{"id":8094,"date":"2004-10-22T03:57:20","date_gmt":"2004-10-22T01:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/22\/gimp-guru\/"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"gimp-guru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/22\/gimp-guru\/","title":{"rendered":"GIMP guru"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/20041022-gimpguru_logo.png\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>For those people that need minor or midium image manipulation I do often recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\">Gimp<\/a>.  Unless you are an Adobe Photoshop fan or a professional designer with some very specific needs, Gimp can do the job for you and save you some money along the way.<\/p>\n<p>While Gimp itself works great, there is a lack of documentation (in terms of tutorials, tips, and tricks) compared to Adobe Photoshop world.  There are a few at Gimp&#8217;s website, of course.  But there are few other resources if you know what I mean.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimpguru.org\">Gimp guru<\/a> is just such a resource.  It has a few tutorials, links to mailing lists\/forums where people can talk and even provides a &#8220;Ask your question&#8221; section.  The site is oriented towards the photographers mainly, but it can prove useful for other artists too.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>For those people that need minor or midium image manipulation I do often recommend Gimp. Unless you are an Adobe Photoshop fan or a professional designer with some very specific needs, Gimp can do the job for you and save you some money along the way. While Gimp itself works great, there is a lack &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/22\/gimp-guru\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GIMP guru<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-8094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7730,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/07\/28\/gimp-user-group\/","url_meta":{"origin":8094,"position":0},"title":"GIMP User Group","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 28, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"GIMP User Group is an excellent resource for all GIMP users. There are tutorials, articles, galleries, and even forums to get an answer for your question. Tutorials are even version specific, so that you can have specific steps no matter which version of GIMP you use (1.0, 1.2, 2.0).","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8497,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/18\/a-bunch-of-photoshop-tutorials\/","url_meta":{"origin":8094,"position":1},"title":"A bunch of Photoshop tutorials","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"January 18, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"If you are into graphic manipulations, Good-Tutorials.com might interesting for you. It boasts 5800 Photoshop tutorials. I've checked a few and they are really easy and useful. 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