Open your picture, you can use whatever format your picture is in e.g.jpg. See my article on OERs for more information on open resources.ġ. A big difference is that Photoshop is proprietary and can cost quite a lot to buy, while GIMP is free. If you don’t know about GIMP, this GNU Image Manipulation Program is open source, free to use and is incredibly similar to Photoshop. – Help, GIMP isn’t working! Here’s what to do This means you can extract part of an image and paste it into another image, or you can save it with a transparent background, or you can combine it with other images in a collage – you can do lots of things, just let your imagination take over. Cutting out an image, or ‘rendering’ an image, is one of the most useful things you can learn to do.
Here is how to cut out an image using GIMP.