My Need To Master The Use Of A New Graphics Editing Program

My use of the combination of Open Office Draw and MS Paint has reached a dead end.
These tools are good for quick and dirty manipulation of graphics but they fall short when more advanced image manipulation is needed.

Since I have given up at my attempts to learn how to draw at the expert level of a editorial cartoonist I choose to use images to editorialize.

When I learn GIMP I will be able to make the satellite entities that are orbiting the central gravitational sphere look more polished. The curve of the word "Progressive" would be more expertly fused to the "Black Power" button	This is a depiction of how things were prior to Obama coming on the scene.   "State Of The Black Union" Meetings NAACP Conventions praising or attacking the President depending on his party National Urban League - "State Of Black America" Reports Protests over standardized tests Anti-War Protests
GIMP allows me to crop the Obama logo as a circle.  Most other tools only allow for rectangular crops.  Thus you see the white edges around the Obama logo. I would have also put some distance between the two logos and made an actual crescent moon effect out of the "Black Power" logo	The Present State Of Affairs in the Black Racial Services Machine Having failed to build up sufficient institutional integrity as they focused on personalities - when a STRONGER PERSONALITY came along - the minimal infrastructural protections which protected the BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS NUCLEUS from the AMERICAN POLITICAL DOMAIN were shattered. When noted Progressives dared to appraise Obama with traditional progressive measures OR dared to continue "Speaking Truth To Power" they were attacked in a manner reserved for Black Conservatives.  They have no one to blame but themselves because prior to Obama they also enforced the "Ideological Unity Enforcement" strategy which is now biting them.
With GIMP - I would have shown the "Black Power" icon as deflated or with a jagged edge as having been severely damaged.	When The Obama Presidency Is Concluded - The Damage Done To The Black Community Institutions BY BLACK PROGRESSIVE-FUNDAMENTALIST Enforcers Will Be Fully Realized They chose SILENCE & SUPPORT Over Continued Promotion Of Their Permanent Interests - Thus Proving That THEY ARE NOT PERMANENT But Ideological And Political The Next Adversarial President That Comes Along Only Needs To Point To This Time As A Means Of Showing That The Attacks On Him Are "AstroTurfed" The Next Favorable President Who Registers The Same Unfavorable Vital Statistics Within The Black Community Yet Receives Criticism Need Only Bring Obama Out Of Retirement In Order To Have Him Redirect The Angst Against The Enemy As Black People Have Shown That "Pacification" And A "Struggle Against" A Threat Is More Important Than The Actual Attainment Of A Certain Desired End After having achieved the proverbial "Mountain Top" the conscious among the Black Progressive-Fundamentalists will realize that while they indeed have the power to LEAD BLACK PEOPLE ON by dangling their ENEMY in front of them - there is something needed beyond "IDEOLOGICAL UNITY ENFORCEMENT" It was not supposed to be like this during the "Mission Accomplished" Era.    Cities In Fiscal Duress Schools Still Not Preparing Our Young People To The Professional Service Agents That Our Communities Need To Live At A High Standard Abundance Of POTENTIAL Black Labor Yet The Failure To Develop Employment Venues To Allow People To Trade Their Skills For Salary.  The Products Produced Addressing Needs And The Revenues Keeping The Entire System Going

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GIMP is complex but powerful.
I will need to spend more time reading the book that I purchased and the video tutorials on the Internet for me to understand how it works.

Years ago before Microsoft PowerPoint was on the scene as the king of the presentation graphics tools - Aldus Persuasion proved to be a radical new way of thinking for me - as I recall.