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Ever want to make your Avatar picture a little festive by adding a hat? Adding hats to images on popular Web 2.0 sites like Twitter is a fun way to celebrate the seasons and holidays. A Santa Hat for Christmas, a Leprechaun's hat for St. Patrick's D...

It is real easy to combine pictures using GIMP. It can be a way to show more pictures without having to load more image files, and you can even save space by resizing the combined image after you finish. After learning the basics for combining two...

One of the hardest things to do with any photo editing tool seems to be separating objects within a picture from the image's background. At least from the solutions I've seen for the popular photo editing programs, it looks difficult. I'm not saying...

GIMP is one of the easiest ways I've found to resize images and pictures, especially when I need them to fit into predefined spaces on website pages. I can actually resize the picture or get the proper dimensions from GIMP's Scale Image Tool to resi...

Adding elements to an image is easy using GIMP, but sometimes you can come across problems simply because a little bit of the background from one image doesn't match the image it is being added to. The Fuzzy Select Tool can be used with the Color Pi...

You can add borders to existing images using GIMP, but you can also make up borders ahead of time. Think of them like picture frames that you can add your graphics to later. Pre-made borders can be something you use to make sure images maintain a si...

Here's an easy way to add a little pizazz to just about any image using The GIMP, that free image manipulation program that can help just about anyone look like a professional graphical artist. With this little trick, you can quickly give your image...

If you are new to GIMP, and wondering what the Fuzzy Select Tool is, it is like the Magic Wand in Photoshop. With it, you can select similar areas of a layer or image base on color. It is best suited for solid color areas, depending on the threshold...

A powerful image editing tool, The GIMP has been developed to primarily be used on UNIX platforms, but it also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X. Use it as a simple paint program, for doing expert quality photo retouching, online batch processing, for...

GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program. appears to be getting more popular every day, especially if you take a look at that popular micro-blogging site known as Twitter! Despite criticisms that it can't be considered a tool for the serious profess...