Mar 5
Make A Mac Button In GIMP
A tutorial anyone can follow for making an attractive mac-style button.
Jan 11
Make a button with rounded corners
Here is a Gimp tutorial that will show you how to create shiny buttons with rounded corners.
Dec 19
Salvaging an Image with Blown Out Highlights using GIMP...
This Gimp tutorial will show you how to repair blown out highlights. Blown out highlights are highlights that lack any detail, and are just white.
Dec 11
Aura Tutorial for Gimp
This tutorial will show you how to make an interesting glowing aura effect. This is great as a background for your forum sig, but can be used for anything.
Dec 11
Gimp Tutorial - Bump Animation
This Gimp tutorial will show you how to create a bump animation. This effect causes the image to appear as if it's being bumped forward, and then falls back into place. This can be used for a forum sig, or anything else you want to spice up.
Dec 11
Animated Rain Effect
This Gimp tutorial will show you how to create an animated rain effect. This effect is often seen in forum sigs, and is useful if you want to add a little animation to your sig.
Nov 6
See How Easily You Can Create a Neutral Density Filter
This tutorial will show you how to create a “digital” neutral density (ND) filter for your image in The GIMP.
Nov 4
Creating Apple's “Shiny Table” Effect
A recurring theme throughout Apple’s graphical style is the “shiny table” mirror effect. Examples can be seen in 3- or 4-person video chats in iChat, the icons in Front Row, and countless other places. This effect blends well with Apple’s simple yet visually appealing style. This GIMP tutorial will step you through the creation of [...]
Jul 22
Glossy Transparent Buttons - Gimp 1.2
This Gimp Tutorial will show you how to use the Gimp to create glossy effects. The tutorial creates the effect on a sphere, and is very similar to the glossy effect made famous by the Mac.
Jul 22
Simulating Film Grain with The GIMP
One of the much-touted advantages of digital cameras over film cameras is (at least at reasonable ISO levels) a silky-smooth absence of grain in your images. Graininess in traditional film prints or film scans is due to several contributing factors. With digital you can of course get film grain's counterpart, sensor noise.
Jul 21
The new Gimp Fire Tutorial
The Gimp has steadily grown in popularity over the years. It is available on many platforms, including Windows and Mac OS X. There's been a lot of great websites for tutorials on The Gimp over the years, but one tutorial that seemed to be lacking is a good realistic fire tutorial.
Jul 18
Image Pipes - Part 2
An image pipe is a series of pixmap brushes combined into one, so that one or more of the pixmaps from the image pipe is drawn as you click or drag the mouse.
Jul 18
Image Pipes - Part 1
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 [...]
Jul 12
Ron Scott's Tutorial - Glassy Spheres
Here is one way to make glass spheres that contain diffuse glows, highlights, halos and specular reflections of the surrounding environment. An interesting feature is the extensive use of selection feathering and cutting.
Jul 12
The Scott Effect
The effect is useful for realistic rendering of irregular and corrupted surfaces. It is based on the observation that rust and corrosion, for example, begin at random “nucleation” sites and propagate in a random fashion.
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