Photo+Editing+and+Image+Mapping

**Gimp** (www.gimp.org),acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program, is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

Go to @http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/ for a long list of tutorials graded from beginner to expert


 * Image Mapping** is used to create hypertext links from different parts of one image. GIMP has an Image Map Plug-in, and you will find a tutorial on using the plug-in at the above site.

Another site for Gimp Tutorials is **Gimp Savvy** at gimp-savvy.com The link for the Image Mapping tutorial is at here