Beginners Guide to the GIMP - Gimp tutorial

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This effect can be used in many ways, from a simple way to paint repeated images, or as sophisticated texture generation. The flexibilty in the way images are sequenced and composited to the canvas on the image can make creating a image pipe to do what you want seem difficult. However, for almost all common image pipes it is easy to set them up.

This eLearn (tutorial) from LearnHawk gets you started with The GIMP, it shows you how to install the GIMP, then there is a section on ‘Blur Background, Leave Foreground Sharp'. This should be helpful to anyone new to the GIMP.

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use GIMP's layers in a different manner. Unlike it's default composite function, using GIMP as an animation package requires you to think of every layer as of an animation frame. We'll discuss the two different frame disposal methods later on. For now let us think about every layer as of a separate frame.

Using Gimp, Learn to create an artistic black and white border for your photography.

Real-world images have lots of noise: film grain, scanner lines, CCD noise, paper texture, and just about anything else you can imagine. Computer-generated images, on the other hand, tend to be too real. If you need to make computer-generated images look like real-world ones, then this tutorial is for you.