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DIRECTORIES WITH LISTS OF 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.
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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.
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