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LIST OF GIMP RESOURCES & SITES: Included on This Page are Links to GIMP Tutorial Sites, Guides, and Lessons

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. 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. GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. But basically the same code also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X.

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GIMP TUTORIALS

DeviantArt : The GIMP Tutorials - The DeviantArt.com users can sometimes put together some great tutorials - check out this collection of user-created GIMP tutorials.

GHUJ : GIMP Tutorials - A tutorial directory specializing in only GIMP tutorials.

Gimpology - Gimp·o·l·ogy — a website for GIMP tutorials.

GIMP Guru - GIMP Image Editing Tutorials for Photographers. These tutorials show step-by-step techniques for accomplishing a variety of photographic "digital darkroom" tasks using the GIMP image editor. Even if you use another image editing program such as Photoshop you will find that tutorials apply to that program with only slight modifications.

GIMP Talk Tutorials - Over 200 GIMP Tutorials and Tips.

GIMP-Tutorials - Biggest Collection of GIMP Tutorials and useful snippets.

GIMP Tutorials Dot Net - A great directory of GIMP Tutorials with GIMP tutorials in the following categories: GIMP Effects, Icons & Buttons, Photo Manipulation, Textures, Website Layouts, Painting, Text Effects, Video Tutorials, and more.

GIMP Tutorials for Comics - Like the name says, it's GIMP tutorials for comics. I'll teach you how to resize images, add text, work with layers and more!

GIMP Users Tutorials - GIMP Users is a GIMP Community that offers GIMP tutorials in the following categories including the basics of GIMP, buttons, icons, web graphics, photos / wallpapers, simple effects, special FX, techniques, text effects, and video tutorials too.

GIMP UI Brainstorm Tutorials - This is a visual brainstorm, the channel for everybody to contribute to the GIMP UI redesign process. It is moderated by the GIMP UI redesign team, consisting of professional interaction and usability specialists. We do not post mock-ups here ourselves, we ‘listen’ to what you show us and broaden our horizons.

GTuts : GIMP Tutorials - Gtuts.com is a website that provides tutorials for Gimp. GTuts aim to publish quality Gimp tutorials, by that we mean tutorials that are easy to read and understand, and hopefully will teach you some useful tricks and techniques. GTuts' goal is to build a great website with lots of resources for all you Gimp users, and they also hope that this website will help more people discover the amazing Gimp.

Empty Easel : GIMP Tutorials - Tips, Advice, and Tutorials on How to Use GIMP.

Help Developer : GIMP Tutorials - A blog full of tutorials for GIMP.

How to GIMP - Howtogimp is a new site dedicated to bringing you the best resources for The Gimp, the popular image editing program.

InPhotos : GIMP Tutorials - Learn about using GIMP with these tutorials.

Official GIMP Site's Tutorials - The official GIMP website offers GIMP tutorials for beginners, intermediate users, and expert GIMP users in such areas as photo editing, web graphics, and script authoring.

Pixel2Life : GIMP Tutorials - A tutorials directory with GIMP tutorials in the following subcategories : 3D Effects, Animation, Basics and Navigation, Brushes and Brushing, Buttons and Interfaces, Color Application, Drawing, Filter Effects, Icons and Emoticons, Installation and Compiling, Miscellaneous, Photo Editing and Manipulation, Sigs and Web Banners, Text Effects, Textures, Patterns and Tiles, and Website Layouts.

Revver : Video GIMP Tutorials - A video directory with a nice collection of GIMP tutorials (video tutorials) for you to watch and learn.

Simmers PaintShop : GIMP Tutorials - A very large collection of great GIMP tutorials in directory format.

SoftTutorials : GIMP Tutorials - A directory of software tutorials with a special GIPM tutorials category including GIMP tutorials to teach you about 3D Effects, Animation, Basics and Navigation, Brushes and Brushing, B Color Application, Drawing, Filter Effects,Icons and Emoticons, Installatio, Photo Editing, Texturing Patterns, Web Graphics, and more.

