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Re: Need help with getting started.
Date:Sat, 6 Sep 2008 19:13:09 +0100
There's not really much anyone can tell you if you don't have at least a little specific info here. Actually, I think Gimp has a tutorial somewhere, and am reasonably sure that SOMEBODY else has probably posted one at some time. Gimp also has a document that you can download, it's in PDF format and my copy is over 600 pages I think, but it has a simple name like "en.pdf" making it difficult to tell what it is sometimes. It's an entire Manual, with all kinds of info from the simplest of basics to using (and writing) your own plugins if you are into that kind of stuff. The best thing you can do besides a tutorial or reading their docs is to just plain play with it for a while. I still do all the time, and along with the docs I find so much cool stuff that would take forever to discover otherwise. Open up Gimp and just create a New File from the menu. Give it a size (most people use pixels for some very good reasons), and in your case with a poster you can use a very nice size, even if it is just to fit on a piece of 8.5X11 paper. If you don't have a preference for a particular type of image file format, you can use Gimp's and have different layers and all kinds of neat things that none of the standard image formats have. Give it a background color for starters, or even better make a whole layer for the background. You can turn it on or off to get better detail in the picture, or even make multiple background layers if you want. Just play, and get the documentation if you can. It should be easily obtainable at Gimp's site for whatever platform you run. If you mess up, use Gimp's undo, or just abandon the file and start over. If you get something you want to keep, save and name it. You'll get a whole lot better over time as you use it, and remember when you are making your own images, you can't really mess them up too bad since you started them to begin with! That's about the best I can do for now! "Ankita" <ankita.sayal@gmail.com> wrote in message news:20bf72f0-b7b8-4f46-a9a0-57140b133b53@r15g2000prh.googlegroups.com... > Hi All, > I need to get some posters up for a community initiative at work, I > need to get them done ASAP > Can someone please volunteer to help me get started with it. > I want to learn, so the next time I can do it myself > Any help will be appreciated. > Thanks.
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Re: Need help with getting started.
Date:Sun, 7 Sep 2008 09:38:52 +0100
On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:13:09 -0400, GMorris wrote: > There's not really much anyone can tell you if you don't have at least a > little specific info here. Actually, I think Gimp has a tutorial > somewhere, and am reasonably sure that SOMEBODY else has probably posted > one at some time. Gimp also has a document that you can download, it's > in PDF format and my copy is over 600 pages I think, but it has a simple > name like "en.pdf" making it difficult to tell what it is sometimes. > It's an entire Manual, with all kinds of info from the simplest of > basics to using (and writing) your own plugins if you are into that kind > of stuff. I can't talk about windows as I only use Linux (Debian 'Lenny). In the debian repositories there is a file that contains a Gimp manual (I cannot remember the file name offhand). When this is installed it is available under 'Help'. -- Neil reverse ra and delete l Linux user 335851
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Re: Need help with getting started.
Date:Sun, 7 Sep 2008 10:22:25 +0100
On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:23:49 -0700, Ankita wrote: > Hi All, > I need to get some posters up for a community initiative at work, I need > to get them done ASAP > Can someone please volunteer to help me get started with it. I want to > learn, so the next time I can do it myself Any help will be appreciated. > Thanks. As with anything there is a learning curve but here are some links to start with. I don't think ASAP and 'learning Gimp' are always compatible. Get the first 2 episodes from MeetTheGimp No. 2 on setting up the Gimp interface is well worthwile. http://meetthegimp.org/getting-the-old-shows/ Lots of useful, short 'how-tos' http://herselfswebtools.com/archives#gimp Aimed more at specific tasks rather than a general issues but worth noting http://gimp-tutorials.net/ http://gimpology.com/ -- rich
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Re: Need help with getting started.
Date:Sun, 7 Sep 2008 15:10:31 +0100
On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 09:22:25 +0000, rich wrote: > On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:23:49 -0700, Ankita wrote: > >> Hi All, >> I need to get some posters up for a community initiative at work, I >> need to get them done ASAP >> Can someone please volunteer to help me get started with it. I want to >> learn, so the next time I can do it myself Any help will be >> appreciated. Thanks. > > As with anything there is a learning curve but here are some links to > start with. I don't think ASAP and 'learning Gimp' are always > compatible. > > Get the first 2 episodes from MeetTheGimp No. 2 on setting up the Gimp > interface is well worthwile. > http://meetthegimp.org/getting-the-old-shows/ > > Lots of useful, short 'how-tos' > http://herselfswebtools.com/archives#gimp > > Aimed more at specific tasks rather than a general issues but worth > noting http://gimp-tutorials.net/ > http://gimpology.com/ Thinking about it, for a poster you might be better off using Inkscape. Edit your images using Gimp, but for layout and text use Inkscape. see: http://www.inkscape.org/ No images on this one, but a reasonable example of a poster http://www.inkscape.org/ The inkscape installation also has some good examples of what can be achieved. -- rich
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Re: Need help with getting started.
