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It is a raster  graphics  editor  used  to process  digital graphics  and photographs. Typical uses  include  creating  graphics  and  logos, resizing and cropping photos, altering colours, combining  multiple  images, removing  unwanted image  features, converting between different image formats.^[2] GIMP  can  also  be used to create basic animated images in GIF format. It  often used as a free software replacement for Adobe Photoshop, the most widely used bitmap editor  the printing and graphics industries.

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Just thought I'd post a little round up of different reviews I've done...

Photography
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II Review
Photrade.com…
Gimp 2.4.6 Mini Review

Technology
First Take at the Roku Netflix Player
$499 Dollar Ethernet Cable

Music
3 Albums to Buy… Now.

that is all. more to come.

I thought I would do an comparison of the 2 software's
since I have used them both... Now Gimp, is more less
the free alternative version of Photoshop,... And Photoshop
Elements 6, is the cheaper version of Photoshop C3,

Gimp's, Pro's & Con's

Pro's
1. Very powerful alternative to photo shop,.

2. Gimp, is free compare to Photoshop,.

3. Great starting software for beginners.

Con's
1. Gimp, does not render your digital artwork very good.

2. Gimp's, interface is confusing.

3. pasting one photo on top of another photo
is headache sometimes...

4. Making a image background transparent
is an headache at times...

Photoshop Elements 6 Pro's & Con's

Pro's
1. Easier than Gimp

2. renders your photos & digital art work better.

3. has more optoins than Gimp,

4. More friendly interface.

Con's

1. cost between $79.99 & $99.99

2. Confusing at first

3. Hard to get a photo to the exact size you want
(Gimp is good for this feature)

4. most of the fonts look the same.

What Gimp 2.4.6 can do

Chrome effect sig...

Custom Header (Gimp 2.4.6)

What Photoshop Elements 6 can do

Graffiti effect sig...

Custom Header (Photoshop Elements 6)

P.S. there is a small mess up by the 8ball
that is why I didn't use the header for this site...

Bonus Videos... Gimp, & Photo shop Elements 6, interface...
Windfinder Gimp Tutorials - Basic Interface

Philip Andrews' Weekly Tips - Part 1 - Photoshop Elements 6

What you need first to make these cool banners is,

1. a cool font
2. GIMP 2.4
3. and a good idea, what you want your Banner to look like

Here's a screenshot, what GIMP will look like, once it's installed on your machine!

To start a new banner project click File >> New (or simply press Ctrl+n) and then this dialog box should pop up:

Make sure you select the Web banner huge template, in the template drop-down box! This will be the ideal size for your banner, web-standard apparently!

Now you can start laying out your banner, make sure you use a new layer for each frame you want to use.

So basically I used a layer for

1. SEASON
2. -TURN THE CORNER
3. coming soon
4. www.season.org.uk

Tip: Always keep the layer box (ctrl+l) handy (next to you!).

An example of my layer box is here:

As you can see I've used quite a few layers......this layer box is for the 1st banner....since I wanted to "Turn The Corner" bit separated, I had to create a new layer for every letter. I wish there was a simpler way of doing that, but alas I don't know how. If you know how to make this easier, shoot me an email or drop me a comment. PLEASE! ;)

Anyway, once you've created all your layers and text, you can start moving onto animating it. But be sure to save it first as a raw file (.xfc) which is the counterpart to .psd in photoshop. Because if you don't like the animation, you can always go back and change the individual layer or animation effect.

Ok, once that's done, go to Filter >> Animation >> and then choose whatever Effect you like. GAP (the animation program in GIMP) comes with a bunch of different animation effects.
I recommend the "Blend" effect, that's what I have been using. Here you can choose the "Intermediate frames" and the "maximum blur radius". Just play around with it a bit to see what you want. The higher you go up with the Intermediate frames, the slower it will fade. Doesn't necessarily mean that it will stay longer, in fact it won't!
I've been told tho, by various Gimp Experts, that by changing the layers name to e.g. "Layer 1 (500ms)" that it will stay longer than the standard time, which is around 100 or 200ms. I've tried that, but it did NOTHING for me. So maybe I missed something, or it just doesn't work. If you find out how to make a certain layer stay longer than the other, drop me a comment please!

Once you've found the right configuration for your banner, save it as a gif file. File >> Save As... (Shift+Ctrl+S)
Select .gif and then the Export File Dialog box should appear. Make sure you select "Save As Animation". Then this last dialog box should pop up.

Make a few adjustments if you like, and then click to "Save" and voilà your brand-new sexy animated banner is done!

Well done!

PS, if you're using GIMP in a foreign language and want to start it in English for taking screenshots and all that, simply just type

LC_MESSAGES=en_EN gimp-remote

into your konsole. I don't know if this actually works on Windows, but it worked for me on Linux.
Actually took me hours to find that out, so I'm posting it here if anyone wants to know it.

Tu ya tienes Gimp 2.4 y no sabes que tantos cambios son los que incluye aparte del aspecto gráfico y desearias un manual para aprender a usar esta versión de Gimp, pues se encuentra ya disponible un manual por la módica cantidas de $0.00 y este lo puedes consultar tanto en versión en linea, como en un PDF el cual lo puedes visualizar y descargar desde los siguientes enlaces:

• Versión HTML
• Versión PDF

Tu ya tienes Gimp 2.4 y no sabes que tantos cambios son los que incluye aparte del aspecto gráfico y desearias un manual para aprender a usar esta versión de Gimp, pues se encuentra ya disponible un manual por la módica cantidas de $0.00 y este lo puedes consultar tanto en versión en linea, como en un PDF el cual lo puedes visualizar y descargar desde los siguientes enlaces:

• Versión HTML
• Versión PDF

Download Gimp (Linux)

Download Gimp (Windows)

Ein paar nette Features als Video:

- Perspektivisches Klonen

- Auswahl des Vordergrundes

http://www.gimp.org/

Release notes

http://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.4.html

There's so much new stuff. :D

w00t!! :lol:

And Pidgin 2.2.2 has also been released.

http://www.pidgin.im/

Changelog

http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog

Lots of new stuff happening in the open source world :D