Digital photography in GIMP

The availability of the free GIMP graphical editor is far from its only advantage. In fact, when editing digital photos, it provides users with a number of tools and uses comparable to far more robust paid programs. This book will help you use it to its full potential, which you'll need to perfect your images. An experienced photographer, author of numerous technical articles, and tireless promoter of GIMP will introduce this popular program with a series of useful and often surprising techniques that will reveal its true power. In a very clear way, it guides you step by step from common activities through advanced digital photo editing to completely original methods for simulating different filters, adding motion or reducing depth of field without unnecessary delays.

With the book you will learn, among other things:
* Clearly lay out the working environment of the program
* Work with various file formats including RAW
* Correct common distortion and exposure errors
* Effectively retouch unwanted objects in the image
* Convert colour images to black and white in several ways
* Process a portrait photo using available tools
* Simulate the use of a transient and infrared filter
* Add a frame, vignette effect or watermark

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About the author: Lubomír Čevela works as a programmer and has been using his extensive experience in the field of open-source software, including GIMP, for many years in the editorial office of the online magazine LinuxEXPRES. Photography is his great hobby, which led him to membership in the Vsetín Photoclub and collecting historical photo equipment. He is also the author of a successful series of articles on GIMP published at www.fotografovani.cz and www.grafika.cz. He regularly publishes his other writings on professional portals such as www.root.cz, www.linuxsoft.cz and www.abclinuxu.cz.

Book Details:
Author: Lubomír Čevela
Year of publication: 2013
ISBN: 978-80-251-3582-2
Number of pages: 200