How Long to Read The Artist's Guide to GIMP

How Long Does it Take to Read The Artist's Guide to GIMP?

It takes the average reader 22 hours and 6 minutes to read The Artist's Guide to GIMP by Michael J. Hammel

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

As a full-featured, free alternative to Adobe Photoshop, GIMP is one of the world's most popular open source projects. The latest version of GIMP (2.8) brings long-awaited improvements and powerful new tools to make graphic design and photo manipulation even easier—but it's still a notoriously challenging program to use. The Artist's Guide to GIMP teaches you how to use GIMP without a tedious list of menu paths and options. Instead, as you follow along with Michael J. Hammel's step-by-step instructions, you'll learn to produce professional-looking advertisements, apply impressive photographic effects, and design cool logos and text effects. These extensively illustrated tutorials are perfect for hands-on learning or as templates for your own artistic experiments. After a crash course in GIMP's core tools like brushes, patterns, selections, layers, modes, and masks, you'll learn: Photographic techniques to clean up blemishes and dust, create sepia-toned antique images, swap colors, produce motion blurs, alter depth of field, simulate a tilt-shift, and fix rips in an old photo Web design techniques to create navigation tabs, icons, fancy buttons, backgrounds, and borders Type effects to create depth, perspective shadows, metallic and distressed text, and neon and graffiti lettering Advertising effects to produce movie posters and package designs; simulate clouds, cracks, cloth, and underwater effects; and create specialized lighting Whether you're new to GIMP or you've been playing with this powerful software for years, you'll be inspired by the original art, creative photo manipulations, and numerous tips for designers. Covers GIMP 2.8

How long is The Artist's Guide to GIMP?

The Artist's Guide to GIMP by Michael J. Hammel is 1,321 pages long, and a total of 331,571 words.

This makes it 446% the length of the average book. It also has 405% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Artist's Guide to GIMP Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 30 hours and 11 minutes to read The Artist's Guide to GIMP aloud.

What Reading Level is The Artist's Guide to GIMP?

The Artist's Guide to GIMP is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

Where Can I Buy The Artist's Guide to GIMP?

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