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I am going back to the basics using Meet the Gimp tutorials to fill in areas that I either missed before or I am fuzzy on now. These are excellent tutorials and I hope all of you can view the MP4 videos which is usually viewed with Quicktime.
I see now that the Google search box only searches the "snapshot" of the page back in August. I will have to see how to update that. I am considering converting the menu page to a pdf file which can easily be searched.
September  27, 2009
Our tutorial menu has gotten big so I installed a Google search box that will search the menu page. If all you did was enter a term like "toolbox" the search engine will just show you the page as a result but if you click on "cached" at the bottom of the search results it will show the page with all of the occurrences of "toolbox" highlighted.
September 16, 2009
I have rearranged our menu so that all of the brush links including the three provided by Rich in the Feedback post are under the header: "Brushes, make your own or importing" If you run across other good links about this subject then let me know.
July 11, 2009
Photo retouching in the form of restorations and enhancements is the latest projects in The Gimp Group. You will find links to both the restoration projects and the photo enhancement tutorial in the "Miscellaneous" category of our menu. I am hoping more members will contribute to the "Gimp Works" post, I know members are using Gimp in everyday (nothing fancy) projects and would like to see samples of their work posted here.
June 14, 2009
1Yes, we all know that Gimp works but we are looking for your everyday works, your daily Gimp tasks and projects that you use elsewhere. These are not the "wow!" Gimp projects but the things we do often with Gimp to enhance our online experience. A link to this post will be in our menu.
May 26, 2009
Exploring Gimp's Menu Bar
We will step away from the Layers~ Hands-on learning for awhile but will continue as we find intersting and informative projects that will improve our abilties using Gimp's layers.  We are now going to check out some of those menu items that have not been mentioned and will start with the very interesting File/Create menu.
May 6, 2009
Simple Defintions
I have started a series of simple definitions posts that I will make as I find these "plain English" definitions in my GIMP journeys. They will be listed alphabetically in our menu. If you come across one you would like to see listed then PMail me with the information.
April 29, 2009
New Series: Layers ~ Hands-on Learning
For those of you who have been following along with the Layers tutorial this will be a break from the book learning to hands-on learning. We will choose tutorials that will affirm the basics we have already learned and present practical applications of the use of layers in Gimp. It is time we start having some fun!
April 27, 2009
Gimp Documentation back on line!
After over three long days they finally corrected the document site for Gimp. Now I am wondering if I should download the entire document file just in case. Anyway I am now get back to learning this fascinating program.
April 14, 2009
Gimp Documentation Site Crash! I am not able to link to the Gimp 2.6 documentation sites now for three days so that has put a halt to the tutorials. I can get around this a little for new tutorials but the old ones are hot- linked to the Gimp site and some of the information in the tutorials will be missing. I hope this is a temporary problem.
April 13, 2009
Layers - (Semi-Advance)
We have completed the layers-basics tutorial for now, if I find more information that would be useful to the beginner then I will post it, my goal is to try not to scare away the new user in that tutorial. Next step is to classify the rest of us as semi-advanced users and provide a layers tutorials for those of us who are beginning to feel more confident in using Gimp's layers.
April 8, 2009
Layers
When I first thought about doing the tutorial posts I debated as to whether to do the layers first or the tools. I think either way would have worked out. I have learned a lot about layers while researching the tools. We are now going to get into  "layers" and learn as much as we can. I am still not sure if my layers should be transparent, white, black, with or without an alpha channel etc.  I hope this all will be cleared for me as we begain the Layers Tutorial Series.
Toolbox Items
We are down to the last two items in my toolbox (toolbox items will be different for some because you can add/remove tools from the box). After the toolbox items it will be an extensive review of layers, layer masks etc. In the mean time if you see a tutorial that will enhance the toolbox item information please post it in the appropriate post. If it is a video and the use of the tool is limited to only a short portion of the video then try to include the "minute-marker" of the video where the information starts.
March 31, 2009
Moving right along.....
