Photo Editing Basics with GIMP

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.

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.

After watching Photo Editing Basics with GIMP consider the question below. Then “submit” your response.

  1. Question

    1. Choose an image that you are including or would like to include in a multimodal project. In what ways, if any, could cropping the image and/or adjusting its contrast help the image better function within that project? Describe any adjustments you would make to the image and explain why you believe they would benefit the photo.