Non-Destructive Editing In Gimp 3

GIMP 3 introduces non-destructive editing, a significant upgrade enhancing its capabilities for designers and photographers. This feature allows users to apply adjustments without permanently altering images, offering flexibility through editable layers. Benefits include reversible workflows, better experimentation, and the use of smart filters. GIMP 3 streamlines processes, improving creative freedom and efficiency.

Gimp Scissors Tool To Make Selections

This GIMP tutorial focuses on using the Intelligent Scissors Tool to create precise selections effortlessly. It explains the tool’s edge detection capability, guides users through technical steps like placing anchor points and refining paths, and shows how to convert paths into selections for non-destructive editing. The tutorial aims to enhance users’ skills in making cleaner selections with professional precision.

Gimp’s Foreground Selection Tool

Making precise selections in GIMP is crucial in almost any project. GIMP has several tools to do this. Each has its advantages and disadvantages. There is no one tool for everything. The new kid on the block is “Foreground Selection Tool.” This tool lets you extract the foreground from the active layer or from a…

GIMP The Free Photoshop Alternative

GIMP is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image manipulation and image editing, free-form drawing, transcoding between different image file formats, and more specialized tasks. It is not designed to be used for drawing, though some artists and creators have used it in this way. Like photoshop, playing the piano, or anything…

Graphics Editing Alternatives

In the graphics editing area there are a lot big names and very expensive software out there, but there are alternative that can save you a lot of money. The biggest and most expensive of these is the Adobe Creative Suite. The price varies depending on the plan you choose. The Photography plan which includes…

How To Use Gimp

GIMP is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image manipulation and image editing, free-form drawing, transcoding between different image file formats, and more specialized tasks. GIMP is released under GPL-3.0-or-later license and is available for Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows. Similar to PhotoShop GIMP is a very powerful tool for editing images…

New Pixlr Editor

The New! Pixlr E is a online image editor much like Photoshop with many of the same great features but with none of the price or hassle of installing software. You can use the Pixlr editor on any computer as long as it has a web-browser; including Chromebooks. Unlike Photoshop, which can be intimidating for…

Pinta, A Simple Image Editor for Linux

Pinta is an open-source, cross-platform bitmap image drawing and editing program inspired by Paint.NET, a similar image editing program which is limited to Microsoft Windows. Pinta has more features than Microsoft Paint. Compared with open-source image editor GIMP Pinta is simpler and has fewer features. READ MORE

Paint.Net

PAINT.NET is a freeware raster graphics editor program for Microsoft Windows, developed on the .NET Framework. paint.net was originally created by Rick Brewster as a Washington State University student project,  and has evolved from a simple replacement for the Microsoft Paint program into an editor with support for layers, blending, transparency, and plugins. Of course…

What is GIMP?

GIMP the Gnu Image Manipulation Program is a very powerful image editor like PhotoShop but with none of the cost associated with its commercial cousin. GIMP is free to download and will always be free. Project Images Project Files