This tutorial aims to get you started with The GIMP (The GIMP is an image editor similar to Adobe Photoshop, but Open Source, so its completely FREE), this tutorial is a simple one, it tells you how to install the GIMP and then a basic eLearn on blurring the background leaving the foreground sharp.

Blur Background, Leave Foreground Sharp

This is the first GIMP tutorial from LearnHawk, I hope it is helpful to those very beginners, although it may not be as useful to advanced or semi-advanced users.

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Very Beginner – Haven’t installed The GIMP or ever done Image Editing

Beginner – I have the GIMP, but don’t know how to use it

Intermediate to Advanced – I can use The GIMP/Photoshop sufficiently