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GIMP Tutorial - ICT

This document provides a quick tutorial on using the free and open-source image editing software GIMP. It covers how to change the size and dimensions of an image, change the file size of a JPEG, crop an image, and rotate or flip an image. The tutorial explains how to access these tools in GIMP and perform basic edits like resizing, cropping portions of images, and flipping or rotating entire images.

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GIMP Tutorial - ICT

This document provides a quick tutorial on using the free and open-source image editing software GIMP. It covers how to change the size and dimensions of an image, change the file size of a JPEG, crop an image, and rotate or flip an image. The tutorial explains how to access these tools in GIMP and perform basic edits like resizing, cropping portions of images, and flipping or rotating entire images.

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Felicity Rivas
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by

Felicity Rivas
Daniel Caido
Naya Calalang

GIMP:
A Quick
Tutorial
From
Gimp Quickies
by Pat David
EMPOWERMENT
TECHNOLOGIES
What is GIMP?

GIMP is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image manipulation and
image editing, free-form drawing, transcoding between different image file formats,
and more specialized tasks. It is a very powerful image manipulation software. Even if
you don’t have time to learn advanced computer graphics, GIMP can still be a very
useful and handy tool for quick image modifications.
How to ...
Change the Size of an image

Change the Size of a JPEG

Crop an Image
Rotate or Flip an Image

These are the four main points to be covered in


this quick tutorial
All you need to know to
follow these quick examples

is to be able to find your image


To Start and open it:
Changing the Size
(Dimensions) of an
Image (Scale)
It’s a common problem that you may have an image
that is too large for a particular purpose.

In this case, you will often want to scale the image


down to a smaller size more suitable for your use. This
is a very simple task to accomplish in GIMP easily.
WHEN YOU FIRST OPEN YOUR
IMAGE IN GIMP, THE
WINDOW AT THE TOP OF
GIMP WILL SHOW YOU SOME
INFORMATION ABOUT THE
IMAGE BY DEFAULT.

Notice that the information at the top


of the window shows the current pixel
dimensions of the image (in this case,
the pixel size is 1225×1280).
TO RESIZE THE IMAGE TO NEW
DIMENSIONS, WE NEED ONLY
INVOKE THE SCALE IMAGE
DIALOG:

In the Scale Image dialog, you’ll find a place


to enter new values for Width and Height.

You’ll also notice a small chain just to the right


of the Width and Height entry boxes. This
icon shows that the Width and Height values
are locked with respect to each other,
meaning that changing one value will cause
the other to change in order to keep the
same aspect ratio.
For example, if you knew that you wanted your If you want to specify a new size using a different
image to have a new width of 600px, you can type of value (other than Pixel size), you can
enter that value in the Width input, and the Height change the type by clicking on the “px”.
will automatically change to maintain the aspect
ratio of the image.
Once you are done scaling
the image,
DON’T FORGET TO EXPORT THE CHANGES YOU’VE MADE:
Changing the
Size (Filesize) of You can also modify the filesize of an
image when exporting it to a format like

a JPEG JPEG.

JPEG is a lossy compression algorithm,


meaning that when saving images to the JPEG
format, you will sacrifice some image quality
to gain a smaller filesize.

As you can see, even at a quality setting of 80,


the image is significantly smaller in filesize
(77% size reduction), while the image quality is
still quite reasonable.
YOU CAN NOW ENTER A NEW NAME FOR
YOUR FILE HERE.

If you include the filetype extension (in this case, .jpg),


GIMP will automatically try to export in that file format
for you. Here I am exporting the image as a JPEG file.

You can also navigate to a new location on your


computer through the Places pane, if you need to
export the file to a different location. When you are
ready to export the image, just hit the Export button.
Crop an Image
THERE ARE NUMEROUS
REASONS YOU MAY WANT TO
CROP AN IMAGE.

You may want to remove useless borders or information for aesthetic reasons,
or you may want the focus of the final image to be of some particular detail for
instance
Once the tool is activated, you’ll notice
that your mouse cursor on the canvas
will change to indicate the Crop Tool is
being used.
ANOTHER METHOD

Another way to crop an image


is to make a selection first,
using the Rectangle Select
Tool:
Rotate and/or Flip an
Image
There may be a time that you would need to
rotate an image and flip an image as well. These
commands are grouped together under the
same menu item:
Flip an Image

If you want to flip your image, the


Transform menu offers two options,
Flip Horizontally, or Flip Vertically.

This operation will mirror your image


along the specified axis. For example,
here are all of the flip operations shown
in a single image:
Rotate an Image

Image rotation from the Transform


menu is contained to either 90°
clockwise/counter-clockwise, or
180°.

Don’t mis-interpret this to mean that


GIMP cannot do arbitrary rotations (any
angle). Arbitrary rotations are handled
on a per-layer basis, while the image
rotation described here is applicable to
the entire image at once.
End
The simple examples shown here are just the
tip of a really, really large iceberg. These are,
however, common modifications that many
people are often looking to make without
having to learn too much about image
processing. Hopefully they have been helpful.

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