A small beginners minihowto about gimp is made.

The idea is to get newbies started using gimp immediately, with the most elementary things.

Has taken me a long time, to learn gimp.

The address is http://www.minihowto.org

I am an old pensioner of some 66 years of age.

This manual is supplementary to all the other documentation, which is out there on the Internet etc. :-)

That is a nice introduction. It is valuable to understand the experiences of new users; often experts and veterans have a difficult time writing manuals and tutorials because they "intuitively" understand concepts which prove to be significant barriers to the new user.

One thing I would recommend: in your tutorial you should mention the importance of saving files in the XCF format while working on them. Many new users will save their multi-layered files as JPEG or PNG and then find out that the layers are no longer there the next time they use the GIMP. Saving as an XCF will retain all of the information associated with an edit session -- including layers, texts, paths, and selections -- so that the user can pick up where they left off.

On Saturday 04 August 2007, Niels Larsen wrote:

The address is http://www.minihowto.org

Good idea, trying that, it seems to have an odd sort of rate-limiting thingy which let me grab over 100k in my first run, then lets about 8-24k go in a bunch each retry. This is over a dial-up modem, so I'm not exactly hammering it for load.

Cheers; Leon

On Saturday 04 August 2007, Niels Larsen wrote:

A small beginners minihowto about gimp is made.

Got it, many retries later. Looks good, about 4% text & the rest JPEGs. Will post a more detailed comment after having walked through it. Hello from Tasmania, under the East end of Australia.

Cheers; Leon

On Saturday 04 August 2007, Niels Larsen wrote:

A small beginners minihowto about gimp is made.

The idea is to get newbies started using gimp immediately, with the most elementary things.

Has taken me a long time, to learn gimp.

The address is http://www.minihowto.org

I am an old pensioner of some 66 years of age.

And I am a very young pensioner of (almost) 75 years of age. I will grow up some day but I don't believe in rushing things.

The minihowto is at the bottom of the right column on that page. Just downloaded it. Took just a few seconds. Will coment on the contents later.

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I am an old pensioner of some 66 years of age.

And I am a very young pensioner of (almost) 75 years of age. I will grow up some day but I don't believe in rushing things.

The minihowto is at the bottom of the right column on that page. Just downloaded it. Took just a few seconds. Will coment on the contents later.

The idea is great and I too will comment when I have had a good chance to internalise your suggestions.

(How about a contest? I am on 79.5 years of age).

Norman

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A small beginners minihowto about gimp is made.

The idea is to get newbies started using gimp immediately, with the most elementary things.

Has taken me a long time, to learn gimp.

The address is http://www.minihowto.org

Thank you for that! I've been struggling with the Gimp for months.

And I'm a mere child at 53.

On Saturday 04 August 2007 09:16, Niels Larsen wrote:

A small beginners minihowto about gimp is made.

The idea is to get newbies started using gimp immediately, with the most elementary things.

A bit improved version of gimp mini howto: http://punktyro.puslapiai.lt/gimp/gimp_mini_howto.html Just save it in same place where "gimp_a_very_short_mini_howto_2977b.html" from http://www.minihowto.org were saved. Corrected some errors and a bit improved navigation.