GIMP for Beginners. Make Your Own Professional Book Covers.

Name: GIMP for Beginners. Make Your Own Professional Book Covers.
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Create Your Own Professional KDP Book Covers, image compositions, Facebook ads etc. with the GIMP FREE Software.

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Created byTimo Hofstee

Last updated 2/2022

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What you'll learn

Create your own professional book covers.
Create image compositions, logos, FB ads etc.
How to create a cover for a KDP ebook
How to create a cover for a KDP paperback book

Course content

14 sections • 46 lectures • 6h 38m total length

Introduction6:55
Learn essential image editing tools to design professional book covers for e-books and print. Explore layers, text, filters, shadows, outlines, and logos through two final covers.

The Basics5:09
How to download and install GIMP

How to download and install the help files.

How to start GIMP

How to access the help files.
Differences between GIMP V2.8 and V2.102:12
This lecture explains the differences between GIMP V2.8 and V2.10
Single and multi window mode. Docking dialog boxes4:21
Switch from single to multi windows mode

Opening images as a new layer or as a new image in its own TAB

Open additional dialog boxes and dock them in a specific location
Opening, closing and exporting files5:48
Opening and closing native XCF files

Opening Photoshop PSD files

Saving files

Exporting files to jpg, png and other formats

Opening images as a new layer or as a new image in its own tab
Foreground and background colors. Shortcuts4:12
Setting the foreground and background colors

Flipping the foreground and background color

Resetting the foreground and background color to the default black and white

The most useful shortcuts
Questions on the basics

The rectangle and ellipse selection tool7:57
The rectangle select tool

The autoshrink feature

Making perfect squares

Moving selections

The ellipse select tool

Explanation of the walking ants

Making a prefect circle selection

The sample files can be downloaded from http://www.onlinemoneyexplained.com/download/GIMP_tutorial.zip or by clicking on the resources TAB from this lecture and download it from there.
Inverting and composing selections5:57
Inverting a selection

Adding a new selection to the current selection

Subtracting a new selection from the current selection

Making an intersection of a new selection and the current selection
The color select tool and the lasso (freehand) tool3:12
The color select tool

Explanation of non-contiguous selections

The lasso (or freehand) tool.
Color theory and threshold manipulation6:08
Explanation of how colors are stored

How to use the threshold setting

How to increase the threshold setting by dragging the cursor
The magic wand tool5:46
Explanation of the magic wand (or fuzzy select) tool.

Difference between the color select and the magic wand
The scissors and foreground selection tool8:16
The scissors select tool

The foreground select tool

Examples of both tool selections
Quiz on selection tools

The paint bucket tool6:04
Explanation of the paint bucket tool

How to fill selections

Fill selections with a pattern
The gradient tool6:50
Explanation of the gradient tool

Creating linear gradients

Creating radial gradients

Creating conical gradients
The pencil, paintbrush, airbrush and eraser tool9:24
Explanation of the pencil tool

Explanation of the paintbrush tool

Explanation of the airbrush tool

Similarities and differences between the three paint tool

Explanation of the eraser tool
Quiz on the paint tools

The clone and heal tool13:34
Explanation of the clone tool

Explanation of the heal tool

Explanation of the difference between the clone and the heal tool

Example of using the clone and heal tool
The blur/sharpen tool, the smudge tool, the dodge/burn tool5:08
Explanation of the blur/sharpen tool

Explanation of the smudge tool

Explanation of the dodge/burn tool

Example usage of these three tools
Quiz on the image improvement tools

Stroking selections and paths9:13
Stroking a selection

Creating a path from a selection

Stroking a path
Flip and rotate images. Add perspective. Using the measure tool.9:24
The flip tool

The rotate tool

The measure tool

The move tool

The shear tool

The perspective tool

The cage transform tool

The align tool
The canvas.4:09
Explanation of the canvas

Resizing the canvas to the image

Resizing the canvas to a layer

Resizing the canvas to any size

Explanation of what's get saved with respect to the canvas
Quiz on the other tools

Introduction to layers7:56
Introduction to layers

Why you need layers.

How to create layers

The stacking order

Moving layers up and down

Deleting layers
Transparency and opacity12:50
Example of using transparency9:14
Example usage of using transparency to stack an image above another one

Changing the opacity of a layer

The different modes of mixing two images together
Merge, move and group layers7:38
Merging layers

Moving layers

Grouping layers

Making layers visible or not
Quiz on layers

Feathering16:40
Explanation of feathering

Copy and paste a feathered image into a new layer

Shrinking and growing the selection area

Using the quickmask
Color modifications. Saturation, contrast and desaturate2:33
Changing the saturation of an image

Changing the color balance of an image

Changing the contrast of an image or layer

Desaturate an image or layer. (Making it a gray scale)
Filters and logos. Text effects8:41
Explanation of filters

Demonstration of some filters (drop shadow, bovination)

Presentation of document with examples of all filters

Explanation of the File->create-logos option with the text box
Quiz on feathering, filters and logos

Requirements

All you need is : A PC or a MAC or a Unix/linux system.

Description

UPDATED VERSION : This course has been adapted in 2022 with GIMP V2.10

In this course you will learn all the features of GIMP that you will need to create professional book covers. Not more and not less. This course is specifically targeted to indie authors that want to create their own professional covers with free software. This can be for KDP ebook covers or for paperback covers. However, the first 4 hours of video cover all principal features of GIMP that could be beneficial to anyone that has no knowledge whatsoever of image editing software and that wants to make other images than book covers. For example image compositions, logos, Facebook ads etc. Produced by Timo Hofstee, author of the bestseller "The Complete Cover Creation Guide".

Why you should take this course :

This course covers all you need to create professional covers in easy to understand terminology and without the fluff.
The producer uses what he teaches.
All manipulations are shown in a detailed step-by-step approach.
In the last 2 sections, you will learn how to create a complete cover from beginning to end.
In total you get almost 7 hours of video.
Satisfaction guaranteed. 30 day money back offer.
You will get a free copy of my book "How to make book covers that sell".
GIMP is the best clone of Photoshop and it's FREE.

Who this course is for:

Indie authors that want to create their own book covers
Students that have never used image editing software and that want to make compositions, logos, image improvements etc.
Authors of any book published on KDP (no,low,high,activity content )

GIMP for Beginners. Make Your Own Professional Book Covers.

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Course content

Introduction1 lecture • 7min

The Basics5 lectures • 22min

The GIMP selection tools.6 lectures • 37min

The GIMP paint tools.3 lectures • 22min

Image improvement tools2 lectures • 19min

scaling, resizing and cropping images1 lecture • 9min

The text tool1 lecture • 10min

Other tools3 lectures • 23min

Layers4 lectures • 38min

Feathering, colors, filters and logos3 lectures • 28min

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