Learn GIMP for beginners to create stunning book covers and graphics. Master professional design techniques using free software on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
This course teaches beginners how to use GIMP to create stunning book covers and graphics. With easy-to-follow instructions, you'll learn everything from installation to advanced techniques, all for free!
GIMP graphic design for beginners: Free GIMP on Windows/Mac/Linux: Free book/eBook covers for self-publishing!
Learn the GIMP from the Ground Up
In this course I'll show you how to use the Gnu Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), a free Photoshop like program, to produce professional looking, high quality graphics on a budget. The course uses the creation of book covers for self-publishing as the basis for demonstrating the use of the program. The techniques demonstrated can be used to create stunning graphics for any purpose including display on the Web.
GIMP Easily Explained:
Excellent course with detailed explanations on how to use GIMP to create fabulous book covers. Thank you!
-Maria Oquendo
This course provides material suitable for the absolute beginner and includes information on how to install all required tools and resources. It then goes on to show you how to use those components to produce unique, professional looking, and high quality graphics suitable for use as book covers for self-publishing. The course includes information on graphic composition that can be used to cause the most important elements of your image stand out.
Note: I demonstrate the use of the GIMP on a PC running Microsoft Windows 7. If you're a Linux or Mac user, the GIMP is also available to you, and information in this course beyond installation is fully applicable.
Sell More of Anything with Professional Looking Graphics
Though you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, the truth is that most people do exactly that. Why not produce the best impression you can by displaying stunning graphics mixed with text. Whether you're selling books or some other product, graphics that can capture the customer's attention will give you a leg up in differentiating yourself from your competition.
This Course Includes Everything You Need to Know to Become Proficient with the GIMP
This course includes 29 lectures, over two hours of material, divided into the following major categories of information:
Installing, staring, and stopping the GIMP
GIMP window layout
Creating a simple book cover
Working with layers and selections
Loading fonts and using text effects
Buying and manipulating inexpensive images
Creating colored boxes
Using layer masks
Stroking a path
Putting it all together
Learn to Create Stunning Book Covers and More
Why focus on book covers? The course benefits from having a specific focus and I'm the most familiar with using the GIMP to create book covers. Besides, you only need to know the fundamentals of using the GIMP to produce book covers. Don't worry, you can still create amazing images for the Web and beyond using the basics of the GIMP.
A Great Cover Course
Bite sized lessons that are clear and concise on how to use The GIMP to create ebook covers for the KINDLE. Very easy to follow.
-Bronwyn Wilson
This course uses a combination of presentation slides and screen capture to show you how to use the GIMP to produce book covers specifically.
Expect to spend several days to weeks digesting all the information provided in this course.
Start Today!
Silly as it may seem, your book cover is the first characteristic of your book that is likely to distinguish you from the crowd. Why not spend some time learning how to produce a quality, professional looking book cover for your self-published work using free tools and inexpensive professional quality images?
I'll see you in the classroom,
---Brian
Install the GIMP on Your PC
Use the GIMP to produce a basic book cover
Use advanced concepts to produce professional looking book covers
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Hello,My name is Brian Jackson. I'm the writer of approximately one dozen books, publisher of well over 100 books and Udemy instructor with over 40 courses to my name.Over the last 13 years, since July 2011, I've made over $715,000 online through publishing Amazon Kindle eBooks and Udemy online video training courses.This is my story...1 OriginsI was born in the...
Yes I can follow well. Too well actually, so to me I had hoped for some more content on other GIMP possibilities that are useful to making book covers. There are still lots of options on actions used that are left unexplained. For instance layer locking, subtracting and intersecting paths, foreground select tool, the alignment tool, cage transform, the healing tool, the difference between the text tool options in the toolbox versus those above text, snapping, cropping possibilities, other filters....
Great course for self-published authors and anyone interested in cover design. Very informative. Thanks!
Out of the box, GIMP is not very user friendly or intuitive. This course got me over than hump.
Great pace in going through every step of the way. Other instructors skip over steps - not taking into the mind of a beginner. NOT with this instructor! He would make an Awesome school teacher! Where was he when I was going to school. lol
Several hours it took to convey the basic functions could've been taught in 1/10th of the time. He's good at image editing, but the same can't be said of his video editing skills. Only about a fourth of the way in and I couldn't take anymore. I hit the speed-up option to end it.
I've tried to figure out the GIMP on my own several times over the years, using the documentation and/or YouTube videos. Occasionally, I'd gain a bit of insight but always became frustrated and moved on to something else. In this course, Brian Jackson goes step-by-step and explains what he's doing and why. For the first time, I feel that I am finally going to conquer the GIMP and I could not be more pleased. Thank you for this excellent course, Brian.
...Sincerely.
I am frustrated with this course. The instructor is way too familiar with the software to be teaching a Basic Course. He leaves out the fine details of what he is clicking on constantly! I have to replay every 2 minutes over and over to see what he clicked to achieve the step he is on. Normally as an instructor one might say - down here in the left corner is the add a new layer tool - click on it to add a new layer or - something similar but instead he is just clicking away and not telling you where or on what and it is taking me forever to get anywhere in this course because of the tedious replaying to see what he is doing.
I don't know if there is another course on Gimp that is better but I will be looking. This course is Free and I guess you get what you pay for.
This was a pretty good course. The instructor is engaging and quite responsive to comments and questions.
It comes with all of the pros and cons of a course that teaches you a tool with a specific purpose. In this case, Gimp to Create Book Covers. The Pros are that it is focused and practical. You get to see many real-world examples of the usage of Gimp. In particular, by the time you finish the course, the use of layers in your images become second nature.
The Cons of this approach, of course, is that many features of Gimp are not explored. I think the instructor does have a more generic Gimp course, so perhaps other features are covered there. But it gave me what I needed. I am actually not quite making book covers, but what I need falls in the basic feature set.
One more thing. The course is pretty short. The core is probably just a few hours, and the rest is a lot of practical examples.
It was a little less complex than I wanted but I did learn some things I needed.
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Thet H. O.
Really good. I learned a lot.