It is definately worthy of a look so check it out if you get chance.

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Icons and Buttons

Web 2.0 badge

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Paper Fold Icon

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RSS Feed Icon

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Create an iMac Vector Image

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Sleek Website Button

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Userbar Tutorial

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Signature

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Effects

Mac Wallpaper

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Sunburst Effect

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Glow Effect

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Old Photo Effect

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Contaminated Effect

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MSNBC Effect

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Windshocked Text Effect

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Jump out of the photo effect

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Polaroid Effect

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Web Layouts

Design and code a website in The Gimp, XHTML and CSS

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Design a website in the Gimp

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Design a blog theme

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Design and Code a website

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Web Graphics

Professional Web Header

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Navigation Menu

Credit: http://gimpart.info/

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Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/photocomix-mandala/1275668175/

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Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pifiania/2423872013/

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Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spyndle/366904135/

Lights | Details

Odysee | Details

Galactic | Details

Clouds | Details

Clouds 2 | Details

Grass | Details

Vector Set | Details

Grunge Vector Set | Details

Grunge FilmStrip | Details

Aurora | Details

You can view the tutorial here: http://sglider12.blogspot.com/2008/06/car-vector-tutorial.html

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.

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howtogimp | http://howtogimp.com

The sister site to Help Developer, howtogimp pulls everything out of Help Developer to do with Gimp, so that Gimp users that aren’t interested in any of the other stuff I write about have a place of their own. I also pull together tutorials, downloads and news from all over the internet to the site.

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Gimp Tutorials.net | http://gimp-tutorials.net

Gimp Tutorials.net has long being one of my favourite Gimp sites, the tutorials are of a great quality and have that personal edge by the writer. You can also downloads brushes, gradients and lots of other great stuff right off of the site and it has a form, see next one in the list for info on that.

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Gimper.net | http://gimper.net

Gimper.net is a Gimp forum that has one of the best communities I have seen, as a member of a lot of forums myself, I have always being given a warm welcome on Gimper and everybody is really appreciative of peoples work that they showcase. It’s a great little community and if you ever have any problems with the Gimp or just want to chat with like minded people then get yourself over there.

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GimpTalk Forums | http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/

Gimp Forums are a great place to find answers to any problems you may be having and it is often the first place you find tutorials or downloads. Gimp Talk is a great forum, although personally I don’t think the community aspect is any where near as good as Gimper.net. However, it is definately worthy of a place in the list, a great forum so check it out if you haven’t already done so.

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Gimpology | http://gimpology.com

Whenever I write a new Gimp tutorial I always submit it to Gimpology first as it is so easy to add and it is up instantly (God help them when the spammers move in). Gimpology is a tutorial directory for the Gimp and a great place to find out how to do some really cool things.

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Gimp-Tutorials.com | http://gimp-tutorials.com

Similarly to Gimpology, Gimp-Tutorials.com is a Gimp tutorial directory, however it also has the latest Gimp news. These kind of sites are a great place to find out new things about Gimp and this site is one of the best.

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Pixel2Life | http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/gimp/

A great selection of the best Gimp tutorials around. I don’t use it as much as the other Gimp sites because there is no sense of a community on Pixel2Life because of the vast areas that it covers.

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Gimp Official Tutorials | http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/

If you are a beginner, intermediate or advanced user in the Gimp (so that’s everyone covered) I truly recommend that you take a look at the official Gimp site, in the tutorials section. The tutorials are professionally written and easy to follow although they are purely there for an introduction to the tools, to get the most out of the tools, I suggest you look at the other sites.

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So there you have it, the top 8 Gimp sites, as I said at the top, if you know of any others then please add them, Gimp sites are hard to find, this was going to be a top 10 list but I was struggling to find 8.

This tutorial is from howtogimp brother, Help Developer

The outcome will look like this:

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Step 1

Firstly, create a new canvas and make it a good size, I will be using the dimensions 300px x 200px. Fill it with a colour of your choice, I am going to use 661818 for this tutorial.

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Step 2

Create a new layer and use the Select Ellipse tool to draw a circle on the canvas with a width and height of 125px:

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Step 3

Now fill it with an orange colour, I am opting for f05528:

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Step 4

Next select the Paths tool and click and drag to select the bottom right of the circle like this:

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Step 5

Now go to the Edit menu and select Cut and create a new layer. On this new layer select Paste from the Edit menu and fill the selected area with white, then click off the selected area. Now use the Rotate tool and the move tool to rotate the selected area around and position it like it is below:

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Step 6

Now duplicate the circle layer, select the layer contents (Ctrl and A), cut the content (Ctrl and X) and then paste it back in again (Ctrl + V), this will make it selected. Select the Blend Tool and in the Tool Options change the Gradient option to FG to Transparent and change the forecolour to white (FFFFFF). Now click and drag from the bottom right to the top left to create this:

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Step 7

Now change the opacity of the layer to 30.0 which will create this:

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Step 8

Duplicate the folded area layer and select all the contents, cut the contents and then paste it back in to make the area selected. Now select the Blend tool and change the forecolour to black (000000), make sure that the gradient is set as FG to Transparent and click and drag from the right to the left of the selected area so that it looks like this:

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Step 9

Change the opacity of the layer to 30.0. Select the folded area layer (not the one with the gradient) and select the Filters menu -> Light and Shadow -> Drop Shadow and change the options on the window that appears to this:

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Step 10

Finally, repeat the last step for the circle layer and add the image/text to the badge using the Open As Layers option on the File menu.

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Result

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Download

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Step 1

Create a new canvas sized 420px width and 300px height. And fill it with the colour 6f1919 so that you can clearly see the reflections and other effects, you can change this at the end to the appropriate colour for your website.

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Step 2

Download the image below and use the Open As Layers option on the File menu to add it to the canvas:

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Step 3

Duplicate the new layer and click the canvas to make the window active. Then press Ctrl and A then Ctrl and X and finally Ctrl and V. This should Add a selection area around the curves of the image. Now use the select ellipse tool to draw an oval shape like this onto the canvas:

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Step 4

Fill it with white and change the opacity of the layer to 15.0, it should now look like this:

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Step 5

Now select the first (from the bottom) RSS icon layer and click Duplicate. Go to the main Gimp window and select the option to Flip and change the Flip properties to Verticle, then click the layer on the canvas which should flip it upside down like this:

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Step 6

Change to the select tool and use the arrow keys on the keyboard to move the layer down till it looks like this:

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Step 7

Select the Gradient tool and in the Gradient options change the Gradient to FG to Transparent and click and drag from half way down the layer to the top to create this effect:

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Step 8

Go to the Colours menu and choose the Colour to Alpha option. Click the big white button and change the HTML notation to 6f1919. And click OK until you get back to the canvas. Change the opacity of the layer to 20.0

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Step 9

Create a new layer above the background layer and choose the Select Ellipse tool and draw an oval like this:

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Step 10

Fill the oval with white. Select the Filters menu and choose Blur and then Gaussian Blur, change the blur radius options to 10.0 horizontal and vertical and click OK and then change the opacity of the layer to 20.0 so that it looks like this:

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Step 11

Finally change the colour of the Background layer if you wish to change it and then Crop the image down so that it looks like this, the final result:

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Download

You can download the XCF file here

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Step 1

Firstly, create a new canvas in The Gimp with the dimensions 500px width and 400px height. Fill it with black so you can see the reflections properly.

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Step 2

Now we are going to add the screenshot to the image, to do this choose the File menu and select Open As Layers. Resize the layer to width 400px by selecting Scale Layer on the Layers menu, the height property should change automatically to keep aspect ratio. It should now look like this:

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Step 3

Duplicate the screenshot layer. Then select the flip tool on the Toolbox and press Ctrl and click the image at the same time, this will flip the layer upside down like this:

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Step 4

Change to the select tool (shortcut: R) and using the arrow keys on your keyboard move the layer down till it looks like this:

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Step 5

Select the gradient tool (shortcut: L) and go to the Tool Properties and change the Gradient option to FG to Transparent. Click and drag from the centre of the upside down screenshot to the top so that it looks like this:

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Step 6

Change the opacity of the layer to 20.0 and go to the Colours menu and select Colour to Alpha. On the window that appears click the coloured button next to the “From:” and change the colour to black (000000) and click OK, the effect should now look like this:

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Step 7

Go to the Layers window and click the eye on the bottom layer so that it isn’t there anymore:

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Step 8

Now go to the Image menu and select the Merge Visible Layers option and click the Merge button on the window that appears. This will make the two screenshot layers merge. Then reselect the eye on the Background layer so that it is visible again.

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Step 9

Select the new screenshot layer and choose the Perspective tool (shortcut: Shift and P). Click and drag and drag the top right like this:

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Step 10

Now grab the bottom area and do it again so that it looks like this. Once finished click the Transform button.

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Step 11

Add a drop shadow to the screenshot by going to Filters, Light and Shadow and then Drop Shadow and change the offset properties to 0 and click OK:

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Step 12

Now to add the logo. We are going to do this by using the Open As Layers option again on the File menu and resize it so that it fits nicely on the image like this:

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Step 13

Finally, to change the background select to the Background layer and go to the Filters menu and choose Render -> Clouds -> Plasma. On the window that appears click OK, and there you have it, the final outcome:

You can download the XCF file here