Top 5 Stock Portrait Photographers on Pexels

by Michael Davies | Feb 3, 2020 | GIMP Help, GIMP News, GIMP Photo Editing

Stock photography is a quintessential resource for any designer or photo editor looking to practice their skills, manipulate photos, or create designs for their personal or professional projects. Often times, however, we can spend hours on end looking for the right...

30 FREE Rain Overlays for GIMP in HD

by Michael Davies | Nov 12, 2019 | GIMP Customization, GIMP Help, GIMP Photo Editing, GIMP Photo Manipulation, GIMP Tutorials

Want to add rain to your photo editing or photo manipulation projects in GIMP? Now you can! I’ve created a totally free Rain Overlay pack that includes 30 unique rain images overlayed on a black background in full HD resolution (1920 x 1080 px). These JPEG photos can...

How to Install the G’MIC-QT Plugin for GIMP on a MAC

by Michael Davies | Nov 9, 2019 | GIMP Basics, GIMP Customization, GIMP for MAC, GIMP Help, GIMP Photo Editing, GIMP Photo Manipulation

G’MIC is a fast-growing free plug-in that adds a ton of image processing functionality and general image editing and manipulation effects to GIMP. As a result of the software’s growing popularity, GIMP users have been heading over to the creator’s...

What is Lens Distortion and How to Correct It in GIMP

by Michael Davies | Oct 29, 2019 | GIMP Photo Editing, GIMP Photo Manipulation

What Causes Lens Distortion Lens distortion is a common phenomenon in photography that typically occurs when using wide-angle lenses to capture photos. A wide-angle lens, to put it simply, is a lens with a shorter focal length that allows you to capture a wider area...

GIMP Layer Masks: Everything You Need to Know

by Michael Davies | 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...

How to Save as JPEG in GIMP

by Michael Davies | Jun 25, 2019 | GIMP Basics, GIMP Help, GIMP Photo Editing, GIMP Tutorials

In this GIMP Help article for beginners, I’ll be showing you how easy it is to save your compositions or images in GIMP as a JPEG. The Problem Let’s say, hypothetically, that you’ve just finished making edits to a photo you took with your camera, or...