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?

Comments

[cimorene]

Gimp doesn't have selective color, which is quite popular in modern tutorials, but aside from that feature, the most significant things - curves, layer blending styles, blurring and sharpening, levels, etc - all work the same, so any tutorials based on curves work with it.

[melannen]

I ran a GIMP icons tutorial last year at a con - here's the online version - but it was really, really, basic. "Here's how you crop! Here's how you adjust contrast!" basic. So you're probably beyond that level already.

[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. :(

[feathertail]

I used this tutorial to create these Dreamwidth icons in the GIMP. >.>b

[kerravonsen]

http://www.katspace.org/graphics/digitart has a number of gimp tutorials, including icon-making tips.

The icon_style comm often has links to (gimp-centric) tutorials in their challenge posts:
http://icon-style.dreamwidth.org/tag/themes
http://icon-style.livejournal.com/tag/themes
Also the winners in the challenges are encouraged to explain how they made their icons; not exactly tutorials, that, but at least they're tips.

Links to GIMP resources and tips are included in this link collection: http://www.katspace.org/links/graphics/