For those of you who don't know, GIMP is a free, open source image manipulation program, similar to Photoshop. The latest version, 2.4.0, was released today with a much needed overhaul of the color scheme and interface. There are a growing number of designers using GIMP as their primary photo/design application.
For those of you making brochures or newsletters for your churches, there's an interesting three-part article on Layer's Magazine's website that is a good read. The article includes support files as well as step-by-step instructions. Here's a quote:
"As faculty advisor to a student newspaper, I've seen what problems university students often run into and concepts that are most useful to them when laying out a publication in InDesign. In my opinion, Adobe InDesign is the best layout software available. If you have Adobe InDesign CS2 or later (or an earlier version, though some steps may be slightly different), you can follow along with this three-part tutorial in creating a small four-page magazine, in order to learn a few techniques and concepts along the way."
It's long been understood that web images are fixed in size. Well, that may change in the future thanks to two Israeli professors, Ariel Shamir and Shai Avidan. They've created a way to change the aspect ratio of an image without distorting the main featured content. They announced their development at the SIGGRAPH 2007 conference in San Diego.
For those of you who don't know, GIMP is a free, open source image manipulation program, similar to Photoshop. The latest version, 2.4.0, was released today with a much needed overhaul of the color scheme and interface. There are a growing number of designers using GIMP as their primary photo/design application. 
