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Akkana Peck
software engineer/writer, *

Website | @akkakk

Akkana Peck is a freelance software developer and the author of “Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional.” She has been working with open source software for some 20 years, much of that as a Mozilla developer, and has contributed to GIMP, Mozilla and an assortment of other projects. Akkana is a longtime member of the GIMP community and enjoys giving GIMP courses and presentations, as well as filling up her hard drive with digital images. She lives in San Jose, California, with her husband and a motley assortment of old computers.

Sessions

8:30am Monday, 07/21/2008

GIMP Demystified

Fundamentals, Tutorial
Location: Portland 255

Akkana Peck (*)

Average rating:

(4.00, 12 ratings)

Akkana Peck, author of "Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional," will demonstrate how to use GIMP to improve your photographs or create digital art. You'll learn how different image formats compare, basic photo manipulation skills (crop, rescale, and brightness correction), several different selection techniques for cutting objects out of photos, and an assortment of other useful tricks. Read more.