GIMP Tutorials - Learning The GIMP

Learn a very easy photo edit you can do in GIMP using the Brightness-Contrast feature.

GIMP Levels adjustments are a quick way to make your photos look better. If you've ever opened the Levels dialog in GIMP, it can look a little overwhelming, but it is a very simple tool to use.

Making Curves adjustments to your photos in GIMP can help to quickly improve their appearance. The Curves feature in GIMP can look quite intimidating, but it is very intuitive to use. In fact you can get good results from fiddling with Curves without really understanding what you are doing.

The Display Navigation palette in GIMP is an easy and convenient way to pan and zoom the image you are working on.

These are a selection of handy keyboard shortcuts for GIMP users.

GIMP offers a good range of tools for making selections that allow you to make quick and simple selections or more advanced selections. Here's a summary of all the selection tools available in GIMP with links to further information on each selection tool.

GIMP can open and save a variety of file types and these are some of the most popular.

The Crop Tool in GIMP offers a variety of options that change the way that the tool operates. Learn how to use the crop tool in GIMP and adjust cropping options for the best results.

Learn about the allow growing option for GIMP's crop tool.

A tutorial on how to draw a love heart in GIMP using just a few tools. The basic heart shape can be used in your Valentine's Day cards and projects.

An introduction to the Supernova filter in GIMP for creating lens flare and starburst lighting effects. The Supernova filter in GIMP is a fairly flexible tool that can be used to enhance photos with naturalistic effects or to apply highly stylized effects to fantasy images or designs.

This tutorial shows how to add a fake sun to a photo using the Supernova filter in GIMP.

This tutorial shows you how to add a fake Lomo effect to your photos using GIMP.

Learn how to create a custom double-sided greeting card with the free software GIMP using your own photo or graphics and text.

Snowflakes downloaded from Make-a-Flake can be easily edited in GIMP to change the color and remove the white background.

This tutorial will show you how to draw a simple Christmas tree in GIMP using basic techniques which can be carried over to many other projects.

Photoshop brushes can be used in GIMP to make the free pixel based image editor even more powerful. This tutorial shows you how you can extend GIMP by installing the many free Photoshop custom brushes that are available online.

This simple tutorial shows how to add a fake snow effect to a photo using GIMP.

This is a simple spray graffiti style text tutorial that will show you how to create the effect of spray painted lettering in GIMP.

This is a simple GIMP tutorial to show how to draw a ghost with the Paths Tool.

This simple tutorial shows a GIMP digital photo editing technique to straighten a horizon in a photo or align a picture which is crooked by using the corrective option in the rotate tool.

The GIMP Rotate Tool can be used in several ways thanks to the tool options that we look at in this tutorial.

This tutorial to make dripping blood text in GIMP is ideal for Halloween, but this technique also can be adapted to produce dripping paint text, if you want the effect of simple graffiti. There are a few steps needed to achieve this effect, but it is a simple one and suitable for complete newcomers to the free pixel-based image editor GIMP.

This tutorial shows you a simple technique for adding a fake rain effect to your photos using the free pixel-based image editor GIMP. Even relative newcomers will find that they are able to produce exciting results following these steps.

This tutorial shows how to use GIMP to produce a rubber stamp effect text graphic. This tutorial produces the effect of a rubber stamp on paper, but the technique can be used in many ways to produce distressed grunge effects, both for print and web.

GIMP offers users with basic experience the tools to produce simple animated GIF files. Learn how to produce an animated GIF in GIMP with this tutorial.

The GIMP Color Picker Tool has several tool options that are easily overlooked but can make the tool function in different ways.

This article shows you how to use the Foreground Select Tool in the free image editor GIMP. The Foreground Select Tool attempts to make complex selections in an automatic way.

GIMP's Foreground Select Tool can be a very effective way to make complex and difficult selections.

The Fuzzy Select Tool in GIMP is a quick and easy way to select areas of an image that would be far too complex to achieve with many of the other GIMP selection tools.

The GIMP Scissors Select Tool can be a quick way to select objects with strong edge contrast.

A look at how to use GIMP's Blend Modes to fake some basic adjustment layer effects, and to bring non-destructive editing to GIMP users.

This step by step tutorial will show you how GIMP's Select By Color Tool can be used to make complex selections to change colors in a picture.

This article quickly looks at the range of options available when using the Select By Color Tool in GIMP.

GIMP offers users the option of saving images as TIFFs, which are a great format for users who want to save their images at the maximum possible quality by choosing not to use compression.

Here we look at the relatively simple steps needed to save a PNG file in GIMP, the free pixel-based image editor.

Saving Images as JPEGs in GIMP - How to Save a JPEG in GIMP

Almost everyone who has ever taken a snap at a party or event in low light using their on-camera flash will be familiar with red eye. The phenomenon is caused by light from the flash being reflected from the blood vessels in the back of the eye and gives the pupils of those in the picture a bright red color that can look rather odd. This problem can be easily corrected by using free pixel-based …

By default, many tools and commands in GIMP have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them. Those that don't have default settings can have shortcuts assigned using the GIMP Keyboard Shortcut Editor , as explained in our Keyboard Shortcut Editor article . This technique can also be used to change shortcuts to settings that suit you better. There is, however, another way for GIMP users to change and as…

Discover how GIMP offers an easy way to add and change keyboard shortcuts using the Keyboard Shortcut Editor.

GIMP keyboard shortcuts are a great time saving feature that can help GIMP users to speed up their work flow when working with this popular image editor.

In this tutorial I'll show you how you can achieve the glossy text effect using the free and open source image editor, GIMP.

