Tutorials
A small collection of original GIMP tutorials from the mid-1990s, archived from the Wayback Machine and presented more or less as they first appeared. Click a card to open the original page.
Punched-Out Text
Make text look as if it's been punched clean out of a textured image, like a stencil cut from paper or sky.
Neon Effect
A quick recipe that turns plain text into a glowing neon sign.
Burning Text
A classical effect
Creating a Watermark Effect
Create watermarks: compress an image's histogram with the BCG plug-in, then Composite to lay subtle, evenly-lit text over a colored background.
Creating a tileable pattern
As we all know by now, these tileable patterns can be used for Web page backgrounds.
Frozen Text
Make text look like it has been frozen.