All the advice posted so far in response to your post is good. And, if you
browse this forum, you will see a post from me similar to yours in just the
last week (or two).
Someone mentioned Rolf Steinort's podcast series "Meet The Gimp". I would
recommend you download episode #15. The first half
Thomas,
Don't make the mistake to get Photoshop because you think it's easier when in
reality it's just as hard to learn. It's got nothing to do with the interface
but all with the fact that both are complicated programs.
There is plenty of help if you know how to find it.
Meet the gimp has been
thomas w. writes:
> For example, I want to merge two pictures, by taking some regions from one
> picture and some from another. I though I could do this by making unwanted
> regions transparent - this seems obvious.
Yes, that's exactly the way to do it. And the best way to do that
is to make a lay
thomas w. wrote:
>
> I wanted to use GIMP for my photo manipulation. I had assumed after all these
> years that it was usable. I hope I'm not forced to go to Photoshop over
> something simple like this.
>
GIMP is really good for photo post-processing. I use it a lot; even
though I bought a lapt
> I've read the documentation several times and every tutorial I could get my
> hands on, but I still can't make any sense out of how to properly use
> layers..
I felt like this not so long ago and then along came Rolf Steinort and
www.meetthegimp.org and things started to fall into place.
Norma
On 08/25/2009 07:23 PM, thomas w. wrote:
> I've read the documentation several times and every tutorial I could get my
> hands on, but I still can't make any sense out of how to properly use
> layers..
>
> For example, I want to merge two pictures, by taking some regions from one
> picture and some
thomas w. wrote:
> I've read the documentation several times and every tutorial I could get my
> hands on, but I still can't make any sense out of how to properly use
> layers..
>
> For example, I want to merge two pictures, by taking some regions from one
> picture and some from another. I thou
I've read the documentation several times and every tutorial I could get my
hands on, but I still can't make any sense out of how to properly use
layers..
For example, I want to merge two pictures, by taking some regions from one
picture and some from another. I though I could do this by making un
