60+ Best GIMP Tutorials of 2010
The Gimp is a fantastic and free piece of software that can run on all major operating systems and can do nearly any graphic related task! I have been using GIMP for over two years now and really appreciated the many tutorials I had at hand for when I was starting out. Since the early days I have produced my own tutorials in an effort to give back to the open source community and so the purpose of this post is to share and acknowledge the hard work that people have put in into making these great tutorials of 2010! Best GIMP Tutorials of 2010 Photo Manipulations The Catch – going beyond the frame of photographs Reaching out from the frame Attack of the Clones – Cloning Attack of the Clones! Wedding Photo Enhancement Wedding Photo Enhancement Just to Big – Panoramic like photo Just Too Big! Enhancing the colors of your photos Enhancing the colors of your photos Glow FX extreme Glow FX Extreme The creepy zombie hand of death The creepy zombie hand of death! How to turn a photo into a Sketch drawing
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Free Gimp tutorial PDFs
Issue 128 of Linux Format magazine carries the last instalment of our Gimp tutorial series. It's been going on-and-off for years now, with the latest batch running from June 2008 until now. Although we're sad to see the Gimp tutorial go away for the time being, we'd like to thank its author - the incredibly prolific Michael J. Hammel - for all the awesome work he's done over the years, and we're happy to announce that we're releasing high-res PDFs of Michael's 18 most recent GIMP tutorials for everyone to enjoy. LXF readers have, we hope, learned a lot following in Michael's footsteps over the years, and it's great to be able to share these tutorials with an even wider audience. Read on for download instructions and more information about what's inside... What's inside We're giving you the high-res PDFs - the same ones we use to actually print the pages of the magazine - which means they'll look awesome on your screen, or printed out. Here's a full list of the tutorials: How to get it
Jewelry Making with Wire and Beads Intro -- What a Beginner Needs to Know
In our web site we provide a lot of information on how to make jewelry with wire and beads. In some people's opinion, we provide too much information and it becomes difficult to find a place to start. In this web page, we will simply try to provide information on where and how to get started making jewelry with wire and beads. There are a lot of things to learn when you are beginning a new hobby. making jewelry with wire and beads. First, you can get an overview of how to make jewelry with wire and beads by watching the WigJig Basics You Tube jewelry making video here. Second, most people need to know what tools they require. After viewing the information on the above web pages links, you can view our selection of tools with links to these tools in our WigJig Store in the following web pages: Third, everyone will need to understand the jewelry making supplies required to make jewelry. If you have reviewed all of the above information, you should be ready to make some jewelry.
Make a Nifty Soda Can Fisheye Lens
Bhautik Joshi, the guy who made the Phone-O-Scope that we tweeted a while ago, has a new do-it-yourself project for those of you who enjoy this kind of hack-ish photography project. His latest project involves building a cheap fisheye lens using a peephole lens and a soda can. Here are some sample photographs taken with the “tin cam”: Built using a fisheye peephole as the main lens element and a decapitated soda can as the lens body (!) To learn how to build one of these for yourself, head on over to the tutorial through the following link: The fisheye tin cam (via Photojojo) Image credits: Photographs by Bhautik Joshi and used with permission
20 Awesome Photo Manipulation Tutorials For GIMP
There’s nothing better than free open source software that can do a lot of the same things and sometimes more than your professional overpriced software can do. I don’t know, it just feels good and that’s why I love GIMP. The tutorials below are some great examples of GIMP in use and several are Photoshop tutorials converted for GIMP use. Well, minus the $700 you had to pay to do it with Photoshop. You’ll learn how to transform a stock image – into a fireball and explosion scene. Article Link Advertisement This tutorial was converted from Giackop’s tutorial at psdtuts.com. Article Link This tutorial will describe how to make a colorful photo manipulation using a parrot picture, two flower stock photos and two texture background. Article Link This tutorial has been converted from the original Photoshop tutorial into Gimp. Article Link In this GIMP tutorial we will transform this stock bulb photo into a switched on 2watt? Article Link Convert a photograph to a pencil sketch. Article Link
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How to Make a DIY Pizza Box Ring Flash
I have always been enthralled ring flashes, but they are so expensive! I recently found a pizza box ring flash how to, but it didn’t go on my camera (it was meant as an off camera ring flash) so I made some changes. And here, for all to use, is my version of the pizza box ring flash. Step 1 You will need a few things: Foil tape, masking tape, duct tapePVC pipe the size of your lens (my lens is are big. Step 2 You will need to find the center of your pizza box. Step 3 After finding the center, use your smaller bowl to make the ring that will be taped to your PVC piece. Step 4 Draw the circle with the bigger bowl, and the circle with the PVC pipe. Step 5 You will cut out all the circlues, but the one that matters most is the middle one that says “glue to PVC.” this is the one that will make the ring show up in your subjects eyes. Step 6 Cover the entire inside of the box with the foil tape. Step 7 Cut the hole for you PVC from the line you drew. Step 8 Tape the inside ring to the PVC pipe. Step 9
