The Gimp Page

Welcome to my GIMP resources. This is the first page that I devoted to the Gimp. Its grown considerably, and now I sponsor a number of pages including the Sparkle page (a plug-in), some tutorials and tips, The GIMP Documentation Project and the GIMP Wish List.

If you feel the background or text colors make this page hard to read then let me know. But let me know if they should be lightened or darkened or what. I aim to please.

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Contents:

Gimp Related:
• Examples, Tips, and Tutorials
  • An example logo using various plug-ins
  • Gimp Tips and Tricks for Creating Images
  • A Channel Ops Tutorial for Artists
  • Using PhotoCD formatted image files
• GIMP Developer Information and General Documentation
  • Release notes for GIMP version 0.6 beta
  • The GIMP Wish List
  • A Tutorial on debugging plug-ins
  • The GIMP Documentation Project
• Were you aware that the generally accepted Linux logo was created by our own Andreas Dilger (the man responsible for the Unix ports of POVRay) using the GIMP? Check out http://www.scranton.com/~jgraham/Linux/2.0/images/penguinlogo2.jpg and http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/logo/

  A new logo contest is going on (possibly, it may have ended by now). Check out http://ballot.box.com/linux/

Other Gimp related resources:
• The GIMP Home Page
• Archives of all three of the GIMP Mailing lists
• The Developers releases of GIMP - these versions of the GIMP are not for general consumption.
• Mena Quintero Federico < quartic@polloux.fciencias.unam.mx> has the Everybody loves The GIMP page. This is probably the best place to start learning about the Gimp.
• Jason Garman archives the Gimp User Discussion List at http://www.nesc.k12.ar.us/~garman/gimp-list/.
• Torsten Martinsen has written a number of plug-ins.
• GIMP: Live The Adventure!
• GIMP Plug-In Examples
• Tips, Tricks, and More

Other Graphics Related Resources:
• The Linux Graphics mini-Howto
• The Unix Graphics Utilities Page

If you have a page related to the Gimp, just email me and I'll add it here. You should also email Mena Quintero Federico so he can keep the more official list of resources.

In case you're wondering, no, I can't tell you how I made the graphic on this page. It took about 80 different images that were subtracted, added, composited, BCG'd till I was blue (and it was red), sparkled, spread, offset, and half a dozen other plug-ins'd to make. I was going to make a tips page on it, but it got way too complex. I can suggest that you get to be very familiar with the subtract, add, and bcg plug-ins. They are the most commonly used of the plug-ins I have. Lots of subtractions of images that are blurred and offset from "parent" images will eventually realize a 3D, glowing type of image. Thats not guaranteed, but it seems to work pretty well with text. Oh, and this image started out as text using a brushed font and a rounded-edge cylinder rendered with POV-Ray. The latter sort of got absorbed through the process of making this image, but it provided a good "gel-tab" shaped object with which to start.

Happy Gimp'ing!

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