Date:Sun, 7 Sep 2008 15:22:07 +0100
On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:10:31 +0000, rich wrote: > On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 09:22:25 +0000, rich wrote: > >> On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:23:49 -0700, Ankita wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> I need to get some posters up for a community initiative at work, I >>> need to get them done ASAP >>> Can someone please volunteer to help me get started with it. I want to >>> learn, so the next time I can do it myself Any help will be >>> appreciated. Thanks. >> >> As with anything there is a learning curve but here are some links to >> start with. I don't think ASAP and 'learning Gimp' are always >> compatible. >> >> Get the first 2 episodes from MeetTheGimp No. 2 on setting up the Gimp >> interface is well worthwile. >> http://meetthegimp.org/getting-the-old-shows/ >> >> Lots of useful, short 'how-tos' >> http://herselfswebtools.com/archives#gimp >> >> Aimed more at specific tasks rather than a general issues but worth >> noting http://gimp-tutorials.net/ >> http://gimpology.com/ > > Thinking about it, for a poster you might be better off using Inkscape. > Edit your images using Gimp, but for layout and text use Inkscape. see: > http://www.inkscape.org/ > > No images on this one, but a reasonable example of a poster > http://www.inkscape.org/ > oops - that should have been http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=34 > The inkscape installation also has some good examples of what can be > achieved. -- rich
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Re: Need help with getting started.
Date:Sat, 6 Sep 2008 19:13:09 +0100
There's not really much anyone can tell you if you don't have at least a little specific info here. Actually, I think Gimp has a tutorial somewhere, and am reasonably sure that SOMEBODY else has probably posted one at some time. Gimp also has a document that you can download, it's in PDF format and my copy is over 600 pages I think, but it has a simple name like "en.pdf" making it difficult to tell what it is sometimes. It's an entire Manual, with all kinds of info from the simplest of basics to using (and writing) your own plugins if you are into that kind of stuff. The best thing you can do besides a tutorial or reading their docs is to just plain play with it for a while. I still do all the time, and along with the docs I find so much cool stuff that would take forever to discover otherwise. Open up Gimp and just create a New File from the menu. Give it a size (most people use pixels for some very good reasons), and in your case with a poster you can use a very nice size, even if it is just to fit on a piece of 8.5X11 paper. If you don't have a preference for a particular type of image file format, you can use Gimp's and have different layers and all kinds of neat things that none of the standard image formats have. Give it a background color for starters, or even better make a whole layer for the background. You can turn it on or off to get better detail in the picture, or even make multiple background layers if you want. Just play, and get the documentation if you can. It should be easily obtainable at Gimp's site for whatever platform you run. If you mess up, use Gimp's undo, or just abandon the file and start over. If you get something you want to keep, save and name it. You'll get a whole lot better over time as you use it, and remember when you are making your own images, you can't really mess them up too bad since you started them to begin with! That's about the best I can do for now! "Ankita" <ankita.sayal@gmail.com> wrote in message news:20bf72f0-b7b8-4f46-a9a0-57140b133b53@r15g2000prh.googlegroups.com... > Hi All, > I need to get some posters up for a community initiative at work, I > need to get them done ASAP > Can someone please volunteer to help me get started with it. > I want to learn, so the next time I can do it myself > Any help will be appreciated. > Thanks.
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Re: Need help with getting started.
Date:Sun, 7 Sep 2008 09:38:52 +0100
On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:13:09 -0400, GMorris wrote: > There's not really much anyone can tell you if you don't have at least a > little specific info here. Actually, I think Gimp has a tutorial > somewhere, and am reasonably sure that SOMEBODY else has probably posted > one at some time. Gimp also has a document that you can download, it's > in PDF format and my copy is over 600 pages I think, but it has a simple > name like "en.pdf" making it difficult to tell what it is sometimes. > It's an entire Manual, with all kinds of info from the simplest of > basics to using (and writing) your own plugins if you are into that kind > of stuff. I can't talk about windows as I only use Linux (Debian 'Lenny). In the debian repositories there is a file that contains a Gimp manual (I cannot remember the file name offhand). When this is installed it is available under 'Help'. -- Neil reverse ra and delete l Linux user 335851
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Re: Need help with getting started.
