Last week we published our first GIMP post “30+ Exceptional GIMP Tutorials and Resources” and saw a great appreciation from our readers. So this week, i would like to share with you 1000+ high-Resolution GIMP brushes that will be perfect for any project you may happen to be working on. Also you will find some useful tutorial to teach you how to create your first GIMP brush-set and how to convert Photoshop brushes into GIMP brushes and more.

Please note that Photoshop Brushes are now Fully Compatible with Gimp 2.4 and up. So you can now use any PS brush in your GIMP software. For another huge collection of Photoshop brushes, you might find some really stunning brushes over here.

Important: Licenses of every brush set varies, so be sure to check that information before using them.

1. Grunge Brush set

1.1 GIMP Grunge Brush Pack 2

10 grunge GIMP brushes.

1.2 GIMP Scratchies

Containing all six brushes in this set for the GIMP

1.3 Grunge brush set 3

Includes an imagepack and brushes for Gimp.

1.4 More grunge brushes

13 grunge brushes; includes .gbrs for Gimp and an imagepack.

2. Floral and Plant Brushes

2.1 Floral I

There are 9 big brushes – at lest 1300 px each, so you can use them also in printed stuff.

2.2 Floral Part 2

There are 6 big brushes of flower brushes.

2.3 Floral Brushes

10 greyscale floral .gbr brushes for GIMP. They are about 400x400px and have blended edges.

2.4 Pine – MEGA PACK

There are 16 full branches and 33 smaller parts, so you can design you own branches yourself.

2.5 Vector Foliage-Plants

3. Nature GIMP Brushes

3.1 Cloudy Brushes

Realistic cloudy brushes for your skyscaping needs.

3.2 GIMP Brushes: Moon

There are 9 big brushes in this set.

3.2 Lightning Brushes

A nice set of lightning brushes.

4. Glitter, Splatter and Snowflakes

4.1 GIMP Glitter Brushes

Realistic cloudy brushes for your skyscaping needs.

4.2 Splatter Brushes

These brushes were originally created for Photoshop then converted to GIMP brushes.

4.3 Snowflakes

There are 20 snowflakes in this pack. They were created in CorelDraw 11 and then converted with GIMP 2.2.

5. Water and Bubbles Brush sets

4.4 GIMP Water Brushes

This set contains 36 brushes created in Photoshop 7.0 and converted with GIMP 2.2.6

4.5 Bubbles

This set contains 9 brushes created in Photoshop 7.0 and converted with GIMP 2.2.

5. Miscilnea GIMP Brushes

5.1 Mask Brushes

5 mask brushes. GBRs for Gimp and an imagepack.

5.2 Butterflies Part I

There are 9 brushes in this pack. They were created in CorelDraw 11 and then converted with GIMP 2.2.

5.3 1100 Gimp Brushes

This set contains 1100 brushes for GIMP

5.4 Doodles Part 2

This set contains 41 ! brushes created for GIMP

5.5 Blood Brushes

Looking for splattery blood brushes, here you go.

5.6 Inner Universe Brushes

5.7 GIMP Odysee Brushes

5.8 GIMP Galactic Brushes

5.9 GIMP Rise Brushes

5.10 GIMP Edge Brushes

5.11 15 Vector Brushes

15 vector .gbr brushes for GIMP.

GIMP Brush Tutorials

1. Creating Spikey Brushes

Learn how to create spike-looking brushes.

2. Make a .GBR Brush

Learn how to create .GBR brushes from pre-existing files

• 3. How to install Gimp brushes
• 4. How to convert Photoshop brushes into GIMP brushes
• 5. Let’s create some brushes!
• 6. Creating a brush with variable size
• 7. PS Filter Workaround in GIMP

  

GIMP is a freely distributed GNU Image Manipulation Program. Available for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It’s always fun to experiment different techniques and learn how to work with various aspects of GIMP to spice up boring pictures and make them into works of arts and masterpieces.

So, if you’re interested in learning some new skills, whether you’re a beginner, intermediate or advanced user, these GIMP tutorials are for you.

