How to fix the toolbox icons in GIMP

Occasionally in Gimp my toolbox icons will become spaced out (see image above). Not only does this bug look bad, but it also makes it so hal...

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How and when to use the Clone, Healing, and Heal Selection tools (GIMP)

Gimp provides a few tools for removing and adding elements to your image. This tutorial will show you examples of when and how to use the ...

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How to use Heal Selection and heal transparency tools in Gimp (formerly Resynthesizer)

Before image: With heal selection, we can remove elements such as the tree branches. After image: I used the heal selection tool to remove s...

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Draw a sunset with tree silhouette landscape scene using Inkscape and the Gimp

My very first tutorial on this website was drawing a tree in the sunset (similar to the image you see above). That tutorial shows signs of ...

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How to remove the background from an image using the Gimp

Perhaps the thing I most often use the Gimp for is to remove a background. It is quite simple and fast once you are familiar with how to do ...

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Cheesy Valentines - The History

Another Valentines day (or "single awareness day" as many people like to call it. It is this time of year that I make cheesy Valen...

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Use the Gimp to create color photos from black and white photos

The Migrant Mother photo colorized Recently I have been seeing a bunch of black and white photos being colorized. I thought it looked pretty...

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Old Photo Restoration using the Gimp (How to Remove a Moiré Pattern)

For this past Father's day, I worked with my brothers to create a slideshow of our awesome dad. My older brother scanned old photos from...

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Best Collection of Gimp Brushes

This is ongoing collection I am creating to make it easier to download brushes for the Gimp. I have included the link to the source as well ...

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GIMPons - Gimp tutorial website

I just discovered a new Gimp tutorial website. The site is called GIMPons . The site is in French, but if you are using Google Chrome, you c...

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Portrait Photography in Linux - An Extensive Guide

Right now Windows and Mac dominate the professional photography world. That does not mean though that Linux does not have the tools availabl...

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Create a Celebrity Wallpaper using the Gimp - Jimmer Fredette

Jimmer Fredette has been a Utah celebrity for a while now, but has slowly worked his way into the national spotlight. I thought it would be ...

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Fake Depth of Field in Gimp - DOF Explained

Before Fake DOF After Fake DOF This tutorial will be discussing depth of field and how to create this effect in the Gimp. Read article »

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How to do HDR photography with a single image

HDR photography is done using 3 or more bracketed images. There are some instances though where taking three bracketed photos is not possibl...

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Gimp Resynthesizer Explained - Texture Transfer and Input and Output

Note:  As was mentioned in a comment on this post, Resynthesizer no longer does what this blog suggests; if you want the functions shown in ...

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Create a grunge business card using the Gimp

A while back I did a tutorial for making a business card using Inkscape .  This will be basically the same, but use the Gimp instead. A busi...

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How to create a winter landscape scene using the Gimp

This week I went skiing with my family and took a picture I thought would make a nice winter scene.  I will show you how to do it in the Gim...

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2010 Review - 11 Best tutorials for learning Gimp

This list is not necessarily the best Gimp tutorials per se, but this is a list that will help someone become an expert using the Gimp.  I...

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Enhancing the colors of your photos

There are many different ways to enhance the colors of your photos using the Gimp.  In this tutorial, I will show you the basic process for ...

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How to remove elements from your photos without using the clone tool

NOTE: Resynthesizer no longer seems to work well in newer versions of Gimp. It has been replaced with the tools Heal Selection and Heal Tran...

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