22 great Gimp Tutorials

Posted on Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 | stored in Buttons, Effects, Text Effects, Tutorials, Web Graphics, Web Layouts | 3 Comments

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.

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Car Vector Tutorial

Posted on Monday, June 9th, 2008 | stored in Drawing, Effects | No Comments

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

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Create a web 2.0 badge in The Gimp

Posted on Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 | stored in Buttons, Effects, Web Graphics | No Comments

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:

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Create great images showcasing screenshots

Posted on Sunday, June 1st, 2008 | stored in Effects, Web Graphics | No Comments

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:

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Contaminated Effect in The Gimp

Posted on Sunday, June 1st, 2008 | stored in Effects | No Comments

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

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How to design RSS feed icons in The Gimp

Posted on Sunday, June 1st, 2008 | stored in Effects, Web Graphics | No Comments

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.

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Create an engraved line effect in The Gimp

Posted on Sunday, June 1st, 2008 | stored in Effects, Web Graphics | No Comments

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 […]

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Add a sticker effect to your images

Posted on Sunday, June 1st, 2008 | stored in Effects | No Comments

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 […]

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

      The site is run by me, Simon North, a web designer from England, UK. I use The Gimp to design websites and graphics, much to the dismay of my clients who want designs in Photoshop format. I believe that the Gimp is a great alternative to Photoshop and hopefully I can prove this with howtogimp.