Hi Some useful gimp tutorials at http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/gimptutorials/
Basic Gimp Tutorial Beveled Text With Gimp "Beveled text (or 'Inner Bevel' as it is often called by people who have been using a certain other image manipulation program) is a quick and easy way to create spiffy logos and titles for web-pages and things like that." Bezier Selections "Bezier selection is a powerful tool in The Gimp. The rectangle- and ellipse-selections are not very flexible if you happen to need something more special. And since many of us gimpers don't have a graphics tablet, it's not so easy to make the mouse pointer move the way you want. Bezier selection fixes the problem by using smooth mathematical curves instead your own shaky mouse trail." Brave Attempt to Teach Layers in 3 Hours Introduction to The GIMP in English and French. Create a night-time landscape scene while learning the concept of layers in GIMP. Link to French translation is at the top of the page. Creating and Editing Animations with GIMP "Simple techniques to create and edit animations using the Gimp." Advertisement Creating Fire Effects with The GIMP "Some very expensive commercial products, such as Painter5, let you 'paint' with fire; others, such as Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro let you, using the tools at your disposal, create the illusion of an object on fire... In this article we show a procedure in five steps and eleven images, easily adapted to Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro, on how to creat fire effects with The GIMP." Drawing a Paintbrush Image This 25-page tutorial on drawing a paintbrush is suitable for more advanced GIMP users. Drawing Shapes with Bezier "Bezier selection can be used in many creative ways. Maybe the best thing in it is the smooth, beautiful curves it produces. But you can also use Bezier to create different polygonal shapes if you don't 'pull out the handles'." GIMP Workshop Several general tutorials (cicles and squares, custom brushes, stroking a path, tool descriptions, blending modes, quick mask) and tutorials for photographic effects (TV scanlines, soft glow, smoothing, zoom blur, silhouette). How to Use GIMP for Photo and Image Editing #2 "Learn how to use The GIMP's powerful layer tools by editing a photograph in our digital darkroom. If you do not know what layer tools are or you never have used the GIMP's powerful layer tools, you are about to have your eyes popped wide open." How to Use GIMP for Photo and Image Editing "Cropping and scaling (resizing) photos, along with adjusting the brightness and contrast of them, are among the most basic elements of photo editing. In this hands-on tutorial, you will learn how to use The GIMP's powerful cropping, scaling, brightness, and contrast tools by editing a photograph in our digital darkroom." Make Your Own Brushes "In this article I will present the various brushes that GIMP offers and show how to create brushes. First we will look in detail at the brushes dialog, 'Brush selection', and the different brushes it contains. After that I will show you how to create your own brushes." Photo Magic with Gimp "In this article we show you with several examples what you can do to enhance your photos with The Gimp (the latest stable version when I wrote this was Gimp 1.2.5)." Playing around with Dingbats and The Gimp "In this article I give some examples how you can easily create nice pictures using dingbats and The Gimp. The version of Gimp that was used for this article is Gimp-1.2.2." Pseudo 3D with Gimp "Gimp is a software exclusively 2D, but with a few tricks and thanks to the numerous tools that are available, it is possible to create an image in pseudo 3D." QuickMask: Introduction "This tutorial shows how you can do vignette effects using a new feature of GIMP called QuickMask. QuickMask is a convenient way to modify selections using pixel-changing tools such as the paintbrush, eraser, or any plug-in filter. It lets you make very precise adjustments to your selections." Selection and Color Correction "A selection is used to isolate a specific part of the image in order to change it, independent of the rest of the image. You can copy, move, replace or filter a selection, and you can also change its colors/contrast/brightness or even apply an effect to it. The list of possibilities is endless." The GIMP for Windows Annoyances and Tips Tips for user of the Windows port of GIMP, especially useful for those just starting to work with GIMP for Windows. Using Layers and Their Masks "Gimp can easily compete with the big names in picture editing. It has a tool, mask layers (similar to the fusion mask in Photoshop) which allows you to work on layers with great ease. With this method it is quite easy to go back and correct a corner without touching the layer itself since we're working on a mask which we can delete if the changes don't please us or apply if they are satisfying." Writing Text with Gimp Creating text banners with The GIMP using layers. Nelson -- visit linux cd & dvd store at http://linuxdvdsale.tripod.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
