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CHAPTER 12 ADDITIONAL TOPICS 483 Deviant Art is a community of digital artists. It s not all GIMP users, but a number of GIMP artists hang out there. There s an enormous sampling of digital art to browse, discussion forums, and it s even possible to sell art. The website can be found at http://www.deviantart.com/. Then there are the Photoshop contests. Don t let the name put you off: you can use GIMP or any other program to enter. Photoshop contests are websites where participants create digital images according to a set of guidelines, and then everyone votes for the winners. Most often, the images are very entertaining. Even if you re not interested in entering a contest, it can be addictive to browse Photoshop contest sites. And entering the contests can be a great incentive to practice your GIMP skills. Some sites use a theme, like Extreme sports, and participants are free to create any image that illustrates the theme, such as someone juggling live tigers, or waterskiing on the back of a great white shark. Other sites provide an image, and the goal is to modify the image in some (usually humorous) way. Some contest sites are free to enter while others charge a small fee; some give prizes to the winners, others don t. A web search for photoshop contest should turn up several likely candidates. Summary and Conclusion That s it! You re on your own now. But you should have enough information to accomplish anything you want in the GIMP. You can read and understand your GIMP configuration files, and edit them when you need to make changes. You can print your GIMP creations (assuming you have a suitable printer) and make screen shots of your GIMP windows for writing your own tutorials. If you find a bug, you can track down the details and report it. If the skills you need for making an image aren t in this book, maybe they re covered in the GIMP User Manual on the GIMP website. Or maybe there s a tutorial to show you exactly what you need, either one of the official ones on gimp.org, or somewhere else on the web. Finally, you know some sources to look for raw images for your creations, images with appropriate licenses so that you can distribute your derived art. You ve explored some art sites that can give you inspiration, and you have places you can post your art when you have something to show off. The rest is just practice. The more you work with the GIMP, the easier it gets. Tasks that seemed impossibly confusing the first time you tried them (like making a selection with Paths) become second nature. You may have stayed away from plug-ins because you re not a programmer but eventually you may change your mind and decide to try writing or modifying one. You may have joined a mailing list or two in order to ask for help . . . and before long, you re the one helping other people. You may even decide some day to become a GIMP contributor, writing code or documentation or web pages. Proceed at your own pace, and work with the kinds of images that interest you most. The only rule is: Be sure to have fun!
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