Now that the free image editing classic GIMP version 2.6 offers a better-than-ever alternative to Photoshop (especially with a couple of key plug-ins), it's time to start getting familiar with what it can do. The Help for Linux blog runs down five GIMP techniques you should know, from cropping images to rounding corners to killing red-eye.

This site is about a GIMP plugin called Liquid Rescale. It is a free, open source frontend to the Liquid Rescale Library, which provides an implementation of the Seam Carving algorithm as described in this paper by Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir. The Seam Carving procedure aims at resizing pictures non uniformly while preserving their features, i.e. avoiding distortion of the important parts.

GNU Image Manipulation Program Gebruikershandleiding

A little summary of where Linux stands as far as photography is concerned.

Pandora is a GIMP script which helps in stitching together multiple images to make a panorama.

Howto use the clone feature with the Giimp image editor.

I'm not going to go into the full details of color management here. Basically, color management is needed because different devices conceive colors differently. For example, if you display a pure red on your computer screen, and photograph it, your camera

A beautiful effect for giving your photos an old vintage feel.

The Levels tool (right click on your image, select Colors, then Levels) is used to adjust the levels of the colours in your image by manipulating a histogram representing the image. In simple terms, you can make broad changes to the Red, Green, Blue and o

This is a slighly modified version of an old GIMP Lomo plugin I’ve used for ages that will now work with the new GIMP 2.4

Sometimes photos can be spoiled by having distracting objects in them, such as pieces of litter, animals or other people. The photo might have other blemishes too, caused by dirt or water on the camera lens for example. It is possible to remove small obje

Publish to Flickr, Picasaweb right from Gimp!

Software to View, Create, Edit and Remap Panoramic Images

In this tutorial I will explain how to convert a color photograph to a B&W one with color restored to selective areas. With the right subject this can give really striking results, as you can see for yourself.

Gimp 2.4 has been released! With a new look, scalable brushes, improved selection tools, a new align tool, new supported file formats, improved zooming support, colour management (!) and great full screen editing. And more...!

Content-aware rescaling . Keeps the features of the image while rescaling along a single direction - check the video. Tested on Gimp 2.2. It installs under the Layer menu now.

This script allows Gimp to create a contact style sheet of images found in a directory. The user can select the hight and width of the thumbnails and how many will be displayed on the contact sheet horizontally and vertically

A python script that generates a contact sheet or index print containing a configurable number of images

GIMPshop is a modification of the free/open source GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), intended to replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop. Its primary purpose is to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable using GIMP.

A list of tutorials for the Gimp.

Great article on the differences between Gimp and Photoshop, with lots of links to useful tutorials.

Many typical photographic scenes contain far more dynamic range than modern digital cameras can record in a single exposure. Digital cameras are actually slightly worse in this respect than film cameras, since they are very unforgiving to the slightest ov