Yearly Archive July 28, 2014

ByCecine Bunn

Gimp Beginner – Straight Line, Circle

This tutorial shows you how you can create straight lines and circles with GIMP (Gimp – Open source image retouching and editing tool.). A straight line can be drawn using the Shift key, instead of relying on the imprecision of the mouse. A perfect circle can be drawn by setting the aspect ratio of an ellipse.

Let’s start by creating a new file. Open up Gimp, A window titled GNU Manipulation Program as seen below should pop up.

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ByCecine Bunn

Gimp Beginner – Complex Shapes/Fills

This tutorial shows you how you can create complex shapes such as filled squares, circles and free form shapes with GIMP (Gimp – Open source image retouching and editing tool.). Using the toolbox options we can control whether we have a rectangle or square and similarly an ellipse or circle. The toolbox also helps us pick the fill color for any shape.

Lets start by creating a new file. Open up Gimp, A window titled GNU Manipulation Program as seen below should pop up.

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ByCecine Bunn

Gimp Beginner – Red Eye Removal

This tutorial shows you how easy red eye removal is using GIMP (Gimp – Open source image retouching and editing tool.). Red eye removal is so simple, it is just a matter of selecting the right filter.

First we need to locate a picture to remove red eye from. Do this by opening the picture needing edits: Go to File then Open…

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ByCharles Bunn

Snipping Tool – Print Screen on Steroids

For many novice users, not realizing that the PrtScn key (Print Screen on some keyboards) was not printing their screen became a revelation when they understood that it was instead sending the image to the clipboard. Combining ALT with the PrtScn key brought them a new nirvana when they realized that would capture the active window. Capturing multiple active windows or one screen of a multiple screen setup did not seem possible unless you knew about Microsoft’s Snipping Tool. The Snipping Tool comes with Windows 10, 8, 7, and can be installed on Windows Vista and XP via the Microsoft Experience Pack for Tablet PC.

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