Free ebookGIMP for Beginners: Free Image Editing from Zero to Confident

Course Description

GIMP for Beginners: Free Image Editing from Zero to Confident is a practical ebook course in Design and Art that helps you learn image editing step by step using GIMP, a powerful free alternative for everyday creative work. If you want to clean up photos, create simple graphics, or prepare images for social media and websites, this course guides you from first launch to confident exporting with a repeatable workflow.

You will start by getting comfortable with the GIMP workspace, file handling, and a simple editing process you can reuse on any project. As you progress, you will gain speed and accuracy through better navigation and view control, using zoom, pan, guides, and precision tools to work cleanly without frustration. The course then builds core skills with essential tools for beginners, including moving elements, cropping for composition, transforming objects, and understanding brush basics for controlled edits.

To help you edit like a designer, you will learn how layers in GIMP support non-destructive image editing, letting you build, organize, and refine changes without damaging the original. You will also master selections for clean cutouts, choosing the right approach for different edges and backgrounds, then combine that skill with layer masks for controlled blending and seamless composites. These techniques are widely used in real-world image editing for product shots, thumbnails, portraits, and content creation.

Next, you will improve image quality with color and tone correction using levels, curves, white balance, and saturation, so your images look consistent and professional. You will also practice retouching with spot removal, clone and healing methods, and subtle enhancements that keep results natural. Finally, you will create text and simple graphics such as titles, shapes, and icons, and learn how to export assets correctly for common uses.

By the end, you will have a reliable GIMP workflow from raw image to finished export, giving you the confidence to tackle new edits independently. Start the course today and build strong, practical image editing skills with GIMP.