Digital image editing for the general consumer was still in its infancy, and I think the camera’s sensor had a whopping 3 megapixels. I’ve been working with digital images since the year 2000 or so, when I got my first digital camera. If you’re wondering why you should be listening to me, I approve of your skepticism! The short explanation is that it comes from me, my experience working with GIMP, and some careful and methodical research among high-quality source material like the official GIMP documentation. Hopefully, I can turn technical jargon into information that actually means something to another image editor – even if you’re just starting out and you don’t know any of the tech terms yet. If you want to expand GIMP’s features with the best plugins, brushes, and fonts, I’ve got guides for that too. I write up short guides that cover everything you might want to do in GIMP, from basic editing operations to advanced custom brush creation and RAW photo editing workflows.
What You’ll Learnĭigital images are everywhere in the world today, and knowing how to get what you want from them is an extremely useful skill for a wide range of professions and hobbies. So The GIMP Tutorials was born, and I began my mission to teach new GIMP users how they could get professional-quality image editing results without having to pay for their software. GIMP is powerful, but it’s not exactly user-friendly until you get comfortable with it, and I wanted to make the learning process easier. Getting used to new software is always a bit frustrating, even when you can tell that you’re on the edge of developing a whole set of next-level skills. I had already struggled through that process, spending a lot of time teaching myself how everything works, so why not share that with the rest of the world? GIMP deserves to be used! The available learning materials didn’t really explain too much, since they were dry technical manuals that were precise, but not exactly helpful.Īfter a lot of practice, I realized that even GIMP is an amazing piece of free software, but most people found it too hard to get started without a bit of extra help at the beginning. The industry was using the Adobe ecosystem instead, so I didn’t have much chance to actually use GIMP. I had tried it out several times over the years because of its popularity, but I had found it hard to learn.
Why I Created This SiteĪfter many years of working in and around the digital arts, I kept hearing people talk about using GIMP as their primary image editor. My name is Thomas Boldt, and I’m the writer and image editor on the team here at, your free source for learning materials about the GNU Image Manipulation Program, better known as GIMP.
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