Professional Documents
Culture Documents
1. Click on file menu select new option, change properties as template=90x55 business
card, width=9 inches, height=6, resolution(x,y)=300,colorspace=rgb, fill with=white,
select ‘ok’.
2. Click on ‘view menu’, select rulers & adjust the part on ruler bar (grids on scalar bar).
3. Click ctrl+o to open a new file and browse for the image file on your computer that
contains your image. Press open to display the image inside of gimp. Click and drag the
image to your text newspaper add file. Position the image in such a way that it covers the
entire background of the newspaper adds.
4. Click ctrl+o to open a new file and browse for the image file on your computer that
contains your image. Press open to display the image inside of gimp. Click and drag the
image to your news paper add page file. By using the scissor/freeselect tool to cut the
image and drag the image to your newspaper add file. Repeat this step for other images
that you want to put in your newspaper add file.
5. Click the type tool on your gimp toolbar. Click inside of the open document to type
company name and related offer title on top side of the add. Right click the text layer in
which company name related offer details are specified and select the path from text
option. Goto edit menu and select stroke path to give strokes.
6. Click the type tool on your gimp toolbar. Click inside of the open document to type offer
details, contact details etc on the bottom side of the newspaper add.
7. For every image and text create a new layer (shift+ctrl+n) and repeat the above step.
8. Merge all the layers by holding shift+ctrl. Finally click ctrl+ s and save the gimp file
(saves as a xcf document). Navigate to the file menu and select export to save the card in
other formats such as jpeg,jpg,png.
Program 2: Improve the quality of image
1. Click ctrl+o to open a new file and browse for the image file on your computer that
contains your company logo/image. Press open to display the image inside of gimp.
2. Click ctrl+o to open a new file and browse for the image file on your computer that
contains your company logo/image. Press open to display the image inside of gimp.
3. Click on image menu and then select the option scale image, set the width and height
dimensions into pixels under image size in order to enhance the image size specify the
enhance value of the image and be sure that the interpolation option under qulity should
becubic and then click scale.
4. Repeat the above steps to reduce the size of the image.
5. For every image and text create a new layer (shift+ctrl+n) and repeat the above step.
6. Merge all the layers by holding shift+ctrl. Finally click ctrl+ s and save the gimp file
(saves as a xcf document). Navigate to the file menu and select export to save the card in
other formats such as jpeg,jpg,png.
Program 3: Create an impressive background
1. Click ctrl+o to open a new file and browse for the image file on your computer that
contains your company image. Press open to display the image inside of gimp.
2. Click ctrl+o to open a new file and browse for the image file on your computer that
contains your image. Press open to display the image inside of gimp. Click and drag the
image to your background change file. Adjust the image size such that it covers the entire
background of the file
3. By using magnetic lasso tool select the image that you want to divide from the original
image. Now follow the step 2 to open another image land place the first image over the
second image in order to change the back ground of the image.
4. Select the second image and make it blur by using the option blur, blur more from the
filter menu.
5. For every image and text create a new layer (shift+ctrl+n) and repeat the above step.
6. Merge all the layers by holding shift+ctrl. Finally click ctrl+ s and save the gimp file
(saves as a xcf document). Navigate to the file menu and select export to save the card in
other formats such as jpeg,jpg,png.
Program 4: color photo to black & white conversion
1. Click ctrl+o to open a new file and browse for the image file on your computer that
contains your company image. Press open to display the image inside of gimp.
2. Click ctrl+o to open a new file and browse for the image file on your computer that
contains your image. Press open to display the image inside of gimp.
3. Select the image and then click on colors menu, select desaturate option and then select
desaturate or color to gray.
4. For every image and text create a new layer (shift+ctrl+n) and repeat the above step.
5. Merge all the layers by holding shift+ctrl. Finally click ctrl+ s and save the gimp file
(saves as a xcf document). Navigate to the file menu and select export to save the card in
other formats such as jpeg,jpg,png.
Program 5: Applying Shadow & Highlight effects in images
1. Click ctrl+o to open a new file and browse for the image file on your computer that
contains your company image. Press open to display the image inside of gimp.
2. Click ctrl+o to open a new file and browse for the image file on your computer that
contains your image. Press open to display the image inside of gimp.
3. Select the image and then click on filters menu, select lights and shadow option and then
select drop shadow, increase the grow radius. To apply highlight effects click on filters
menu, select lights and shadow option and then select supernova/lensfare/ lighting
effects.
4. For every image and text create a new layer (shift+ctrl+n) and repeat the above step.
5. Merge all the layers by holding shift+ctrl. Finally click ctrl+ s and save the gimp file
(saves as a xcf document). Navigate to the file menu and select export to save the card in
other formats such as jpeg,jpg,png.
Program 6: Join one or more audio files together
1. Choose First File Open the first of the audio files you would like to join together.
2. Insert Click on the Edit tab and select the Insert File -> At the end' option.
3. Choose Second Fie From the browse dialog that appears after completing Step 2, select
the file you wish to join to the first file.
4. Test Your Work. Test the results of your work by clicking the Play button. If you need to
make changes then undo your work and return to the first step.
5. Save as a New File. once you are happy with the result. Save the changes to a new file.
To do this use the 'File-> Save File As' menu item.
Program 7: Split a file into 2 or more other files
1. Edit Effects, To edit the video effects applied to a clip, open the Video Effects dialog by
selecting the clip and doing one of the following:
2. Select Video Effects -> Current Effect Properties from the main menu.
3. Click the Video Effects button in the tool bar.
4. If the clip is in a bin, you can also right-click on the clip and select Video Effects. If the
clip is on a sequence, click the button with the 'FX' icon on the bottom left of the clip.
5. Add New Effect, To add a new effect to a clip, do one of the following:
6. Select the clip and select one of the effects in the Video Effects menu.
7. Select the clip and click the right side of the Video Effects button in the tool bar and
select one of the effects.
8. Open Effects window using one of the methods above, click the Add Effect button in the
toolbar of the Effects window and select the desired effect.
9. Save the file