image editor

Good graphics spice up any Web site. GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as:
  • Cropping and resizng
  • Optimizing file size
  • Slicing up a large image into a set of smaller ones
  • Visually designing your website then slicing the components.

Look at the images on any web page, they were either created by an image editing program or the photos were touched up or cropped by an image editing program.

GIMP is a sophisticated image editing program and you will want to spend some time working through the tutorials on GIMP's website.


The steps:

  1. Obtain a website template
  2. Obtain images
  3. Write the Content
  4. Use a good Editor
  5. Editing images
  6. Publish and test

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