Paths, Selections, and Channels in GIMP

Paths, Selections, and Channels in GIMP

by adlabs6
March 14, 2007

GIMP is a free graphics package that has been avaliable for several years. My first experience with GIMP came a good while ago, and it was not a pleasant experience. Frequent crashes made my working on a project almost impossible to manage.

About two months ago I started wondering what ever became of the GIMP project, and decided I'd give it another try with it's most current stable release. I can happily report that release 2.2.13 has been wonderfully stable on my WinXP machine. Shortly after I decided that I would write a few tutorials on using the GIMP for skinning or profile creation, focusing on the parts of the application that would be most useful for artists new to the software.

In this article I'll look at the application of paths, selection tools, and channels in creating selections.