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Ultimate List of GIMP Resources Including GIMP Tutorials & Directories, GIMP Communities, Forums, Brushes, Plugins, Color Palettes, Gradients, Patterns, Art Galleries, Podcasts and Much More
This is Part 2 of our GIMP Resources Articles. We have put together a huge list of online GIMP resource sites such as GIMP Tutorial Directories, GIMP Brushes, GIMP Color Palettes, GIMP Gradients, GIMP Patterns & Textures, GIMP Podcasts & Blogs, GIMP Communities, GIMP Forums, GIMP Art Galleries, and GIMP Plugins & Scripts.
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GIMP BRUSHES
Photoshop and GIMP brushes and Pattern resources.
Download GIMP brushes for free from this GIMP brush directory.
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.
Browse through DeviantArt.com’s user-created GIMP brushes.
GIMP brushes for download.
Hawksmont Universe : GIMP Brushes
A huge directory of free 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.
A community on LiveJournal for 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.
Some extra free brushes for The GIMP.
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.
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
A repository of optional extensions for the GIMP.
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.
4 filled pages with links to GIMP plugins and scripts.
Biggest Collection of GIMP Tutorials and useful snippets.
Here are a few useful Gimp plugins, all updated for Gimp 2.x.
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.
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 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
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.
These plug-ins for Gimp intend to be useful for astronomical image processing.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
The Beginning GIMP book offers an online page with some useful scripts and plugins.
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
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 is a GIMP plug-in for bending text (or anything else) in an arc.
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.
This is the unstable development branch of GIMP.
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.
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
A community site for designers and graphic artists. There is a specific community for GIMPers here.
A GIMP community and forum.
A forum for GIMP users.
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 has a GIMP forum on Flickr.
A popular GIMP Community with Images, Fonts, Brushes, Patterns, Palettes, Gradients, Plugins, Scripts, Themes, Brainstorming, and more.
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.
An online community for GIMP users.
Discuss GIMP topics on the GameSpot GIMP forum.
A very new forum that I hope you will give a chance.
A GIMP! forum to discuss the Meet the GIMP! podcasts as well as just discuss and learn about GIMP.
Ask and answer questions about GIMP or just discuss 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.
The Tek-Tips forum has a forum for GIMP users to ask and answer questions.
Tutorialized has a forum section for GIMP questions.
GIMP PODCASTS and BLOGS
A new GIMP blog.
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.
A videopodcast about the free graphics program Gimp
A regular Gimp Tutorial screencast, podcast, that will attempt to showcase the power of the GIMP.
OTHER
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.
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.
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 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 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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Thanks for the link! I’m certainly bookmarking this list
Gotta save this list… I’d forgotten about the GIMP. Just looked at the updates. A lot has changed in the past 4 years
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