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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
GIMP is a great free alternative to Adobe Photoshop that is used by thousands of graphic designers and digital artists. GIMP is wonderful 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. 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. Please feel free to comment on GIMP resource sites that I might have missed.
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GIMP TUTORIALS : TUTORIAL DIRECTORIES
DeviantArt : The GIMP Tutorials

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

A tutorial directory specializing in only GIMP tutorials.
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Gimp·o·l·ogy — a website for GIMP tutorials.
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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.

Over 200 GIMP Tutorials and Tips.
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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.

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 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.

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.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.

Tips, Advice, and Tutorials on How to Use GIMP.
Help Developer : GIMP Tutorials

A blog full of tutorials for GIMP.

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

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.
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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.

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.

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

TipClique has a nice selection of GIMP learning tutorials.

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

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.

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.

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

On YouTube, there are a ton of great video based GIMP tutorials so that you can learn by example.
Smaller GIMP Tutorial Collections

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.

A blogger who posts GIMP tutorials.

This page has some tutorials, tips and tricks for the cool graphics program known as GIMP.

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.

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.

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.

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.
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.

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.

A collection of Inkscape and 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.

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.

More than a half dozen GIMP tutorials located on the Shadow Logic site.
ShowMedo : GIMP Tutorials By Example [Videos]
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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.

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.

A great blog that has about 10 original GIMP tutorials listed.

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

Take a look at the DeviantArt showcase of their users’ GIMP projects and artwork.

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

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.

The official GIMP.org gallery of GIMP images.

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.

A collection of user uploaded GIMP images.

On Gimper’s forum there is a forum for showcasing your GIMP images.
GIMP PATTERNS & TEXTURES

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.

A lot of GIMP patterns for download.

Browse through DeviantArt.com’s user-created GIMP brushes.

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!

Free Patterns and Displacement Patterns for GIMP.

Some great GIMP patterns for download.

There are a few GIMP pattern sets to download including human skin tones, grass patterns, etc.
GIMP COLOR PALETTES & SWATCHES & GRADIENTS

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.

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.

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

Import Kuler palettes into GIMP 2.6. You can check out Kuler here, it is an Adobe color community.

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.

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.

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.

A page full of free GIMP gradients.
Vista Button Gradients (ZIP)

The set of 2 Gimp Gradients used in the Vista Log-on button tutorial.
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3 Comments
That’s a pretty comprehensive list, thanks for including my site http://gtuts.com on it
A little heads up, GIMP UI brainstorm seem to be misplaced, it’s hardly a tutorial site.
thanks a lot
greats resources.!
Great List of Gimp resources. Thanks!
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