by daviesmediadesign | Sep 23, 2022 | GIMP Basics, GIMP Help, GIMP Layers, GIMP Photo Editing, GIMP Photo Manipulation, GIMP Tutorials
In this help article I’ll be showing you how to create a transparent gradient using GIMP. This is a very easy, beginner-friendly technique that allows you to have your image slowly “fade out” to transparency, or basically gradually erase the image.... 
by daviesmediadesign | Jan 28, 2022 | GIMP Basics, GIMP Help, GIMP Layers, GIMP Photo Editing, GIMP Tutorials
Welcome back to Davies Media Design, and in this article I’ll be covering how to export single layers from your GIMP composition to any filetype. Here’s an example of when you would use this: you’ve got a composition with a bunch of layers open, but you... 
by daviesmediadesign | Aug 27, 2019 | GIMP Basics, GIMP Layers
Next up in this GIMP Layers series, I’ll be covering the topic of layer groups. This feature is as much of a way to keep your layers organized in GIMP as it is a way of being able to add awesome effects to multiple layers. Creating a Layer Group For starters, layer... 
by daviesmediadesign | Aug 17, 2019 | GIMP Basics, GIMP Help, GIMP Layers, GIMP Photo Editing, GIMP Photo Manipulation, GIMP Tutorials
In my last GIMP Help article, I covered the topic of layer transparency in GIMP – explaining that parts of a layer can be erased to reveal either a color (when no alpha channel is applied to a layer) or a transparent background. The article covered the concept by... 
by daviesmediadesign | Jul 11, 2019 | GIMP Basics, GIMP Help, GIMP Layers, GIMP Tutorials
As has already been discussed briefly in this series, layers can contain transparency to a varying degree, or they can be totally opaque. This is an important concept because transparent layers allow designs to be more intricate and contain more depth, and also allow... 
by daviesmediadesign | Jul 8, 2019 | GIMP Basics, GIMP Help, GIMP Layers
In the first and second GIMP layers tutorials that I created for this series, I have been working with layers that are filled in or have been painted on with a single color. Working with GIMP can obviously be a lot more complex than this as you can use multiple colors...
