Do it with the GIMP

Updated to GIMP 2.2

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. History of the GIMP
  • 1.2. Future Directions
  • 1.3. Conventions Used in this Lecture
• 2. Overview of Features
  • 2.1. Colour Modes
  • 2.2. 8 bits per colour value
  • 2.3. RGB and HSV modes
    • 2.3.1. Demo
    • 2.3.2. What are RGB and HSV?
    • 2.3.3. What about CMYK?
  • 2.4. Basic Effects using the Toolbox
  • 2.5. Plug-ins
  • 2.6. Selection and its Usage
    • 2.6.1. Using the Red "Paint Selection" Button
    • 2.6.2. The "<Image> → Select" Menu
  • 2.7. Layers
    • 2.7.1. Alpha
      • 2.7.1.1. Demo 1
      • 2.7.1.2. Demo : Using a Gradient as a Layer Mask
    • 2.7.2. Filters and Layers
    • 2.7.3. Layer Modes
    • 2.7.4. Gradients
• 3. LUT (Look-Up Tables Effects)
  • 3.1. Brightness and Contrast
    • 3.1.1. Answer
    • 3.1.2. Demonstration
  • 3.2. Gamma Correction
    • 3.2.1. Concept
    • 3.2.2. Demonstration
  • 3.3. Equalize
  • 3.4. Color Map Rotation
  • 3.5. Color Balance
  • 3.6. More LUTs
• 4. Basic Areal Effects
  • 4.1. Blur
    • 4.1.1. Answer to how one can blur an image
    • 4.1.2. Demo of a simple blur
    • 4.1.3. Gaussian Blur
      • 4.1.3.1. IIR vs. RLE Gaussian Blurs
      • 4.1.3.2. Demo of IIR Gauss. Blur
      • 4.1.3.3. Demo of RLE Gauss. Blur
  • 4.2. Sharpening
    • 4.2.1. Answer to how one can sharpen
    • 4.2.2. Sharpening Demo
  • 4.3. Motion Blur
    • 4.3.1. Answer to how one can motion blur
    • 4.3.2. Demo
• 5. Basic Areal Transformations
  • 5.1. Scaling an Image
    • 5.1.1. Interpolation
  • 5.2. The Rotate, Scale and Perspective Tools
    • 5.2.1. Demo
• 6. Some Cool Effects
  • 6.1. Gradient Map
    • 6.1.1. Demo 1 : Real-life picture
    • 6.1.2. Demo 2 : Text Caption
  • 6.2. Fractal Explorer
• 7. Turning a Photograph into a Painting
  • 7.1. Oilify
  • 7.2. Gimpressionist
• 8. Scripting the GIMP
  • 8.1. The Procedural Database
  • 8.2. Script-Fu Scripting
    • 8.2.1. Interactive Demo
    • 8.2.2. Generating a Logo
  • 8.3. Gimp-Perl Scripting
  • 8.4. GIMP (C-based) Plug-ins
• 9. Finale
  • 9.1. References and Links
  • 9.2. Origins and Copyrights of the Images