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Viewer’s Choice Best GIMP Tutorials of 2020

by Michael Davies | Jan 8, 2021 | GIMP Help, GIMP News

2020 is in the books! And although it was a mostly terrible year, I still thoroughly enjoyed creating many GIMP (and Inkscape) tutorials to highlight some of this free software's amazing features and helping you all learn how to better use the program. As per usual, I...

How to Create Custom Guides in GIMP

by Michael Davies | Jan 8, 2021 | GIMP Basics, GIMP Help, GIMP Tools, GIMP Tutorials

Creating guides inside GIMP is a bit of a limited task as of the time of this tutorial. However, there are some very simple and effective workarounds to achieve custom guides at any angle and any position to help you accurately place objects or paint at angles. And...

GIMP 2021 Preview and GIMP 2020 Recap

by Michael Davies | Jan 7, 2021 | GIMP News

2020 – the year we won’t forget. The year we… can’t forget. No matter how hard we try. It’s the year that’ll linger long into 2021 – like that Adobe Creative Cloud subscription payment that keeps showing up in your bank statement. 2020 spared no one – myself included....

GIMP 2.10.22 for MAC is Finally Here

by Michael Davies | Dec 29, 2020 | GIMP News

The GIMP team officially updated the GIMP for MAC installer on December 24, 2020 to GIMP 2.10.22! This means the latest version of GIMP (at the time of this article) is now available to MAC users. As always, GIMP is available for MAC, Windows, and Linux systems for...

25 GIMP Photo Editing Tutorials for Photographers

by Michael Davies | Oct 14, 2020 | GIMP Basics, GIMP Photo Editing, GIMP Tutorials

Photo editing is GIMP's bread and butter - it's what the program was made for after all! GIMP is described first and foremost as a free photo editor - helping you improve the color, sharpness, lighting, etc. of your photos with myriad tools and features that are all...

A Q&A with the Glimpse Image Editor Development Team

by Michael Davies | Sep 24, 2020 | GIMP News

I have been following the Glimpse project - a fork project of GIMP that aims to make the software more accessible while also improving its performance - for quite some time now and have continually asked myself many questions about the vision of this project and other...

What’s New in Every GIMP 2.10 Release Version

by Michael Davies | Sep 22, 2020 | GIMP News, GIMP Tutorials

Over the years, I've released videos covering all the important new features from GIMP 2.10 release versions as they were announced. In this list, I've compiled all those videos to make it easy for you guys to review each new feature from GIMP 2.10 through GIMP...

20 GIMP Photo Manipulation Tutorials for 2020

by Michael Davies | Sep 3, 2020 | GIMP Photo Manipulation, GIMP Tutorials

GIMP is a free photo manipulation program most similar to Photoshop that allows you the freedom to create any photo composition you want. It has evolved over the years (especially in 2020) to become a powerful piece of software for creating digital art or for...

20 GIMP Tutorials for Beginners in 2020

by Michael Davies | Sep 3, 2020 | GIMP Basics, GIMP Help, GIMP News, GIMP Tutorials

Are you brand new to the GIMP photo editor? Want to learn the basics of how to use it, while also getting some real-world examples that show GIMP's features in action? You've come to the right place! Davies Media Design has been creating GIMP tutorials since 2011, and...

GIMP is Quietly Working On Its Own Version of “Smart Objects” – And Its Just as Good as Photoshop’s

by Michael Davies | Jul 30, 2020 | GIMP News

The GIMP team recently informed me that the next upcoming version of GIMP will be GIMP 2.10.22 (no GIMP 3.0 just yet - womp). Though there has been no official announcements of specific features to come in this next version, there has been one feature announcement in...

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