My YouTube Playlists

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Session 1 - recorded 23/10/2017

http://youtu.be/8XNW483_FJo

Session 2 - recorded 30/10/2017

http://youtu.be/1YELnTs4zYg

Session 3 - recorded 6/11/2017

http://youtu.be/6DNljDWWIaI1

Session 4 - recorded 13/11/2017

http://youtu.be/8H_sGnh7_vs

Session 5 - recorded 21/11/2017

https://youtu.be/8H_sGnh7_vs

Session 6 - recorded 27/11/2017

http://youtu.be/-uJHMAP8Ogk

Session 7 - recorded 4/12/2017

http://youtu.be/WzdDFrSioNk

Session 7 - recorded 11/12/2017

http://youtu.be/9vzktzRnQTI

What do you know about image processing programs (apps)?

What other graphic programs programs have you used?

What has been your your experience using and Learning it?

Possible Examples:

1. - Microsoft Paint
2. - Paint
3. - Irfanview
4. - Faststone
5. - Drawing functions within Microsoft Word or other Word Processors
6. - Graphic functions part of other programs
7. - Others?

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. GNU stands for GNU's not Unix, which makes the term a recursive acronym (an acronym in which one of the letters stands for the acronym itself). see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU So the Name GIMP is a part acronym of a recursive acronym See on the Gimp Web site: https://www.gimp.org/

A video with a bit of an explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcqVqgICC-4

And another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG5SIOMuorE

What is Free and Open Source? See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software

and: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtNcxMuphLc and an explanation by one of the Originators of Free and Open Source :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrcdhzr2qnk

Almost anything.

To get some Idea do a google search on Gimp and show only images. Then do the same for only Videos

1. - Only learn what functions that you want to do (Pros and Cons)
2. - Learn Everything (Pros and Cons)

1. - Help as Part of Gimp: From the Help Menu, Press F1 within a function or a Menu
2. - Google Search: See How I find how to do things: https://youtu.be/ThCNvLuS7Nw A full search for “gimp” returns over 28 Million result and Video Serch returns over 1.5 million results
3. - Google search for only Videos (Pros and Cons)
4. - Ask on a forum (Pros and Cons)
5. - Documentation and Tutorials on the Gimp Web site: https://www.gimp.org/docs/
6. - The Gimp Wiki: https://wiki.gimp.org/index.php/Main_Page
7. - FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) about Gimp: https://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html
8. - Ask a person (Pros and Cons)
9. - Gimp on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gimpofficial/
10. - Also see Terminology

http://www.wikihow.com/Install-GIMP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjCLIkIc-mA

Do you know how to use Windows windows functions of Maximise, Minimise, Restore Down, Resize windows multiple ways?

If not got to here: http://www.greig.net.au/geoff/BC.htm#_Manipulate_windows or watch these videos: http://geoff.greig.net.au/docuwiki/doku.php?id=beginers_course_videos#open_and_arrange_multiple_windows_in_windows_7

Do you know how to switch between programs (apps)?

Multi Windows Mode (The default, ie as Gimp is when its first installed) and Single Windows Mode.

Switch between modes by: Windows Menu, Ticking, by clicking on Single Windows Mode.

Or watch this Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhaYr1Idkig

What are tools? What is on the Tools Menu. Why are they called Tools? Because you use them to make something.

How else can you access Tools? From the Tools bar.

What is the difference between Select, Paint and Transform Tools? How could you find out? See Learning Material

Navigate through Edit menu → Preferences → Window Management → and click the button for Reset Saved Window Positions to Default Values. Then click Ok to close the Preferences dialog and restart GIMP

https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-getting-unstuck.html

and or watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDOhxuiQ7ZU

By detail, I mean learning every possible option of the tool. You may not wish to learn to use a tool in this amount of detail, as you may not not currently have a use for what the detail provides. However if you dont no what functionality the detail can provide, you may end up spending a lot of time performing functions that could have been otherwise done in a few seconds.

