http://howtogimp.com The world of The Gimp Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:07:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en GimpUsers have reported that Gimp 2.6 is going to be launched soon and has produced a great post about what's new in the new Gimp, you can check it out here: http://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials/gimp-2-6-new-features.html It is definately worthy of a look so check it out if you get chance. http://howtogimp.com/2008/07/08/gimp-26-is-coming/ 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 ... http://howtogimp.com/2008/06/22/22-great-gimp-tutorials/ Hi, I was looking around the internet today for some funny Gimp images and found this collection of pics, I hope you like them: Credit: http://gimpart.info/ - Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/photocomix-mandala/1275668175/ - Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pifiania/2423872013/ - Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spyndle/366904135/ http://howtogimp.com/2008/06/20/beware-of-the-wolf-photoshop/ 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. Lights | Details Odysee | Details Galactic | Details Clouds | Details Clouds 2 | Details Grass | Details Vector ... http://howtogimp.com/2008/06/10/10-gimp-brushes-sitting-on-a-wall/ SGlider12 has released a new tutorial on her blog showing how to create a vector image of a car like this: You can view the tutorial here: http://sglider12.blogspot.com/2008/06/car-vector-tutorial.html http://howtogimp.com/2008/06/09/car-vector-tutorial/ 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: http://howtogimp.com/2008/06/05/engraved-text-effect-in-the-gimp/ 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 ... http://howtogimp.com/2008/06/05/top-8-gimp-sites-for-all-things-gimp/ 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 ... http://howtogimp.com/2008/06/03/create-a-web-20-badge-in-the-gimp/ OK, I think that it is time for another RSS feed icon tutorial over on Help Developer. This time we are going to create this: - 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 ... http://howtogimp.com/2008/06/02/create-an-rss-feed-iconbutton-part-5/ 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: - Step 1 Firstly, create ... http://howtogimp.com/2008/06/01/create-great-images-showcasing-screenshots/