by Phillip Whitt
Learn to use the most up-to-date version of Paint.NET, the free, Windows-based program for image editing. This book is ideal for PC users who find Microsoft Paint too lacking, and Photoshop or GIMP too overwhelming. ​Paint.NET is a lightweight yet capable program that's easy to navigate and is regularly updated. You'll quickly become acquainted with this powerful, yet easy-to-learn program'...
Price: $34.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2022
by Phillip Whitt
Learn how to edit images and create compelling digital art with Glimpse, the newest open source alternative to Adobe Photoshop and GIMP. This book explores Glimpse's broad selection of tools and features that can create beautiful (raster) digital art; painting, drawings, and art created from photos by applying one of the many filters to create artistic effects. You will quickly become acquainted with t...
Price: $32.22 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2020
Practical Free Alternatives to Commercial Software 
by Steve Oualline, Grace Oualline
Get all the things done you're used to doing with pricey software at a fraction of the cost. There are hundreds of free programs out there that work just as well as the commercial programs people pay hundreds of dollars for. This book tells you how to find and use the most popular and useful of these.The Open Source movement is a system where programmers can share code and collectively improve programs...
Price: $30.96 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
by Robert White
Beginning Scribus is the book you wish you'd read when you downloaded Scribus for the first time. Scribus is an award-winning page-layout program used by newspaper designers, magazine designers and those who want to do proper page layout but not pay for an expensive solution. It is free and Open Source, providing a useful alternative for those who cannot afford or choose not to use Adobe InDesign or Qu...
Price: $42.40 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2015
Digital Image Compositing Fundamentals
by Wallace Jackson
Digital Imaging Compositing Fundamentals is an introductory title covering concepts central to digital imagery and digital image compositing using software packages such as Adobe Photoshop or the open source GIMP software. The book builds on the fundamental concepts of pixels, color depth and layers, and gets more advanced as chapters progress, covering pixel transparency using the alpha channel, pixel blen...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2015
Android Studio New Media Fundamentals
by Wallace Jackson
Android Studio New Media Fundamentals is a new media primer covering concepts central to multimedia production for Android including digital imagery, digital audio, digital video, digital illustration and 3D, using open source software packages such as GIMP, Audacity, Blender, and Inkscape. These professional software packages are used for this book because they are free for commercial use. The book builds ...
Price: $14.75 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2015
Beginning Photo Retouching and Restoration Using GIMP
by Phillip Whitt
Beginning Photo Retouching & Restoration Using GIMP teaches the reader how to achieve professional results using this high end image editor. You'll learn how to do everything from making dull images "pop" to resurrecting badly damaged photographs deemed beyond any hope of rescue. There's no need to shell out good money month after month for the "big name"...
Price: $49.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
by Fazreil Amreen
Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results. Use GIMP features to draw and color images. Make a precise infographic. Compose multiple pictures in an image....
Price: $9.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013
by Wallace Jackson
Pro Android Graphics is a comprehensive goldmine of knowledge and techniques that will help you design, create, and optimize 2D graphics for use in your Android Jelly Bean applications. Android application developer and expert multimedia producer Wallace Jackson of Mind Taffy Design shows you how to leverage Android's powerful graphics APIs in conjunction with professional open source graphics design t...
Price: $48.60 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2013