh from the google search results

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Fresh from the google search results

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First thing you should do

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Click fuzzy select tool

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And drag around the image

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Now click layer

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Highlight transparency

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Then click add alpha channel

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This will give the image a

transparent background

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After that, if the image is still highlighted

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Shown by the lines

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Press the delete key

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And this should be the end result

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If there are smudges in the picture

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You can use the eraser tool

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To remove the smudges

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Now let us move the image

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Drag this part

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And drop it anywhere in the image

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The image may not show itself

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But it is there

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Here in the layers dialog

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We want kuya joberts picture to be here

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Simply drag the layer and drop it above tulips

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Like so

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Higher layer=more
priority on visibility

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Now lets get back to the

images

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Now the image of kuya jobert appears

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Adding alpha layer in the kuya jobert image

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Allows images layered beneath it to be shown

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Basic image effects

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Gimp has a lot of neat

effects

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And they are also easy to

use

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These effects can accessed here in filters

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Each filter has a category and subcategory

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Each filter has a category and subcategory

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For now let us highlight artistic

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And select clothify

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Every effect has its settings window

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This is the setting window for clothify

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Unfortunately, there is no preview

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Lets click ok

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And presto!

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Kuya joberts image is not affected

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Since the highlighted layer is the tulips image

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Effects apply to the

highlighted layer

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Lets try another effect

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This time well edit kuya joberts image

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Lets highlight edge-detect

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And select neon

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Here is the setting window for neon

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More radius=blemishes the picture

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More amount=adds more color

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When done, click ok

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And here is the end result!

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The other effects work

in a similar mechanic

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Wherein you just select

the effect

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And adjust it to your

liking

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Try to experiment with

the other effects!

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End of tutorial

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