TigerT GIMP Tutorials - A GIMP user shares a few things with you from what he has learned about GIMP.

TipClique : GIMP Tutorials - TipClique has a nice selection of GIMP learning tutorials.

Truveo : GIMP Tutorials - Truveo is a video search engine and it found over 1000 GIMP video tutorials around the net.

Tutorialized : GIMP - Gimp is an open-source alternative to high priced, professional graphics editing programs such as Fireworks or Photoshop. Learn about GIMP and creating abstracts, nimation, automation, the basics of GIMP, brushes, buttons, color, digital Art, drawing, special effects, photo Effects, photo Retouch, text Effects, textures and patterns, web graphics, web layouts, and more.

Tutorial Blog : GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is a free piece of software available for Windows, Mac and Linux Operating systems for tasks such as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. If you don’t want to pay for Photoshop, it is a viable alternative. To help you get to grips with it, we have dugg out the best Tutorials for you.

Tutorials Expert : GIMP Tutorials - Another tutorials directory with a great selection of GIMP tutorials.

Wordpress : GIMP Tutorials - See what sort of tutorials Wordpress bloggers have been blogging about. Also check out this link.

YouTube : GIMP Tutorials - On YouTube, there are a ton of great video based GIMP tutorials so that you can learn by example.

Smaller GIMP Tutorial Collections

Abuzeedo : GIMP Tutorials - The wonderful Abuzeedo that I love has 2 GIMP tutorials, check them out. One is about how to create a Leopard's Aurora Borealis wallpaper in GIMP and the other one is how to make a GIMP Galaxy.

Ajit's Blog : GIMP Tutorials - A blogger who posts GIMP tutorials.

Best Within : GIMP Tutorials - This page has some tutorials, tips and tricks for the cool graphics program known as GIMP.

BrickFilms : GIMP Tutorials - There are a dozen or so GIMP tutorials here including: Installing the GIMP (Windows), Alpha Channel Tutorial 56K warning: 440K of images, GIMP Laser Beam Tutorial, GIMP-GAP Tutorials, GIMP-GAP Overview, Cropping Your Animation, Adjusting Color Levels/Brightness, Move Path - Sniper Scope 56K warning: 900K of images, Move Path - Muzzle Flash 56K warning: 450K of images, Layer Masks - Clockwipe Transition 56k warning 750k of images, Floating Objects, Muzzle Flash- with MSPaint and GIMP, and finally WIP:GIMP BlueBox Tutorial.

Bring Out the GIMP - In this, our first of several posts about this powerful Linux app, we'll give you a quick-and-dirty intro to GIMP's most basic features. Note that there are multiple ways to accomplish these basic tasks in GIMP, but these methods require the fewest steps. In later tutorials, we'll show you more advanced (and more efficient) image editing techniques.

Design Your Own Web : GIMP Tutorials - There is a list of over 10 GIMP video tutorials including Downloading & Setting up Gimp, How to use the GIMP Part 1 (the Gimp Interface, Dialogs), How to use the GIMP Part 2 (Working with Files), GIMP Selection Tools, GIMP Bezier Tool, GIMP Zoom, Move, Crop, GIMP Transform Tools, GIMP Text Tool, GIMP Fill & Gradient Tools, GIMP Drawing Tools, and finally Working with Layers in GIMP.

Farcy Design : GIMP Tutorials - A small selection of GIMP tutorials including how to draw a straight line, how to draw a circle, how to make an ugly circle, and a tutorial about the GIMP toolbox.

Fused Graphics : GIMP Tutorials - There are a few GIMP tutorials here including How to make a galaxy text effect .. How to make a reflection using a better technique .. How to make a vista button as seen on the vista log-on screen .. How to make a Glossy Website Logo using Gimp.

Getting Started with the GIMP (from 2002) - Getting Started with The GIMP: an informal tutorial. This document and the presentation that goes with it at CSLUG and Rock Eagle aim to introduce the user to the basics of the Gimp, and inspire the user to delve deeper into the Gimp's many capabilities.

