Group: Digital Graphics Lab - Learning Path
Members: 901
Started: June 9, 2009
Category:
: digital image, gimp, graphics
Access: Public/Open

Description

Welcome to the Digital Graphics Lab, where you will create cool art-quality images from your own photographs - no prior experience required!

To get started, JOIN THIS GROUP. Then click on the Activities tab. Next complete each of the Activities. And finally compete in the Challenge Activity

Click the Details tab for more information. Once you are done with this learning path, you might like: Animation Exploration, Mix it, Mash it, Make Your Own Music, and Make Exceptional Videos.

Learning Path and Challenge Activity Provided By

Generous support for the "Digital Graphics Lab" learning path comes from our good friends at Giant Campus!

Additional Challenge Activity Provided By


A special thanks to our friends at Vertigo for helping us to create an additional graphics challenge activity!

Kinda need some help here

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July 24, 2009 at 05:44 am - by lavaczech (3 Posts)
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Okay so I'm new here and I was just about to start on the first activity to complete and I was downloading the GIMP thing but Microsoft won't open it. I've tried everything but it just won't open at all and I don't know what to do. Any tips?
July 24, 2009 at 12:36 pm - by lavaczech (3 Posts)
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Yeah I did finish them and they were really good! I learned a bunch of new stuff lol I'm glad that I did it though it took me a couple of hours cause I'm kinda slow when I'm learning things
July 24, 2009 at 10:41 am - by RockyMtnBrain (2 Posts)
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Glad I could help!  The graphics lab learning path is great, some of the users are creating some really cool stuff.  Work your way through the activities, and when you finish, be sure to look at the challenge actvities.  There are some nice prizes you can win!
July 24, 2009 at 09:21 am - by lavaczech (3 Posts)
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Thank you so much ^.^ I really enjoy messing with photos so I thought I might learn some things if I did the tutorial so I'm going to do it now, you were a real help I appreciate it.
July 24, 2009 at 08:10 am - by RockyMtnBrain (2 Posts)
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GIMP is a very large program, so the download is a zip archive file, which is compressed so that your download finishes more quickly.  Once you download the zip archive, you have to unpack it to get the actual GIMP executable that will run.

When you go to the first FreshBrain activity, you click on a link and visit the Giant Campus page. There you click on a link to download GIMP.  Windows may pop up a dialog asking if you want to open the file or save it.  Select Save, and save the zip file on your system (try saving it to your Desktop so it is easy to find).

Now go find the downloaded file, it'll look like a folder with a zipper on it.  Click the right-mouse button on it and select Extract All...  This will take you to a Wizard for extracting the files that are inside the zip archive.  (double-clicking on the zip file probably does the same thing as right-mouse -> Extract All).  Go through the Wizard to Extract the files.  You'll end up with a folder called Gimp_software_installer (if you saved the zip archive on your desktop, the extracted folder will be there as well).

Now you open the Gimp_software_installer folder, and there will be a file called gimp-2.4.5-i686-setup.exe in it.  That is the GIMP installer; double click on that file and follow the instructions to install GIMP.  Once you have installed GIMP, you can run it (probably from the Start menu) and start on the activity.