It is certainly inspiring that a free piece of software gives you so diverse possibilities, comparable to any paid 
software you can get in the market. In this post I have attempted to collect the best tutorials of GIMP, in my view, around the web.
Photo Re-touching
1- Turn a 40 year old to 20 year old lady
This is by far the most interesting tutorial in this category. The video shows easy steps to remove wrinkles and add freshness to an old ladies picture. Finally you will end up with a picture of a younger and more attractive lady. The techniques in this tutorial will help you retouch your daily life photographs.
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2-Applying Makeup with GIMP
In this video simple techniques are applied to put on light makeup to lady. This is an intuitive tutorial that teaches one simple steps to achieve a picture that is lightly re-touched.
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3-Cool Photo Manipulation in Gimp
Again a simple tutorial but will definitely help one to learn from basics to advance techniques using GIMP.
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4-How to switch the face of someone famous with your face
A very interesting Tutorial that will make you able to replace any celebrity’s face with yours!
5-Adding Sketch Effect to an Image
Again a simple tutorial but will definitely help one to learn from basics to advance techniques using GIMP.
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6- Realistics Reflections
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7-Create the impression of a buffer GIMP DigiScrapbook
Now adays, scrapbooking is very common and people look for ways to be more innovative with pictures and other contents. This is an interesting tutorial in this context!
8-Cutout a picture in a photo
Special effects & Wallpapers
In this category of tutorials I have gathered some tutorials that will help you make amazing digital art.
9-Glow effect
A very simple to follow tutorial but yet has utterly impressive output.
10-How to make a colorful line/wavey effect
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11-How to Make a Signature
This is one of the interesting tutorials that will boost your creativity apart from teaching you some tricks and techniques.
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12-Crazy Insane Photo Manipulation
A very insightful tutorial depicting the new era of digital art.
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Next,we have tutorials that will teach you to make awesome wallpapers.
13-Gimp tutorial: Abstract Wallpaper
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14-Cool Wallpaper
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Typography
Typography is art of alphabets and characters. GIMP has easy techniques to accomplish the best typography effects.
15- Typography logo design
This is GIMP 2.6 tutorial that comprises of simple steps to make an attractive logo for your website.
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17 & 18- Teach your self simple typography with these tutorials
This is another stunning typography tutorial. By the end of practicing these tutorials you will surely do moderate level of typography!
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19- Typo portrait!
This tutorial will teach you to make a face out of typography.
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Text Effects
You might have seen several graffitic effects, but these tutorials are definitely must try. The best thing about them is that they are easy to follow and produce the desired effect in simple steps
20- Create Splatter Grunge Effect
This tutorial is about splatter Grunge effect you can create using GIMP.
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21- Another Grunge effect
Another tutorial for grunge effect.
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Facebook & Youtube
22-Innvative Facebook profile picture
This tutorial teaches you to take full advantage of facebook’s new layout to make a cool screenshot using the gimp. This is a must try trick!!
23-Another Facebook profile picture tutorial!
A fast forwardede tutorial that will help you uderstand most of the steps of the above tutorial visualy.
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24-Custom youtube layout
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Cartoonize Yourself
25-Cartoon Effect
Now this is a simple one. A simple tutorial that teaches you to convert your picture to a cartoon.
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26-Cartoonize yourself
Again a simple but intutive tutorial.
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27-Yet another!
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28-Animated avatars using GIMP
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Website Tips & Tricks!
29- Wip website layout in gimp – timelapse
Simple website teaching you the tricks about creating graphics for your website.
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30- How To Make A UserBar In GIMP
Yet another tutorial for decorating your website.
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So these were my collection of best tutorials around the web!
