Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial

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Image editing with GIMP: Part 2 - the practical tutorial

Learn the methods and techniques of image editing and their implementation in GIMP. In over 9.5 hours, you'll get hands-on experience of applying brushes, adjusting image sharpness and creating different image looks. Trainer Marco Kolditz invites you to take your image editing in GIMP to the next level.

Learn typical methods and techniques of image editing and their application in GIMP using direct examples
Use the tools to crop image motifs, remove distortions or swap motifs, for example
Learn how to retouch portraits with GIMP and edit eyes, skin, teeth and hair
Give your images atmospheric looks, including: Photo aging effect, sepia, colorkey
Also: frequency separation, remove red eyes, recolor iris and remove noise and color cast

Are you already familiar with image editing methods and want to apply them in GIMP? Or are you just starting to learn image editing techniques? Then get started right here and start tweaking your images and photos in GIMP!

Details

Usable with:
content: 10 h Video training
Licence: private and commercial Rights of use

GIMP in practice

free of charge

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - 1 What is transparency and how do I use it?

What is transparency and how can it be used in GIMP? Video trainer Marco Kolditz gives you the answers to these questions in this video.

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - 2 Create your own brush tips

After installing GIMP, you will already find some ready-made brushes that you can use immediately. Watch this video to learn how to create your own individual brush tips with GIMP and what you need to bear in mind.

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - 3 Resizing images

If you want to enlarge or reduce the size of an image, there are a few important points to bear in mind. In this video you will learn how to enlarge or reduce images in the best possible way.

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - 4 high-pass filters without a plug-in

Watch this video by video trainer Marco Kolditz to find out how you can achieve the effect of a high-pass filter in GIMP without a high-pass filter plug-in.

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - 5 Sharpening an image

Watch this video to see what actually happens when you sharpen an image and learn some ways to sharpen an image after the fact using GIMP.

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - 6 Straighten horizon

In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz shows you how to quickly straighten a slanted horizon in pictures in a very simple way.

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - Replace 7 skies

Sometimes you can't choose the weather for a shot, so some pictures show an unattractive cloudy sky. In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz shows you how to easily replace such a sky.

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - 8 Removing noise and dust

Sometimes images taken in unfavorable lighting conditions appear noisy. In this video, you will learn how to remove this noise using GIMP.

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - 9 Remove color cast

Learn how to remove an unwanted color cast from your images in this video by video trainer Marco Kolditz. GIMP offers various options for this.

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - 10 Brighten shadows

In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz shows you a variety of ways to brighten dark areas in the image so that their details come out better.

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - 11 Enhancing contrast I

In this video by video trainer Marco Kolditz, learn exactly what contrast is and how you can increase it in images as you wish.

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - 12 Enhancing contrast II

In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz shows you a way to increase the contrast of an image individually and partially in an image and in this way make an image more vivid.

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - 13 Removing red eyes

With the help of GIMP, it is very easy to remove red eyes from photos. In this video you will learn different ways to solve this problem.

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - 14 Recoloring irises

Watch this video to learn how to easily change the color of a person's eyes using various techniques.

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - 15 Brighten eyes

In this video you will learn how to brighten eyes in different ways with GIMP.

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - 16 Skin retouching I - Powdering the skin

In the first video on skin retouching, you will learn how to digitally powder a model's skin while preserving the skin's pores as much as possible.

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - 17 Skin retouching II - Frequency separation

In the second video on skin retouching, you will learn a professional technique for editing the skin: frequency separation.

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - 18 Reducing wrinkles

With the help of GIMP, it is also possible to soften dark wrinkles on a model afterwards. In this video you can see how to carefully soften individual wrinkles.

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - 19 Whitening teeth

Watch this video to learn how to use GIMP to lighten yellow teeth in a realistic way.

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - 20 objects to crop with a mask

Watch this video to learn how to crop a single object using a mask in GIMP.

