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Book of Gimp
Publisher: No Starch Press Pages: 676 January 2013, 676 pp. ISBN: 978-1-59327-383-5 http://nostarch.com/gimp
If you’ve always wanted a full manual for GIMP, then The Book of GIMP is about as close as you’ll get. Covering GIMP 2.8 and almost every feature of it, you’ll be a GIMP master in no time.
The book starts with learning the basics, such as the screen layout (single window FTW!), opening and resizing images, using layers, and how to use a graphics tablet in GIMP. After that, it’s into the deep end with photograph retouching stuff like cloning, color correction, and restoration. “Drawing and Illustration” comes next, including using the paint/pencil tools, shapes, fills and much more. “Logos and Textures” is a short chapter which is followed by composite photography, where you’ll combine several photos into one. Chapter 6 even covers animation in GIMP which I was surprised to see. Same with using GIMP to design a website (Chapter 8).
Having survived Part One, you’re thrust into Part Two, which goes into the features of GIMP in more depth—such as showing you layer masks, layer blending modes, tools, and filters. Even dipping into things like scanning, installing plug-ins (such as the awesome G’MIC) and then customizing your GIMP interface.
Part Three (the finale) is interesting in that it gives some good information on how the human eye works regarding vision, perception and color representation. I thought that was a nice touch.
I really can’t fault The Book of GIMP. It’s well laid out, tells you exactly where you need to go in the menus (for example: Image: Edit > Copy), gives you the keyboard shortcut where possible, and has plenty of screenshots of where you’re going. The book is certainly no short read as it’s about two inches thick with almost 700 pages! Of course, if you buy the book from No Starch Press (the publishers) they also give you access to a digital (PDF) copy of the book, which is nice.
If I had to pick one down-side, it would be that some examples look quite amateurish and simplistic (such as combining photographs to create something completely unrealistic), but I suppose this book is for beginners and not those who want to create the next skin perfect magazine cover.
Table of Contents
Introduction I. Learning GIMP 1. Getting Started 2. Photograph Retouching 3. Drawing and Illustration 4. Logos and Textures 5. Composite Photography 6. Animation 7. Image Preprocessing 8. Designing a Website II. GIMP Reference Manual 9. The GIMP Interface 10. Display 11. Layers 12. Color 13. Selections 14. Masks 15. Drawing Tools 16. Transformation Tools 17. Filters 18. Animation Tools 19. Obtaining and Printing Images 20. Image Formats 21. Scripts and Plug-ins 22. Customizing GIMP III. Appendices A. Vision and Image Representation B. Tips and Hints for Selected Exercises C. Resources D. Frequently Asked Questions E. Installing GIMP F. Batch Processing