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...

20 GIMP Tutorials for Beginners in 2020

by Michael Davies | Sep 3, 2020 | GIMP Basics, GIMP Help, GIMP News, GIMP Tutorials

Are you brand new to the GIMP photo editor? Want to learn the basics of how to use it, while also getting some real-world examples that show GIMP’s features in action? You’ve come to the right place! Davies Media Design has been creating GIMP tutorials...

How to Transform Paths in GIMP

by Michael Davies | Jul 20, 2020 | GIMP Basics, GIMP Help, GIMP Tools, GIMP Tutorials

In this tutorial, I’ll be showing you how to transform paths using GIMP. This is a very easy task to accomplish and can help expand your skill-set for photo editing and graphic design when working in GIMP. It is useful whenever you need to change the shape,...

How to Save Selections in GIMP

by Michael Davies | May 31, 2020 | GIMP Basics, GIMP Help, GIMP Tutorials

In this article, I’ll be showing you how to save selections in GIMP, as well as how to export selection areas from one composition and import those selections into another composition. I have a video version of this tutorial, which you can watch below, or you can skip...

The Best Free Brushes for GIMP in 2020

by Michael Davies | May 25, 2020 | GIMP Basics, GIMP Customization, GIMP Help

In this article, I’ll be providing you links to what I think are the best free brushes to download for GIMP. All of the brushes are linked to Deviant Art pages, which is a trusted resource for downloading assets for GIMP (especially with Deviant Art recently...