Date:Sun, 7 Sep 2008 10:22:25 +0100
On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:23:49 -0700, Ankita wrote: > Hi All, > I need to get some posters up for a community initiative at work, I need > to get them done ASAP > Can someone please volunteer to help me get started with it. I want to > learn, so the next time I can do it myself Any help will be appreciated. > Thanks. As with anything there is a learning curve but here are some links to start with. I don't think ASAP and 'learning Gimp' are always compatible. Get the first 2 episodes from MeetTheGimp No. 2 on setting up the Gimp interface is well worthwile. http://meetthegimp.org/getting-the-old-shows/ Lots of useful, short 'how-tos' http://herselfswebtools.com/archives#gimp Aimed more at specific tasks rather than a general issues but worth noting http://gimp-tutorials.net/ http://gimpology.com/ -- rich
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Re: Need help with getting started.
Date:Sun, 7 Sep 2008 15:10:31 +0100
On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 09:22:25 +0000, rich wrote: > On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:23:49 -0700, Ankita wrote: > >> Hi All, >> I need to get some posters up for a community initiative at work, I >> need to get them done ASAP >> Can someone please volunteer to help me get started with it. I want to >> learn, so the next time I can do it myself Any help will be >> appreciated. Thanks. > > As with anything there is a learning curve but here are some links to > start with. I don't think ASAP and 'learning Gimp' are always > compatible. > > Get the first 2 episodes from MeetTheGimp No. 2 on setting up the Gimp > interface is well worthwile. > http://meetthegimp.org/getting-the-old-shows/ > > Lots of useful, short 'how-tos' > http://herselfswebtools.com/archives#gimp > > Aimed more at specific tasks rather than a general issues but worth > noting http://gimp-tutorials.net/ > http://gimpology.com/ Thinking about it, for a poster you might be better off using Inkscape. Edit your images using Gimp, but for layout and text use Inkscape. see: http://www.inkscape.org/ No images on this one, but a reasonable example of a poster http://www.inkscape.org/ The inkscape installation also has some good examples of what can be achieved. -- rich
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Re: Need help with getting started.
Date:Sun, 7 Sep 2008 15:22:07 +0100
On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:10:31 +0000, rich wrote: > On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 09:22:25 +0000, rich wrote: > >> On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:23:49 -0700, Ankita wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> I need to get some posters up for a community initiative at work, I >>> need to get them done ASAP >>> Can someone please volunteer to help me get started with it. I want to >>> learn, so the next time I can do it myself Any help will be >>> appreciated. Thanks. >> >> As with anything there is a learning curve but here are some links to >> start with. I don't think ASAP and 'learning Gimp' are always >> compatible. >> >> Get the first 2 episodes from MeetTheGimp No. 2 on setting up the Gimp >> interface is well worthwile. >> http://meetthegimp.org/getting-the-old-shows/ >> >> Lots of useful, short 'how-tos' >> http://herselfswebtools.com/archives#gimp >> >> Aimed more at specific tasks rather than a general issues but worth >> noting http://gimp-tutorials.net/ >> http://gimpology.com/ > > Thinking about it, for a poster you might be better off using Inkscape. > Edit your images using Gimp, but for layout and text use Inkscape. see: > http://www.inkscape.org/ > > No images on this one, but a reasonable example of a poster > http://www.inkscape.org/ > oops - that should have been http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=34 > The inkscape installation also has some good examples of what can be > achieved. -- rich
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Re: Need help with getting started.
Date:Sat, 6 Sep 2008 19:13:09 +0100
There's not really much anyone can tell you if you don't have at least a little specific info here. Actually, I think Gimp has a tutorial somewhere, and am reasonably sure that SOMEBODY else has probably posted one at some time. Gimp also has a document that you can download, it's in PDF format and my copy is over 600 pages I think, but it has a simple name like "en.pdf" making it difficult to tell what it is sometimes. It's an entire Manual, with all kinds of info from the simplest of basics to using (and writing) your own plugins if you are into that kind of stuff. The best thing you can do besides a tutorial or reading their docs is to just plain play with it for a while. I still do all the time, and along with the docs I find so much cool stuff that would take forever to discover otherwise. Open up Gimp and just create a New File from the menu. Give it a size (most people use pixels for some very good reasons), and in your case with a poster you can use a very nice size, even if it is just to fit on a piece of 8.5X11 paper. If you don't have a preference for a particular type of image file format, you can use Gimp's and have different layers and all kinds of neat things that none of the standard image formats have. Give it a background color for starters, or even better make a whole layer for the background. You can turn it on or off to get better detail in the picture, or even make multiple background layers if you want. Just play, and get the documentation if you can. It should be easily obtainable at Gimp's site for whatever platform you run. If you mess up, use Gimp's undo, or just abandon the file and start over. If you get something you want to keep, save and name it. You'll get a whole lot better over time as you use it, and remember when you are making your own images, you can't really mess them up too bad since you started them to begin with! That's about the best I can do for now! "Ankita" <ankita.sayal@gmail.com> wrote in message news:20bf72f0-b7b8-4f46-a9a0-57140b133b53@r15g2000prh.googlegroups.com... > Hi All, > I need to get some posters up for a community initiative at work, I > need to get them done ASAP > Can someone please volunteer to help me get started with it. > I want to learn, so the next time I can do it myself > Any help will be appreciated. > Thanks.
