In 2D Design you have to understand the differences between raster and vector graphics.

A raster is an image made out of pixels which are tiny squares of color information. A photograph is a typical raster graphic.

A vector graphic is an image uses math to draw shapes using lines and curves. A commmon vector graphic is a logo or a fonts.
Raster/Pixel

As a 2d Design raster design tool I normally used photoshop but I do not want to pay monthly for it so I use this opportunity to try out two alternative programs Gimp and Pixelmator.

I followd a lecture about gimp and Inkscape from our instructor Ferdi but I additionally looked at some videos on skillshareand at also looked at the tutorials you find when you klick on help.

I needed to look at the videos step by step to really understand the different tools.

The first thing I did was to adjust the windows. I think that was on reason why I did photoshop and not gimp in the beginning.

After that I tried to resize an image an I had to google because its a little different then in photoshop.

Als I tried to open an portrait and resize it and then I tried to get rid of the background. But I found the tools not very intuitive and switched to Pixelmator for that task.