Gimps Denmark : GIMP Tutorials - Gimp Tutorials for photo editing, retouching tutorials in this section of Gimps.de may help photographing woman to use the Photo Software Gimp in order to improve, retouch, fix or correct pictures, portraits and images of people, cats, dogs or horses.

GIMP Expert - There are eight totally free GIMP tutorials to get you started . These lessons are presented as narrated video tutorials which are fun and easy to follow with no reading required. All tutorials from GIMP Expert include: A detailed lesson plan (click on the PDF button to save as PDF and print), NSW Curriculum based learning outcomes, Skill development activities, The images used in each lesson, and Additional images for use on your own projects.

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 GUG contains tutorials for various versions of the GIMP.

Jason Bradley Online : GIMP Tutorials - Original articles by Jason Bradley, including Make a button with GIMP! .. Burn baby! Let's make some easy fire! .. Simple bullet hole .. More fire .. Water droplet .. Sharpen rounded edges .. Glass like effect .. Inset lines .. Dream effect .. Pixalate effect .. Light Blast .. Fake Scars .. Electric Effect .. Rusty objects .. Broken Egg Shell .. Firey Meteor .. Blending Background .. Reflections .. Fractal Tutorial .. Antique Paper .. Animated Flames .. Make use of LAB color mode in The Gimp, and finally Quick and dirty way of creating a sketch-like effect from a photo using The Gimp.

Jozak : GIMP Tutorials - A small selection of GIMP tutorials, including how to create a metal button, how to create a push button, creating a tab element, creating a navigational button, and how to create glassy buttons.

Nicubunu : GIMP Tutorials - A collection of Inkscape and GIMP tutorials.

Obscura : GIMP Tutorials - A nice selection of original GIMP tutorials including tutorials for creating a new image, a text string, add some color, prep work for the outline, making the outline, prep for making a publication, creating a publication, and more.

Rore : GIMP Tutorials - This is a collection of Blender and GIMP tutorials. There are only 2 GIMP tutorials here so far including a tutorial about creating fireworks and planets with GIMP.

Route Graphics : GIMP Tutorials - There are 6 original GIMP tutorials on this graphics blog.

Shadow Logic : GIMP Tutorials - More than a half dozen GIMP tutorials located on the Shadow Logic site.

ShowMedo : GIMP Tutorials By Example [Videos] - In these series I aim to show the tools GIMP has, and start from the beginning creating experiments which might lead to some cool 2D image effects.

Tech Faq - GIMP Tutorials - A page of GIMP tutorials including how to convert photoshop brushes to GIMP, converting photos and gold with GIMP, resizing photos, creating a userbar, making an empty egg shell, teeth whitening, text blending, using paths, bullet holes, and making abstract signatures.

TechnoMono : GIMP Tutorials - A great blog that has about 10 original GIMP tutorials listed.

UnReal Media : GIMP Tutorials - So far, there are only 2 GIMP tutorials here including a tutorial for a Cool Glow Effect and one for a Cool Sunburst Effect.

Using Multiple Exposures in Photography with GIMP - The following is a brief tutorial on how you can take and edit multiple distinct digital photographs taken from a single vantage point for creative photo-manipulated effects. This includes separate scanned film images, or separate images from a digital camera.

White Water Graphics : GIMP Tutorials - A graphics forum with 2 pages of GIMP tutorials.

GIMP ART GALLERIES

DeviantArt's TheGimp Gallery - Take a look at the DeviantArt showcase of their users' GIMP projects and artwork.

GIMP Talk Gallery - On GimpTalk's Art Community's Galleries, you can feel free to post your images, and comment on others' GIMP art work.

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 Dot Org Gallery - The official GIMP.org gallery of GIMP images.

GIMP Saavy Photo Archive - A Community-Indexed Photo Archive. The photo archive at Gimp-Savvy.com has more than 27,000 free photos and images, consisting of over 2.5 Gbytes of data. The goal is to make this archive a resource for collage and photo-montage using digital image editing techniques such as those described in Chapter 7 of Grokking the GIMP.

