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04-16-2012, 12:31 PM

#61

craftybear

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thanks this is great

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Originally Posted by miholmes

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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04-17-2012, 05:51 PM

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quilter711

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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!

04-17-2012, 06:01 PM

#63

cdmmiracles

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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.

05-08-2012, 02:15 PM

#64

SugarGrammy

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

05-08-2012, 03:02 PM

#65

grammy of 6

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

05-09-2012, 03:26 AM

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tupoms

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Thanks so much for the tutorial.

05-09-2012, 03:34 AM

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homecaregiver

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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

05-10-2012, 11:59 PM

#68

jlm5419

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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!