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I recently ran across a how-to on producing a Tilt-shift camera lens effect in Photoshop. While reading it, I decided to redo the tutorial for those people who use, or want to use GIMP.
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So far, I’ve put together two tutorials based on the most common tasks that I perform using GIMP. Now it’s your turn. I want to make more GIMP tutorials, but I’d like to make them for what you, the reader, are interested in learning. I’d also like to know what you think of the first two tutorials. Would you like to see more screenshots? Videos? Explanations? Express your thoughts in the comments below.

In the last tutorial, I covered the basics of cropping an image for the web. This tutorial assumes that you know what was covered in the previous one.

When preparing a picture for the web, often you don’t want to include the background. In the last tutorial, the background of my desk was quite obvious. Lets use the path tool to remove it.
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After talking to some people, I’ve decided to write up some tutorials for using GIMP. At work, I use Ubuntu, so Photoshop isn’t really an option, but I need a way to prepare photos of products for our website. For many products, I not only crop down the photo to show just the product, but I also remove the background from around the product using the path tool. This first post will just focus on cropping down an image and preparing it for a website.

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