A very useful skill in Photo manipulation is the ability to selectively alter an area. If you can selectively colour an area you can use the same technique to apply a whole range of effects to very ...

GIMP is a free open-source graphic software that is good for photo editing, photo manipulation, tracing, and much more. Learning how to trace images and objects in GIMP is a way to get your hand-drawn ...

Over six months ago, I stopped using Adobe Photoshop and switched to the open source alternative, GIMP, for all my personal photography projects. This wasn't the impossible task that most people ...

Techniques / GIMP Tutorial: Get the look of a medium format contact print How to create the look of a medium format contact print with slightly rough edge in GIMP.

Selective focus is a photographic effect that places one area of an image in sharp focus while blurring the rest. Traditionally you'd achieve this effect with special camera lenses; with the advent of ...

When you place an image in GIMP it may be bigger or smaller than you want so you will have to resize it to make it the size that you want. There are two ways to resize an image in GIMP and they are ...

Using patterns can be a great way to fill in backgrounds on a brochure, or even to fill in large letters on a company logo. If you're using GIMP, it already comes with several patterns, which you can ...