Yes Claire, much of the secret to using GIMP is to work with the right mouse click .. I notice that GIMP is part of the most recent DEECD laptop image. Once you know the name of the function that you are looking to use (Crop, Layers, Masking, Filters etc) .. you can easily look up a tutorial or the help menu to figure out the function. I did this to teach myself how to use a professional video editing program after prevewing a couple of YouTube videos.<br>
<br>We only have Photoshop on our school image (Win, OSX and Linux) staff did fine after we purchased some GIMP tutorial books from Amazon and organised for a photographer to run a workshop for Art teachers. Staff and students are happily GIMPing although oddly enough, student teachers with a background of only using Adobe software are a problem until we hand them a small set of training wheels made of handouts and links. They get the idea quickly enough when they see the others clicking and creating with confidence.<br>
<br>Regards Roland<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/12/6 Claire Adams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:claire.e.adams@gmail.com">claire.e.adams@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Bill,<br>
<br>
I think it's definitely worthwhile checking out GIMP. It's free! Who<br>
doesn't love that? Schools unncessarily fork out heaps of money for<br>
photoediting software when they could be using FOSS instead.<br>
I've worked with GIMP with students 8-10 previously and they seemed to<br>
cope with transfering their skills.<br>
Give it a go yourself before you decide to implement it though. A<br>
problem I ran into was that other staff members were unaware of GIMP,<br>
so I'd recommend some T&D to make sure that it actually gets used in<br>
all lessons.<br>
I know that when I set my machine to dual boot linux & windoze I end<br>
up ignoring one OS, and that's exactly what the students did with<br>
GIMP. Unless they were reminded of it they 'instinctively' used PShop.<br>
So I'd recommend getting rid of pShop when you install GIMP on the<br>
school's system(s).<br>
I didn't use an app to make GIMP into a pShop clone - just as we<br>
expect people to transfer their skills from one Word Processor to<br>
another i think we should expect them to transfer their skills from<br>
one image editor to another.<br>
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Claire Adams<br>
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On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:17 AM, Bill Kerr <<a href="mailto:billkerr@gmail.com">billkerr@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> would it be worthwhile checking these out closely?<br>
> anyone done this?<br>
> this would be a free distro and the skill transfer from these to photoshop<br>
> might be quite close<br>
> might provide more leverage for reluctant photoshop addicts to use GIMP?<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.gimphoto.com/" target="_blank">http://www.gimphoto.com/</a><br>
><br>
> GimPhoto + GimPad = free Photoshop alternative<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.gimpshop.com/" target="_blank">http://www.gimpshop.com/</a><br>
> "GIMPshop is a modification of the free/open source GNU Image Manipulation<br>
> Program (GIMP), intended to replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop. Its<br>
> primary purpose is to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable using GIMP."<br>
><br>
> wikipedia says that GimPhoto is based on a more recent GIMP<br>
> GimPhoto - a similar project, that is based on a more up-to-date version of<br>
> the GIMP<br>
> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMPshop" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMPshop</a><br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Bill Kerr<br>
> <a href="http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/</a><br>
><br>
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