How to Edit Your Photos With GIMP

This is a tutorial for editing your photos in a program called GIMP. First you need to have the program, if you don't you can get it here: http://www.gimp.org/

When you have GIMP installed, open it up and click File>Open and then go to where you have your pictures and click it then click Open.

NOTE: If you don't want your image cropped then skip this step.
Click on the "Toolbox - Tool Options" window and click the Rectangle Select, Then Select the part of your photo you want cropped, then click on Image>Crop to Selection and it will remove the part that is not selected.

When you take your photos, sometimes it is too dark, this is where the Brightness-Contrast comes in.
Click on Colors>Brightness-Contrast. The brightness slider makes it Brighter/Darker and the Contrast slider makes the colors show more if you move it towards the direction of the brightness slider.

When you are done editing your image, click on File>Export and then click on the file you edited, then click Export,
NOTE: You don't save your file because if you do it will say that you can only use "save" for saving it in a GIMP File Format.

This is the difference between when i started doing it and when i finished.
There is a large difference.