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Re: Need help with getting started.
Date:Sun, 7 Sep 2008 09:38:52 +0100
On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:13:09 -0400, GMorris wrote: > There's not really much anyone can tell you if you don't have at least a > little specific info here. Actually, I think Gimp has a tutorial > somewhere, and am reasonably sure that SOMEBODY else has probably posted > one at some time. Gimp also has a document that you can download, it's > in PDF format and my copy is over 600 pages I think, but it has a simple > name like "en.pdf" making it difficult to tell what it is sometimes. > It's an entire Manual, with all kinds of info from the simplest of > basics to using (and writing) your own plugins if you are into that kind > of stuff. I can't talk about windows as I only use Linux (Debian 'Lenny). In the debian repositories there is a file that contains a Gimp manual (I cannot remember the file name offhand). When this is installed it is available under 'Help'. -- Neil reverse ra and delete l Linux user 335851
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Re: Need help with getting started.
Date:Sun, 7 Sep 2008 10:22:25 +0100
On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:23:49 -0700, Ankita wrote: > Hi All, > I need to get some posters up for a community initiative at work, I need > to get them done ASAP > Can someone please volunteer to help me get started with it. I want to > learn, so the next time I can do it myself Any help will be appreciated. > Thanks. As with anything there is a learning curve but here are some links to start with. I don't think ASAP and 'learning Gimp' are always compatible. Get the first 2 episodes from MeetTheGimp No. 2 on setting up the Gimp interface is well worthwile. http://meetthegimp.org/getting-the-old-shows/ Lots of useful, short 'how-tos' http://herselfswebtools.com/archives#gimp Aimed more at specific tasks rather than a general issues but worth noting http://gimp-tutorials.net/ http://gimpology.com/ -- rich
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Re: Need help with getting started.
Date:Sun, 7 Sep 2008 15:10:31 +0100
On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 09:22:25 +0000, rich wrote: > On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:23:49 -0700, Ankita wrote: > >> Hi All, >> I need to get some posters up for a community initiative at work, I >> need to get them done ASAP >> Can someone please volunteer to help me get started with it. I want to >> learn, so the next time I can do it myself Any help will be >> appreciated. Thanks. > > As with anything there is a learning curve but here are some links to > start with. I don't think ASAP and 'learning Gimp' are always > compatible. > > Get the first 2 episodes from MeetTheGimp No. 2 on setting up the Gimp > interface is well worthwile. > http://meetthegimp.org/getting-the-old-shows/ > > Lots of useful, short 'how-tos' > http://herselfswebtools.com/archives#gimp > > Aimed more at specific tasks rather than a general issues but worth > noting http://gimp-tutorials.net/ > http://gimpology.com/ Thinking about it, for a poster you might be better off using Inkscape. Edit your images using Gimp, but for layout and text use Inkscape. see: http://www.inkscape.org/ No images on this one, but a reasonable example of a poster http://www.inkscape.org/ The inkscape installation also has some good examples of what can be achieved. -- rich
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Re: Need help with getting started.
Date:Sun, 7 Sep 2008 15:22:07 +0100
On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:10:31 +0000, rich wrote: > On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 09:22:25 +0000, rich wrote: > >> On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:23:49 -0700, Ankita wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> I need to get some posters up for a community initiative at work, I >>> need to get them done ASAP >>> Can someone please volunteer to help me get started with it. I want to >>> learn, so the next time I can do it myself Any help will be >>> appreciated. Thanks. >> >> As with anything there is a learning curve but here are some links to >> start with. I don't think ASAP and 'learning Gimp' are always >> compatible. >> >> Get the first 2 episodes from MeetTheGimp No. 2 on setting up the Gimp >> interface is well worthwile. >> http://meetthegimp.org/getting-the-old-shows/ >> >> Lots of useful, short 'how-tos' >> http://herselfswebtools.com/archives#gimp >> >> Aimed more at specific tasks rather than a general issues but worth >> noting http://gimp-tutorials.net/ >> http://gimpology.com/ > > Thinking about it, for a poster you might be better off using Inkscape. > Edit your images using Gimp, but for layout and text use Inkscape. see: > http://www.inkscape.org/ > > No images on this one, but a reasonable example of a poster > http://www.inkscape.org/ > oops - that should have been http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=34 > The inkscape installation also has some good examples of what can be > achieved. -- rich