What is GIMP Software?

What is Gimp software? It's GNU Image Manipulation Program. This project has been going on for about 18 years, since 1995, when Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis started it as a students at University of California, Berkeley.

It is alternative to Adobe Photoshop®, but it is open source and free. And what does that mean? Open source means that anybody can download the source code and improve it, and free means that we can download it for free.

I found GIMP few years ago and I have been using it regularly since then. There are so many things we can do with GIMP, not only complicated stuff with photo, but simple things too. A very interesting option is screen shot of our window or desktop image. There are many online screenshot programs, but they don't capture the whole screen, just the picture in the active window, that this usually the pages we are reading. And of course we can use it for "playing" with our pictures.

And what else can we do with it? There are few things we can do with it:
- change size of a picture (resize it)
- flip and rotate image
- crop photos (cut out only little pieces)
- change background
- change color of our picture
- remove red eyes
- or use different effects and filters to change our photos.

How to crop and resize photo

Today we'll take a look at another useful tutorial. It is step by step Gimp tutorial how to crop and resize photo.

www.squidoo.com/how-to-crop-and-resize-photo

Check it out.

Tux Paint Video

Tux for Kids - www.tux paint.com

What is Tux Paint? It is another free and open source software and it is mostly for children.

Children can draw and have fun with it. It is also translated to many languages of the world, so children will understand which command or button to use.

We can use it at home or at kindergarten or at school.

I made few tutorials and you'll see it is really easy to use.

It is available for Windows, Apple Mac and Linux, and we can also download portable version of it.

We can download Tux Paint here: http://tuxpaint.org/download/

Or find out more about Tux Paint on their webpage: http://tuxpaint.org/


And this is how Tux Paint looks like:

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And here are my Tux Paint tutorials:

1. How to draw bubbles with tux paint

Free Pictures of Valentine Hearts

Here you can find free pictures of valentine hearts.

And you can find them more here - Valentine's clipart.

I made a few hearts, roses and Valentine's cards and if you like them, you can download them for free.

They are all made with Inkscape and Gimp, free and open source software.

How to ... with open source and free software

About two years ago, when I wanted to create my website, I discovered Joomla and PrestaShop. And few month ago I discovered Gimp and Inkscape.

I learned quite a lot about Joomla and Prestashop in all this time and I'm still learning about Gimp and Inkscape.

At first they looked strange to me, but then I got used to it. I have found a lot of tutorials and forums, where user can get some help.

Since then I discovered quite a lot of free and open source software. Some of them are really good and easy to use and I like them. I really like making tutorials how to use them.

For now there are mostly tutorials for Joomla, PrestaShop, Gimp and Inkscape and later hopefully there will be tutorials for other software too.