Tips, Tricks, and other Stuff

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Kai Krause

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Without question, the biggest help I have in designing grapics elements is Kai's Power Tips and Tricks online. Although the tips are designed primarily for Adobe Photoshop, the techniques and theory adapt exceedingly well to the GIMP. There are also several great tips on the MetaTools homepage, as well as some interesting biography on this image manipulation master.

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Me (Zach Beane)

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Layers Introduction

Trippy Circles (0.99.x only)

Annoyances!

Plug-ins: Before and After

How to add fonts to X, and GIMP in the process.

How to make punched-out text.

Quck and dirty relief tricks

Better than relief: Bump Mapping Rules!

Bump Mapping II: Canvas textures

Funky Cow Textures

Working in HSV space

Rough Text the Easy Way

Ghostly Halos and Auras

Fun with Tiles

Lots of Typefaces are no longer available

Channel Ops Illustrated

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Other Tips and Tricks

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How to add new plugins to the GIMP by Frederico Mena Quintero

Frozen Text by Ed Mackey

Math plugin tips by Jan Hubicka

A saucerful of GIMP tips by Michael J. Hammel

GIMP: Tips! Tricks! & Fun! by Kang SoonLai

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Contributions

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Tasteful Animated GIFs using the GIMP, from Hank Shiffman

Detailed Composite Example by Freddy Golos

Creating rounded text by Mike Phillips

Looking Behind the GIMP by Thomas Schulze

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GIMP Home Page

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The GIMP home page has a set of tutorials for GIMP-specific actions. Ignore the cross-fading tutorial; you can do that in one step with the Composite chanop. (sorry Toby)