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I found Sara's YouTube video on Gimpology.com, unfortunately it was in Italian?(not sure, exactly) and very hard for me to follow along because her GIMP & menus are not in English, either. But that's ok, because I figured out a quick way to do this. Grab this coin image to start with (This photo was [...]

Graphic was created using a personal photograph of myself, following the caricature tutorial,  GIMP.org sketch tutorial, and Bernhard Stockmann's Hot Text on Flames/Fire tutorial.  This isn't an actual tutorial per se, but to get similar effects, follow the caricature tutorial with any photo of your choice: and then create a topmost layer using multiply mode. [...]

In Part 1 we made an envelope graphic to substitute as an postcard invitation. In Part 2, we'll pick up where we left off, and add the tree frog image. If you haven't done Part 1, you can get started with that here. Open treefrog.xcf from part 1. [One note before we get started: You [...]

This tutorial looks longer than it really is, due to the numerous screenshots being shown to illustrate the process. Step 1: Open a new drawing with white background, 6" x 4.5" (standard postcard size) at 300 dpi. Step 2: Add a new transparent layer. Step 3: Fill the lower layer with any color of your [...]

  I've been having some fun making "fractalscopes" using GIMP & the kaleidoscope filter and Fractive. The image directly below is title: The 5th Level of Hell – Wrath   Star of the Ninja     57th Heaven Tweet This Post Buzz This Post Delicious Digg This Post Stumble This Post

I've been working on obtaining a fairly decent representation of the WSJ style hedcuts images, thanks in part to Rob A.'s instructions found here. Pay particular attention to his "Not Quite" post in that thread. 640 x 480 at 300 dpi (appears more "Cartoonish") Same exact technique at 1600 x 1200 300 dpi (a better [...]

I found this stone texture tutorial for Photoshop CS2  and decided to convert it for GIMP use. For the most part, they are very similar, with minor differences. Step 1: Open any size drawing,  with a white background. Go to Filters – Render – Clouds – Difference Clouds and select the following settings as shown below:   [...]

Imagelys Picture Styles is AWESOME and FREE! For those of you who haven't seen this post, it's used for making patterns and textures from any image you wish to use. Imagelys website has a whole slew of video tutorials showing how to use the software to your best advantage, and I strongly suggest you try following [...]