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Summary: What ever happened to editors?
Review: "I've heard it said many times that experience is the best teacher, and I believe that wise old saying is the absolute truth." If you can stomach prose like this, not to mention 500 repetitions of cliches like "cool," you can find some useful tutorial information in this book. As a reference, it's only so-so. Look elsewhere.
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Summary: What ever happened to editors?
Review: "I've heard it said many times that experience is the best teacher, and I believe that wise old saying is the absolute truth." If you can stomach prose like this, not to mention 500 repetitions of cliches like "cool," you can find some useful tutorial information in this book. As a reference, it's only so-so. Look elsewhere.
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Summary: An excellent book for beginners
Review: I indeed taught myself Gimp in less than 24 hours using this book -- I had to quickly create a digital drawing as a school assignment, and there just wasn't any time to digest the cryptic official online Gimp manual.The photos from the book's cd-rom were also very helpful, since I didn't have any scanned photos to practise certain Gimp functions with. Best of all, the book has made a Gimp fan out of me!
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Summary: Didn't work very well
Review: It seemed like a good idea at the time. Maybe I have a much later version than described in the book, but I found that most of the examples didn't work very well. Some were clearly broken; others did something but I couldn't quite tell what or apply the lesson to anything else. I did learn a bit, but I still can't really apply much of what I learned. Some of the things seem useful, but but until I can figure out how to get gimp to actually do them, they'll just remain a dream. I'll try something else ...
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Summary: Didn't work very well
Review: It seemed like a good idea at the time. Maybe I have a much later version than described in the book, but I found that most of the examples didn't work very well. Some were clearly broken; others did something but I couldn't quite tell what or apply the lesson to anything else. I did learn a bit, but I still can't really apply much of what I learned. Some of the things seem useful, but but until I can figure out how to get gimp to actually do them, they'll just remain a dream. I'll try something else ...
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Summary: An excellent book for beginners
Review: While this was not what I was hoping for, it is an excellent introduction to the GIMP. Basic concepts are covered in some detail, and more advanced topics are commented on (mostly, it seems, to give an idea of just how powerful this program really is). The author also frequently advises experimentation, which is really the only way to learn a program like this. Especially useful (to me, anyway) was the admittedly brief coverage on how the GIMP differs from other equivalent programs, especially those from the Mac and Windows worlds. If you want in-depth coverage of the GIMP's capabilities, this book isn't it. If you're just starting out with the GIMP, and enjoy tinkering with the available tools, check it out. In fact, the only real flaw in this book is that it is written for release 1.0.0 of the GIMP; fortunately, most of the specific examples given can easily be adapted to current releases (I use the 1.1.8 developer's release and had no problems following the examples in the book).
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