The Book of GIMP: A Complete Guide to Nearly Everything

A Look Inside The Book of GIMP

A List of the Author's 5 Favorite GIMP Tool Presets:

1. The Pencil Soft Preset - An extremely realistic simulation of drawing with a charcoal pencil.

2. The Blue Pen Preset - An all-purpose way to annotate any picture.

3. The Smudge Soft Preset - Provides the best option for smoothing a painting without making it look dirty.

4. The Eraser Soft Preset - Simulates working with a high-quality eraser.

5. The Splatters Preset - A very handy way of adding blemishes to a picture.

A List of the Author's 5 Favorite GIMP Filters:

1. The IWarp Filter - Allows you to build fun animations of people's portraits.

2. The Edge Filter - Can be used to create extraordinary interpretations of dull photos.

3. The Make Seamless Filter - Offers the ability to generate very simple tiled backgrounds for web pages.

4. The Plasma Filter - The most fundamental filter for building new textures.

5. The G'MIC Selection of Filters - Contains all of the most useful filters.