Because we've all got to start somewhere!

[queenpeladon]

All right guys, here's an easy peasy tutorial for absolute newcomers to GIMP, and icon-making in general. We'll be learning resizing and rescaling, how to get to grips with the basic GIMP interface, and how to make your colours look deceptively professional! Hopefully this will be useful to noobs looking for somewhere to start, because God knows, I

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[valliegurl]

very nice! :)

[queenpeladon]

Thank you! :)

[areasontofight]

I've only been using GIMP for a week now and I've been pretty much learning by trial and error. Your tutorial showing the basics is perfect in helping me along. Thanks.

[queenpeladon]

My pleasure :)

[xshadeofgreyx]

If you could, would you do something on using layers. All these tutorials use layers and mine always look like the top image. I can't figure it out

[softcake_70]

I wished I had a tutorial like this when I started using Gimp a couple of months ago! I used to crop and resize my image with Irfan View which is easy for a beginner, but then I got tired of switching programs ;)

[the_unoriginal]

Dude. The Wire is awesome.