1. - Test the detail function on a image that will not matter if you lose it
2. - If it requires specific shapes, colours, sizes etc, make sure you test image has those
3. - Observe the image as it is, before you start using the tool or tools detail functions
4. - If necessary make a copy of the image and tools setting before you use any of the tools functions. eg use Windows Snipping tool or Gimps File, Create, Screenshot
5. - Only make one change to the tools setting at a time
6. - Do the process that sets that the tool will perform the function
7. - Observe how the tool or tool detail changed the image
8. - If nothing appears to have happened, look closer. Sometimes the changes can be very minor
9. - If it still does not appear if anything happened, then see: Why function sometimes dont work
10. - If you did keep a copy of the image before you started using the tool, compare it with the image as it is now
11. - Note how the tool or tool detail changed the image.
12. - Decide if you understood why the tool or tool detail changed the image.
13. - If you do understand proceed to the next detail item of the tool or the next tool. Otherwise get so other help. See Learning Material
14. - Try, one at a time, the different permutations of each detail item of each tool. Sometimes changing multiple items may offset one another.

Here is a Video that shows many of the painting functions, that basically used the above procedure:

GIMP Tutorial - Beginners, How-to Use New Brush Tools & Dynamics

https://youtu.be/a_jii05pNQY

Some have links to material or videos that show how to do it, others dont, but you can search to find the material.

Make Your Photos Look Better - GIMP 2.8 Tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbWghBFQ9Bo

GIMP- Photo editing the eyes in a picture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov8Iop1BVdM

Remove a person from the background

GIMP Selective Coloring https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18ipeyNdzC8

GIMP Tutorial: Transform Face into Galaxy Silhouette

GIMP Cartoon Effect Tutorial | Photoshop Alternative | #44 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbtukN4o1Hw

How To Fix An Old Or Damaged Photo Using Gimp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEzZO3GHoDg

Turn Image into a Pencil Drawing - GIMP Tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLgsSN2MsMo

Layer Masking - GIMP 2 8 - Tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jle81ofRLok

Mastering Layers & Masks in GIMP

This guy does a good job explaining and showing what layers and masks are

https://youtu.be/GIon0DgCCOI

How to use Gimp like an Artist (How to draw in Gimp)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7F1MwEOf1E

Gimp: Using a Layer Mask

This Guy not only shows how to use it but also explains it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI8_2FnIow0&t=496

GIMP Tutorial - Make GIMP Brushes from Photos and Cut-Outs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s0Vb1KoXkU

This Guy has some good tutorials on Gimp

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAogSopBG7FLTKm0WKLZsmQ/videos

Some other functions in Gimp

1. - Create an image from nothing
2. - Work with existing images that were created outside of Gimp
3. - What is a digital image? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_image
4. - How are digital images stored? http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z2tgr82
5. - How does Gimp work?
6. - What can you do with Gimp? https://whenihavetime.com/2009/12/03/7-easy-photoshop-tricks-you-can-do-with-gimp-software-for-free/
7. - Multiple undos https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-concepts-undo.html
8. - Scripts https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-concepts-script-fu.html
9. - Layers https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-image-combining.html and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUMiHZScthE
10. - Channels https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-channel-dialog.html
11. - Difference between saving and exporting, why its important: https://www.gimp.org/tutorials/ImageFormats/ and https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-channel-dialog.html

See the Glossary of the Gimp Manual: https://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/glossary.html

As well as the index to the Gimp Manual https://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/gimp-help-index.html

• Burn - “In photography, burning is a technique used in a darkroom to increase the exposure in particular areas of the image. This brings out details in the highlights. When used for this purpose, burn may work best on Grayscale images and with a painting tool, rather than as a layer mode” Also from : https://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/gimp-concepts-layer-modes.html
• Dodge- “In photography, dodging is a technique used in a darkroom to decrease the exposure in particular areas of the image. This brings out details in the shadows. When used for this purpose, dodge may work best on Grayscale images and with a painting tool, rather than as a layer mode”. From: https://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/gimp-concepts-layer-modes.html
• Filters - is a plug-in that modifies the appearance of an image, in most cases just the active layer of the image See in the Gimp manual https://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en_US/gimp-filters-menu.html
• Gamma - midtones
• Highlights - light tones
• opaque - not able to be seen through; not transparent
• Shadows - dark tones
• transparent - allowing light to pass through so that objects behind can be distinctly seen.