Here's a quick and easy way to give your photo a sepia tone effect with the free GIMP photo editor. Best of all, it's completely non-destructive, so if you change your mind, you can go back to the edited photo easily.

A vignette is a photograph whose edges fade out gradually. This tutorial shows you a non-destructive way to create this effect for your photos in the free GIMP photo editor using a layer mask. This is a good introduction to working with masks and layers in the GIMP.

One of the more popular photo effects you may have seen is where a photo is converted to black and white, except for one object in the photo which is made to stand out by keeping it in color. This tutorial shows you a non-destructive way to do it using a layer mask in the free photo editor The GIMP.

Most of you probably have some photos of tall buildings in your collection where the sides appear to slant inward at the top, due to the perspective from which the photo was taken. We can correct this with the perspective tool in the GIMP.

We probably all have pictures we took when the camera was not perfectly level, resulting in a skewed horizon line, or crooked object. I'm going to show you how easy it is to correct a crooked photo with the rotate tool in The GIMP.

A 3D anaglyph image will appear three-dimensional when viewed through red/blue lenses. Here is technique for creating 3D anaglyphs in The GIMP.

"Here's a different take on stepping out of the box that would make a nifty photo effect for scrapbooks, greeting cards, newsletters, and brochures. You'll take a digital photograph, give it a white border as if it were a printed photo, and make the subject appear to climb out of the printed photograph."

GIMP's user interface is full of tools and features and this article briefly runs through the variety of feature types on offer

This article runs down the main tools included in GIMP's Toolbox

GIMP's Rectangle Select Tool can be a flexible and surprisingly versatile way to make selections.

The Tool Options dialog makes the Ellipse Select Tool a very flexible and versatile tool for making selections in the GIMP.

The Free Select Tool is a quick and easy way to make freehand selections in the GIMP.

The Paths Tool in GIMP can be a very flexible way to make selections that can be saved and reused.

How to Use the GIMP Paths Tool - A Introduction to Using the Paths Tool in GIMP

GIMP supports a wide range of file types meaning users should have no difficulty saving their work into a format suitable for the end purpose.

Saving Images as GIFs in GIMP - How to Save a GIF in GIMP

"This tutorial is for your first friendly contact witht GIMP. If the GIMP user maual discourages you because of it's complexity, if other tutorials do not invite you and if you failed painting a simple stickman, you are right. We'll do one togehter. My intention is not to show you much, I want to help you to dicover GIMP by showing you how to start."

"Beveled text (or 'Inner Bevel' as it is often called by people who have been using a certain other image manipulation program) is a quick and easy way to create spiffy logos and titles for web-pages and things like that."

"Bezier selection is a powerful tool in The Gimp. The rectangle- and ellipse-selections are not very flexible if you happen to need something more special. And since many of us gimpers don't have a graphics tablet, it's not so easy to make the mouse pointer move the way you want. Bezier selection fixes the problem by using smooth mathematical curves instead your own shaky mouse trail."

Introduction to The GIMP in English and French. Create a night-time landscape scene while learning the concept of layers in GIMP. Link to French translation is at the top of the page.

"Just like in Photoshop, there are numerous ways to convert an image to B/W in Gimp. I%u2019m going to cover a few of the more well known ways here. I%u2019m sure there are more, but these are the methods I regularly use."

"Simple techniques to create and edit animations using the Gimp."

"Some very expensive commercial products, such as Painter5, let you 'paint' with fire; others, such as Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro let you, using the tools at your disposal, create the illusion of an object on fire... In this article we show a procedure in five steps and eleven images, easily adapted to Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro, on how to creat fire effects with The GIMP."

This 25-page tutorial on drawing a paintbrush is suitable for more advanced GIMP users.

"Bezier selection can be used in many creative ways. Maybe the best thing in it is the smooth, beautiful curves it produces. But you can also use Bezier to create different polygonal shapes if you don't 'pull out the handles'."

"The first part of this book focuses on mastering core tools: layers, selections, masks, and colorspaces. The second part builds on the first by presenting an in-depth treatment of touchup, enhancement, compositing, rendering, and image creation for the web." The entire text of the book is online, or you can purchase a printed copy.

"In this article I will present the various brushes that GIMP offers and show how to create brushes. First we will look in detail at the brushes dialog, 'Brush selection', and the different brushes it contains. After that I will show you how to create your own brushes."

"In this article we show you with several examples what you can do to enhance your photos with The Gimp (the latest stable version when I wrote this was Gimp 1.2.5)."

"In this article I give some examples how you can easily create nice pictures using dingbats and The Gimp. The version of Gimp that was used for this article is Gimp-1.2.2."

"Gimp is a software exclusively 2D, but with a few tricks and thanks to the numerous tools that are available, it is possible to create an image in pseudo 3D."

"This tutorial shows how you can do vignette effects using a new feature of GIMP called QuickMask. QuickMask is a convenient way to modify selections using pixel-changing tools such as the paintbrush, eraser, or any plug-in filter. It lets you make very precise adjustments to your selections."

"A selection is used to isolate a specific part of the image in order to change it, independent of the rest of the image. You can copy, move, replace or filter a selection, and you can also change its colors/contrast/brightness or even apply an effect to it. The list of possibilities is endless."

Tips for user of the Windows port of GIMP, especially useful for those just starting to work with GIMP for Windows.

"Gimp can easily compete with the big names in picture editing. It has a tool, mask layers (similar to the fusion mask in Photoshop) which allows you to work on layers with great ease. With this method it is quite easy to go back and correct a corner without touching the layer itself since we're working on a mask which we can delete if the changes don't please us or apply if they are satisfying."

Creating text banners with The GIMP using layers.