It is fairly straight forward, reading the gimp tutes (on the site) also helps obviouslyIt can do most of the stuff photoshop can and you can often copy tutorials for photoshop and follow them in gimp.
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Tue 27 May 2008, 13:19,
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cooli'm downloading it at the moment so i'll assault your eyes with the results later!
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Tue 27 May 2008, 13:20,
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You could try GimpShop.It's the Gimp with a PS interface (I'm told)
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Tue 27 May 2008, 13:42,
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