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.

Today I’m going to teach you how to recreate the Volkswagen logo. Now generally, logos are made in a scalable vector graphics program such as Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape so that logos can be resized without any quality loss, but for the sake of this tutorial, I will show you in the Gimp. This tutorial is based off of a Photoshop tutorial by Dr Diablo at RepublicOfCode.com. Let’s get started!

Let’s learn how to create a richly ornate typographic illustration with the Gimp. We’ll be using a few ornate pattern freebies from GoMedia, a few stock photos, and a few textures. This tutorial is based off of a Photoshop tutorial by Alex Beltechi at PSDTuts. Anyway, come and see it!

The September 2008 issue of Wired Magazine had a nice newheadline design created by Mario Hugo. The author of the PhotoshopRoadmap blog decided to turn this effect into a very detailed Photoshop tutorial.