We'll it's been quite awhile sense I've done any Gimp tutorials on YouTube. However for once I'm blank on what to do for a tutorial, and it sucks.

So could you guys give me some ideas???

I think explaining/demonstrating smudging, cloning, clipping masks would be a good start. They seem to be troublesome for a lot of people.

Links to your tutorials posted in here would be most welcome.

Clipping masks would be an excellent start.

Some things people have asked me:
Make a lake look like it's frozen over.
Make a jpg that has been saved with low quality setting look sharp.
Make a photo taken at night, without proper lighting and with the camera being moved while taking the photo, look sharp again.
Make a twitter background.
Make a 2D mask look like it's painted on a face.
How make real transparency without that damn (excuse my French) chequerboard shining through. (You might think it's beginner stuff but it proved impossible to explained through a few messages. and a bit for the person asking.)

I haven't use the new twitter layout yet so not sure if a tutorial about the background is do-able. But maybe that one is an idea? What dimensions to use for which screen size etc?

The "Make a lake look like it's frozen over" sounds like an interesting effect to make, I'll give it a try, and see how the results come out, and if it looks promising I'll do a tut on it, but if it looks like crap, I'm not gonna bother lol

I'm not on Twitter, I've thought about it, but still not to sure if I wanna go on that site. (I don't even know anyone that has a Twitter as far as I'm aware of)

I am with Mahvin, I still do not know what a clipping mask is in Gimp. I know what a layer mask is. To the best of my knowledge there are no tutorials on clipping masks in Gimp.

I also don't know what a clipping mask is. Or what it's for.
Is it something to do with making sigs? I still can't make sigs.

Oh and you know me, and O, and gimpchat on twitter. So that's 3 to follow already. Although I don't tweet that much myself.

so how about some tuts on how to do the web layouts...break it down so there is a separate tut on each facet of web design? You can use some basic layouts to start with, so you don't really need to come up with any fancy designs at first.

My main plan is to do more web layout tutorials, however they'll usually be long. So I may have a text tutorial below it too, just not to sure if I'm gonna do it or not.

I know quite a few folks are looking for YouTube layouts on oDesk, how about some of those for tutorials?
Gimp Know How did one, but i think that was it.

He did at least two and so did I. Several good ones from jxtutorials too (Hers are the bests actually. Very talented designer and she explains things well too.) And if you look for them, there are many from lesser known youtubers, some of them showing you how to work with templates and filling every box with something else, stuff like that.

Great, thanks Jolie.Guess i need to search more.
Mike another idea is to take any PS tutorial and make it in Gimp.
A lot of times this can be pretty advanced.

I didn't think of that, I'll give that a try as well, some maybe already made though.

Here's a really cool PhotoShop tutorial for liquid filled glass text. Would be nice to have a gimp tut for it.

http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/text-effects-tutorials/liquid-filled-glass-text-effect/

I love these ideas, that text one I believe I can achieve in Gimp. Thanks for the idea!

Wow...take my plastic text tutorial...duplicate the text and cut it with the paths tool...add a gradient and you would have it.Glossy, see thru, and everything. =)

Plastic Text in GIMP

Cool idea Rod! Should work.

Just follow the tutorial you posted:


The only major difference was in the contours for each layer style setting done in PS. The Layer Effects script/plug-in does not have the identical set of contours. So when doing this tutorial, instead of log, try half round.

Forgot to add, that rasterize in GIMP works differently, since you can't right click a layer and select "rasterize". To do this in GIMP, create a transparent layer beneath the layer needing rasterized, then right click that new transparent layer and select "merge down".

To get the second level light glare shown in the PS tutorial (Layer Effects didn't have triple ring, so I used double ring), I shrank the text path a few pixels and added a white stroke (about 2px) then blurred it 8px. That could probably be improved a little, I just intended to get through the tutorial to see how complicated it would be.

Totally wet mahvin! Nice.

O: I actually enjoyed the tute. Each picture was settings for the highlighted tab shown. I wanted to break down the Layer Effects menu for each style on the menu, and make the connection between PS and GIMP, because a few settings were puzzling. Some examples would be: Bevel and Emboss, Inner bevel depth at 100%. In GIMP Layer Effects, the slider isn't in percentage, you need to move the slider to 65.

PS has drop shadow "distance", would that be "blur" in GIMP? Some settings don't match up, but most do. The easiest way to test these settings, is to make a colored square (any color other than white and black, because these are usually shadow/highlight colors). Using a square over a circle, because you'll get to see what it does to corners. Using a circle won't show you those results.