![]() ![]() Go to View > Zoom > Fit Image in Window (Ctrl+Shift+J) to make the image larger in the window so you can see your editing work better. Your image will now take up a bit less of the screen, depending on how much you cropped. Click on the image and drag to create the crop box frame your subject. (I closed the program and didn’t save the screencap for this one- sorry!) Next, select the Crop tool. You can still rotate freely by dragging once the dialog box is open. If you clicked on the icon in the Toolbox, click & drag on the photo to rotate. ![]() ![]() Click the duplicate layer button so that you are not editing the original, in case you need to duplicate it again. A nice feature about GIMP is this button on the layers panel that will duplicate the layer you have selected, saving you a whole. Start by opening the photo (File > Open, or Ctrl+O). You can download it for free at I made this tutorial based on my basic photo editing for Photoshop tutorial, adjusting the steps for the program, and chose a photo with similar lighting. It’s a great, economical substitute for Photoshop, and seems to have more similarities to PS than I remember. I’m not sure if I was just being stubborn when I first used it and I’m remembering it wrong, but the newest version seems a lot easier to use. I recall this program being difficult to learn, tedious, and nothing like Photoshop. Until yesterday, it had been at least 6 years since I last used it. Here’s another simple photo editing tutorial, this time for GIMP 2.8 (GNU Image Manipulation Program). ![]()
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