GIMP for Beginners. Make Your Own Professional Book Covers.

GIMP for Beginners. Make Your Own Professional Book Covers., available at $64.99, has an average rating of 4.7, with 46 lectures, 12 quizzes, based on 49 reviews, and has 1144 subscribers.

You will learn about Create your own professional book covers. Create image compositions, logos, FB ads etc. How to create a cover for a KDP ebook How to create a cover for a KDP paperback book This course is ideal for individuals who are Indie authors that want to create their own book covers or Students that have never used image editing software and that want to make compositions, logos, image improvements etc. or Authors of any book published on KDP (no,low,high,activity content ) It is particularly useful for Indie authors that want to create their own book covers or Students that have never used image editing software and that want to make compositions, logos, image improvements etc. or Authors of any book published on KDP (no,low,high,activity content ).

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Summary

Title: GIMP for Beginners. Make Your Own Professional Book Covers.

Price: $64.99

Average Rating: 4.7

Number of Lectures: 46

Number of Quizzes: 12

Number of Published Lectures: 46

Number of Published Quizzes: 12

Number of Curriculum Items: 58

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 58

Original Price: $19.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Create your own professional book covers.
Create image compositions, logos, FB ads etc.
How to create a cover for a KDP ebook
How to create a cover for a KDP paperback book

Who Should Attend

Indie authors that want to create their own book covers
Students that have never used image editing software and that want to make compositions, logos, image improvements etc.
Authors of any book published on KDP (no,low,high,activity content )

Target Audiences

Indie authors that want to create their own book covers
Students that have never used image editing software and that want to make compositions, logos, image improvements etc.
Authors of any book published on KDP (no,low,high,activity content )

UPDATED VERSION : This course has been adapted in 2022 with GIMP V2.10

In this course you will learn all the features of GIMP that you will need to create professional book covers. Not more and not less. This course is specifically targeted to indie authors that want to create their own professional covers with free software. This can be for KDP ebook covers or for paperback covers. However, the first 4 hours of video cover all principal features of GIMP that could be beneficial to anyone that has no knowledge whatsoever of image editing software and that wants to make other images than book covers. For example image compositions, logos, Facebook ads etc. Produced by Timo Hofstee, author of the bestseller “The Complete Cover Creation Guide“.

Why you should take this course :

This course covers all you need to create professional covers in easy to understand terminology and without the fluff.
The producer uses what he teaches.
All manipulations are shown in a detailed step-by-step approach.
In the last 2 sections, you will learn how to create a complete cover from beginning to end.
In total you get almost 7 hours of video.
Satisfaction guaranteed. 30 day money back offer.
You will get a free copy of my book “How to make book covers that sell“.
GIMP is the best clone of Photoshop and it’s FREE.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The Basics

Lecture 1: The Basics

Lecture 2: Differences between GIMP V2.8 and V2.10

Lecture 3: Single and multi window mode. Docking dialog boxes

Lecture 4: Opening, closing and exporting files

Lecture 5: Foreground and background colors. Shortcuts

Chapter 3: The GIMP selection tools.

Lecture 1: The rectangle and ellipse selection tool

Lecture 2: Inverting and composing selections

Lecture 3: The color select tool and the lasso (freehand) tool

Lecture 4: Color theory and threshold manipulation

Lecture 5: The magic wand tool

Lecture 6: The scissors and foreground selection tool

Chapter 4: The GIMP paint tools.

Lecture 1: The paint bucket tool

Lecture 2: The gradient tool

Lecture 3: The pencil, paintbrush, airbrush and eraser tool

Chapter 5: Image improvement tools

Lecture 1: The clone and heal tool

Lecture 2: The blur/sharpen tool, the smudge tool, the dodge/burn tool

Chapter 6: scaling, resizing and cropping images

Lecture 1: scaling, resizing and cropping images. Using the color picker

Chapter 7: The text tool

Lecture 1: The text tool

Chapter 8: Other tools

Lecture 1: Stroking selections and paths

Lecture 2: Flip and rotate images. Add perspective. Using the measure tool.

Lecture 3: The canvas.

Chapter 9: Layers

Lecture 1: Introduction to layers

Lecture 2: Transparency and opacity

Lecture 3: Example of using transparency

Lecture 4: Merge, move and group layers

Chapter 10: Feathering, colors, filters and logos

Lecture 1: Feathering

Lecture 2: Color modifications. Saturation, contrast and desaturate

Lecture 3: Filters and logos. Text effects

Chapter 11: Common operations

Lecture 1: Outline text, popout a piece of an image, fill text with patterns or gradients

Chapter 12: Creating a complete romance cover

Lecture 1: The idea for the cover and finding the images

Lecture 2: Placing the background image

Lecture 3: Placing the image of the couple

Lecture 4: Placing the text

Lecture 5: Outlining text and drop shadows

Lecture 6: Creating the series button and modifying the contrast and saturation

Lecture 7: Applying a gradient fill to the title

Chapter 13: Creating a complete cover for a history book

Lecture 1: Analysis of a cover and finding the images

Lecture 2: Preparing the Hitler and Patton images

Lecture 3: Preparing the images of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin

Lecture 4: Placing and scaling the persons

Lecture 5: Adding the black gradient

Lecture 6: Adding the green radial background gradient

Lecture 7: Adding text and titles

Lecture 8: Finishing touch. Contrast, color saturation, final gradient

Chapter 14: Creating a KDP paperback cover

Lecture 1: Creating a KDP paperback cover

Instructors

Timo Hofstee
Software specialist and self-published author

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