If CMYK is not critical
for your graphics needs, you will probably find GIMP to be just as powerful and flexible as
Photoshop in many ways.
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GIMP is a powerful tool for graphics manipulation.
See www.blackfiveservices.co.uk/separate.shtml for a CMYK plug-in for
GIMP. This plug-in provides only rudimentary support for CMYK, according to its
documentation. Even so, that may be enough for your needs.
One of the easiest ways to become familiar with GIMP is to crop, or trim, an image file already on
your computer. To crop a file, follow these steps:
1. Start GIMP and open an image file.
2. Right-click on the image. From the contextual menu that appears, select Tools???
Transform Tools???Crop and Resize. The crop cursor appears (two overlapping L shapes),
as does the Crop and Resize Information window.
3. Position the crop cursor at the upper-left corner of the area of the image that you want to
crop. Click and drag the cursor to the lower-right corner of the area to be cropped. A
selection rectangle appears around the selected area as you do so.
4. Release the mouse button. Four selection handles appear in the corners of the border
around the selected area. Click and drag the handles to resize the border.
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