GIMP is a GNU image manipulation program, does that explain enough? Probably not, it is a graphic editing/creating program that is available free for Windows, Linux and Mac. Last night while surfing for holiday WordPress themes, I went to wiki to find out a list of all the holidays in the US and happened upon a site for free and paid PhotoShop tutorials. So I followed one of the tutorials using GIMP and created the above graphic. Since I didn’t find as many themes as I had hoped, one for Valentine’s Day, Christmas, Winter, and St. Patrick’s Day, I decided that I would create a few graphics to substitute in current themes. Unfortunately, when I created the above image, I did so in a rather small resolution in case I didn’t like the result, so I can’t enlarge it. So now I need to redo it all, grr, in a larger size.
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Hi
I’m so pleased to find your piece on the GIMP. Glad you are promoting the GIMP too.
Your art is good and I hope to improve mine through practice.
I’ve just started blogging snippets of GIMP stuff mainly because I do something and then some time later, having not used those skills, I forget how I’ve done it. So I hope to create a set of reference material for most of my graphic work.
As an example of this, I created the banner on http://www.bufferlass.org.uk some time ago and while I know I used gradients, overlays and all sorts of stuff - I doubt I could recreate that exact graphic again. So I decided it would be useful for me to create some notes and I figured it would be good to share.
I agree themes and general design resources seem to be in short supply for the GIMP.
There are GIMP related tutorials on Deviant Art, http://www.deviantart.com/ as well as more PhotoShop tutorials.
Good luck with your GIMPing. May all your graphics be beautiful.
Regards
Lesley
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debra reply on August 21st, 2008 1:31 am:
I must confess that I followed a tutorial from the website linked in my post. Granted, I “translated” it from PhotoShop to GIMP, but the idea is not original, just my interpretation of it. The orange mosaic header is mine, but again I used several of the built in effects from GIMP after painting my canvas with plain orange. I am looking forward to seeing more of your work.
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