Tutorial: How to Write a Tutorial

Posted by tripwire45 on Aug 1, 2008 3:14 AM EDT
Gimper.net; By James Pyles
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There actually are many fine articles on how to write tutorials on the web and particularly on those related to image editors such as Photoshop, but I thought it was time for one aimed at the beginner who wants to learn how to write a tutorial, particularly using GIMP. The writing in and of itself, is a skill set that takes time to master. It's not enough to have the desire to help others and it's not enough to know the subject you want to teach. The trick is being able to communicate to your audience in a way that will help them understand, learn, and then apply what they've learned to expand their own skill sets.

This is a GIMP forum, which means by definition. the tutorials here are related to creating and editing images with the GIMP GNU Image Manipulation Program. That said, I'm going to go against one of the recommendations I'll make below and deliberately not include any screen captures or graphics. For this sort of tutorial, they won't really lend much, and the idea is to be able to present ideas and concepts in a text communication format (it's assumed that most of the people who have been writing tutorials on this forum are well versed in creating graphics using GIMP).

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