Any GIMP users out there?
 

I'm just starting to add way cool effects and such into my images... but I'm having a hard time creating word bubbles, as GIMP SEEMS to have no direct shape making tools... I can make the bubble so far by stroking the path of a selection, but adding a tail to the word bubble is proving more confusing. Is there a simpler way?

Also, sphere designing is cool.

i have gimp but i rarely use it for i suck at art and such. but i have gimp and thats the point. it has most of the things you would want from photo shop. so its ok in my book.

I aslo have Gimp, and it doesn't have anything you can use to make bubbles, which is weird. But I'm getting the hang of Gimp, but a tutorial would be nice. Do you guys know of one?

There is actually a lot if you google it, but here's a link or two

http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/

http://home.planet.nl/~dark-echo/gimp-faq/

Some are easy to understand... other's are needlessly convoluted with "wit" and verboseness

yes tutorials are good. I havnt used one for gimp but i will as soon as im dont with this post.

Yeah I've been using GIMP ever since I switched over to Linux (It came with the OS.) Its apain in the arse to make bubbles. usually I just make a bubble and use a predefined brush to make the tail, it works but it looks like crap.

edit:I like it because I figured out how to make animated gifs with it.

Really? I found it hard to make anything animated with The Gimp, I kinda need some help with it...

Basically I animate each element seperately then compile them into the frames how I want and add a background the hard part is choosing how long each frame stays before moving to the next one. Otherwise the animation looks choppy

... Did you learn how to do that yourself, or did you read a manual or something?

actually, I did stuff like that with some gif animator.. a good one. Once you learn how to get a bunch of frames and a basic layout of what happens in each one, the timing is truly the difficult thing.