It is very common to find fantastic Photoshop tutorials, just look at PSDTuts. However, finding high quality tutorials for the Gimp is much harder. In this collection I am going to show you 22 of the best Gimp tutorials I have come across. If you know of more then please do add them as comments.

Hi, I was looking around the internet today for some funny Gimp images and found this collection of pics, I hope you like them:

OK, I haven’t really posted much in the downloads category of howtogimp so I thought I should add something, so here is 10 Gimp Brushes that I found when I was browsing the almighty and devious DeviantArt.

SGlider12 has released a new tutorial on his blog showing how to create a vector image of a car like this:

Gimper over at Gimp-Tutorials.net has released a new tutorial. In this tutorial he creates an engraved text effect in just 5 easy steps. A quick and easy tutorial worthy of a look. The outcome looks something like this:

Welcome to the countdown of my personal favourite Gimp sites, these include tutorial sites, blogs, forums and download sites. For those of you who don’t know what Gimp is, it is a graphic creation/manipulation program with similar features to Photoshop, however it is free, fast and open source, oh and works on Linux so I can use it.

Feel free to add any others in the comments below if you know of any, I am always looking for new sites as Gimp has so much to offer.

In this tutorial I will show you how to design a web 2.0 badge in the Gimp. These type of badges have made their place in the web 2.0 design as a great graphic to have on your website for all sorts of options such as subscribing to an RSS feed.

The outcome will look like this:

OK, I think that it is time for another RSS feed icon tutorial. This time we are going to create this:

OK, it is hard to describe what this is as you can probably tell by the title, but I do this a lot when I show off websites or themes that I want to sell because it looks really good. The effect will look like this when finished:

Gimp Tutorials.net (one of my favourite Gimp tutorial sites) has developed a great tutorial showing how you can create this fantastic effect:

From my graphic design blog, Help Developer, I bring you a collection of tutorials detailing how to create RSS icons, I will update this post as I add more.

The new version of Gimp has been release, Gimp 2.4.6
The changes in Gimp 2.4.6 are as follows:

fixed handling of the “antialias” tool option (bug #521069)
when loading a TIFF image, always set a filename on it (bug #521436)
fixed initial state of curve type in Curves tool (bug #523873)
fixed potential crash in the Dicom load plug-in
respect the […]

From SGlider12 on Gimp Tutorials, these 130 web 2.0 gradients can really spice up your web designs. They are based on the gradients from Deziner Folio for Photoshop.

In this tutorial I will show you how to develop a vector iMac in The Gimp, this is based loosely on the tutorial for Illustrator from Blog.Spoon Graphics. This is designed at the more advanced level Gimp users but for you beginners I will try and explain it as easy as possible.

The outcome will look something like this:

In this tutorial I will show you very quickly how to produce an engraved line like this:

It has many uses, personally I use it in a lot of my websites as you can see from the header of Help Developer.

Firstly, create a new canvas and fill it with a darkish colour and create a new […]

In this simple and quick tutorial I will show you how to produce a sticker like effect to your images, similar to this:

Create a new canvas (Ctrl + N)
Change the background colour else the white may not stand out too well.
Now go to File and Open As Layers, find the image you would like to […]

howtogimp has been running for a couple of months now and it has gotten a nice stream of visitors everyday since launch. However, there have been a few problems as idiots started to spam the upload system which meant that I had to take away the option for users to add their own tutorials.
I have […]