This particular tutorial will cover installation, cropping, resizing, layers, basic coloring/sharpening, text, and file types.įirst up, getting the damn program, because that's at least half the battle. We'll be adding fancier stuff to it in a later tutorial, but that's going to involve some more advanced techniques. The official Gimp tutorial is also quite good, so I will refer to it as much as possible.įor this tutorial we will be making this simple icon: If you're somewhat familiar with the Gimp already, this might be really boring, though some of the things I use later might be useful. The purpose of this tutorial to show a complete newb how to use the basic features of the Gimp to make an icon using some of the common techniques that a lot of icon makers use. Plus, it works wonderfully in Linux, which is my operating system of choice. ![]() ![]() I know it has its flaws (boy, does it), and I know that it can be hard to love, but it is free (as in speech) and free (as in beer), and it is improving constantly.
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