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craftybear 04-16-2012 12:31 PM

thanks this is great


Originally Posted by miholmes (Post 3814497)
Good Afternoon,

I have used a free program called GIMP for many years to edit photos. It's a lot like Photoshop, however I recently discovered I could use it to design quilts, and also use the fabric swatches from the manufacturer's site to test my quilt layout.

I thought I would create a tutorial to help others who might be interested in doing this, but didn't want to spend the money on Quilt Design Software.

Anyway please feel free to try this out and see if my instruction make sense. :) And also let me know any changes, errors or instructions that might be unclear.

ENJOY!

Designing a Quilt with GIMP.pdf
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quilter711 04-17-2012 05:51 PM

I would like to upload into GIMP pics of fabric in my stash. Does anyone know if you can do this? Maybe just save your pic as a .jpg?

Thanks for any help you can give!

cdmmiracles 04-17-2012 06:01 PM

Awesome, thanks for doing this and sharing with us. I downloaded GIMP a while back but couldn't quite figure out what I was doing. I'll have to try this. :)

SugarGrammy 05-08-2012 02:15 PM

Thank you! Your instructions on the tutorial were quite clear. I'm going to download GIMP right now!

grammy of 6 05-08-2012 03:02 PM

Michael,
You are so generous with your time and talents. Thank you so very much!

tupoms 05-09-2012 03:26 AM

Thanks so much for the tutorial.

homecaregiver 05-09-2012 03:34 AM

this sounds great and I am going to download and play around with it too. Thanks very much for the tut which I have not viewed yet.

Pat

jlm5419 05-10-2012 11:59 PM

Excellent tutorial, Michael. I have been using Gimp for several years, including the Linux and Windows versions, for editing photos. It never occurred to me to use it for designing quilts. You have given me some excellent new ideas!:thumbup:

MRSRAB 05-19-2012 08:49 PM

Thanks - I will check it out! Thank you for taking the time to do this and sharing it as well.

rrhaigh 05-20-2012 05:28 AM

Wow, this is great info. I have been looking at the design software, but I will certainly give this a try. Thank you for the great tutorial!


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