FAQs, Help, and Tutorials

Beginners Guide to The GIMP
A tutorial for complete beginners with The Gimp, explaining most of its basic (yet not always intuitive) functionality.
http://bachue.com/alejo/gimptutorial.html

Creating A Web Plaque: A GIMP Tutorial
This tutorial takes you through the process I used to create the so called web plaque.
http://www.disordered.org/GimpPlaque.html

Creating Animated Brushes (Image Hose)
A Gimp Image Pipe allows you to spray out series of full color pixmaps. To make it more flexible, the order the images are painted onto the campus can depend on direction, angle, speed, or other factors.
http://adrian.gimp.org/gimppipe/

Dov Grobgeld
A Tutorial for Perl Gimp users.
http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/gimp/perl-tut.html

Drawing with the Gimp
Larry Ewing's drawing with the Gimp.
http://www.isc.tamu.edu/~lewing/gimp/

Enhancement Tutorial
Photo touch up and enhancement in the GIMP.
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Haven/5179/

GIMP Developer FAQ
Answers technical questions. Provides other online resources for IRC and email lists. Not updated recently.
http://www.rru.com/~meo/gimp/faq-dev.html

GIMP Tutorials by Zach Beane
GIMP tutorials covering vignettes using quickmask, desaturation, punch-out, and alien glow.
http://www.xach.com/gimp/tutorials/

GIMP User FAQ
GIMP User Frequently Asked Questions
http://www.rru.com/~meo/gimp/faq-user.html

Grokking the GIMP
by Carey Bunks, This is actually a book. You can either download or read free html version online or buy the hard copy.
http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/index.html

How to Make an A4 Poster Using the Gimp
The tutorial is composed of five lessons each broken up into particular areas of gimp expertise. The tutorials are designed for newcomers to the Gimp, and to Linux. By Kester Clegg.
http://www.ylug.cwc.net/Tutorial/Poster.html

Introduction to The Gimp
Tutorial for beginners who are not graphic artists, introductory guide on how to use the program.
http://members.cox.net/wcommerc/the_gimp/the_gimp.shtml

Kevin Turner
Writing a GIMP Plug-In
http://gimp-plug-ins.sourceforge.net/doc/Writing/html/plug-in.html

Mini-Howto
Document describes the basic configuration of Gtk Themes for the GIMP running under Win32 systems.
http://www.rixsoft.com/gimpwin/gtk-themes.html

Obscura
A tutorial about creating text with an 'outlined text effect'.
http://www.obscurasite.com/artstuff/tutorials/gimp-text-outline/

Scheme Tutorial for Gimp
This document will try to be a brief introduction to Scheme, just teaching the essentials in order to write script-fu scripts, by Dov Grobgeld.
http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/gimp/scheme-tut.html

Snow Flakes
Creating Fractal Snow Flakes with GIMP IFS Compose
http://geocities.com/nevilo/ifssnow.htm

Stefan's GIMP Site
GIMP is powerful enough to be used by professionals, but still free. Pictorial tutorial.
http://hem.passagen.se/sberge/gimpdemo/gimpex.html

Tileable Textures
Making tileable textures with gradient brushes
http://adrian.gimp.org/texture_tut/