For Teachers, and students
Subject: Finding and Installing Gimp Free Image Editing software on Vista
Material required : Internet/Windows operating system – Mac and Linux users can find information on the GIMP website. But I am working from a pc, so I am only doing the PC review.
Students will learn basic photo editing techniques. Students will analyze and evaluate the results.
Lesson Objectives;
- Teachers will know how to find gimp
- Know how to find resources on how to use the software and produce good work
- See other alternative to more expensive software on the market
Get your students to design like pros with GIMP
Some teachers are called to plan a print media tutorial to realize that the organisation they are working with, can’t afford the cost of software, or just don’t have any good photo-editing/digital design software package…..
The good alternative to expensive software packages would be GIMP. You don’t have to worry about the complexity of this program, online resources are easy to find. I came across this free alternative to Photoshop, in 2008 when trying to help my students get their media business up and going; they were complaining about cost. So as a good teacher I searched, found, and tested a lot of alternatives, and GIMP was a good and stress free alternative.
What is so good about it:
- Fast download
- Quick to install don’t have to wait ages (see video)
- Free to download, use for private and education purposes
- License issues – I am not aware of any
- Easy to use, and has a lot of feature you find with other competitors
- Languages; quite a lot not too sure which ones (I only know of French and English, because I am French)
- Support, although it’s free you can find info online
- Has templates, and pre-formatted document (so it’s ok if you don’t have the knowledge)
- I have to tested it to the full but I will start video tuts soon
You can carry out both simple and more complex tasks:
- Digital Imagery
- Photo-editing
- Print media docs preparation