by Michael Davies | Jun 29, 2018 | GIMP Tutorials, Uncategorized
2018 is almost totally in the books (can you believe it?), and this year we’ve been putting out a TON of new GIMP tutorials to help you learn this great piece of free photo editing and graphic design software. To celebrate the end of the first half, and to... 
by Michael Davies | Mar 27, 2018 | GIMP News, GIMP Tutorials
GIMP has just announced (minutes ago at the time of this post) that it has released the “GIMP 2.10.0 Release Candidate 1” – which is a semi-stable version of GIMP designed to test out some final bug-fixes and new features prior to the release of the... 
by Michael Davies | Mar 21, 2018 | GIMP Tutorials
(UPDATED 5/2/2018) Pat David, a leader on the GIMP Development Team, recently spoke at the SCaLe 16x (Southern California Linux Expo) about upcoming features coming to the recently released GIMP v2.10. Plus, he provided some much-needed updates on the progress of... 
by Michael Davies | Mar 18, 2018 | GIMP Tutorials
This summer… one designer… will make an unforgettable movie poster… without… needing… Photoshop! That’s right, in this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to make an awesome movie poster using the free graphic design/photo editing/drawing program GIMP, using the... 
by Michael Davies | Feb 25, 2018 | GIMP Tutorials
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to paint graphics on a face using GIMP – a free photo editing and manipulation software very similar to Photoshop. This is a pretty simple technique – which makes this tutorial great for beginners – but the... 
by Michael Davies | Feb 19, 2018 | GIMP Tutorials
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to place a picture inside your text, plus create a 3D pop-out effect with an element from your photo so that it appears the photo is popping out of the text! I use a free font called Advent Pro Bold which you can download... 
by Michael Davies | Feb 12, 2018 | GIMP Tutorials
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a professional flyer using the free (open source) graphic design and photo manipulation program GIMP, version 2.9.8. If you have an older version of GIMP (i.e. GIMP 2.8), you can still follow along as many of the... 
by Michael Davies | Jan 29, 2018 | GIMP Tutorials
Adding brushes to GIMP is as simple as finding the brushes you want online, and dragging them into the GIMP brushes folder. Well, there are technically a few other steps in there – but that’s essentially it! I’ll show you how easy it is to install... 
by Michael Davies | Jan 29, 2018 | GIMP Tutorials
In this tutorial, which has a video version on our YouTube channel, I’ll show you how to create a professional logo using GIMP 2.9.8 (download it here), which is the latest version of GIMP and is considered the “development version” since there are still a few bug... 
by Michael Davies | Jan 18, 2018 | GIMP Tutorials
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to combine some great GIMP photo editing and manipulation techniques with graphic design techniques to create a dynamic final composition – which in this case is an album cover (but can be whatever you would like it to be!),...
