Newcomers experiments with Gimp for watch photos!

For reference, this is the original photo:




Opening an image in Gimp and creating a layer for editing.

Once you have downloaded Gimp, open it and drag in the photo you wish to edit. This creates a ‘layer’ within Gimp comprising the photo. The ‘Layers’ dialogue box is found on the right of the screen and is selected using the appropriate tab at the top.

A little on layers ...

Updated 18th December 2012 at 15:42 by AIDM

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Newcomers experiments with Gimp for watch photos!

Over the weekend I was looking for a simple tutorial on the basics of post processing, specifically for watch photography, using the free software ‘Gimp’, without any joy….

Gimp can be downloaded from here: http://www.gimp.org/

The software is a free equivalent of ‘Photoshop’ and I cannot comment on its functions or ease of use in comparison to it and other image manipulation software as I’ve not experienced any, but from what I can see, for the level of use I need ...