I picked this up for my personal use. I used to use CS3 and the like for work and that was fine but I was tired of booting into Windows to help clients. I know game! [wittyrpg.com]designers use gimp. Gimp itself is a great product, I did notice that the book was solid but it left a lot to be desired in covering the lackluster interface. Your mileage may vary.
I flipped through Beginning GIMP in the bookstore, but I ultimately went with GIMP 2 for Photographers [amazon.com] because my only real concern is editing photos that I've taken. You're right that game designers use GIMP, but so do people on *nix boxes who just want to retouch less than perfect photos. GIMP is such a multifaceted tool with diverse user communities that a guide to the program can't be everything for everyone.
This slashdot user (jetsci) posts on slashdot solely to publicize wittyrpg.
I'm surprised this post got an informative mod (what doe sit tell us? That GIMP is useful for image manipulation on non-Windows machines?), but kindly please mod it back down to oblivion so we don't need to keep reading yet another crap most meant just to get a link on slashdot.
Overflow on /dev/null, please empty the bit bucket.
Great book (Score:-1, Troll)
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Accidentally modded this informative. I'd rather not mod something up that is advertising violation of copyright.
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Stop spamming that stupid fucking site, moron.
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This slashdot user (jetsci) posts on slashdot solely to publicize wittyrpg.
I'm surprised this post got an informative mod (what doe sit tell us? That GIMP is useful for image manipulation on non-Windows machines?), but kindly please mod it back down to oblivion so we don't need to keep reading yet another crap most meant just to get a link on slashdot.