50 Design Tutorials for Mastering Gimp

• January 25th, 2010
• Tutorials

The ultimate compilation of gimp design tutorials to take a novice and turn them into an expert, the perfect guide for anyone looking to learn or even master the ins and outs of Gimp.

Some Designers may see the title of the post and may be curious to learn more about what exactly Gimp, it’s simple a free alternative to Photoshop which has similar features and functions to photoshop. I’ve always said i wanted to learn gimp but for one reason or another i just have never had the time, patients and been committed to learning it. One day i decide to download a copy of gimp and was pleasantly surprised that it was free and thought it would be useful within the future when designing but with access to photoshop. I had a search around the internet for some Gimp tutorials but struggled immensely to find any decent ones, this is what lead to me creating this article i decided to put all the best tutorials which would you to learn and master Gimp all in to one post.

I hope you enjoy this post, feel free to share your favourite tutorials from the article and tuts which we may have missed out.

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1. Gimp Galaxy

2. Round Web 2.0 Button with a Metal Ring

3. Splattered Vector In GIMP

4. Bling

5. Tutorial: Beautiful Parrot Photo Manipulation in Gimp

6. MSNBC Style Effect

7. How to create Lightsaber effects

8. Apple Leaped Wallpaper

9. Fancy Glow Effects

10. Steampunk Tutorial

11. ADVANCE ORB

12. Gimp Cool Shapes Effect Tutorial

13. Gold Text Effect

14. Mac style Wallpaper

15. Gimp Sin City Tutorial

16. Gimp Tutorial: Awesome Bokeh Effect in Gimp

17. Make Your Photo Look Like a Hollywood Movie

18. Smelting text / Creating blood text

19. Transparent Glass Lettering

20. Creating Fireball and Explosion effect in Gimp

21. Easy Way to Create Light Effects in GIMP in 9 Steps

22. Designing iPod Touch in Gimp!

23. Colourful glowing text effect

24. Creative Composition

25. Smoke Scene Design

26. Hot text on flames / fire

27. Cool glowing text

28. Creating a Vista-like wallpaper

29. Modern Navigation

30. Flame Abstract Tutorial [gimp]

31. Making a pencil drawing from a photo

32. Make Gunge-Vector Style Art

33. Ornate Typographic Illustration Tutorial

34. Fire

35. Gimp Tutorial: Add HDR-like effect to a normal potrait picture.

36. Just for fun pt 2

37. Experiment on 3D Text Effect in Gimp

38. How to Design a Dramatic Winged Dragon with Gimp

39. Beautiful Planet Effect in Gimp Tutorial

40. Volks Logo Tutorial

41. Gimp Tutorial: Creating Dark Surreal Image in Gimp and Irfan View.

42. Glossy bolt tutorial in GIMP

43. Gimp Talk

44. Gimp Talk

45. Creating a Diorama Effect

46. Water In Nature

47. Gimp Tutorial : Eclipse Wallpaper

48. Creating The Light Text Effect in Gimp

49. Cool Typography Design Poster in Gimp

50. Abstract Wave Effect