Need Some Beginner Gfx Advice

[michaelper22 0]

I decided to go into some GFX stuuf before I go to camp. I am starting out with The Gimp, since Photoshop is way out of my price range. I found a couple of tutorials and managed to make something really basic out of them, but it's not much. If anyone knows where I could find some good beginner Gimp resources (brushes, ptterns, tutorials on how to use Gimp in any and every way possible), please tell me about it, because I sorta want to make something nice.

[Tom 0]

That's actually quite good for a beginner in GIMP. Not much to say since I moved onto photoshop after a few days of GIMP! GIMP is hard to make anything awesome out of, BUT I have seen marvalous work from GIMP masters!! so....just read more tuts, get people who use GIMP, to give you some criticism!!

[truefusion 3]

If you get well with GIMP, then when you get into PhotoShop everything will seem easy as pie. I've messed around with GIMP, and i gotta say it's pretty hard to do several things in it, but what you can do is pretty nice.

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

[michaelper22 0]

If you get well with GIMP, then when you get into PhotoShop everything will seem easy as pie. I've messed around with GIMP, and i gotta say it's pretty hard to do several things in it, but what you can do is pretty nice.
http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

I looked through there, and I can't really make much out of some of the tutorials. Are there any other good places to find GIMP tutorials? I would like some easy to understand guides to making some of the more popular types of graphics.
Edited June 20, 2006 by michaelper22 (see edit history)

[aminzzlink 1]

try , http://www.deviantart.com/ , go to browse and choose ressources then you will find brushes and actions of gimp , hope it help !!!!-Xakiru-

[michaelper22 0]

try , http://www.deviantart.com/ , go to browse and choose ressources then you will find brushes and actions of gimp , hope it help !!!!

-Xakiru-

 

I should have mentioned Deviantart too, I downloaded a whole bunch of brushes that I think are pretty nice. Anyway, I made something else with The Gimp today, see the attachment. I made a brushed background, a pixel grid, and a drop shadow on the text "Unite NYC's Buses" Edited June 20, 2006 by michaelper22 (see edit history)

[Albus Dumbledore 0]

my favorite:

http://forums.xisto.com/topic/6-what-php-editors-do-you-use/

WHY:

I like the background, and the positioning of everything, i like the background some pixel bluring in there, looks nice, i think i see some clouds back there too anyways, your name is a littlle blury, so are the edges of the render i can barley see the drop shadow on the text, but it is still a fairly good sig, i say its your best yet!

[truefusion 3]

I'm not aware if you tried the tutorials on the GIMP's website. But..

https://www.gimp.org/tutorials/

[michaelper22 0]

I'm not aware if you tried the tutorials on the GIMP's website. But..

 

https://www.gimp.org/tutorials/

 

Oh man, I looked there too. That's where I made at least one of my first things. But I didn't feel helped there either. I'm a lost case. The thing is, I want to learn about all of the GFX terminology and such, but there is only on place that comes close to it (http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/index.html), and even that's a bit freightening.

[asyn 0]

From someone who has used both extensively, you are really better off trying to work your way into Photoshop. Yes, Gimp is free and has the basic features to get started, but if you REALLY want to get into graphics then there really isn't a better choice that Photoshop.

Not to mention the professional benefits... often employers want people with Photoshop skills. I've yet to see one asking for Gimp skills.

Photoshop can be gotten on the cheap three different ways:
1) Student/Teacher discount. Know someone in school? Order the Academic version. $289
2) Get a Wacom tablet. They offer Photoshop for $299 with the purchase of a tablet. This might be the best route if you are serious about wanting to get into graphics and graphic design.
3) Upgrade from Elements. Most any camera or scanner comes with a copy of Elements now. Even if you don't have a copy, I'm sure someone you know has the CD that came with their camera/scanner and 9 times out of 10 they aren't using it.

...but... if you are stuck with Gimp for right now, pretty much any of the sites on dmoz.org's gimp section are good, just depends on what you are trying to do.
http://www.dmoz.org/search/?q=gimp+tutorials

[michaelper22 0]

I don't know if this will really help, but I am trying to buy Photoshop Elements. Someone told me that it's very limited, but I am sort of getting annoyed by Gimp's interface, and I want to get a glimpse of what Photoshop is so that if I one day decide to buy CS2, I'll know what to expect.

[God-Of-Earth 0]

I personall dont have CS2 i use Cs v8 and it does me fine. Since i havnt used cs2 though sombody else might be able to tell you more. All i can say is that Photoshop is definatly worth the money if you really get into GFx. I suggest getting it asap if you feel you are going to use it. If you are like me and create about 2-3 sigs a day sometimes more. then you get your moneys worth. In Photoshop the only limit is your imagination.

[truefusion 3]

I am sort of getting annoyed by Gimp's interface

Yeah, the interface of the GIMP is its downfall.
CS2 is slightly different than CS1. I noticed a few changes, not much, though. They mostly added a few new useful filters. Like the Filter Gallery which lets you apply more than one filter at the same time, and it'll save your settings for later use. It also has this filter (i forget the name) where you can create a 3d grid, and when you brush over the grid, it automatically resizes the brush you're using. Useful for when dealing with perspective-view photos, like an image of a skyscraper when looking up.

Oh, and i think they added Smart Objects in CS2. These are basically vector-based layers. Useful when importing things from Illustrator. You don't lose quality when resizing.

There's more, but i can't remember them.