GIMP Search Actions Feature | Quickly Find & Open Any Effect, Image, or Menu Item

by Michael Davies | May 10, 2021 | GIMP Basics, GIMP Help

The GIMP Search Actions feature, also known as the Integrated Search Feature, is a quick and easy way to find ANYTHING you’d like to open in GIMP. This feature works with finding and opening filters, effects, images, tools, and pretty much any menu item that exists in...

The Best New Feature in Every GIMP 2.10 Release Version | 2.10 to 2.10.24

by Michael Davies | May 10, 2021 | Best of GIMP, GIMP Help, GIMP News

In this article I’ll be going over the best new feature in every GIMP 2.10 release version. You can see all the new features that were released in every GIMP stable release version, including the original GIMP 2.10 release, and subsequent stable release versions GIMP...

How to Create Dot Patterns in GIMP (Help Article)

by Michael Davies | Feb 1, 2021 | GIMP Basics, GIMP Help, GIMP Tutorials

In this GIMP Help Article, I’ll be showing you how to easily create your own custom dot patterns! You can create patterns of any size for any composition, and this technique covers making your patterns seamless so that they evenly cover any document. Finally, I...

Quickly Change Colors in a Photo with This GIMP Tool (Help Article)

by Michael Davies | Jan 22, 2021 | GIMP Help, GIMP Photo Manipulation, GIMP Tutorials

There are many ways to recolor a photo in GIMP – with some being more tedious, though more accurate, than others. In this tutorial, I show you what I think is one of the simplest and yet still more accurate methods for recoloring a photo (or changing any color...

Viewer’s Choice Best GIMP Tutorials of 2020

by Michael Davies | Jan 8, 2021 | GIMP Help, GIMP News

2020 is in the books! And although it was a mostly terrible year, I still thoroughly enjoyed creating many GIMP (and Inkscape) tutorials to highlight some of this free software’s amazing features and helping you all learn how to better use the program. As per...

How to Create Custom Guides in GIMP

by Michael Davies | Jan 8, 2021 | GIMP Basics, GIMP Help, GIMP Tools, GIMP Tutorials

Creating guides inside GIMP is a bit of a limited task as of the time of this tutorial. However, there are some very simple and effective workarounds to achieve custom guides at any angle and any position to help you accurately place objects or paint at angles. And...