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title: "Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional (Expert's Voice in Open Source)"
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# Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional (Expert's Voice in Open Source)

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- **What is this?** Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional (Expert's Voice in Open Source) by akkana peck
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Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional (Expert's Voice in Open Source)

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Informative
*by P***D on January 25, 2025*

Well written for beginners to learn GIMP.A bit dated from the updated versions but similar enough to current versions to learn basics.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Really Helpful, Easy to Follow
*by C***Y on February 9, 2010*

Gimp is a great program, very powerful, but not always as intuitive as you might like, especially if you're not familiar with any graphics programs. Akkana Peck writes clearly without "geek speak" for us mortals who only understand English. If you carefully read and follow everything she has to say, you'll look like a Gimp wizard when you're done going through this book.There's a lot of basic stuff in the beginning that you might think is skippable, but don't do that. Every once in a while, you'll stumble across a gem of information even in the first several chapters, even if you're familiar with image editing software and have been using Gimp for a while.All the images she uses for examples in the book are available on-line. This makes it a lot easier to try the demos without doing a lot of searching for a similar image. This book is based on a slightly out-dated version of Gimp, but there are updates for newer features at the book website. I'm glad I bought this book--it's worth the price.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Book if it were Up-to-Date
*by K***N on July 18, 2010*

Well written and easily understandable. This is the affordable manual so badly needed for Gimp. It is neither a tutorial or a reference, but has advantages of both. It's easy discussion style leads you through how to use Gimp, starting with the basics, and moving soon to advanced. But I have had no problem using the index to jump ahead to specific topics of interest, as the discussions made sense without reading everything in order. I feel like I will be a Gimp expert when I finish the book, but I and already getting lots of use from it in improving my digital photos.The book is a couple of versions behind. There are a few mentions in the Appendix describing the differences in the newer versions, but the explanations are just short summaries. Most of the tools are still in the newer versions. But in newer versions (latest is 2.6.10) many tools have been relocated and can be hard to find. In fairness, with versions changing so rapidly, it would be difficult for any author or publisher to keep up. Because the book is advertised as covering version 2.6 but really doesn't, I downgraded my rating from five stars to four.

## Frequently Bought Together

- Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional (Expert's Voice in Open Source)
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