Beginner

[neenj61]

 I'm looking for a basic beginners tutorial..and I mean I know nothing about Gimp!I just downloaded Gimp and I have no idea what to do.Thank you very much for your time.HELP!

Comments

[dischargie]

http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/

This is a link to the GIMP manual so you can read some basic informations.

[forevermyworld]

http://community.livejournal.com/good_tutorial/30236.html#cutid1

i found that tutorial very helpful, though it's made for PS, mostly everything is relatively the same.

[cool_spectrum]

When I first started using GIMP, I found it helpful to play with it. I learned more that way. I also read a lot of tutorials here at gimp_tutorial.

[caterfree10]

I started learning how to use GIMP by abusing screenshots, if I have to be honest. |D I still have some old files from when I played with the various filters and tools to learn what everything did so I could make interesting icons (and I can say I've definitely improved over the last two years - even if the improvement is far from steady due to not cracking it open as often as I could, lol x3).

After I saw what various things did, I started exploring tutorials on how to make certain effects to learn just how much I could do with GIMP. I also experimented with these tutorials to make the techniques my own. *nod*

[debris4spike]

Just to say Good Luck ... I only started about 5 months ago, and am really loving it.