My first attempt at playing around with GIMP (photo)...

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

I think it came out pretty well. I'm definitly a fan of this GIMP thing.

[Briarius]

1. cool dude!

yay free photoshop clones!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

2. Thanks.

Yay free photoshop clones!

[wildhorses]

3. ..........

:thumbsup:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Good morning, my dear haruka!

I like your pic!

But what is GIMP?

Is it like Photoshop?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

6. It's just like photoshop, but free.

http://www.gimp.org/

It was originally a Unix program, but they have Mac OSX and Windows versions, too. Just like photoshop, you can also download plug-ins for it. It also seems to eat way less resources than Photoshop, even though it pretty much has the same capabilities.

[Whoa_Nelly]

7. Cool photo....and thanks for the heads-up on GIMP free download!

Went to the site. Seems they are about to release 2.4 v soon.

What version do you have?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

8. I have 2.2.11 for Mac OSX

There's also a ton of tutorial sites out there for it, like www.gimpguru.com

To run it on OSX, you also need to download a program called X11, but that's a free download from the apple site.

[Whoa_Nelly]

9. Thanks! Bookmarked for future reference!

Am planning on getting an Apple notebook within the month.

So appreciate your links! :hi:

[Benfea]

5. I just looked at a few screenshots of GIMP

I haven't heard of it 'til you mentioned it. Looks like they ripped off the interface from Photoshop, which is not necessarily a bad thing.

[Heidi]

10. I love this, haruka!

I'm gonna ask Call Me Wesley to get GIMP for me, if he can. We have Photoshop CS2 but it's more program than I need a lot of the time.

This image is very artistic. :thumbsup:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

12. Thank you.

Here's the link to download it:
http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

There's also some tutorials on the gimp site, but there's more at GIMPguru.

[Heidi]

14. Thank you!

When I've had a chance to download it and play a bit, do you mind if I PM you for pointers? I really, really love what you did that with photo, but I'm afraid I'm too incompetent to do anything remotely similar with CS2. :(

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

15. Sure, but I don't know how much help I'll be.

I'm just figuring it out myself.

[Heidi]

16. Ha! By the time I've had a chance to play with it,

you'll be an expert. (I know how smart you are, gf. :thumbsup: )

[Guava Jelly]

11. you did good!

:)...and WOW!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

13. Thank you.

I definitely plan on playing around with it a lot more.

[ScreamingMeemie]

17. Beautiful!!

:hi:

[buddhamama]

18. it is good, very good.

a work of art. :thumbsup:

question: what is GIMP?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

19. Thanks. It's like a free, open-source Photoshop type program

www.gimp.org

They have it for Mac OSX, Unix and Windows machines.

[blondeatlast]

20. Excellent work, and thanks for the info about GIMP.

I'd heard a bit about it. I had access to Photoshop for a while and got hooked on adding artistic effects; nice to know there is something promising for glorious FREE!

[Call Me Wesley]

21. I really like it.

If this is your first attempt, then I'm looking forward to way more. :hi:

[RevolutionaryActs]

22. I love it!

Good job! :bounce: