I don't know if you folks that make the tuts on youtube value suggestions for new ideas but I've had a thought rattling around in my head for a while. First, don't misunderstand me, I really like all the ones about how to make this kind of text or that kind of text. And applying makeup to Miley Cyrus might someday might become a necessity and even though I don't directly need to do what the tut is about I pick up some tidbits that help me so I scour youtube and download every decent that one I see. Then if I'm bored in a waiting room or other dismal place I pop one in and watch it. But I stray from my point.
My wife had gotten really good with Paint Shop Pro but is trying to migrate to Gimp, my oldest daughter is about to start college and wants to get into photography\graphic arts and will need Photoshop (which ain't gonna happen) or maybe Gimp. I would just be delighted if someone would make a ground up set of tutorials for Gimp, As an excellent example I'm using this: http://meetthegimp.org/category/gimp-video-tutorial/ Most of Rolf's are good but this one stood out in my opinion because it illustrates what I mean. Here he explains layers, colors, and other things in a very basic way. Another wonderful example is Jolie's tut on layers.

I would like to see a series that explains every facet of Gimp, (all the modules, menus, filters, color picker, etc) in depth that I can gather up and give to my wife and my daughter so they can learn it when I'm not there. If worst comes to worst I can load up camstudio and make them myself but this isn't preferable because due to some strokes I've had I don't speak well in situations like that (I tend to stumble over what I want to say) This might be too wacky of an idea but I think it would be a very good aid for noobs and if done right will be a big favorite for years to come.

Akkana Peck's book, Beginning GIMP would be a good alternative to the dry online manual.
You can read while sitting at the computer and try everything out that she explains.

Oh, and your daughter can get a student discount on Photoshop. CS5 is just out so at least she'll be up to date for a quite a while. You can't upgrade from a student licence but I doubt CS6 will have features that make CS5 obsolete. If your daughter is serious about photography/graphic art and wants to earn a living with it, eventually she'll end up having to use Photoshop.
Maybe you could get an older version for cheaper 2nd hand. A full licence will give her the oppertunity to sell her work. A student licence won't.

Thats a great idea, maybe start our own video tutorial site?
There is a video tutorial series out there (learnTheGimp), but its not free.


Maybe we could look over the online gimp.org/docs manual and do everything in it on video?

In my opinion there should be a free area for every Gimper to go for free to get the tutorials...no cost
Rolf has said anyone can use his vids, as long as you dont claim the rights.He has many good ones.

I, too, recommend this book. Mine is several years old and falling apart but it still is a good reference book for me.

There are many good exercises in it and it covers the basics plus advanced techniques.

Check it out.

Amazon

Barnes and Noble

I will 2nd and 3rd that. I ordered mine a few weeks after I downloaded Gimp last Fall......lots of good stuff in it.....

I'm usually very hesitant about buying books because as soon as you get the book the software is obsolete but I've read enough here to get my interest. I'll look into it.

The one I have is for gimp 2.4. A few of the settings have changed since 2.4 but it's pretty easy to make the switch in my mind. Copyright date is 2006.

Here is an image of the cover in Amazon. It looks like it has been updated to v2.6. Says it's the Second Addition.

I checked, I can't afford $30 right now. Thanks for the idea though. I'll just have to teach her as i can and as she picks it up.

A lot of it you can read for free on google books. About 70% or so.

http://books.google.nl/books?id=qxrKDP1 ... &q&f=false

http://www.tuxradar.com/files/lxf_gimp_tutorials.zip

real nice professional tutorials (90mb dl)
about 16 or more PDF tutorials

Hi-

I'm RobA. I've been around at the GimpTalk forum (as RobA), the Gimp plugin registry (as RobA and ffaat), and on my own site http://www.silent9.com/

I joined up to respond to this post, and to encourage anyone wanting to start a video series on Gimp to please consider ShowMeDo, which has a nice growing selection of Gimp video tutorials http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/GIMP (Showmedo is a peer-produced video-tutorials and screencasts site for free and open-source software (FOSS)- with the exception of some club videos, the large majority are free to watch and download.)

Here is one I made http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/vide ... riesID=262 that is a part of a fantasy cartography mapping set of tutorials I was hoping to produce (This was a trial run).

-Rob A>

to Gimp Chat, RobA!

That's a very impressive list of tutorials and a nice website. Thank you for sharing.

nice resource!

I've had an account at showmedo for a year or two. I was originally directed there because of their scribus tuts and ended up grabbing all their scribus, gimp, inkscape, and open office stuff.

Thanks for the link bro, I'm definitely checking this out. (Just downloaded)