Ever wondered how create an icon from your own images? well scartissue’s is going to show you exactly how to do that in this GIMP tutorial.

Textures is always a good stuff for a designer to spice out their work or masterpieces. So today, in this article I’d like to present a list of great high resolution free paper and other textures.I’ve been surfing the net yesterday and made some list for you. Some of them are from my bookmark. I also have pick some of the textures from deviant art. Download and use it for your next masterpiece!

In this tutorial you will be shown how to make a Windows Vista Icon in Gimp. This is the first time they use GIMP,  so if they name a tool name wrong, be patient. Tutorial was created in GIMP 2.2 on Mac OS X during the tutorial. Enjoy it.

Today we’re going to have a look at how to create a gimp stylish black header with a metal frame. We’ll also add a little snake inside the header. The metal frame technique is not only for headers though, it could also be useful for such things as forum signatures or skins for audio players.

In this tutorial you  will see how to create glossy orb in Gimp. You really need to see the end results to appreciate this tutorial, the preview image doesn’t show much. This Gimp tutorial is meant for Intermediate and above users, but never the less i advise beginners to have a go at it since i do try my best to explain the steps in detail.

Although this is a very simple straight forward effect,  it would be good for people getting familiar with GIMP to try something not too hard. This effect is called “sun Ray” and it is pretty common with so called web 2.0 websites.

In this tutorial I will make use of different overlaid layers mixed with radial gradient tool to achieve and awesome light effect, started off as a experiment turned out to be a cool effect and worth a tutorial.

This tutorial will teach you how to transform a normal photo into something that looks like the 1890s very neat effect.