Freeware Demo- Gimp

I chose to demo Gimp2.6 for the screencasting assignment. Gimp is a GNU Image Manipulation Program- very similar to Photoshop. Simply put, Gimp is a free downloadable photo editor.

My video is on Youtube now and can be viewed here.

I ran through basic tools of the application because to start this project I knew nothing of this webware. I talked (and showed) where the webware downloaded to on my desktop, opened the application, opened a picture to edit, and showed how to undo actions within the program. I flipped and blurred the picture, used different sized brushes, showed different perspectives of the picture, added text, changed that text to a different color, cropped the photo and saved it to my picture file on my computer.

This application was interesting to use because there is so much to it and I didn't know that it was going to be so easy to use! You can hold your mouse over the icons within the webware to see what task each icon does when clicked and there are shortcuts within the application, similar to Microsoft Office. If I want to flip the picture, I can either hit the flip button on the toolbox or hit Ctrl + F. I think I've discovered something awesome and I hope my video may be helpful in showing people the easy use and incredible tasks you can perform on your photos with Gimp.