On 12/22/2010 09:29 PM, sweetievee wrote:

I'm just getting started with GIMP 2.6 and I have no idea what I'm doing. I've tried doing an internet search for tutorials but I'm having trouble finding ones specific to my needs and ones that are based on the version of GIMP that I'm using. I tried clicking the tutorial tab on this website but it only shows me the upgrades that GIMP made to the 2.6 version. I need some sort of new user/layman tutorial. Does anyone know where I can get this?

Gimp isn't evolving so fast that tutorials writtten for 2.2 or 2.4 can't be used on 2.6 with a grain of salt...

I've done airbrushing and recently tried to paste transparent words as a layer. However, when I want to move a layer I previously pasted GIMP won't let me select another layer. How do I do this? I've searched over the GIMP tabs and can't figure it out. Please help!

As long as your pasted layer is a "floating selection" you won't be able to move anything else. You have to anchor it (ie, make it part of the active layer when you pasted) or create anew layer from it before you can move the other layers again.

Am 22.12.2010 21:29, schrieb sweetievee:

I'm just getting started with GIMP 2.6 and I have no idea what I'm doing. I've tried doing an internet search for tutorials but I'm having trouble finding ones specific to my needs and ones that are based on the version of GIMP that I'm using. I tried clicking the tutorial tab on this website but it only shows me the upgrades that GIMP made to the 2.6 version. I need some sort of new user/layman tutorial. Does anyone know where I can get this?

I've done airbrushing and recently tried to paste transparent words as a layer. However, when I want to move a layer I previously pasted GIMP won't let me select another layer. How do I do this? I've searched over the GIMP tabs and can't figure it out. Please help!

You might want to have a look at the "Gimp User Manual" (available as PDF or HTML from http://docs.gimp.org/) or at the mature but still good to read "Grokking the Gimp" (http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/index.html - it was written for a much older version of the program, but the main difference is in the looks of the user interface, not the functionality, so it is still of good use when it comes to understanding what one is doing).

hth

Torsten

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sweetievee wrote:

I'm just getting started with GIMP 2.6 and I have no idea what I'm doing. I've tried doing an internet search for tutorials but I'm having trouble finding ones specific to my needs and ones that are based on the version of GIMP that I'm using. I tried clicking the tutorial tab on this website but it only shows me the upgrades that GIMP made to the 2.6 version. I need some sort of new user/layman tutorial. Does anyone know where I can get this?

I've done airbrushing and recently tried to paste transparent words as a layer. However, when I want to move a layer I previously pasted GIMP won't let me select another layer. How do I do this? I've searched over the GIMP tabs and can't figure it out. Please help!

While it's not free, what made the program much more useful for me was getting a copy of List member Akkana Peck's book, /Beginning Gimp - From Novice to Professional/, published by APress. About USD 50, but if you want to learn GIMP, it's hard to think of a better way to spend the money.

ns

Noel Stoutenburg wrote:

Akkana Peck's book, /Beginning Gimp - From Novice to Professional/,

> published by APress

Available as a dead-tree edition, or e-book.

ns