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GIMP is a free and open-source raster graphics editor that can be used to change and edit images, draw freehand, convert between different image file formats, and do other tasks. It’s not made for drawing, but some artists and creators have used it that way. GIMP is open source and Make Photo Collage on Gimp.
It can be used to do things like retouching, editing images by free drawing, and transcoding, which means it is easy to switch between different image file formats. It was first set up in February 1996, and Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis were its first authors. You can do a lot of retouching with this software, and when you render the image, you can make a lot of copies of it. The most important thing about this software is that its user screen is very easy to use.
How to Make Photo Collage on Gimp
Creating a Blank Canvas
- Open Gimp.
- Click on ‘File’ on the top-left of the screen.
- Select ‘New’. A ‘Create a New Image’ window should appear.
- In the ‘Image Size’ section, set both ‘Height’ and ‘Width’ to 1350 pixels.
Creating the Guidelines
- Click ‘View’ on the top of the screen and then ‘Show Guides’ and ‘Snap to Guides’.
- Go to ‘Image’ > ‘Guide’ > ‘New Guide’. A new window will open.
- Select the ‘Horizontal’ direction and enter 450 for position.
- Click OK.
- For the second guide, repeat steps 5-7, and choose 900 for position
- For the first vertical guide, repeat steps 5-7, but select ‘Vertical’ direction and 450 position.
- For the second vertical guide, repeat steps 5-7, but select’ Vertical’ direction and 900 position.
Adding the First Image
- Click ‘File’ on the top-left.
- Select ‘Open as Layers’.
- Find the image and select ‘Open’. The image should appear on the screen with guides over it.
- Adjust the image to one of the squares in the guide.
- Go to ‘Tools’> ‘Transform Tools’ > ‘Scale’ to resize the image.
- Click on ‘Tools’
- Go to ‘Selection Tools’ and then choose ‘Rectangle Select’.
- Then go to ‘Edit’ > ‘Paste’.
- Select ‘Layer’ and then ‘To New Layer’.
Adding a Border
- Go to ‘Tools’, and click ‘Default Colors’. This will make the background of your collage white. If you want a different background color, select ‘Tools’> ’Swap Colors’.
- Right-click on the new, modified layer.
- Click ‘Alpha’ and go to ‘Section’. This will select the image.
- While the image is selected, go to ‘Edit’ and click on ‘Stroke Selection’. A ‘Stroke Selection’ window will pop up.
- Select ‘Stroke line’, and click on ‘Solid color’ button.
- Choose the line width, for example, 30px.
- Select the ‘Stroke’ button.
Benefits of GIMP
- It is Expendable and Extensible, so you can expand its working area by using plugins as well as use different file format extensions for a variety of work.
- Due to the advanced user interface screen, you can easily do a variety of manipulation in it, whether it is a simple image or a complex image.
- If you never touch Photoshop, which is a raster image editing software too, then due to a simple and friendly user interface, it will most helpful to you in learning image manipulation and graphic design.
- It is the most powerful software because you can handle large and professional video games in it.
What Can GIMP Do?
GIMP is a raster image editor, which means it can make and change pictures that are made up of pixels. It can do everything from simple edits like cropping and adjusting the brightness to more complicated edits like clone stamping/healing and image liquify tools.
The brush-based tools in GIMP let you design and make your own brushes with unique settings. This lets you make digital copies of a wide range of physical media. Here is my list of the best GIMP brushes if you don’t want to make your own.
GIMP also has full support for color-managed workflows, but only if you use an RGB color space. This is great for people who are very detail-oriented. Without a special plugin, GIMP can’t open or process CMYK images correctly.