I love learning about new tools to make social media marketing more creative and effective, so I’ve decided to share some of my favourite tools with you at the start of each week. This week’s cool tool recommendation is GIMP – a free and open source image editor for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
GIMP (an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program) has many uses from a simple paint program and a quality photo retouching tool to an image format converter and an online batch processing system. Here’s an example from one of GIMP’s step-by-step tutorials showing how to modify the filesize of an image when exporting it to a format like JPEG.
This is a basic feature, but there are many more advanced features to explore. It’s a useful alternative to Photoshop for those who don’t have access to it. Check it out at www.gimp.org and see for yourself.
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