“No matter which Linux distro you run, chances are it came with
a magnificent little image editor called GIMP (GNU Image
Manipulation Program). Unlike Paint and other free-with-your-OS
image editors, GIMP is a full featured graphics app with a broad
range of capabilities that rival those os Adobe Photoshop. (Note:
GIMP does lack many features of its $749 rival, but it has the
distinct advantage of costing absolutely nothing.) In this, our
first of several posts about this powerful Linux app, we’ll give
you a quick-and-dirty intro to GIMP’s most basic features. Note
that there are multiple ways to accomplish these basic tasks in
GIMP, but these methods require the fewest steps. In later
tutorials, we’ll show you more advanced (and more efficient) image
editing techniques…”
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