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Outside GIMP Links
Categories:
Web Articles by the author •
Sources for Freely Usable Images •
GIMP Community Sites •
Useful GIMP Web Sites •
Collections of GIMP tutorials •
Good Tutorials for Specific Projects •
Art Sites and Imaging Contests •
GIMP Brushes and Other Resources •
Collections of GIMP Plug-Ins •
Some Selected GIMP Plug-Ins •
Useful info on writing plug-ins •
Web Articles by the author:
- Image Formats for the Web (and Elsewhere)
- Tips on using a Wacom tablet on Linux
- Tips on Building the GIMP from Source
An Online GIMP Course which was offered in 2005 via LinuxChix.
Video of a 90-minute GIMP tutorial given by the author at LinuxConf AU 2007: available as a downloadable Ogg Theora file (see the Ogg FAQ for how to play Ogg Theora on Windows and Mac), or as a Java based stream.
GIMP plug-ins and scripts by the author.
Outside Links
Sources for Freely Usable Images
(These are the links mentioned in Chapter 12 of the book, plus a few more.)GIMP Community Sites
for sharing artwork, tips etc. Most of these have tutorial sections, and there's a lot of overlap between this list and the list of tutorial sites, below.Useful GIMP Web Sites
- GIMP.org, home of all things GIMPish
- GIMP 2.4: The new features, a fairly up-to-date list of changes from 2.2 to 2.4
- Digital Image Representation, a discussion of different image formats and the difference between raster and vector images.
- Tools on flamingtext.com Lots of weird and neat uses of GIMP.
- GUG: Gimp User Group
- Gimp Cheat Sheet in PDF
- Blending Modes
- Edge Detection in GIMP A comparison of the various different ways to do edge detection
- Examples of parametric brushes
- The author's page on Linux and Open Source Imaging.
Collections of GIMP tutorials
- GIMP.org tutorials
- WinGIMP tutorials (useful tutorials no matter what platform you use)
- GIMP Guru
- GIMPtutorials.net
- GUG GIMP tutorials (this site is down a lot. If it doesn't answer, check back later)
- GIMP tutorials on urveillance-video.com
- Tigert Labs tutorials
- Meet the GIMP video podcast tutorials
- gimpology.com
- Gimp Talk: a web forum for sharing GIMP tips
- GIMPusers
- Art Tutorials Wiki, a huge collection of pointers to tutorials on digital art (both GIMP and other programs) plus some original tutorials
Good Tutorials for Specific Projects
- Changing Sky Color by decomposing into H, S, and V layers. (This is unfortunately gone now, but you can get the text from the internet archive).
- Recompose the Sky, a newer tutorial based on the same technique.
- Masking hair with fine strands using the Channel Mixer
- Making rotateable animated brushes with GAP
- How to scan colour images from old books, with Gimp, in 18 easy steps showing decomposition into CMYK and back
- Scanning: How to Fix Colour Registration Errors
- How To Draw Cartoons from Scratch
- Getting Started with The GIMP: an informal tutorial
- CMYK Support in the GIMP on the Arch Linux wiki
- Glass and Plastic letters (in German)
- Making a Contrast Mask
- HDR with GIMP which also links to this Luminous Landscape PS tutorial.
- gimp-perl for animation post-processing
Art Sites and Imaging Contests
- GUG: the GIMP User Group
- Deviant Art
- Photoshop Contest (don't worry, you can use GIMP too)
- Worth 1000 such as this wonderful collection of animal hybrids
- SomethingAwful's 'Photoshop Phriday'
Collections of GIMP Brushes and Other Resources
- The Vault: GIMP brushes for painting (acrylics, pastels etc.)
- Helen's Images brushes -- the best set of naturalistic brushes (grass, bushes, etc.) I've found
Collections of GIMP Plug-Ins
- GIMP Plug-In Registry It's not always up to date, but it's worth searching here first.
- A static copy of the old GIMP Plug-in Registry
- GIMP FX Foundary
- GIMP Plug-ins @ Sourceforge
- Lasm's FX Effects for Gimp for photo manipulation
- IPX Plug-ins oriented toward image analysis, e.g. sharpening, edge detection
Some Selected GIMP Plug-Ins
- Resynthesizer helps in removing objects from a complicated textured background.
- GREYCstoration can remove noise from a photo, or cartoonify a photo.
- Exposure Blend for combining images with lighter and darker exposure to make a simulate HDR image
- Focus Blur lets you create all kinds of interesting effects simulating shallow depth of field.
- GAP: the GIMP Animation Package for making movies far beyond the simple animated GIF in Chapter 3.
- David's Batch Processor lets you make simple changes (rotate, crop, scale etc.) to a bunch of images at once.