GIMP Stuff Images - A collection of user uploaded GIMP images.

Gimper Showcase - On Gimper's forum there is a forum for showcasing your GIMP images.

GIMP PATTERNS & TEXTURES

Bent Lilies : Patterns - Feel free to save any of these patterns! These images are in JPEG form, which means you'll have to convert them to .PAT files using GIMP.

Carol.GIMP Patterns - A lot of GIMP patterns for download.

Deviant Art : GIMP Brushes - Browse through DeviantArt.com's user-created GIMP brushes.

GIMP Stuff : Patterns - Find GIMP patterns for download.

GRSites : Textures and Patterns - Now with 5740 seamlessly tiling, attractive background textures for use in web pages, graphical software or on your desktop. Sorted by color and motif. Fully customizable!

Helens Images : GIMP Patterns - Free Patterns and Displacement Patterns for GIMP.

PDG Design : GIMP Patterns - Some great GIMP patterns for download.

Well.com : GIMP Patterns - There are a few GIMP pattern sets to download including human skin tones, grass patterns, etc.

GIMP COLOR PALETTES & SWATCHES & GRADIENTS

Carol.GIMP : Color Palettes - At the bottom of the page you will find a link to download the color palettes. This page is also very helpful for learning more about GIMP and color palettes.

Color Pickin' Chooser - Drag & drop import of color schemes..Easy export/backup and restore color groups. Share color groups with others, just drag & drop. Drag & drop ini files to suck colors from other program's preferences, even whole folders of files (non-ini's are ignored) Palette support (GIMP .gpl and JASC .pal)..Export colors as cpc color groups or color palettes. Drag and drop palette files to suck out all their colors. Retain original GIMP palette and color names, even comments. color pickin chooser doubles as a capable palette converter.

Colour Lovers : GIMP Color Palette Downloads - Download Colour Lovers' color palettes for GIMP.

GIMP Extras - On this page you can find a Pantone-like palette to download for free.

Import Kuler (ASE) Palettes - Import Kuler palettes into GIMP 2.6. You can check out Kuler here, it is an Adobe color community.

Latex Beamer Color Palette - A color palette containing colors of most of the classic Beamer themes (default, seahorse, beetle, etc.) and named them according to their use in the theme (e.g. default block header, beetle background, etc.). You can use the palette in Gimp, Inkscape and any application that supports the Gimp palette format (.gpl). The palette as well as a Beamer template will be included with the next version of Inkscape.

OpenSuse : Color Palettes - This is a colour palette for use in the GIMP, Krita, Inkscape.

Palette Grabber 0.4 Firefox Addon - A Firefox plugin that creates a color palette for Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, GIMP, Flash, Fireworks, Paint.NET, or OS X based on the current page.

TigerT : GIMP Color Palettes - Save these to your Gimp's Palette directory, ~/.gimp/palettes/ on Gimp 1.0.x, ~/.gimp-1.1/palettes on Gimp 1.1.x. Then refresh palettes or restart Gimp.

The Ultimate Web 2.0 Color Palette for the GIMP - Download a web 2.0 color scheme for GIMP.

Visibone : Web Safe Color Palettes - VisiBone swatch collections are available for GIMP.

130 Ultimate Web 2.0 Gradients for Gimp - From SGlider12 on Gimp Tutorials, these 130 web 2.0 gradients can really spice up your web designs.

Carol.GIMP Gradients - A page full of free GIMP gradients.

Vista Button Gradients - The set of 2 Gimp Gradients used in the Vista Log-on button tutorial.

GIMP BRUSHES

BlendFu - Photoshop and GIMP brushes and Pattern resources.

Carol.GIMP : GIMP Brushes - Download GIMP brushes for free from this GIMP brush directory.

CrunchBang : GIMP Brushes - Anyhow, by default GIMP comes with a rather limited set of brushes. There's a package available from the Ubuntu repositories to install some extra brushes, however this is also a little limited. To this end, I've created a new package containing over 150 additional brushes for GIMP.

