Top 8 Gimp Sites - For all things Gimp

Welcome to the countdown of my personal favourite Gimp sites, these include tutorial sites, blogs, forums and download sites. For those of you who don’t know what Gimp is, it is a graphic creation/manipulation program with similar features to Photoshop, however it is free, fast and open source, oh and works on Linux so I can use it.

Feel free to add any others in the comments below if you know of any, I am always looking for new sites as Gimp has so much to offer.

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howtogimp | http://howtogimp.com

The sister site to Help Developer, howtogimp pulls everything out of Help Developer to do with Gimp, so that Gimp users that aren’t interested in any of the other stuff I write about have a place of their own. I also pull together tutorials, downloads and news from all over the internet to the site.

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Gimp Tutorials.net | http://gimp-tutorials.net

Gimp Tutorials.net has long being one of my favourite Gimp sites, the tutorials are of a great quality and have that personal edge by the writer. You can also downloads brushes, gradients and lots of other great stuff right off of the site and it has a form, see next one in the list for info on that.

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Gimper.net | http://gimper.net

Gimper.net is a Gimp forum that has one of the best communities I have seen, as a member of a lot of forums myself, I have always being given a warm welcome on Gimper and everybody is really appreciative of peoples work that they showcase. It’s a great little community and if you ever have any problems with the Gimp or just want to chat with like minded people then get yourself over there.

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GimpTalk Forums | http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/

Gimp Forums are a great place to find answers to any problems you may be having and it is often the first place you find tutorials or downloads. Gimp Talk is a great forum, although personally I don’t think the community aspect is any where near as good as Gimper.net. However, it is definately worthy of a place in the list, a great forum so check it out if you haven’t already done so.

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Gimpology | http://gimpology.com

Whenever I write a new Gimp tutorial I always submit it to Gimpology first as it is so easy to add and it is up instantly (God help them when the spammers move in). Gimpology is a tutorial directory for the Gimp and a great place to find out how to do some really cool things.

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Gimp-Tutorials.com | http://gimp-tutorials.com

Similarly to Gimpology, Gimp-Tutorials.com is a Gimp tutorial directory, however it also has the latest Gimp news. These kind of sites are a great place to find out new things about Gimp and this site is one of the best.

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Pixel2Life | http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/gimp/

A great selection of the best Gimp tutorials around. I don’t use it as much as the other Gimp sites because there is no sense of a community on Pixel2Life because of the vast areas that it covers.

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Gimp Official Tutorials | http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/

If you are a beginner, intermediate or advanced user in the Gimp (so that’s everyone covered) I truly recommend that you take a look at the official Gimp site, in the tutorials section. The tutorials are professionally written and easy to follow although they are purely there for an introduction to the tools, to get the most out of the tools, I suggest you look at the other sites.

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So there you have it, the top 8 Gimp sites, as I said at the top, if you know of any others then please add them, Gimp sites are hard to find, this was going to be a top 10 list but I was struggling to find 8.