Transparencies may not seem like much fun until you discover the exciting visual affects you can create using them. Grab a copy of the free GIMP image-editing program and you can learn to turn blue ...

Whenever you open the GIMP app, it will open without the canvas. The canvas is a visible area of the image, and by default, the canvas corresponds with the size of the layers; you can enter text or ...

Sometime the contrast range of a scene is too high to record naturally on film or CCD. Here's a tip by Michael Bates that uses Gimp to blend two different exposures together.