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 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

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Am 25.11.2013 17:33, schrieb Beau & Belle Invitations:

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

You can definitively do all these things with gimp Gunold Brunbauer
www.bilderstroeme.de

Hi, Lauren
You should be aware that when you start getting to know GIMP you will soon be doing far more than what you have listed here, because it is fun and GIMP will arouse and feed your creative energies. Only the periodic frustrations (GIMP, after all, runs on a computer and computers are just full of "malicious obedience") will save you from becoming a hopelessly addicted wirehead. So proceed with caution, and have fun! grins
Pete

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Gunold Brunbauer

wrote:

Am 25.11.2013 17:33, schrieb Beau & Belle Invitations:

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

You can definitively do all these things with gimp

Gunold Brunbauer
www.bilderstroeme.de

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On 11/25/2013 05:33 PM, Beau & Belle Invitations 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!

Changing the color in these images is normally very easy. Check the "alpha-lock" and paint the whole image, the transparency of the pixels will be kept.