I would like to demonstrate what you can do with Gimp in creative photo manipulation. Gimp is a very powerful tool Here’s the photo we’ll start with: The photo itself is very nice – but the only thing that annoys me are the people all over the beach. (I guess they were annoying at the time...

In this Gimp tutorial we will create a round web 2.0 button/icon with a metal ring around it. This button is very handy for download icons and such, and it can easily be customized, especially with gradients. FINAL IMAGE PREVIEW This is what we’re going to create, we will also look at some variations...