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."
"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.
