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GIMP 2.8/2.10 Beginner-Advanced: Free GIMP graphic design on Windows/Mac OS/Linux: Photography, drawing and book covers!

( 254 Reviews )

Created by: Brian Jackson

Produced in 2019

What you will learn

Install and run the GIMP
Make logos, web graphics and screen shots
Create 2D and 3D book covers
Make memes and distribute them on Facebook
Produce graphics appropriate for use on the 8 major social media websites
Use Wordpress with HTML to display web graphics
Use the GIMP to touch up your photos

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Overall Score : 92 / 100

Course Description

The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is a free Photoshop like graphic designsoftware program that runs on Windows, Mac OS and Linux.
Well then, why isn't everyone using it?
Even with access to GNU tutorials and YouTube videos the GIMP is still a hard program to learn.
Until now...
Welcome to the most comprehensive single GIMP course available on Udemy:
GIMP 2.
8/2.
10 Beginner-Advanced: Free on Windows/MacOS/LinuxIn this course, which is 12.
5 hours in length, I'll take you all the way from installing the GIMP and configuring it to run on Windows to producing banners, book covers and memes that you'll display using Facebook and other social media, Wordpress and HTML. I'll even show you photo touch up. In fact,I'll show you everything I know in the natural order in which you should learn it.
So, what makes this GIMP course special?
I'll tell you what...
This course is composed of 13 sections, each addressing a different topic and each averaging 30 minutes in length.
Each section presents one or more small projects that should be completed to demonstrate your proficiency with the material just covered before moving on.
And these aren't bogus projects either. They actually produce usable results.
I ask you, can you afford just 30 minutes a day for under 2 weeks to learn the fundamentals of the most powerful free graphics program in the world? (Sorry, I got carried away-- Idon't actually know if that's true ;-).
If you do, thenenroll in thiscourse and let's get started.
If not...
Watch me create an incredible looking 3D pool table and balls then take the reins and do it yourself.
Produce professional looking book covers with ease.
Distribute memes and other social media graphics on Facebook and 7 other social media sites.
Learn to use HTML from within Wordpress to produce graphics effects attainable only through HTML and CSS.
Learn photo touch up using the GIMP.
All this knowledge and much more is at your finger tips.
And the course is still growing. I recentlyadded a new section entitled:
Digital Drawing and Painting with a Wacom TabletSo, what do you say?
This course was originally released as a series of 13 short classes on another online video learning platform. There is some redundancy in the coursewhich should be skipped during viewing.
This course was guided by the contents of my previous 4 Udemy GIMPcourses. Both learning routes remain viable but I personally prefer this newer, segmented andproject focused approach to learning the GIMP.
Installing and configuring the GIMP on Windows is the only Windows specific lecture, all the rest should apply to all platforms (though I do demonstrate using the GIMPon Windows 10).
P.
S. Don't forget that Udemy provides a 100% money back guaranty if you return a course within 30 days.
Now, here's what I'd recommend...
You can preview all the lectures in the first and secondsections for free. Watch the first and secondsectionsand if you like it enroll in the course. If you don't like itthen thank you for you time and I wish you the best.
Enough jabbering, I'll see you in the classroom,---BrianWho this course is for:
Anyone on a budget with a need to produce graphicsAuthors in need of free book coversBloggers, Facebook posters and web site administrators

Time: 12h

Instructor Details

Brian Jackson

4.6 Rating
254 Reviews

I was born the middle of the last century in Los Angeles, California. After moving for a time to the Silicon Valley, I graduated from Humboldt State University amid the redwoods of Northern California.
Two weeks after graduation I was working as a computer systems programmer for Lockheed Missiles and Space (LMSC) back in the Silicon Valley. Two months after that and I was married as I have been happy ever since (for 40 years).
After 14 years at Lockheed I moved from working on IBM mainframes to using PCs running the Unix operating system and encountered a thing called the Internet. Cisco Systems seemed to be the right place to work, so I joined the company as their 650th employee. Eleven years later Cisco had grown to over 20,000 employees.
I retired at the age of 48 and instantly became bored!
Throughout my professional career I'd always enjoyed both writing and providing technical training. So, I attended creative writing classes at my local junior college and began to write.
I managed to write and self-publish a handful of books, but things didn't take off until my wife, Melanie Jackson, an established author with a New York company, left traditional publishing to join me in self-publishing.
In 10 years, from 2010 to now, Melanie and I have made half-a-million dollars self-publishing well over 100 books. I also managed to record a pair of audiobooks for Amazon and Audible sale.
By 2014, our rapid rise to Kindle fame had already dwindled. I decided to p

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By Jessica Mancuso on 11/14/2020

I never thought I could learn this so fast or so easily! Great teacher and I recommend this course.

By L A on 11/14/2020

I really enjoy all of this hands on learning and not just some text book teaching I would have to remember then forget later.

By Nijimon V M on 11/7/2020

I am fresh to gimp. But the way bjj teaches and trains student is awesome. Thank you bjj

By Kenneth Olson on 10/3/2020

I took this course to try to fill in the gaps. I have been using gimp for awhile and understood quite a few things but also understood I was doing many things "the hard way". Half way through the course and it was worth the price of admission. If I have any complaint, and it is not a deal breaker, is that he doesn't spend (so far) teaching keyboard shortcuts. I love shortcuts lol.

By Abraham David Weinberg on 8/3/2020

I'm enjoying very much the experience. I really like that the classes are few minutes long, so I can do some in a day or just one, but still keep in move.

By Isha Sharma on 7/15/2020

Very nice..So far the best

By Susan Carr on 7/14/2020

The instructor in the course gives a date of 2016. That's a century in computer time. He needs to update his material and use the most current version of Gimp.

By Khoa H on 7/10/2020

The course is very detailed, it's good for beginner. Brian is very enthusiastic and helpful.

By Tarasova LILIYA on 7/7/2020

Very informative, easy to understand!

By Alexander Campanella on 7/2/2020

Decent teaching, but the resource files are not here to follow along with all the projects. The important learnings of process are still here.

By Darren Sacrey on 6/19/2020

The explenation is very good, but in 2020, the lecture has not been up to date so far.

By Edward Temple on 6/2/2020

There were 3 courses on udemy about learning gimp that looked interesting. I looked at the other two and this one and I thought this one is the best. Well I guess I was right! Brian Jackson really involves his students and teaches the basics as well as more advanced, cool stuff. Thank you for this wonderful course Brian Jackson!