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GIMP COMMUNITIES
The GIMP : Deviant Art - A community site for designers and graphic artists. There is a specific community for GIMPers here.
GIMPER - A GIMP community and forum.
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GIMP Dome - A forum for GIMP users.
GIMP Gallery Dot Net - This is meant as a powerful image gallery website for the gimp users community and for the open-source community too, but there's something more...You'll find useful informations, tutorials, two forums, js slideshow and more. This is a web-design experiment too, you see here a try to include some advanced js in a dynamic website, where the contents are posted by the users.
GIMP Guru : Flickr Forum - GIMP Guru has a GIMP forum on Flickr.
GIMP Stuff - A popular GIMP Community with Images, Fonts, Brushes, Patterns, Palettes, Gradients, Plugins, Scripts, Themes, Brainstorming, and more.
GIMP Talk - GimpTalk is a premier community of Gimp users. This community has very talented desginers, graphics artists and photographers, producing high quality graphics and helping the new users of gimp. We request and encourage all the users to particpate in the forums and post quality work in the form of tutorials, articles or artwork in Art Galleries.
GIMP Users - An online community for GIMP users.
GIMP User Group : GIMP Tutorials - I am having problems accessing the site, but there are links to it all over the net, so that is why I am still putting it here. If it is still down in a few weeks, then the link will coe down. The GIMP user group has tutorials and discussions about GIMP.
GameSpot Unions : GIMP Forum - Discuss GIMP topics on the GameSpot GIMP forum.
How to GIMP Forum - A very new forum that I hope you will give a chance.
Meet the GIMP! Forums - A GIMP! forum to discuss the Meet the GIMP! podcasts as well as just discuss and learn about GIMP.
Nabble : GIMP Forum - Ask and answer questions about GIMP or just discuss GIMP.
StumbleUpon GIMP - The key to Gimp further Success is for it to have a strong supporting and Resourceful Community, 2.4 is around the corner with enhanced UI to give it that extra boost of apeal to new users,the only thing truly lacking in Gimp is its Community and Tutorials... i'm not sure how many people around the world use Gimp but i'm Assuming a big decent amount is out there, if you have the ability to create something you think is cool in Gimp, then why not go ahead and Create a tutorial for it.
Tek-Tips : GIMP Forum - The Tek-Tips forum has a forum for GIMP users to ask and answer questions.
Tutorialized Forum : GIMP - Tutorialized has a forum section for GIMP questions.
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