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GIMP for Beginners: Free Book Covers with Free Images

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GIMP for Beginners: Free Book Covers with Free Images, available at $49.99, has an average rating of 4.4, with 102 lectures, based on 238 reviews, and has 9594 subscribers.

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You will learn about Install the GIMP on Your PC Use the GIMP to produce a basic book cover Use advanced concepts to produce professional looking book covers Use tips and suggestions to maximize our design and implemention This course is ideal for individuals who are Anyone seeking an introduction on how to produce high quality graphics using the GIMP or Self-published authors needing to produce professional looking, high quality book covers on a budget It is particularly useful for Anyone seeking an introduction on how to produce high quality graphics using the GIMP or Self-published authors needing to produce professional looking, high quality book covers on a budget.

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Title: GIMP for Beginners: Free Book Covers with Free Images

Price: $49.99

Average Rating: 4.4

Number of Lectures: 102

Number of Published Lectures: 102

Number of Curriculum Items: 102

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 102

Original Price: $109.99

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What You Will Learn

  • Install the GIMP on Your PC
  • Use the GIMP to produce a basic book cover
  • Use advanced concepts to produce professional looking book covers
  • Use tips and suggestions to maximize our design and implemention

Who Should Attend

  • Anyone seeking an introduction on how to produce high quality graphics using the GIMP
  • Self-published authors needing to produce professional looking, high quality book covers on a budget

Target Audiences

  • Anyone seeking an introduction on how to produce high quality graphics using the GIMP
  • Self-published authors needing to produce professional looking, high quality book covers on a budget

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.

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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

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Overview of the Course

Lecture 2: GIMP 2.10 Changes: How to Make GIMP 2.10 Look Like GIMP 2.8

Lecture 3: Installing the GIMP

Lecture 4: Starting the GIMP, Screen Layout, Exiting the GIMP

Lecture 5: Supplement: Sample Book Covers

Lecture 6: Changing the Number of GIMP Windows and Style

Lecture 7: How to Watch This Course

Chapter 2: Creating a Simple Book Cover

Lecture 1: Introduction to Creating a Simple Book Cover

Lecture 2: Creating an Empty Book Cover

Lecture 3: Loading Images From the Internet

Lecture 4: Adding Text

Lecture 5: Saving Your Book Cover

Lecture 6: Creating a Simple Book Cover Section Workshop

Lecture 7: Creating a Simple Book Cover Section Project

Lecture 8: Conclusion to Creating a Simple Book Cover

Chapter 3: Working with Layers and Selections

Lecture 1: Introduction to Working with Layers and Selections

Lecture 2: Defining and Manipulating Layers

Lecture 3: Selecting Images and Image Components

Lecture 4: Applying Effects to Selections

Lecture 5: Copying, Cutting, and Pasting Selections

Lecture 6: Supplement: More on Layers

Lecture 7: Working with Layers and Selections Section Workshop

Lecture 8: Working with Layers and Selections Section Project

Lecture 9: Conclusion to Working with Layers and Selections

Chapter 4: Loading Fonts and Using Text Effects

Lecture 1: Introduction to Loading Fonts and Using Text Effects

Lecture 2: Text Manipulation

Lecture 3: Loading Fonts

Lecture 4: Using Fonts

Lecture 5: Blurring and Drop Shadows

Lecture 6: Loading Fonts and Using Text Effects Section Workshop

Lecture 7: Loading Fonts and Using Text Effects Section Project

Lecture 8: Conclusion to Loading Fonts and Using Text Effects

Chapter 5: Buying and Manipulating Inexpensive/Free Images

Lecture 1: Introduction to Buying and Manipulating Inexpensive/Free Images

Lecture 2: Pixabay: An Early Warning!

Lecture 3: Buying Inexpensive Images Off the Internet

Lecture 4: Manipulating the Images

Lecture 5: Using the Clone Tool

Lecture 6: Buying and Manipulating Inexpensive/Free Images Section Workshop

Lecture 7: Buying and Manipulating Inexpensive/Free Images Section Project

Lecture 8: Conclusion to Buying and Manipulating Inexpensive/Free Images

Chapter 6: Creating Colored Boxes

Lecture 1: Introduction to Creating Colored Boxes

Lecture 2: Making Colored Boxes

Lecture 3: Sampling Colors

Lecture 4: Using Color Gradients

Lecture 5: Displaying Text Over Colored Boxes

Lecture 6: Creating Colored Boxes Section Workshop

Lecture 7: Creating Colored Boxes Section Project

Lecture 8: Conclusion to Creating Colored Boxes

Chapter 7: Using Layer Masks and Paths

Lecture 1: Introduction to Using Layer Masks and Paths

Lecture 2: Two Applications of Layer Masks

Lecture 3: Stroking a Path Around Text

Lecture 4: Circular Text

Lecture 5: Making Text Follow an Arbitrary Path

Lecture 6: Using Layer Masks and Paths Section Workshop

Lecture 7: Using Layer Masks and Paths Section Project

Lecture 8: Conclusion to Using Layer Masks and Paths

Chapter 8: Book Cover Design Theory

Lecture 1: Introduction to Book Cover Design Theory

Lecture 2: Branding

Lecture 3: Satisfying Genre Expectations

Lecture 4: Use of Color

Lecture 5: Use of Images

Lecture 6: Cover Layout

Lecture 7: Making Your Text Pop

Lecture 8: View Your Work in Thumbnail Size

Lecture 9: Analyze Peer Book Covers

Lecture 10: Book Cover Design Theory Workshop

Lecture 11: Book Cover Design Theory Section Project

Lecture 12: Conclusion to Book Cover Design Theory

Chapter 9: Putting It All Together

Lecture 1: Let's Create a Book Cover, Shall we?

Lecture 2: Making a Space Book Cover

Lecture 3: Making a Book Cover with Colored Boxes

Lecture 4: Downloading the Sample Covers

Chapter 10: Favorite Tricks and Common Errors

Lecture 1: Favorite Tricks Pt. 1

Lecture 2: Favorite Tricks Pt. 2

Lecture 3: Favorite Tricks Pt. 3

Lecture 4: Common Errors

Chapter 11: Recreating My Personal Favorite Book Covers: 2017 Course Extension

Lecture 1: A Review of My Past Book Covers

Lecture 2: Using Pixabay for Free Images

Lecture 3: Reinterpreting Existing Popular Covers

Lecture 4: Stretching My GIMP Muscles

Lecture 5: Reinterpreting My "Symphony" Book Cover Pt. 1

Lecture 6: Reinterpreting My "Symphony" Book Cover Pt. 2

Lecture 7: Two Technique Book Cover: Silhouettes and Dark Desaturated Backgrounds

Lecture 8: Drunken and Layer Mask Text — Very Cool!

Chapter 12: 2017 Amazon Book Cover Reinterpretation Challenge

Lecture 1: Section Introduction

Lecture 2: Challenge #1 from Kelly

Lecture 3: Challenge #2 from Saundra Pt. 1

Lecture 4: Challenge #2 from Saundra Pt. 2

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  • 3 stars: 16 votes
  • 4 stars: 76 votes
  • 5 stars: 139 votes

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