this site, is my escape from daily life...i come here to try and get away from it all. i consider everyone here a friend...i hope this site never goes away..cause i would go crazy if it did..gimp has become my hobby....i can't wait to log in and see what others have come up with....long live gimp...lol

That's so cool of you to say that rdgracer71. You are a great member to have in our family. I think we are a great group too.

thanks molly,,i am so new to gimp that i am not sure i am able to help others, but if i ever can, i will help others in any way i can...i have always loved art and just got back into drawing. i downloaded gimp and didn't use it for months and i almost deleted it cause i could not figure it out..until i went to youtube one day and watched a video on it and then i figured out how to use it..since then i have been teaching myself how to use it...and then i found this site...it has open a whole new world of art to me.i hope to have some new pictures to show off soon....and once again thanks for your kind words...

That all sounds familiar, I too download Gimp and was completely baffled by all the differing functions, so left it alone for a good while. Then just like you decided that I should start to learn this program and hunted out some tutorials.

well i didn't want to sound like a dummy so i never said this but i got to confess i never even knew how to draw with gimp. i mean i loaded up gimp and then picked a tool to draw with and tried to draw on the background that is there when you first upload gimp....i didn't know you was suppose to start a new layer first or even how to do it..lol man was i a dummy....

many of us started out that way, I know I did. I didn't wait though, because I had been told there were tutorials online so I googled for them right away. But following tuts is basically how I learned to use gimp.

I'm so glad you feel at home here in Gimp Chat. Just keep on coming back. Soon you will be helping others.

I think it's surprising how little we know about our own intelligence and capabilities We see a huge list of functions and give up overwhelmed by the complexity of it all. I know one man who's perfectly intelligent who took one look at Photoshop and went back to MS Paint! I learned to use Gimp by playing with filters and tools on photos to see what they did.. Play is the most natural way to learn.

exactly! rdgracer, you show a fine ability to play and experiment, so you'll soon be teaching us your own tricks .

Except when it comes to blender, and I couldn't even follow a tutorial for that.

Yeah, Blender is a tough nut to crack and you have to learn all the keyboard shortcuts.