best book for help in understanding Gimp shop?
used2be
know a good one? there aren't really many books on the gimp subject itself,
so i was thinking maybe of ordering one on photoshop instead. you
know...something like "photoshop for dummies." :-)
so...any recommendations about a helpful book for a complete
gimpshop/photoshop newbie?
thnx.
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~u2b
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"Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do
criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes."
Michael Soibelman
Here's a book:
Here's a pdf of chapter 6 from this book:
http://apress.com/ApressCorporate/supplement/1/10080/1590595874-3482.pdf
Here's the Gimp Wiki with lots of links, tutorials, etc.. :
All these are recent. Most other sources are pretty dated. These should be
a great start. The book is about $50.00 US but well worth it. Just save
and view the pdf for a good sample paragraph.
Enjoy
used2be
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thnx hun...
~cindy
Yugo
> Here's a book:
>
> http://gimpbook.com/
>
> Here's a pdf of chapter 6 from this book:
>
> http://apress.com/ApressCorporate/supplement/1/10080/1590595874-3482.pdf
This book is a pity. The pictures are so ugly that it turns you off from the
start. Take this one, for instance:
Figure 6-5. Bucolic image spoiled by a power tower
How is a dead tree supposed to be bucolic? I find the power tower more bucolic!
What an interesting stange effect we find here:
Figure 6-9. Strange effects from a smudge rate of 100% and a large hard-edged
brush. The blue on top of the "tube" is just the sky from above the branch
when starting the smudge.
I just can't wait to use it on some of my pictures!
Chapter 6 begins with humdrum that is characteristic of idiotic books:
> In Chapter 2, you learned some basic GIMP operations for improving
> photographs: the crop-ping, rescaling, and brightness/contrast tools.
Thanks for telling me what I've read!
> But what if you have a photograph that needs more help than that?
You certainly have quite a few!
(...)
> This chapter will introduce you to the following concepts:
Maybe the book doesn't have a table of content or is it just to make more
pages to justify the 50$ ?
The day I see a GIMP book that hasn't been written by a two timing fart
photographer-artist, I'll consider it. For now, 99.9% of all the good work is
done by Photoshop artists.
Dave Neary
Hi,
used2be wrote:
> if i was going to order a book online regarding using gimpshop, does anyone
> know a good one? there aren't really many books on the gimp subject itself,
> so i was thinking maybe of ordering one on photoshop instead. you
> know...something like "photoshop for dummies." :-)
gimp.org has a book list. There's a big gap from 2001 to 2005 while
people caught up with the move to GIMP 2, but there are a number of new
books coming out soon. Michael J. Hammel has been working on a book
which sould be out soon, if it isn't out already, and rumour had it a
few months ago that someone had commissioned a 2nd edition to the
classic "Grokking the GIMP": http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/index.html - a
must-read for anyone new to image manipulation, since not only does it
talk about the tool, but also about the principles behind it.
There is also the rather dry, but complete, GIMP reference and user
manual, at http://docs.gimp.org/
Hope that helps!
Cheers,
Dave.
Yugo
> There is also the rather dry, but complete, GIMP reference and user
> manual, at http://docs.gimp.org/
You forgot to say "well organized". I like the way layers (I.2.3.3) and
plug-ins (II.4.1) are introduced just before Creating new Files (II.5.1.1), a
most interesting subject that must be discussed around page page 100, I
suppose (check the pdf if you have time). I mean why begin with "Let's open a
file and get something done" on page one?
> Hope that helps!
Typical Linux documentation with lots of III.2.4a.I.b.3.b.Aa.ZZ.2 always
helps. It looks so scientific! Great book! This one must be around a 1000
pages minimum, so how could anybody pretend it isn't a great book for beginners?
Too bad ridicule doesn't kill, we'd see what's left of those millions pages of
GIMP crap!
Besides, it seems nobody noticed the OP was asking for documentation for GIMPSHOP!
Dave Neary
Hi,
Yugo wrote:
> You forgot to say "well organized". I like the way layers (I.2.3.3) and
> plug-ins (II.4.1) are introduced just before Creating new Files (II.5.1.1), a
> most interesting subject that must be discussed around page page 100, I
> suppose (check the pdf if you have time). I mean why begin with "Let's open a
> file and get something done" on page one?
The (volunteer) GIMP documentation team is always looking for people
willing to spend time making our docs better, by helping organise
things in a more logical fashion, or by contributing new/re-edited
docs.
> Typical Linux documentation with lots of III.2.4a.I.b.3.b.Aa.ZZ.2 always
> helps. It looks so scientific! Great book! This one must be around a 1000
> pages minimum, so how could anybody pretend it isn't a great book for beginners?
It is a reference, after all, and the GIMP is a big programme, which
ships with around 200 filters, each of which is documented. I imagine
some people will be unhappy that the documentation for, say, the gfig
plug-in is not more complete.
I agree, ideally, you would want to spend time editing the material
which is there, and perhaps splitting the docs into 3 volumes (user
guide, core reference, plug-in reference) if you were to publish it,
but yes, there is lots of useful material in there for beginners.
> Besides, it seems nobody noticed the OP was asking for documentation for GIMPSHOP!
...which has no documentation, and is a very small fork of the GIMP,
which has lots.
Cheers,
Dave.