Re: [Gimp-user] Potential New User Questions

[Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

Hi Lauren,

Yes. it's possible. I'd recommend getting yourself one of the books
for beginners listed at http://www.gimp.org/books/.

My personal highly biased recommendation is http://www.apress.com/9781430231684.

Alexandre

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Beau & Belle Invitations
<beauandbelleinvitations gmail com> wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> I apoligize in advance for my probably very stupid and laughable questions.
>  I am not very computer literate!
>
> I have a very small business and cannot justify purchasing adobe photoshop
> or any of their products.  I make wedding invitations and different
> greeting cards and would like to start using some digital graphics.  I
> wouldn't be designing the graphics - just using them.
>
> I'm just wondering if GIMP will be able to crop these images for me to use
> (duh right??), but also if I will be able to change the color of these
> graphics.  Most of the graphics I get are in a PNG file and have a
> transparent background.  They are always a solid black color and are very
> simple designs.  All I would want to do is potentially change the solid
> black color to a solid blue color (or whatever color) and probably crop and
> resave the image to use...
>
> Can anyone help me please and let me know if this is possible with GIMP?
>  And try not to laugh at me too hard!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lauren
>
>
> --
> Sent from Beau & Belle Invitations
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