Create a metallic glass button - Gimp tutorial

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Glow Effect- This tutorial will show you how to create a cool effect using GIMP!

Abstract Explosion Tutorial - A VERY cool advanced explosion effect in GIMP

The information, while not in-depth is aimed to get people acquainted with the quickmask (which I never even noticed until I learned about it in my Photoshop class). I'm aware there are a few other tutorials that mention the quickmask, but they seemed to use it as only a part of what they were doing. This video is my attempt to give you the basic information about it, so that you at least have an idea how it works.

In this tutorial I'll show you how to get this pretty nice glowing text effect using GIMP. In my opinion glowing text looks much better if you have text with a rounded font. Take a look at the rounded corners-tutorial if you want your special font to be rounded off.

How to create an urban-style piece of artwork in Gimp. In other words, a grunge style of artwork used mainly in advertising.