Fri 24 Aug 2007
For those of you not familiar with the GIMP image editor., it’s a powerful cross-platform image editor licensed under the GNU GPL. Out of the box, GIMP is pretty powerful, but it can parallel (or as some might claim - exceed) the usability of Photoshop once you add some community-created plugins or scripts.
In 2006 a thread started at nintendo.com detailing some very useful tricks for the GIMP image editor. While the tutorials on this site are geared towards creating and editing video-game related images (signatures, banners, avatars, etcetera), the tips can be quite useful for all GIMP users.
The tutorial listings on this forum number in the hundreds, with such useful guides as:
Make sure you scroll through the entire thread. The majority of the how-to’s are on the replies.
September 6th, 2007 at 5:58 am
[…] Gimp is a fun little graphics editor. It’s infinitely expandable with a huge list of plugins and scripts. Even if you’re not a graphic artist, sometimes you just need to edit photos or pics. There’s also a lot of community support for GIMP. I mention a few great tutorials in one of my previous posts. […]