GIMP icon tutorials?

[blnchflr]

I'd really love to see someone do an icon tutorial in GIMP - both how to make image and text interesting. Do you know of anyone making (pretty) icons in GIMP?

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[baggyeyes]

For those who don't know, there is a Gimp community here, gimp_gate. It would be great if all of the Linux related communities linked together.

As for tutorials, I know there are a huge PILE of them over at LJ. gimp_tutorial
gimp_users

My basic icon rule is, I do all of the visual adjustment on the large size image first. If I think it is ready, and it is all layers, I export it to png at the same size first.

Then create a blank 100 x 100 75dpi transparent new image. Select either whole or part of the large image I want, copy it and paste into the new 100 x 100 image I'd created. Then in the Layer menu, I choose 'Scale Layer' to re-size my pasted image until it is at the size I want, and the way I want. Always make sure your Interpolation is Sinc Lanczos3.

A lot of steps, but it usually works for me. I'm not very good with text, though. :(

[blnchflr]

Doh, it didn't even occur to me to search DW for a Gimp comm first - thanks!

And thanks as well for the LJ tutorial links :o)

[baggyeyes]

I just remembered - there's also a general graphics comm: graphic_tutorials. They include Gimp in their interests, so perhaps there is a tutorial lurking? Past/future?

[blnchflr]

Looks like - thanks!