Mostly, yes. There's a few things that won't quite translate, but there's usually some way to work around it to get similar results.

What type of "complete portrait tutorial" are you looking for? On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 2:14 PM pakeez wrote:

I am new to GIMP and not found complete portrait tutorial for GIMP. I would like
to know if Photoshop tutorials could be used with GIMP?

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I don't agree with this. Experienced users like you and me can figure out the important things in the tutorial and find some way to perform equivalent things in Gimp. But do we really use tutorials?

At the other end of the spectrum beginners can be put off by small differences such as UI changes between Gimp 2.6 and Gimp 2.8, so I don't really see them converting a PS tutorial to Gimp.

On 29/09/16 21:16, Pat David wrote:

Mostly, yes. There's a few things that won't quite translate, but there's usually some way to work around it to get similar results.

What type of "complete portrait tutorial" are you looking for? On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 2:14 PM pakeez wrote:

I am new to GIMP and not found complete portrait tutorial for GIMP. I would like
to know if Photoshop tutorials could be used with GIMP?

Good point. Maybe better to make friends with a more advanced user and ask for them to possibly translate? :)
On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 4:51 PM Ofnuts wrote:

I don't agree with this. Experienced users like you and me can figure out the important things in the tutorial and find some way to perform equivalent things in Gimp. But do we really use tutorials?

At the other end of the spectrum beginners can be put off by small differences such as UI changes between Gimp 2.6 and Gimp 2.8, so I don't really see them converting a PS tutorial to Gimp.

On 29/09/16 21:16, Pat David wrote:

Mostly, yes. There's a few things that won't quite translate, but there's usually some way to work around it to get similar results.

What type of "complete portrait tutorial" are you looking for? On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 2:14 PM pakeez wrote:

I am new to GIMP and not found complete portrait tutorial for GIMP. I would like
to know if Photoshop tutorials could be used with GIMP?

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On 09/29/2016 05:57 PM, Pat David wrote:

Good point. Maybe better to make friends with a more advanced user and ask for them to possibly translate? :)

Or we can ask pakeez for a little more detail on what a "complete portrait tutorial" should have in it. What exactly do you want to do to pictures of people? We have ways, and probably the right tutorials to get you well started, but "portraits" are a very big subject

Portrait work has many aspects - composition and cropping, color and light correction, removing blemishes and unwanted textures, enhancing contrast and color in selected areas, etc.

For high resolution work, one also needs to learn about exporting photos in RAW format, importing them into your image editor, etc.

My favorite beginner tutorial for photo editing with the GIMP is this one; the website has closed but lives on in the Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100105094324/http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/gimp_tutorial

=or=

https://tinyurl.com/mcirvin

It covers a /lot/ of the basics and most of them apply directly to portrait work. The GIMP version used in the tutorial is old, but it will not be difficult to figure out the differences as one goes along. Get some similar photos to the ones in the tutorial, do the same things to them, and you will be well on your way.

:o)

Steve Kinney

On 09/29/2016 07:15 PM, Steve Kinney wrote:

My favorite beginner tutorial for photo editing with the GIMP is this one; the website has closed but lives on in the Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100105094324/http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/gimp_tutorial

Hum. The Wayback Machine does not seem to have that version any more.

This address does have the whole tutorial just now:

https://web.archive.org/web/20091004142010/http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/gimp_tutorial/

If anything is missing (pages, pictures, etc.) try different dates.

:o/

Maybe somebody should mirror or, horror of horrors, update that thing.

:o)

We have a couple of modern portrait tutorials as well:

https://pixls.us/articles/an-open-source-portrait-mairi https://pixls.us/articles/a-chiaroscuro-portrait On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 6:22 PM Steve Kinney wrote:

On 09/29/2016 07:15 PM, Steve Kinney wrote:

My favorite beginner tutorial for photo editing with the GIMP is this one; the website has closed but lives on in the Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100105094324/http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/gimp_tutorial

Hum. The Wayback Machine does not seem to have that version any more.

This address does have the whole tutorial just now:

https://web.archive.org/web/20091004142010/http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/gimp_tutorial/

If anything is missing (pages, pictures, etc.) try different dates.

:o/

Maybe somebody should mirror or, horror of horrors, update that thing.

:o)

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On 09/29/2016 08:22 PM, Pat David wrote:

We have a couple of modern portrait tutorials as well:

https://pixls.us/articles/an-open-source-portrait-mairi https://pixls.us/articles/a-chiaroscuro-portrait On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 6:22 PM Steve Kinney > wrote:

Also VERY much worth mentioning: One of my favorite things...

https://pixls.us/articles/skin-retouching-with-wavelet-decompose/

:o)