Free Gimp tutorial PDFs

Posted at 4:34pm on Friday January 15th 2010

Issue 128 of Linux Format magazine carries the last instalment of our Gimp tutorial series. It's been going on-and-off for years now, with the latest batch running from June 2008 until now.

Although we're sad to see the Gimp tutorial go away for the time being, we'd like to thank its author - the incredibly prolific Michael J. Hammel - for all the awesome work he's done over the years, and we're happy to announce that we're releasing high-res PDFs of Michael's 18 most recent GIMP tutorials for everyone to enjoy.

LXF readers have, we hope, learned a lot following in Michael's footsteps over the years, and it's great to be able to share these tutorials with an even wider audience. In these tutorials, you'll learn how to create all sorts of fun, weird and wonderful effects with Gimp, and the step-by-step guide should make it easy for users of all levels to follow.

Read on for download instructions and more information about what's inside...

What's inside

We're giving you the high-res PDFs - the same ones we use to actually print the pages of the magazine - which means they'll look awesome on your screen, or printed out. The down-side of this is that the files are quite big - the total download is 90MB.

You're free to use these tutorials for personal use or for non-commercial offline redistribution - ie, you can give them away at your LUG, share them with colleagues at your office, or burn them to a CD as a backup. Please don't put them online; if someone else wants to download them, direct them to this URL.

Here's a full list of the tutorials:

	Product design for geeks Geek is Chic! We show how a little penguin (and a little bit of Wilber) makes for fine fashionable wear.		Shattered face She's breakin' up, captain! Our Gimp supremo shows how to make someone's face fragment and drift away in a few simple steps.
	Leopard-style icons A Leopard-based desktop starts with professionally styled icons. In this tutorial our Gimp expert makes icon design a breeze.		Sin City style Our art guru goes all Frank Miller in this rainy, grainy Gimp graphics tutorial. One day a real rain's gonna come...
	Summer of love Our Gimp wizard lets you ride the retro rave of sunbeams and silhouettes in this tutorial.		Travel to the stars Revel in the majesty of creation as our Gimp guru leads you through the process of making stunning stellar art.
	Going to warp speed Want to explore strange new worlds and seek new inspirations in your art? Here's how to make the jump using Gimp.		Create a fire goddess Our graphics guru continues his journey on the fickle wings of inspiration. He invites you to fire up Gimp and join him on his travels.
	Decay in the city Even experts can learn something new. Our graphics guru shares his experiences using a Wacom tablet with Gimp Paint Shop.		Enhance the interface Gimp contains a little-known back door to some powerful layour and preset features. We pick the lock and root through the stack.
	iPod fun Tune into pop culture with Gimp. Our guru creates an iPod advertisement faster than you can thumb your dial.		Use other tools Mixing raster, vector and text is easier than you think. We explain how to integrate Gimp with Inkscape, Scribus and OpenOffice.org.
	Text effects With a blur, a colourise and some guides, our expert uses digital aging to add style and credits to the wine bottle project.		3D effects in Gimp Master guides and paths to create 3D-looking images with ease.
	Speedy colour fixes Smile big and show your colours as we guide you through quick colour fixes for your photos.		Printing and colour Gimp, CUPS and Gutenprint are a fellowship that can lead you on your quest for high quality prints.
	Know your selections Everyone knows selections, right? But how well do you really know them? In this tutorial, we get tricky with some awkward images.		Creative text with Gimp You can do more with text than you might think, as our graphics guru demonstrates.

How to get it

Click here to get the free Gimp tutorials. They're in a .zip file, total of 90MB in size.

Also, if you like Michael's work and want more Gimp action, check out his book - The Artist's Guide to GIMP Effects: Creative Techniques for Photographers, Artists, and Designers.

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Your comments

Thanks!

Carl (not verified) - January 15, 2010 @ 8:34pm

Downloading it now. Thank you!

aloha

-.- (not verified) - January 15, 2010 @ 9:06pm

ktv zeros xD

thanks a lot

lacika (not verified) - January 15, 2010 @ 9:54pm

hey thanks a lot
i always read the articles to get ideas and tricks

Thanky.

BoBTFish - January 16, 2010 @ 12:24am

These look great, thanks a lot. I've always had a bit of trouble getting to grips with GIMP.

thanks you

Mindaugas (not verified) - January 16, 2010 @ 8:48am

Thanks!

Now lets seed!

single windowed mode

johnvile - January 16, 2010 @ 11:20am

anyone tried single windowed mode yet in Gimp2.7? I can't install it yet. will single window mode temp me away from Photoshop forever? Or is it just same old same old?
I'm quite eager to try it out.

Muchas Gracias

Simok (not verified) - January 17, 2010 @ 2:46am

Desde Chile, Muchas gracias por este gran aporte.

Book Not Available

Charlie Ullman (not verified) - January 18, 2010 @ 1:23pm

Looks like his book isn't available at either amazon.co.uk or amazon.com. I'd happily pay for a bound version of his collected tutorials, rather than go to the faff of downloading and printing them all.

single window mode

Boudewijn Rempt (not verified) - January 18, 2010 @ 5:14pm

Well, I am running Gimp from git updated daily, and single window mode is _very_ nice -- it almost makes Gimp look like Krita (disclaimer: I am the Krita maintainer). Sure, there are still little infelicities, but then, it's being worked on right now. Good stuff, well worth the cycles to compile it and keep track of.

¿Alguien puede poner una descarga directa?

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - January 18, 2010 @ 9:37pm

Es que en el el trabajo no puedo usar programas para descargar torrents.
Gracias.

Thanks !!

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - January 19, 2010 @ 7:24am

but is anybody willing to upload it to i.e. rapidshare ?

blender

bananaoomarang (not verified) - January 19, 2010 @ 1:20pm

How about some blender 2.5 tutorials so we can all get ready for the future.

