06-05-2003, 02:06 AM
Quote:I suppose I may have done better if I had, say, learned how to use GIMP beforehand. But my copy didn't have any help files for some reason, so I had to spend a few hours just figuring out how to do what I wanted to do with the dang program.
GIMP's "help" files are very incomplete, at best. Most of them consist of 2-3 vague sentences per command, and some of them say "not written yet".
Your best bet is to browse some of the online GIMP resources.
Here are my GIMP bookmarks:
The GIMP Homepage
This has a pretty comprehensive documentation section, and a few must-try tutorials to help you get used to the feel of GIMP. The "links" section is a nice launching point, but I find that most of the links are out-of-date.
Grokking the GIMP
This is pretty much the Jarulf's Guide for GIMP. 'Nuff said.
Yahoo! Groups : gimpwin-users
This is a message board specifically directed at using GIMP under Windows. I think Google Groups has a similar board, but I don't seem to have the URL bookmarked.
Try a Google search for "GIMP tutorials", and you'll get a bunch of informative links. The best way to learn GIMP is by trying it out. You can read all the help files you can stand, but unless you actually try things in practice, you'll never get the hang of it. Do as many tutorials as you can find.
You can even adapt some of the many online Adobe Photoshop tutorials to GIMP, as they function quite similarly. They handle layers the same way, and the tools are not-so-remarkably similar.
-DeeBye