Below you will find an incredible amount some of the best GIMP tutorials hand picked to enhance or highlight whatever action is going on in the photo.

1. Different Gimp Tutorials

1. Neon Lights Tutorial

This tutorial illustrates how to implement a nice animated menu using Mootoolsand some lines of CSS and HTML code ready to reuse in your project. Tip: to get more of a glow, you can duplicate some of the blurred line layers.

2. Recoloring Eyes

This tutorial will teach you a quick and simple way to recolor eyes. You can color anything using this tutorial.

3. Lineart Tutorial

This is specially for anime/cartoon style lineart.

4. Easy Sig

A fairly easy tutorial to follow to make a sig. You must know the bare basics of GIMP and brushes/filters is all.

5. A colored swirl of light

Here is a great effect, usable for all kind of graphics such as flyers, splash-screens, wallpapers etc. Here you will learn how to create a colored light swirl.

6. Create a nice oilpainting from a photo

Learn how to create a fantastic looking oilpainting from a photo.

7. Making a pencil drawing from a photo

In this tutorial you will learn how to convert almost any image into a good-looking pencil drawing, and yon even won’t need edge detection filters. All you need are a few different layer modes.

8. Gimp Sin City Tutorial

This tutorial has been converted from the original Photoshop tutorial into Gimp. Learn how to create this dramatic effect in Gimp.

9. Flame Abstract Tutorial

In this tutorial we will learn how to use the flame filter to make a simple abstract background.

10. How to create Lightsaber effects

Who doesn’t want to create lightsaber effects. In this tutorial you will learn how.

11. Authentic Vintage Effect

Learn how to create beautiful effect for giving your photos an old vintage feel.

12. Grunge brush pack + tutorial

A whole Gimp grunge back along with a tutorial on how to create your own brush set.

13. Resizing fade effect

This tutorial is about that fade effect, at first glance it’s just a blur effect. This effect works best with pictures of definite figures, such as logos, people, and solid objects.

14. How to make a pile of worms in Gimp

This is how to make something that looks like the image above.

15. Abstract Art

Learn how to create an abstract background easily with Gimp.

2. GIMP Basics

16. GIMP tutorial Basics

This tutorial will teach you some basic tips for working with Gimp: shadowing, coloring, lighting, using the brush and pencil tools.

17. Layers + Inking

This is a tutorial about using Ink and layers in Gimp.

18. Using the Scissor Tool

The scissor tool (selects shapes from images) can be a confusing tool at first, but once you get the hang of it, it’s great for extracting objects from your photos.

19. Using and Manipulating Layers with Gimp

This tutorial will show you how to use and manipulate layers in Gimp. Using layers is essential for making skins, and learning to use them to your advantage will help you produce good results.

3. Photo Manipulation

20. Vintage Look

A tutorial for creating a vintage look in Gimp.

21. GIMP Photomanip Tutorial

A basic tutorial for photomanipulation. You will learn how to tone the brightness, add swirls, grungy effect to the photo.

22. GIMP Photo-manip Tutorial

Learn how to make your photographs look like they came straight out of Hollywood by following a couple of simple steps!

23. How to do skin care with Gimp

Gimp can help you to remove wrinkle, acne scars, red rash, blemish, pimple and other annoying skin problem on face in a photo portrait.This is a guide, manual and help for how to retouch skin with Gimp.

24. Selective Colorization

How to convert a color photograph to a B&W one with color restored to selective areas.

4. Gimp Text Effects

125. Transparent Glass Lettering

Learn how to make a stunning glass text effect. Adapted from a Photoshop tutorial

26. Smelting text / Creating blood text

How you can liquify / smelt text or other graphical objects by creating a blood text.

27. Cool Glow Effect

How you can a nice glow effect for any text yoiu want.

28. Glossy Web Logo

In this tutorial we will learn how to create a cool glossy website logo.

29. Colourful glowing text effect

In this tutorial we will learn how to create a colourful text effect using the gradient blend and blur effects.

30 Fitting Text to Uneven Surfaces

In this tutorial we will learn how to FittText to Uneven Surfaces with GIMP’s Displace Tool.