Image editing with GIMP: Part 2 - the practical tutorial

What is transparency and how can it be used in GIMP? Video trainer Marco Kolditz gives you the answers to these questions in this video.

After installing GIMP, you will already find some ready-made brushes that you can use immediately. Watch this video to learn how to create your own individual brush tips with GIMP and what you need to bear in mind.

If you want to enlarge or reduce the size of an image, there are a few important points to bear in mind. In this video you will learn how to enlarge or reduce images in the best possible way.

Watch this video by video trainer Marco Kolditz to find out how you can achieve the effect of a high-pass filter in GIMP without a high-pass filter plug-in.

Watch this video to see what actually happens when you sharpen an image and learn some ways to sharpen an image after the fact using GIMP.

In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz shows you how to quickly straighten a slanted horizon in pictures in a very simple way.

Sometimes you can't choose the weather for a shot, so some pictures show an unattractive cloudy sky. In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz shows you how to easily replace such a sky.

Sometimes images taken in unfavorable lighting conditions appear noisy. In this video, you will learn how to remove this noise using GIMP.

Learn how to remove an unwanted color cast from your images in this video by video trainer Marco Kolditz. GIMP offers various options for this.

In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz shows you a variety of ways to brighten dark areas in the image so that their details come out better.

In this video by video trainer Marco Kolditz, learn exactly what contrast is and how you can increase it in images as you wish.

In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz shows you a way to increase the contrast of an image individually and partially in an image and in this way make an image more vivid.

With the help of GIMP, it is very easy to remove red eyes from photos. In this video you will learn different ways to solve this problem.

Watch this video to learn how to easily change the color of a person's eyes using various techniques.

In this video you will learn how to brighten eyes in different ways with GIMP.

In the first video on skin retouching, you will learn how to digitally powder a model's skin while preserving the skin's pores as much as possible.

In the second video on skin retouching, you will learn a professional technique for editing the skin: frequency separation.

With the help of GIMP, it is also possible to soften dark wrinkles on a model afterwards. In this video you can see how to carefully soften individual wrinkles.

Watch this video to learn how to use GIMP to lighten yellow teeth in a realistic way.

Watch this video to learn how to crop a single object using a mask in GIMP.

In the first video on cropping a person, you can see how to crop a person using a mask and further optimize this mask.

In the second video on cropping a person, you can see how to crop a person cleanly using the path tool and then optimize the mask.

In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz shows you how to remove individual hairs from a model's face in a non-destructive way.

Normally you would prefer to make a model's skin appear younger in a photo, but in this video you will learn the exact opposite: See how to age young skin with GIMP.

In this video, you will learn how to quickly add a realistic drop shadow to an object that has already been cropped.

In the second video on the subject of drop shadows, video trainer Marco Kolditz shows you how to create a realistic drop shadow for a complex object using GIMP.

You can use GIMP to add drop shadows to your texts. In this video, you will learn about different ways to create and adjust drop shadows.

In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz shows you some interesting text effects that you can easily create with GIMP.

GIMP offers a screenshot function with which you can take a picture of the entire screen or individual program windows and edit them afterwards. Get to know this function in this video.

In this video you will learn different and individual ways to convert a color image into a black and white image.

Find out in this video how to convert a color image into a black and white image and then give it the popular sepia look.

In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz shows you his variant for ageing photos after the fact to create the look of a very old photograph.

Learn how to give a photo the popular colorkey look using GIMP and various techniques in this video.

In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz shows you how to give a photo a painterly look. In this way, you can even transform previously pixelated and noisy photos into small works of art.

In this video you can see how you can give a photo a dreamy look in various ways.

In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz shows you how to give a photo the look of a drawing and customize it.