Gimp 2 - Idiot's Guide!

Al1944

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I'm afraid I can't get to grips with this PP stuff - must be age related!

Can someone point me to a really simple online tutorial which will help me understand it better - layers in particular?

Thanks,
Al
 
Thanks for that.

There may be an easier program than Gimp that I should be looking at.

Al
 
Windows 7 - but please don't ask me anything complicated ;)

Al
 
In terms of simple and straightforward PP, Lightroom is as good as it gets. You don't have to worry about layers and stuff like that and you get a powerful photo indexing system as well. There's also the benefit of being able to send an image to Gimp (or PS or whatever external editor you have) to do more complex stuff if you wish.

Unlike Gimp, you have to hand over some shekels for Lightroom. There's a free, open source equivalent of Lightroom (called Darktable) that has been written for Linux distros (and now MacOS) but unfortunately not Windows.

I've never used Picasa (free but not open source) but hear that its limited PP stuff is sufficient for most things and you get cataloging/indexing as well.

Perhaps someone who uses Picasa can provide more info.
 
Thanks Russ. One of the things I would like to be able to di is 'repace' the sky in certain shots and I believe this is done by using layers.

Al
 
It is.

Although the details differ, functionally you do much the same thing in Gimp, full Photoshop or PS Elements. There are no layer functions in Lightroom or Picasa.

So it looks like you're stuck with the tutorials...

Someone who has used the latest versions of Gimp and Elements may be able to give you advice on whether one is more straightforward than the other. I haven't used Gimp for a few years and I use a combination of 95% Lightroom/5% PS-CS5 so couldn't say one way or the other.
 
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