Photo montage with Gimp

Without the need to draw, this free software can be made a tool for addicting the graphics of a site or application. GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation) is a complete alternative to Photoshop's raster graphics editor, albeit more laborious. A few examples of its capabilities in these textbooks...

	How to turn a photo into a picture The new filter in Gimp 2.10 simplifies the operation .
	Replace the sky in the photo How to make the sky bluer, or darker in the image...
	How to make an image blurry. This effect is often used for a banner on the site.
	How to insert an image into a photo. Simple principles for integrating one picture into another.
	Merge images with blending effect. Use a mask to combine two frames.
	Transparent blurred outline and inlay. A transparent blurred path allows you to merge one or more images into one.
	Delete the object in the photo. Photoshop is not needed to remove an object from a photo and automatically restore the background.
	Create a logo as text and image. Automatic creation using alpha filters with logo... You can also use the Toolbox logo for a logo with a transparent background.
	Detonation textbook. Learn to retrieve an object in one image to use in another.
	Clear image background. In some cases, making the filling transparent is easier than cutting out an object.
	The texture of the figure with the image. In the color form, place the image, and to do this, you need to start by inverting the opaque and transparent parts of the original image.

To use GIMP, you must first know:

Role of team icons.
Gradients and airbrush.
Image size and copy/paste.
Selection. Moves the selection .
Mitigation, transparency.
Layers and masks (whole chapter 8).
Deletion path.

The software tutorial will be enough to find out all this. To go further and implement this knowledge to achieve visual and photo editing effects, you will have to use additional tutorials made by users, as indicated above...