We are moving right along in the basic tools tutorials. I am learning a lot as we go and wish we could learn even more about each tool. Good information surprisingly is not easy to find,  video authors tend to skip over the little things like the use of tools and go right into the big stuff.  As I am researching for the tools tutorials I am also learning from a series of more advance video tutorials from a couple of German authors. Sometimes I will pick up on tool tips while watching these masters at work and I will update the previous basic tutorials as I learn them. I would like to see more sample work here on the front pages, don't be shy!
March 21, 2009
ToolTips
As I am exploring more and more tutorials for reseach for our group I have found a few useful tool tips, hints, shortcuts etc. I am not very good at remembering hotkeys or shortcuts. But when I find a tip that is quite useful I will remember it and offer it here under the post titled "Tooltip". A link is provided in our menu for this post theme. Anyone who has a  useful tip please PMail me with the information so we can post it.
March 19, 2009
Feedback
We are getting a moderate number of daily visitors to the group but very little activity or feedback. I know my slow step by step tutorials on the basics probably bore some of the more advance GIMP users but we are open minded about someone leading a more advance tutorial or discussion as I creep along in my basics learning. How about some feedback on anything you want to discuss? You can reply to this post or open up a new one.
March 10, 2009
Staying Focused - Back to the basics
There is so much fun stuff to do in Gimp and the more I explore for tutorials and help pages the easier it is to get sidetracked! I try to "play" each day in Gimp but I also try to stay focused on learning the basics. So after a few vacations days away from the basics I am back to learn more Gimp stuff!
February 28, 2009 (Wow, last day of the month already!?)
The Gimp Group Conference Room
We have set up a chat room for those of you who wish to discuss a problem or share information by using live chat. One way of doing this is to set up a time to meet in the chat room through a post, PMail etc. The link to the chat room and to the help pages is located at the top of our menu.
Feb 25, 2009
Alignment Tool...grrrrr
I started the tutorial on the Alignment Tool to day and was frustrated with the lack of good tutorials to share here. I believe I am going to have to join some forums and ask questions about this tool, until then that tutorial remains incomplete.
Feb 24, 2009
Where is my Layers Box?!
We have had some members trying to find their Layers box, Tool Options box etc. Unfortunately the video called "Basics - Part 1- New users start here" in the new users section of our menu has some incorrect information for users with the latest version of Gimp. If you view that video at minute marker 2:10 the instructor shows you how to find your dialog boxes but the method is for an older version of Gimp.
For that reason I posted a correction in the post titled "Dockable Dialogs". That post will be available as a link in the "New Users" area of our menu and a correction note has been added to the video dialog. We will keep the "Dockable Dialogs" post as a sticky post for a few days.
Feb 21, 2009
Glitch in Videos
Thanks to Laurie2 for pointing out that the YouTube videos were not working in the tutorials. I am using a new web page publisher and some times it wants to mess with the links, grrrrr.... If I don't figure out why I will be going back to the old publisher.  Today I will be starting the tutorial on the Scissor Select Tool, got a late start due to maintaining the web page video problem so I don't know if I will finish the tutorial today. I also want to try out the Adding New Brushes that Renee43 gave us a heads-up on. The links to that is in the menu.
Feb 16, 2009
Thanks to Rich64nv
Rich sent me a link to a official Gimp page that has a list of their tutorials, from beginner to expert etc. I have included the link here in our menu. There are hundred of good tutorial sites out there for Gimp. My aim is to incorporate them into our learning here. I emphasize again that I am taking the long tedious path of learning by first semi-mastering all of the tools in the toolbox. I have been playing with Gimp for over a year and now is the time for me to get serious about learning it. I encourage everyone to jump around and have fun with Gimp but also spend a little time each day learning the techniques. Also please advise me of any good tutorial pages out there that we can use. Thanks again, ~gJ
Feb 14, 2009
Quick Note 
As you can see I am learning and sharing knowledge about each item in the toolbox, started with the Rectangle Select tool today. I taught electronics in the Air Force and this is the only way I know how to teach - methodical, logically and slow! ;-)
I am doing this for the beginners and so that I can fill in the cracks of my Gimp knowledge base. I learned a lot today just on the simple select tool. I encourage everyone here to start where you want to start, become a teacher as you learn something, share you knowledge and some of your results! Feb 11, 2009