GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program

An Open source graphics tool. A quirky interface (in Windows) but otherwise very solid. Great feature set.

http://gimp.org/
A nifty plugin. (actually, it's now part of Gimp, just hard to find in the dialogs. It DOES work nicely to turn anything into a texture that tiles nicely. This will create tileable graphics. I.e. they look pretty when set as a background and repeated horizontally and/or vertically.
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~pfh/resynthesizer/
An online version of a book for using gimp. Seems pretty good.
http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/

Personal tricks used:

Nice fade to another color - use gradient and Foreground to Transparent and do little steps.
Highlight text (of a screenshot) - http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=604174 - Select the area of text you want to highlight. Create a new layer. Fill the selection with yellow. Set layer blend mode to multiply.

tags: image, graphics,

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