Photo Editing Basics with GIMP

Visuals can do a lot to enhance presentations, papers, and other documents you create, but like any other component of a project, they’ll often need to be edited before they’re suitable to include. This tutorial covers the basics of visual rhetoric and demonstrates several helpful techniques for transforming your photos using GIMP, a free but powerful piece of photo editing software.

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Credits: Image 1: Used by permission of Nick DiBella. Video 1: © 2014 Macmillan, Video by Sherry Mooney. Images 2–11 and 13–16: © 2014 Macmillan, Photos by Regina Tavani. Image 12: Used by permission of Karen Lynn Steele.

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