Any good books/courses on GIMP

[Kevin Cozens]

Rob Sutherland wrote:
> Walter Dnes wrote:
> 
>>  Having just gotten a digital camera 3 weeks ago, I've started playing
>> around with GIMP, and realized how complex it is.  Is there a book or
>> even a training course that someone can recommend?

GIMP isn't really any more complex than most program it is often compared to (
> This is pretty good
> 
> http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/

Yes, "Grokking The GIMP" can be useful (or at least was). It shows a copyright 
date of 2000 and mentions version 1.1.15 in the acknowledgement section. You 
should know this is a VERY old (ancient?) version of GIMP and is no longer 
supported. The current stable release of GIMP is 2.2.8 and the development 
version (a tarball of a 2.3.2 release is available) is well on its way towards 
a 2.4 release.

The main site for information about GIMP is http://www.gimp.org/. Check the 
Documentation link on the left side of the page. You will find a link to the 
GIMP User Manual (GUM).

Both "Grokking the GIMP" and GUM should be enough to get you started on using 
the program. They will get you familiar with the interface of GIMP and the 
basics of using it. There is also the GIMP Help project which is (or will) 
make it easier to get help for GIMP from within the program. The main problem 
with the out-of-date documentation is that you will encounter menu items have 
been renamed and/or moved.

Many (most?) of the GIMP manuals are out of date. One of the gimp developers 
has started the work to update one of the documents to reflect the current 
state of GIMP.

While you are checking out the gimp.org site, click on Links. This will get 
you to a page with links to other useful sites and other information related 
to getting help for GIMP. The mailing list (ie. gimp-user) and the IRC channel 
  #gimp on GIMPNet) are two good places to get help but it would be a good 
idea to get familiar with the basics of using GIMP first.

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