Course Information
Course Overview
Gnu Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) 2.8/2.10: Free GIMP Book/eBook covers: GIMP self-publishing, memes & photo touchup
Hi and welcome to my intermediate GIMP course.
Go Beyond the Basics
In this course, we go beyond the basics of producing a simple book cover using the GIMP as introduced in my course "GIMP for Beginners: Design Free Book Covers: Self-publishing". The intermediate course material provided here should propel your GIMP graphics to the next level. This course represents a grab bag of tips and tricks that every GIMP user should know. So, take your GIMP skills to the next level with this tips and techniques resources pack for flushing out your graphics toolkit.
Learn Tips and Techniques for Advanced Text Handling
Learn my favorite techniques for formatting text for presentation on the web. Whether it's a book cover, album cover, web graphic, or logo, I'll show you the techniques required to make your images shine. And of course, there's always colored boxes to consider.
Here, in this intermediate course, I go well beyond the basics to teach you the refined art of GIMP graphics. Please note that I recommend you possess at least the knowledge in my GIMP book cover course to get the most out of this course.
Send questions and comments to Q&A. Have fun with the course and keep in touch.
I’ll see you in the classroom,
---Brian
Course Content
- 11 section(s)
- 72 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Introduction
- Section 2 GIMP Setup
- Section 3 Text and Text Effects
- Section 4 Layers
- Section 5 Selection
- Section 6 Image Manipulation
- Section 7 Colored Boxes
- Section 8 Layer Masks
- Section 9 Paths
- Section 10 Intermediate GIMP
- Section 11 Continuing Education
What You’ll Learn
- Expand our knowledge of the GIMP to produce superior images., Take you book cover creation knowledge to the next level., Learn how to use the GIMP to produce a variety of web graphics.
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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CCraig Mazur
This class fills in pieces missing in the first course.
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JJames Barat
Loved the course. New topics and reviews of some things we have done before which i appreciated going over again to make it clearer.
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WWojciech Świderski
quite informative and to the point. qood for a beginner as I am
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JJanice Campbell
This guy knows less about gimp than a dog on steroids, i would teach wayy better