Sunday, January 22, 2012

Layer Masks Explained - Lesson 5 - How To Use Gimp For Beginners

This lesson explains how layer masks work, and will give you an open introduction to the power this tool can bring to your photo-editing. This is probably the most important lesson on this site, because without this tool you will never be able to effectively get the more complicated edits down.  

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20 comments:

  1. Bob MrotekJanuary 22, 2012 at 10:02 AM

    Great lesson, Alex.

    Thanks mucho!

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 29, 2012 at 6:39 AM

    Thanks a lot!!! Clear and useful lesson!

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 4, 2012 at 8:36 PM

    Thanks Alex, for this clear tutorial. I just found it to the right time. I'm a 73 year old student at UBCO and take classes in new media. At school I have to work on a Mac/PhotoShop computer and at home I have a self assembled desktop running LinuxMint/GIMP...
    Now I'm challenged to learn two systems at the same time and
    have to find out what works where how...!

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 8, 2012 at 1:37 AM

    Thanks Alex, this is, with out doubt for me, one of the best explanations so far, I'm now going to the zombie tutorial for the hair thing.. OMG I spent hours trying to do that with the lasso tool only to have it all look so tragically wrong. :)

    Pete.

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  5. UnknownMarch 13, 2012 at 1:26 PM

    impressive m8! this is the best straight forward gimp tutorial that I've came across. keep up the good work...

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  6. WillMarch 30, 2012 at 10:01 PM

    Two weeks of frustration and cussing right down the drain lol. THANK YOU

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  8. Leo NewburnSeptember 21, 2013 at 11:34 PM

    In your book "All About Layer Masks" (kindle version), your Flickers links to the photos in your lessons is dead.
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  10. JackyJune 6, 2016 at 10:02 PM

    Layer masks explained lesson 5 it's a creative and more needful lesson .

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    Hello Beginners , very important tutorial about using gimp . See this lesson carefully .

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