Entries tagged with tutorials

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Possible Newbie Tutorials

I'm a complete newbie to this community as well as to GIMP, but it inspires me to look further into the whole... thing.
There are two tutorials I've stumbled upon after wanting to add some brushes someone here pimped (and that do not seem to have come up here or are at least not tagged "tutorials").
The first one has helped me already and seems pretty official: The GIMP Documentation. Cool thing is, you have several languages available - I struggled somehow since I didn't find the place to switch languages and was using the English guide for the French version first... and where names of features differ, it is annoying. there seems to be a huge range of problems and features covered, from starting out with GIMP (yay!) to more complex procedures.
The other tutorial is Katspace's Digital Art Notes which looks nifty and has a section dedicated to icon-making. I haven't really yet looked into it, to be honest, but before I loose a possibly helpful link I prefer to share it.

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How to: Make your own LOLcat macros

Today, it's fairly easy to make LOLcat macros with online tools such as roflbot or the ICHC LolBuilder, but they both leave a somewhat unsightly looking watermark to the picture advertising how it was made.

Fortunately, it's easy to recreate the effect in the GIMP! Today I'll be showing you how to make this image:

A cat macro created in the GIMP showing a cat's tail naturally lying in a spiral. Text in the lower-right corner reads 'DREAMWIDTH'.

A cat macro created in the GIMP showing a cat's tail naturally lying in a spiral. Text in the lower-right corner reads 'DREAMWIDTH'.

This howto is aimed at beginners to the GIMP, so a lot of steps will be explained that may not otherwise be.

(I apologise in advance that the PNG images in this tutorial have JPEG artifacts; that's due to the way I'm using the GIMP, not due to any lack of knowledge of how to take clean shots on my part.)

( How to: Make your own LOLcat macros )

Hopefully this helps somebody :D Take care!

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How-to: Simple text shadow in GIMP

This tutorial creates this effect: Shadowed text

as opposed to merely this: Unshadowed text

( How-to: Simple text shadow in GIMP )

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How-to: Creating an icon similar to this, points to icon, in Gimp

This tutorial is aimed at Gimp novices. It is my first tutorial, un-betaed, and I welcome feedback!

The font I'm using is Amadeus, but you can choose any font you like. (For Ubuntu font newbies = me 2 weeks ago: Installing fonts in Ubuntu.)

( Creating an icon in Gimp with transparent background and gradient-colored text )

I'm not a Gimp expert, but I'm happy to help if I can: ask if you get stuck or have questions :o)

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Some tutorials and resources

I thought I'd share some resources and tutorials of mine with y'all, if that's okay.
The Digital Art Notes page contains a number of GIMP tutorials; some of them are step-by-step tutorials, but more of them are "notes", hence the name of the page. I made them that way because I figured that if I stopped to make full tutorials for everything, I'd never make any of them, and that even having guidelines rather than tutorials would be better than nothing.

GIMP resources (brushes and patterns) are some brushes and textures I've made for GIMP. The brushes are icon brushes (100x100) for "fancy borders"; it would be lovely if people found them useful.

Current Mood: sleepy

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Tips & tricks found in another DW community

I've been going through my bookmarks and found a few useful tutorials that are posted over at

graphic_tutorials (the community seems to be dormant though, since it has not been updated in quite a while). Here are three examples, but you can find a few more via the GIMP tag.

Animated Video Icons and Animated Text Tutorial by

htbthomas

A Comprehensive Text Tutorial by

rizny [different methods of using text, effects to make text look better or more readable, etc.]

Current Mood: hopeful

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Welcome to new members, and some photo editing tricks

I've seen that people have started subscribing to this community, so welcome everyone! I hope you enjoy this community and find lots of opportunities to share your GIMP love with other users.

As I've mentioned in an earlier post, I don't have much time at the moment to devote to this project as I would like, but I'll try to make weekly posts here, and I'll also try to add more useful stuff to the delicious link collection (I'm open for suggestions!). Anyway, this is a community, so feel free to post your own questions, ideas, thoughts, challenges and more -- as long as it's somehow related to The GIMP ^^

And here are the promised photo editing tricks: 10 Sweet GIMP Photo Editing Tricks to Wean You Off Photoshop. This is a post that goes out to people who might not know about GIMP, or think it's nothing like Photoshop, but obviously this kind of post is quite useful for GIMP users, too. It covers 1) photo batch processing, 2) how you can sharpen photos, 3) how you can make your own brushes, 4) how you can make a lightsaber, 5) how you can create a swirly wallpaper or water drop effect, 6) how you can create an explosion in outer space, 7) how you can convert photos to sketches, 8) how you can mix black & white with color, 9) how you can convert photos to neon, and 10) how you can draw graffiti.

EDIT: Added a list of the things the article covers (some of you might want to know before you click on the link...)

Current Mood: creative

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A blog for creative nerds

I've come across the creativeNerds blog where you can get inspiration and ideas for graphic design and web design. Recently, for instance, they posted the 50 Best Free Fonts From 2009. It's worth checking out.