Free Transform Gimp, So Easy & Good Choice for You

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Free Transform Gimp, So Easy & Good Choice for You

This try to Free Transform in GIMP, Let’s learn how to do it in GIMP. Without knowing distort and free transform you can’t transform photos for your different purposes like making book cover, logo or to transform scanned images.

One of the best free software program for an alternative to free photo editing software like feature packed Photoshop is the GNU Image Manipulation Program called GIMP.

GIMP is of course a free professional photo editing software. It has several features similar to Photoshop but difficult to use if you were using Photoshop earlier.

Steps to Distort and Free Transform in GIMP

Use the Perspective Tool as an alternative to Photoshop Free Transform in GIMP.

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Steps:

Enable the Perspective Tool. You can enable the Perspective Tool in two different ways.

From the GIMP Tools Menu > Transform Tools > Perspective or enable Windows Menu Tool Box. You can use Ctrl+B shortcut key for this.

perspective tool in GIMP

Now to see the below example to get to know how to use Free Transform in GIMP using Perspective Tool.

I am using two images for this purpose. First one a book without title. See the sample image 1 below. A book image with blank cover.

free transform in GIMP example pic
Sample Image 1 : Size 700 x 520

Now I want to add title on the above image. I can use the text editing feature in GIMP to do this. But it’s time taking. So as a solution and to our tutorial purpose I made another Image with the text or title of the book, keeping the background transparent. See the sample image 2 below.

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transparent background in GIMP
Sample Image 2 : Size 500 x 550

Now see how I merge the title to the book cover. I can size the second image a little easier to fit the first image or background. See how?

Keep the two files opened. Go to the second image. Go to Select Menu > All. Then press Ctrl+C to copy it.

Now go to the first file and press Ctrl+V to paste.

It will look like as below.

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create layer and add image on GIMP
Sample Image 3

Don’t forget to enable the Layers Window and do as per the screenshot above to add image to the new layer.

Now final stage. Click the Perspective tool and drag the corners as per the screenshot below to Free Transform the image.

drag the corner to book corner
Sample Image 4

Now see the final output.

Distort and Free Transform in GIMP

You have just learned how to Free Transform in GIMP as well as virtually make a book cover image on GIMP with custom title.

Other tools under the menu Tools > Transform Tools are equally important to distort, skew, like other image editing features. If you find this tutorial worth to share, click the below sharing options.