CrunchBang : Ubuntu Logo GIMP Brushes - I couldn't find any Ubuntu logo GIMP brushes on the Ubuntu Wiki Artwork/Official page, so I've created some. The brushes are quite large, but now that GIMP supports scalable brushes they can be easily scaled down in size.

Deviant Art : GIMP Brushes - Browse through DeviantArt.com's user-created GIMP brushes.

GIMP Stuff : GIMP Brushes - GIMP brushes for download.

Hawksmont Universe : GIMP Brushes - A huge directory of free GIMP brushes.

Inkwell Ideas : GIMP Brushes - If you’ve been looking for a relatively easy way to make hex-based terrain maps that are reminiscent of the maps in adventures from back in the day, install these Hex Map Brushes into a GIMP installation.

LiveJournal : GIMP Brushes - A community on LiveJournal for GIMP Brushes.

My Collection of GIMP Brushes - I didnt make any of these brushes but i gathered all the best ones i cud find. i have grunge, star, abstract, etc brshes.

PDG Design : GIMP Brushes - A lot of great GIMP brushes with patterns.

Red Hat Magazine : GIMP Brushes - Here is a set of 23 brushes created from all of the brush shape variants created with the Inkscape Align & Distribute tool as part of this tutorial.

Sunny Spot : GIMP Brushes - Some extra free brushes for The GIMP.

Techzillo : GIMP Brushes - A list of some amazing, beautiful and stunning brushes? The name, link and description of each GIMP brush are given just below each illustrative image. There are also sections linking to huge GIMP brush collections and further GIMP brush resources aimed at every group from novice to expert (including resources on creating GIMP brushes).

14 Awesome Free GIMP Brush Sets and Brushes to Download - Sadly, not all of us can afford to spend ridiculous sums of money on Photoshop, so we get by using GIMP instead. Therefore, this one is for all the cheapskates out there; 14 of the best free brush sets around for the GIMP.

24 Sweet Brushes for GIMP and Photoshop - Inspired by LaurenMarie from Creative Curio’s discovery of Photoshop (PS) brushes, I’ve decided to share the brushes that I have installed. They’re GIMP brushes, but many of them have Photoshop counterparts. All of these were found on deviantArt.

35 Awesome Gimp Brushes - Here are a few brushes which will speed up your work and make life easier. Most brushes have been converted from photoshop so dont worry if they say photoshop in the image. Please read the terms before using it.

DIRECTORIES WITH LISTS OF GIMP PLUGINS SNIPPETS / SCRIPTS

GIMP Plugin Repository - A repository of optional extensions for the GIMP.

GIMP Plugins Sourceforge - What is gimp-plug-ins? This project is about developing plug-ins for the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is also about creating a community for plug-in developers.

Soft5000 GIMP Plugins - 4 filled pages with links to GIMP plugins and scripts.

GIMP-Tutorials - Biggest Collection of GIMP Tutorials and useful snippets.

David Hodson Gimp Plugins - Here are a few useful Gimp plugins, all updated for Gimp 2.x.

Nucleares GIMP Plugins - Here are the plug-ins I have written for the GIMP Whirlpinch, Bumpmap, Contrast autostretch, Deinterlace, Interpolate/Extrapolate, Page curl, Equalize, and Diffraction.

Some GIMP Scripts-Fu (and Related ImageMagick Notes) - Each of these scripts (except one) performs a single GIMP function (rotating, scaling, etc.), reading its input from an image file and writing its output to a new image file. They can be plumbed together in a shell script to accomplish more complex tasks (e.g., rotate then scale then convert to JPEG). This technique of single-function Scripts-Fu and shell scripting is not efficient - The GIMP must be started each time, which has an overhead, and the reading and writing of image files takes time.

Script Fu and the GIMP - The scripts in /usr/share/gimp/1.2/scripts/ are a valuable resource when you are trying to write your own scripts. Generally it is a good idea to look and learn from them. If your script does not behave as expected you might want to search for a script that solves a similiar task. Maybe you can find a better solution there.

