50 Design Tutorials for Mastering Gimp The ultimate compilation of gimp design tutorials to take a novice and turn them into an expert, the perfect guide for anyone looking to learn or even master the ins and outs of Gimp. Some Designers may see the title of the post and may be curious to learn more about what exactly Gimp, it’s simple a free alternative to Photoshop which has similar features and functions to photoshop. I’ve always said i wanted to learn gimp but for one reason or another i just have never had the time, patients and been committed to learning it. One day i decide to download a copy of gimp and was pleasantly surprised that it was free and thought it would be useful within the future when designing but with access to photoshop. I hope you enjoy this post, feel free to share your favourite tutorials from the article and tuts which we may have missed out. Download Gimp for free over at: 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30.
Enhancing the colors of your photos ~ Tutorial Geek There are many different ways to enhance the colors of your photos using the Gimp. In this tutorial, I will show you the basic process for color enhancement, then I will show you differences in each method so you can decide which way is best for you. When I did the tutorial on editing photos for wedding enhancement, I got a great suggestion in the comments that instead of using saturation for color enhancement, I could use LAB decomposition. I played around with it a bit and it has some interesting results. Before I show you all the different methods for color enhancement, I will show you the basic process. Step 1 - Prep The photo You should not do color enhancement to all your pictures, try to select one with vibrant colors. They are in the process of building a bike trail near where I live in Spanish Fork Utah. I always like to make a copy of my base layer. Step 2 - Decompose Colors>Components>Decompose Step 3 - Adjust the Color Curves Step 4 - Recompose Colors>Components>Recompose 1. 2.
Gimp-tutorials.net - Gimp , tutorials , brushes , downloads, forum. Create nice lines effects using the blend tool! 1 First create a new file, i.e. 1024×768px. Then use the blend tool: Choose the “Pastel Rainbow” gradient from the dropdown menu. Then draw the gradient from top left to bottom right of the canvas. Thats our background base. 2 Setting the blend tool optionsNow choose the “Shadows 1” gradient from the dropdown and set these parameters in the blend tool options:Mode: Grain merge Opacity: 75% Shape: Bilinear Repeat: triangle wave 3 Drag the gradient as shown in the image. Be sure to be inside the canvas. 4 Drag the gradient as shown in the image. This background is completely different from the onther one, and has only taken about 2 minutes to make!
30+ Exceptional GIMP Tutorials and Resources Oct 20 2008 GIMP is a freely distributed GNU Image Manipulation Program. Available for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. So, if you’re interested in learning some new skills, whether you’re a beginner, intermediate or advanced user, these GIMP tutorials are for you. Below you will find an incredible amount some of the best GIMP tutorials hand picked to enhance or highlight whatever action is going on in the photo. 1. 1. This tutorial illustrates how to implement a nice animated menu using Mootoolsand some lines of CSS and HTML code ready to reuse in your project. 2. This tutorial will teach you a quick and simple way to recolor eyes. 3. This is specially for anime/cartoon style lineart. 4. A fairly easy tutorial to follow to make a sig. 5. Here is a great effect, usable for all kind of graphics such as flyers, splash-screens, wallpapers etc. 6. Learn how to create a fantastic looking oilpainting from a photo. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 2. 16. 17. 18.
Best 35+ GIMP Tutorials | Qbrushes Blog Best 35+ GIMP Tutorials The Gimp is a free open source image editing application that can do many things to suit your needs, whether they be making a gig poster for a local concert, or touching up a few family photos, the Gimp can do it. Here is a top 30 list of Gimp tutorials hand selected by Gimper and SGlider12 that will help you to add many new Gimp design techniques to your arsenal. 1) Gimp Galaxy by abduzeedo.com Fabio Sasso at Abduzeedo presents us with a great little space illustration done completely in the Gimp. 2) Leopard’s Aurora Borealis Wallpaper by abduzeedo.com Fabio Sasso at Abduzeedo presents us with yet another great tutorial on how to create the Aurora Borealis Leopard wallpaper in Gimp. 3) Gold Text Effect by gimpology.com Kasrak at Gimpology.com presents us with a great tutorial adapted from a Photoshop tutorial on how to create a slick golden text effect in Gimp. 4) Create a Worn Vintage Popart Design by sglider12.blogspot.com 5) Vista-Like Wallpaper by gimpusers.com
How to use GIMP Tutorials « GIMP Guru Tutorials These tutorials show step-by-step techniques for accomplishing a variety of photographic “digital darkroom” tasks using the GIMP image editor. Even if you use another image editing program such as Photoshop you will find that tutorials apply to that program with only slight modifications. Click on the picture thumbnail to view the tutorial. Many of these tutorials were written when GIMP 1.x was the latest version. Beginning These tutorials do not assume much prior knowledge. Intermediate These tutorials use layers and layer masks. Advanced These tutorials are somewhat complex and may require skill with tools like paint/smudge/clone/convolve, advanced use of levels/curves, filters, channels and selections. Like this: Like Loading... Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.
Tutorials Beginner GIMP Quickies Use GIMP for simple graphics needs without having to learn advanced image manipulation methods. Simple Floating Logo This tutorial walks through some basic image and layer manipulation techniques. Layer Masks An introduction to using layer masks to modify the opacity of a layer. Basic Color Curves A first look at the Curves tool and adjusting color tones in an image. Photo Editing Digital B&W Conversion Detailed conversion tutorial for generating a B&W result from a color image. Luminosity Masks Using multiple layer masks to isolate specific tones in your image for editing. Tone Mapping with ‘Colors/Exposure’ Using high bit depth GIMP’s ‘Colors/Exposure’ operation to add exposure compensation to shadows and midtones while retaining highlight details. Programming Basic GIMP Perl Learn how to write simple perl scripts using the gimp-perl module (GNU/Linux users only). Automate Editing Using GIMP Python to automate a workflow. All (Legacy) Tutorials List