Design A Good Looking Wallpaper Using gimp

How To design a Hallowen Pumpkin Wallpaper With GIMP

How To Use Photoshop Plugin In Gimp

There is so many 3rd party Photoshop plug-ins or filters that can be found on the net. Can we use on gimp to? Yes we can, using this piece of application called pspi.

How to use it? Well of course we need gimp first, if you still don’t have it, get the latest version here.

Now you have gimp, we can go to the next step.

1. Download pspi that can be found here.
Extract and copy and paste pspi.exe to gimp plug-in folder
C:\Users\arephyz\.gimp-2.6\plug-ins
Or
C:\Program Files \GIMP-2.0\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins

2. Then start gimp, under tab filters, select photoshop plug-in setting.
Specified the folder where you want to put the photoshop plug-in or create a new folder and name it pspi. Remember the folder path.

3. To use photoshop plug-in, just download the plug-in and put it into the pspi folder. You should be able to see it in gimp under the filters tab.

Free Photoshop Plugin You Should Try Out.

• The Works
  
• Virtual Photographer
  
• Mehdi Plug-in
  
• The Plugin Site
  
• Richard Rosenman
  
• Xero Graphic
  
• Filter Factory

How to Install GhostScript In Gimp For Windows.

GhostScript is a plugin for Gimp so you can open postscript format file with Gimp.

What is eps/postscript file?
PostScript (.PS) file that may contain 2D vector graphics, bitmap images, and text; includes an embedded preview image in bitmap format; often used for transferring image data between different operating systems.

Programs That Open PostScript File
Adobe Illustrator, Acrobat, Photoshop or CorelDraw.
If you running Gimp using Linux system, you don't need this plugin.

How To Install GhostScript?

1. First, download the latest GPL GhostScript Package
2. Open GhostScript installer and follow the instruction.
3. You need to set an environment variable GS_PROG to point to gswin32c.exe

• Go to Control Panel-->System-->Advance
• Now click On Environment Variables.
• You can choose between user or system variable. I choose user
• Next, Click new and type GS_PROG in variable names.
• In variables value, point to gswin32c.exe, in my case (D:\Program Files\gs\gs8.62\bin\gswin32.exe)

Done, now your gimp can open eps/.ps/postscript file. In addition, your gimp now can also open pdf file.

Happy Gimping

8 Text Effect Tutorial Using GIMP

This is some Gimp's Text Tutorial from some reliable source (google :p)
You need GIMP to do this tutorial and not a pirated photoshop :p
Get your GIMP here

Stylish Text Using GIMP

Rays Of Light Behind Text

Cool Glowing Text

Shining Plastic Text

Text With Reflection

Create A Golden Text Using GIMP

3D Text With Reflection

Shattered/Smashed Text Using GIMP

actually this is Inkscape Tutorial

Adding The Image Above To Your Blog Header (blogger.com)

Open your template and search for;

#header-wrapper {
background:#fff url(image url) no-repeat top center;
height:130px;
margin:0 auto 10px
}

Add the bold text. You can change the background position to 'top right' or 'top left'
Change the height if necessary.