Mike's GIMP Stuff - Mike has created plugins for GIMP including a script to turn images into animated neon signs, a script that assists with creating side-bar based web sites, as well as a collection of neon dock icons

SunnySpot GIMP Scripts - There are 3 GIMP scripts / plugins here which include scripts that work on a shape and gives it a 3D-like effect, filling an image with a pattern, and rescaling an image and adds borders where needed in order to fit into a square.

Gimp Astronomy Plugins - These plug-ins for Gimp intend to be useful for astronomical image processing.

Techzillo : 40+ GIMP Plugins - Most of them are aimed at web-designers and photographers, the main users of GIMP. There are also some to fix common problems of GIMP.

GIMP Scripts - This page explains the basics of GIMP scripts, what they can do, where to find them and how to install them. What this page does not do is explain how to write them. That is HUGE subject and one I am not qualified to write on.

GIMP Talk - GIMP Plugins, Filters, and Scripts

Script Photo Effects for GIMP 2.4 - This is a compilation some still usefull scripts of Iccii and some other scripts I 've made myself, all brought together is one script-fu file. In my own scripts I've made use of some my Gimpressionist presets. They should also be installed.

VE3Syb GIMP Scripts - The tables on this page contain links to scripts you can download and use with GIMP. I did not create any of the scripts on this page. Most of the scripts were found while wandering around the Internet, or as the result of a search, and which I found were interesting and/or useful effects to have. Some of the scripts which appear here are due to users who appeared on the main #gimp IRC channel asking for help in getting a script to run.

Far Cry Design : GIMP Plugins - Useful Plug-ins for the GIMP. The following scripts may be particularly useful for touching up digital photographs: Blue Sky Gradient, Blue Sky & Clouds, Purple Fringe, Contrast Fix, Saturation Fix, Hot Dot, and Amazing Circles.

GimpUsers: 44 hot plugins for GIMP 2.4 - The package contains cool and professional scripts that are published under the GPL - so they're all free to use! After copying the scripts to our scripts-folder there is a new menu entry to access all the scripts.

GIMP Guru Scripts - There are 3 GIMP scripts to download for free here including a script to create photo-like decorative mats and frames, a script for automating fixing "red eye", and an interesting alternative to unsharp masking.

GIMP Book's Plugin Page - The Beginning GIMP book offers an online page with some useful scripts and plugins.

GIMP Developers - This site tries to provide useful information for GIMP developers. No matter if you are into plug-in development or want to dive into the internals of the GIMP core, you should find your way from here. This is a part of the official GIMP website.

A FEW GIMP PLUGINS

Carl.GIMP.org - This script will read xcfs from a directory of your choice and save three sizes of the image and corresponding html into a directory of your choice. It assumes that you made the xcf properly oriented regardless of the exif information. It makes jpegs out of multi-layered xcfs. It can make comments that contain its image name and the location of the original with a few minor changes.

ArcLayer GIMP Plugin - Arclayer is a GIMP plug-in for bending text (or anything else) in an arc.

Color Pickin' Chooser - The color pickin chooser is available as a windows application, a source "pack", which has everything you need to build and use color picking chooser yourself; source code, includes, icons, sample images and what-not, and as plain source code. Have fun! Export to GIMP.

GIMP Scripts Dot Com - This is the unstable development branch of GIMP.

GIMP Extras : TinyFu Plugin - A plug-in for GIMP 2.2 which uses the TinyScheme interpreter.

GIMP Gallery Plugin - Gimp Gallery is a plugin for Gimp that creates static HTML image galleries from a directory of images.

Gimp Waterdrop Pattern - A gimp pattern that creates a realistic mass of water drops.

IFS- Compose Objects GIMP Plugin - IFS-Compose is one of the weirdest and most fascinating plugins available for Gimp. It is basically a tool to generate recursive, natural-looking fractal shapes. It is quite hard to understand at first, but once you play with it you will start to understand how it works.

