Turning people into stone
It is a very very hard thing to turn people to stone and make it look real. Not every picture can be used and there is a lot of fine-tuning necessary. If the effect is not working well just give it a new title: "Turning people into a zombie" ;)

Create soft glassy buttons
This tutorials shows you how to create a soft and glassy / glossy button.

Create a mystic chaos Voodoo-Pattern
This tutorial shows you a simple effect which should look like mystical symbols of witches (Voodoo). I hope you understand it well, because it's my first (english) tutorial.

How To Paint Tomato
How to do a digital painting of a juicy tomato - using GIMP or any other raster graphics editors like Photoshop, Corel Painter, Paint Shop Pro. A step by step procedure from laying down base tones, and shadows and highlights based on light source.

Lightning
In this tutorial you will learn the basics of how to create a nice lightning effect. Once you know the basics, you can easily experiment to create different kinds of lightning.

User Interface
This video explains the user interface of the GIMP. The goal of the tutorial is to make you understand how the user interface works, so that you can explore GIMP without being hindered by the user interface.

Rays of Light (behind text)
I bet you all know this effect where cool rays of light can be seen behind some text. In this tutorial I'll show you how to make such an explosion. This effect is also very often used by gaming companies.

Orb-Icons for Websites
Of course you know these small little icons which can be often seen all around the web that look like a small glossy orb. Pretty nice to enhance also your personal website with it!

Simple Scanlines
The effect of scanlines is pretty popular, mainly for forum-signatures. This tutorial shows probably the easiest way to do this simple effect in the GIMP, in just 4 very short steps!

Hot Wallpaper with Flames
In this desktop background tutorial I will show you how to create a hot wallpaper with Angelina Jolie. She is covered in hot flames ;)

Creating a simple Company Logo
Today we want to create a simple logo, which is pretty neutral so you can use it for many different things. We're first drawing some text and then decorate it with a nice colored and curved path!

Neon Glow
In this simple tutorial I'm gonna show you how to create a cool neon glow text in only 5 very simple steps!

Generate a stripe-like texture
You'll often need some short techniques to create a website banner, a forum signature or wallpapers. In this tutorial I'll show you how to create such a simple "texture" in less than five minutes!

Cool glowing text
In this tutorial I'll show you how to get this pretty nice glowing text effect using GIMP. In my opinion glowing text looks much better if you have text with a rounded font. Take a look at the rounded corners-tutorial if you want your special font to be rounded off.

Creating the Che Guevara Effect
Probably the most popular picture that uses this black/white-effect is one of the famous revolutionist of Cuba: Che Guevara. To create such an effect for your own it is only necessary to take a few minutes of time.