On 13-04-24 02:13 PM, marciomendonsa wrote:

I read The "Beginig Gimp - From Novice to professional" and would like to learn more about Gimp! After that, which is the best Gimp book?

"Best" is one of those hard to define things. What is best for one person may not suit another. There are many books available about GIMP. It would help us help you if you would provide some information as to your interests and what types of things you plan on doing with GIMP.

Cheers!

Kevin.

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On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 20:13 +0200, marciomendonsa wrote:

Hello Folks!!

I read The "Beginig Gimp - From Novice to professional" and would like to learn more about Gimp! After that, which is the best Gimp book?

Best is to use GIMP yourself for a while, to look on the Web, at the GIMP plugin registry, at examples (e.g. deviantart.com has a lot of user-submitted work done with GIMP)...

It all depends on what you're doing.

I especially like The Artist's Guide to GIMP for a tutorial-based approach. I was recently sent a copy of "The Book of GIMP: A complete guide to nearly everything" which is much fatter and somewhat more up to date than Beginning GIMP, but it might be too close to what you already have.

There's probably also a "national bestseller" book of the movie "Pulp Fiction" which describes a different, but not unrelated, GIMP :-)

Liam

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On 04/24/2013 03:33 PM, Liam R E Quin wrote:

On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 20:13 +0200, marciomendonsa wrote:

Hello Folks!!

I read The "Beginig Gimp - From Novice to professional" and would like to learn more about Gimp! After that, which is the best Gimp book?

Best is to use GIMP yourself for a while, to look on the Web, at the GIMP plugin registry, at examples (e.g. deviantart.com has a lot of user-submitted work done with GIMP)...

It all depends on what you're doing.

I especially like The Artist's Guide to GIMP for a tutorial-based approach. I was recently sent a copy of "The Book of GIMP: A complete guide to nearly everything" which is much fatter and somewhat more up to date than Beginning GIMP, but it might be too close to what you already have.

There's probably also a "national bestseller" book of the movie "Pulp Fiction" which describes a different, but not unrelated, GIMP :-)

Once Upon A Time the answer to that was too easy: Grokking The Gimp was "it". But now, dang it, there's too much out there to pick a "best."

A major resource to look at is GIMP Magazine. Three issues are out so far, all available for download in PDF format:

http://gimpmagazine.org/

It's kind of amazing how the community and its literature is growing!

:o)

Steve