Gimp is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image retouching and editing, free- form drawing, resizing, cropping, photo-montages, converting between different image formats, and more specialised tasks. GIMP has began in 1995 as the school project of two university students; now GIMP is a full- fledged applications available on all distributions of many devices. It is released anybody, who can look atits contents and its source code and can add features or fix problems.
GIMP is expandable and extensible; It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions in order to improve its functionality. This is implemented through the use of the scripting interface.

Designer can use GIMP in different area such as typography design, poster design, even photo editing.GIMP is very similar to photoshop but is also easier to use.

EXPERIENCE WITH GIMP

I using the grid to create some of poster. First, i change the scale of the image, and change the colour as well as the filter. Second poster i have overlap multiple time of different scale of the image. It was really interesting because you can see different outcome from the scale and the position. The third poster which is quite strange but i like how is it overlap on different layer. The fourth one i really like it because of the shape i made it are fitted into the image which allows the scale look more interesting.

i have inspired by Luna Maurer's workshop which she and her partner has create a conditional design blog. I really enjoyed using limited materials such as colour, shape, pattern to create new pieces that you never know what will be look like.

I have using gimp to create several design which is quite hard at the beginning. I have learned some basic tools and create different picture. The image i choose which is the universe. I using scale, overlap and different effect to create the new pieces. But its quite hard to make it like a pattern. So i try different kinds of method to experiment the gimp software.