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I don’t really remeber when and where, but once I have read that GIMP isn’t suitable for pseudo 3D graphics. Nothing more fallible! I will try to prove it wrong. Read More

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Here is another article of our “GIMP tricks” series. This time you are going to learn a simple trick: how to make your teeth look really white on a photograph. By the way, perhaps it’s the right time to visit a dentist? Read More

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Today I’m going to teach you a method I use to fake a fill flash. The objective is to lighten the dark areas without blowing out the highlights. Read More

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If you are new to GIMP, and wondering what the Fuzzy Select Tool is, it is like the Magic Wand in Photoshop. With it, you can select similar areas of a layer or image base on color. It is best suited for solid color areas, depending on the threshold setting, it can actually skip over small gaps in your image andselect areas that aren't touching each other. It can be a fun tool to use, how well it Read More

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You could buy a used car -- albeit not a very good one -- for the same scratch it takes to pick up a copy of Adobe Photoshop, the de facto standard in high-end photo editing software. Or a pair of GTX 285 graphics cards for that killer SLI setup you've always wanted. We could go on, but at $700 for a piece of software, Photoshop's MSRP hardly needs put into perspective. In short, it's expensive. Read More

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Having used both GIMP and Adobe Photoshop I must say I personally believe GIMP is much better for common folks like you and me who need a relatively simpler set of tools to make quick edits to our Vacation pictures. Photoshop is undoubtedly more useful graphic designers, however for making quick tweaks, nothing beats GIMP. Recently GIMP 2.6 was released, so I decided to make this tutorial for tho Read More

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Read this page to get the most from using GIMP. I hope that these will make your life with The GIMP easier. This article is the result from a couple of years experience with using the Windows-version of The GIMP regularly. The GIMP used to focus on functionality (which is good) instead of being userfriendly. However, with GIMP 2.x this has changed. Now the software is much easier to use and under Read More

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A vignette is a photograph whose edges fade out gradually. This tutorial shows you a non-destructive way to create this effect for your photos in the free GIMP photo editor using a layer mask. This is a good introduction to working with masks and layers in the GIMP. This tutorial uses GIMP 2.6. It should work in later versions, but there may be differences with older versions. Read More

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