Getting images into Gimp.?

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About 4 years ago I finally got into digital photography, and was able to use Photoshop in the local Camera Club.  However, since then I have moved to another town where there is no camera club, but have downloaded Gimp instead.  Unfortunately, the last 4 years have been a bit of a nightmare so that I have spent more time in hospital than I have outside and have had 7 operations.  The outcome is that when I started reading a book on Gimp that I bought, it started off by saying they assumed that the user knew how to import images to Gimp from a file.  But it's been so long that I can't remember how to do that.  If it's any help, my camera is a Nikon D5100 so that I can download images directly from the camera, or I could use HP Photosmart, but for the life of me I can't remember how to get an image into Gimp (or Photoshop for that matter).  Can anybody help ?

B K · Accepted Answer

Click File > Open - navigate to the image file location. Select it. Click Open.

It's the same in GIMP and Photoshop.

Anonymous · Answer

Here you can find a free download of GIMP: http://bitly.com/1mF6aie 
 
 GIMP is a free program you can use for a bunch ot tasks like photo retouching, image authoring and image composition. In my opinion it is the best free photo editing software on the market. It's not as powerful as photoshop, but it's free and can be augmented with plugins and extensions. These features make it the most advanced free photo-retouching software. GIMP can be used as a simple paint program or a complex image-manipulation software (thanks also to to a very advanced scripting interface) 
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Getting images into Gimp.?

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