Gracias!!!

Luois (not verified) - January 19, 2010 @ 1:55pm

Desde Perú, muchas gracias x el aporte

Ubuntu One?

HandyGandy (not verified) - January 19, 2010 @ 3:26pm

Why not put it on one fo your Ubuntu One accounts
and make it public? ( If I understand Ubuntu One correctly. )
Seems a good thing to put "in the coud".

...

HandyGandy (not verified) - January 19, 2010 @ 3:27pm

also seems to be a good thing to put "in the clkoud" too.

Some days you cannot win.

HandyGandy (not verified) - January 19, 2010 @ 3:38pm

Page deliberately left blank.

Splendid! Thanks!

Grateful Penguin (not verified) - January 19, 2010 @ 7:16pm

Gents, there is, truly, no stopping you. Another fine offering for the unwashed masses (and me).

Thanks!

Important reminder

TuxRadar - January 19, 2010 @ 10:09pm

Everyone: we're giving away a lot of content here, and the only thing we're asking you to do is not redistribute the content online. Here's what it says above:

"You're free to use these tutorials for personal use or for non-commercial offline redistribution - ie, you can give them away at your LUG, share them with colleagues at your office, or burn them to a CD as a backup. Please don't put them online; if someone else wants to download them, direct them to this URL."

We think that's pretty clear. That includes RapidShare. That includes Ubuntu One. That includes your personal web server. Please don't redistribute the files online; point people here. Yes, some people have trouble with BitTorrent, and so in 48 hours we'll be providing a direct download link for the files so that everyone can get it.

We know this is onerous, because after all the web is made for sharing, but we need to be able to track how many people are downloading the tutorials, otherwise we'll never get permission to release more. If you redistribute the files online, you're just shooting yourself in the foot.

Thanks, these are some great

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - January 20, 2010 @ 4:16am

Thanks, these are some great tutorials. Another site that has amazing video tutorials is http://yourvideoproducts.com/masterthegimp/?e=tutorial
Combine with the pdfs, and you'll be a master at Gimp in no time:)

Apologies

HandyGandy (not verified) - January 20, 2010 @ 6:42am

When you said BitTorrent only, I figured that there was some difficulty involved in other methods of downloading vis a vis bandwidth.

When I suggested Ubuntu One I was suggesting it as a possible solution to the bandwidth problem for TuxRadar approved personnel aka the *editors* put it on one of their Ubuntu One accounts.

After all my years on the net, I should have anticipated that some young overexcited moro^H^H^H^H person would put it up somewhere for download.

Sorry

downloading it

esse (not verified) - January 20, 2010 @ 12:07pm

Why don't you post it on megaupload or rapidshare or any other server to download it directly? It will be a good alternative to don't saturate you server and allow us to download it without BitTorrent.

Thanks

Eskerrik asko

rafa espada (not verified) - January 25, 2010 @ 9:36am

Eskerrik asko = Thanks!!!

In basque

Great

Silvia (not verified) - January 27, 2010 @ 10:09am

Thank you very much for your work and for sharing it!

Thanks, If i ever make something of myself.....

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - January 28, 2010 @ 11:53pm

I'll owe you.

sedot gan

bluemeda (not verified) - February 12, 2010 @ 12:42pm

Ke TKP..
ijin sedot.

excelente!

elder (not verified) - March 3, 2010 @ 8:52am

Muy bien!
Gracias por los PDF

Xenial! (Great!)

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - March 31, 2010 @ 10:14am

Moitas grazas! (thank you very much!)

Thanks, but there is a missing file ?

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - April 3, 2010 @ 1:17am

Thanks, thanks & more thanks !!

I have downloaded the zip, but...
I have a doubt !! May be missing a file inside the zip,
specifically the "LXF112.tut_gimp.pdf" file?

Regards

Alejandro
Santiago, CHILE
SouthAmerica

Many thanks for this

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - April 26, 2010 @ 3:22pm

Many thanks for this compilation. :) \o/

Muchas gracias, se valora

Sebastian (not verified) - May 21, 2010 @ 12:35am

Muchas gracias, se valora mucho estos tutoriales...

Thank you!

Rolf Steinort (meetthegimp.org) (not verified) - May 23, 2010 @ 2:36pm

Nothing much more to say. ;-)

I'll point to this site in my next video podcast about GIMP.

Thanks

LOrdCaos (not verified) - June 14, 2010 @ 12:36am

Muchas gracias, descargando...

Gracias

NJB (not verified) - August 30, 2010 @ 11:43pm

Excelentes Datos y explicaciones, ya los descarge y puse en practica XD

Free Gimp tutorial PDFs

What's inside

Product design for geeks

Shattered face

Leopard-style icons

Sin City style

Summer of love

Travel to the stars

Going to warp speed

Create a fire goddess

Decay in the city

Enhance the interface

iPod fun

Use other tools

Text effects

3D effects in Gimp

Speedy colour fixes

Printing and colour

Know your selections

Creative text with Gimp

How to get it

Your comments

Thanks!

aloha

thanks a lot

Thanky.

thanks you

single windowed mode

Muchas Gracias

Book Not Available

single window mode

¿Alguien puede poner una descarga directa?

Thanks !!

blender

Gracias!!!

Ubuntu One?

...

Some days you cannot win.

Splendid! Thanks!

Important reminder

Thanks, these are some great

Apologies

downloading it

Eskerrik asko

Great

Thanks, If i ever make something of myself.....

sedot gan

excelente!

Xenial! (Great!)

Thanks, but there is a missing file ?

Many thanks for this

Muchas gracias, se valora

Thank you!

Thanks

Gracias

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