Liquid Recale GIMP Plugin - This site is about a GIMP plugin called Liquid Rescale. It is a free, open source frontend to the Liquid Rescale Library, which provides an implementation of the Seam Carving algorithm as described in this paper by Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir. The Seam Carving procedure aims at resizing pictures non uniformly while preserving their features, i.e. avoiding distortion of the important parts. The plugin supports manual feature selection, and can also be used to remove portions of the picture in a consistent way.

Raster Image Manipulation with "The GIMP" Plugin - Do you know "The GIMP" ? That's a nice tool for manipulating raster images. It supports the mostly used raster formats like JPEG, TIFF, GBRUSH, PCD, PNG, PNM, TGA, XPM, .... It has a lot of features like other commercial products but its free. It is available for Windows and for a lot of UNIX systems.

Sculpt Texture Export Script for the GIMP - A simple GIMP plug-in allows a sculpt texture (or any texture) to be converted into a mesh and saved as Wavefront OBJ model, for upload into your favorite 3D modelling tool for previewing.

Shallowsky : Pandora Plugin - a GIMP Plugin for Making Panoramas

XSane GIMP Plugin - If XSane is started as Gimp plugin, the scanned image automatically is transfered to the Gimp.

GIMP COMMUNITIES & FORUMS

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.

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.

GIMP PODCASTS and BLOGS

GHUJ GIMP Blog - A new GIMP blog.

GIMP UI Brainstorm - This is a visual brainstorm, the channel for everybody to contribute to the GIMP UI redesign process. It is moderated by the GIMP UI redesign team, consisting of professional interaction and usability specialists. We do not post mock-ups here ourselves, we ‘listen’ to what you show us and broaden our horizons.

Meet the GIMP! - A videopodcast about the free graphics program Gimp

Quick Gimp Tips - A regular Gimp Tutorial screencast, podcast, that will attempt to showcase the power of the GIMP.

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GIMP User Manual - This is the GIMP User Manual fromt he official GIMP website. An update of the GIMP user manual is available. The gimp-help-2.4.2 tarball can be downloaded from ftp.gimp.org. Users should wait until this release has been packaged in more easily installable form for their platform.

GIMP Saavy Online Book - An online GIMP handbook. "Grokking" is a Robert Heinlein-ism for "appreciating," and docent Bunks takes us through the museum of computer art and method as he demonstrates the features of the freely redistributable package. The contents follow that path set down by many other how-to tech book authors: tutorial, a taste of image theory, working with the independent features of GIMP (layers, selections, masks, and colorspaces) before advancing to compositing and rendering, and ending with a short review of Web-based applications of image manipulation.

GIMP Frequently Asked Questions - A FAQ about GIMP on the official GIMP site.

GIMP Shop - GIMPshop is a modification of the free/open source GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), intended to replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop. Its primary purpose is to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable using GIMP. It shares all GIMP's advantages, including the long feature list and customisability, while addressing some common criticisms regarding the program's interface: GIMPshop modifies the menu structure to closely match Photoshop's, adjusts the program's terminology to match Adobe's, and, in the Windows version, uses a plugin called 'Deweirdifier' to combine the application's numerous windows in a similar manner to the MDI system used by most Windows graphics packages. While GIMPshop does not support Photoshop plugins, all GIMP's own plugins, filters, brushes, etc. remain available.

GIMP Portable - GIMP Portable means image editing on the go. GIMP Portable is the popular the GIMP for Windows image editor packaged as a portable app, so you can take your images with you and do your editing on the go.

Portable Gimp.app - Portable Gimp.app is the binary distribution of the GNU Image Manipulation Program for Mac OS X packaged as portable application so you can take your preferences with you. Portable Gimp.app is the Gimp.app the self contained application bundle of the GNU Image Manipulation Program for OS X by Aaron Voisine packaged as portable application so you can carry around with you on any portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive,memory card, other portable device (also on your internal hard disk) as long as it has 165 MB of free space and use on any Mac OS X computer, taking your preferences with you.
Gimp.app requires Apple's X11 which is included in the "Optional Installs" package on the OS X install disk.

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GIMP Color Palettes & Gradients

GIMP Brushes

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GIMP Other / Misc.