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - 21 person cropping I

In the first video on cropping a person, you can see how to crop a person using a mask and further optimize this mask.

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - 22 Crop person II - Working with paths

In the second video on cropping a person, you can see how to crop a person cleanly using the path tool and then optimize the mask.

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - Remove 23 hairs from the face

In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz shows you how to remove individual hairs from a model's face in a non-destructive way.

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - age 24 skin

Normally you would prefer to make a model's skin appear younger in a photo, but in this video you will learn the exact opposite: See how to age young skin with GIMP.

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - 25 Adding a drop shadow to an object I - simple shadow

In this video, you will learn how to quickly add a realistic drop shadow to an object that has already been cropped.

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - 26 Adding a drop shadow to an object II - complex shadow

In the second video on the subject of drop shadows, video trainer Marco Kolditz shows you how to create a realistic drop shadow for a complex object using GIMP.

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - 27 Text with shadows

You can use GIMP to add drop shadows to your texts. In this video, you will learn about different ways to create and adjust drop shadows.

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - 28 text effects

In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz shows you some interesting text effects that you can easily create with GIMP.

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - Create 29 screenshots

GIMP offers a screenshot function with which you can take a picture of the entire screen or individual program windows and edit them afterwards. Get to know this function in this video.

Image looks

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - 30 Black and white conversion

In this video you will learn different and individual ways to convert a color image into a black and white image.

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - 31 Sepia look

Find out in this video how to convert a color image into a black and white image and then give it the popular sepia look.

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - age 32 photos

In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz shows you his variant for ageing photos after the fact to create the look of a very old photograph.

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - 33 Colorkey

Learn how to give a photo the popular colorkey look using GIMP and various techniques in this video.

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - 34 Painterly look

In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz shows you how to give a photo a painterly look. In this way, you can even transform previously pixelated and noisy photos into small works of art.

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - 35 Dreamy look

In this video you can see how you can give a photo a dreamy look in various ways.

Image editing with GIMP: the practical tutorial - 36 drawings

In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz shows you how to give a photo the look of a drawing and customize it.

Details of the content

Learn GIMP and apply image editing techniques in GIMP
The GIMP image editing program has the advantage of being free. At the same time, it offers you all the tools you need to make both minor and major changes to your images. This training course is designed to take you beyond the basics of GIMP, teach you how to use the software and apply typical image editing methods using practical examples.

Image editing with technique & method

In the 36 lessons of the 9.5-hour training course, you will work hands-on and internalize the procedures shown. The tutorial is suitable for learning image editing techniques on the one hand and offers experienced image editors a comprehensive insight into the possibilities of GIMP on the other. Whether you want to get started quickly or make a gallant transition - find out how the software works, what it can do and how you can use it for image editing.

The topics of the training

The lessons each address a specific topic area comprehensively and often show you more than just one approach. For example, if you want to convert a color image into a black and white image, there are several ways to achieve this. The following focal points are covered:

Image editing basics: creating transparencies, brush tips, resizing images correctly, adjusting image sharpness and contrast
Typical image editing techniques: cropping objects and people, reducing noise and removing dust, removing color cast, straightening the horizon, replacing a sky, applying effects such as drop shadows to objects and text
Portrait retouching : brighten eyes, recolor irises, remove red eyes; powder skin, age skin, reduce wrinkles, edit with frequency separation; brighten teeth, remove hair
Create image looks: Converting to black and white, sepia look, aging photos, colorkey, painted, drawn and dreamy looks

Trainer Marco Kolditz explains this and more using concrete examples and guides you from the initial image to the polished final image.

Image editing with GIMP - what you will learn in the course

After the course, you will be able to use GIMP for your image editing. You will either learn new techniques or find out how to use the methods you are familiar with in GIMP. This will make it easy for you to get started with or switch to the free image editing alternative. Use GIMP intuitively through hands-on practice.

Note: The training was created with GIMP 2.8.20. You can download the program for free here.