There's not really much anyone can tell you if you don't have at least a
little specific info here. Actually, I think Gimp has a tutorial
somewhere,
and am reasonably sure that SOMEBODY else has probably posted
one at some time. Gimp also has a do***ent that you can download,
it's in PDF format and my copy is over 600 pages I think, but it has a
simple name like "en.pdf" making it difficult to tell what it is
sometimes.
It's an entire Manual, with all kinds of info from the simplest of basics
to using (and writing) your own plugins if you are into that kind of
stuff.
The best thing you can do besides a tutorial or reading their docs is to
just plain play with it for a while. I still do all the time, and along
with
the docs I find so much cool stuff that would take forever to discover
otherwise. Open up Gimp and just create a New File from the menu.
Give it a size (most people use pixels for some very good reasons),
and in your case with a poster you can use a very nice size, even if it
is just to fit on a piece of 8.5X11 paper. If you don't have a preference
for a particular type of image file format, you can use Gimp's and have
different layers and all kinds of neat things that none of the standard
image formats have. Give it a background color for starters, or even
better make a whole layer for the background. You can turn it on or
off to get better detail in the picture, or even make multiple background
layers if you want. Just play, and get the do***entation if you can. It
should be easily obtainable at Gimp's site for whatever platform you run.
If you mess up, use Gimp's undo, or just abandon the file and start over.
If you get something you want to keep, save and name it. You'll get a
whole lot better over time as you use it, and remember when you are
making your own images, you can't really mess them up too bad since
you started them to begin with!
That's about the best I can do for now!
"Ankita" <ankita.sayal@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:20bf72f0-b7b8-4f46-a9a0-57140b133b53@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi All,
> I need to get some posters up for a community initiative at work, I
> need to get them done ASAP
> Can someone please volunteer to help me get started with it.
> I want to learn, so the next time I can do it myself
> Any help will be appreciated.
> Thanks.
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