Chapter 1. Fundamental Techniques
The GNU Image Manipulation Program (or GIMP) is one of the world’s most popular open source projects. It allows everyday users on a budget to harness the graphical abilities of virtually any computer. Open source means anyone can improve the program, and it’s free to download.
To install GIMP, go to http://www.gimp.org/ and find the download and installation instructions for your operating system. GIMP runs on all three major platforms: Mac, Windows, and Linux. In fact, if you use Linux, it’s probably already installed on your machine. You’ll need to run GIMP 2.8 in order to follow along with the tutorials in this book (though the tutorials are written to be applicable to the older 2.6 version as well). Come back ...
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