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A practical approach to GIMP for DIY. Use these easy to follow tutorials. Learn design tips and techniques for online business, web, social media and print.
I love to photoshop images and blend them to create customized new ones. I’ve done so much of it for social media purposes that I don’t think about how I just create what I need. So writing an article about editing your favorite photos so you can make personalized photo gifts for birthdays and holidays …
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I recently wanted business cards printed. I knew there was a difference between RGB codes -colors that are generally used for the web or that show up on you monitor, and CMYK codes, -colors used by professional printers. Since GIMP uses RGB colors by default I found out how to add a GIMP CMYK plugin …
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Create a fantasy world map for free using GIMP. GIMP map-making techniques are the perfect fantasy world map creator that anybody can use.
I needed to install GIMP brushes on Mac for a map project. I found free brushes from DeviantArt. In this post, I share how to install GIMP brushes on Mac.
GIMP is simply the best free online photo editor available, but let’s face it, GIMP doesn’t make vector graphic art or SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) like Inkscape. Still, there are GIMP features that make GIMP a good choice for creating designs to sell online. So you can definitely make money with GIMP by selling your …
Whether you’re using GIMP to design graphics for a project or using it to create logos, having a lot of font choices in GIMP is essential for creating designs. Plus, it’s super easy to add fonts to GIMP and there’s a ton of really cool free fonts you can download to use. When I look …
You have a favorite image editor already. If it’s one of those online ones, still read this article and find out what you’re missing. Hey, I’ve learned from personal experience that creating visual content for online businesses falls into 2 categories; creating to sell or editing to promote. If you’re creating from scratch to sell …
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A lot of DIY’ers want to create curved text for images and graphics without spending either a ridiculously amount of time or money. Since not every online editor can create curved text I wanted to mention a couple of solid choices for doing that. Plus, these low cost online “curve text generators” as I like …
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Wondering how to remove a background? GIMP is a free background remover with multiple ways for GIMP to erase backgrounds. Removing the background from an image with GIMP is very straightforward. While removing backgrounds from images with GIMP depends on image complexity, there are 5 basic ways that GIMP makes backgrounds transparent. GIMP erases backgrounds with four tools or using layer masks.
Let’s look closer at how GIMP removes backgrounds.
Add a gimp pattern to use with filters and special effects. GIMP comes with default patterns but you can easily make your own and then use for all kinds of special effects. Add patterns to GIMP easily; here’s how to do it.
Wanting to use GIMP on my Mac proved to be a challenge, not in a way I planned. I’d gone to GIMP’s website to download both the 2.8 and 2.10 pre-compiled dmg files to install GIMP. I’d read up a bit beforehand; the articles I’d found indicated that some useful Script-fu scripts came with the …
