Bring out the GIMP
I've been mocking up different site designs for a site I'm working on and I got very tired of doing it in HTML and CSS. I was spending quite a bit of time getting all the HTML quirks worked out, only to decide that it wasn't really the design I wanted. After trying a few things, I ended up settling on GIMP.
GIMP is an image manipulation program similar to Photoshop. Unlike Photoshop, GIMP is open-source and completely free. It has a huge number of features and is an incredible program for manipulating multi-layered images. Similarly to Photoshop, GIMP is not really built for the novice graphics designer. I've spent more time than I care to think about in the last week or two trying to figure out how to make it do what I want. Fortunately, the more I learn about it, the faster I pick up new techniques. I think I'm finally to the steep part of the learning curve and suddenly I'm loving the program. I created an entirely new site design in a couple hours while sitting in Beaners coffee shop (which is another story entirely).
For those interested in learning more about GIMP, you can head over to the site at http://www.gimp.org/. They have some very nice tutorials which will teach you some of what you want to know. My only complaint is that they don't do a great job of teaching some of the fundamental abstract concepts which would make understanding the system somewhat easier.
GIMP is an image manipulation program similar to Photoshop. Unlike Photoshop, GIMP is open-source and completely free. It has a huge number of features and is an incredible program for manipulating multi-layered images. Similarly to Photoshop, GIMP is not really built for the novice graphics designer. I've spent more time than I care to think about in the last week or two trying to figure out how to make it do what I want. Fortunately, the more I learn about it, the faster I pick up new techniques. I think I'm finally to the steep part of the learning curve and suddenly I'm loving the program. I created an entirely new site design in a couple hours while sitting in Beaners coffee shop (which is another story entirely).
For those interested in learning more about GIMP, you can head over to the site at http://www.gimp.org/. They have some very nice tutorials which will teach you some of what you want to know. My only complaint is that they don't do a great job of teaching some of the fundamental abstract concepts which would make understanding the system somewhat easier.
posted by KzooJason at 10:36 PM
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I gave up on the GIMP. Just didn't have the determination to get through the beginning of learning it.
Me too. For me, learning GIMP was like learning to fly an airplane on your own. I know what an airplane does, but the array of controls and what each particular piece does is a bit too much to take in. Glad it's doing what you want it to do though; I've always heard good things about it.
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