The following resources are very useful for users of The GIMP. They contain much more information about The GIMP than this chapter. If you want to use The GIMP for more advanced tasks, you should not miss these resourses.
http://www.gimp.org is the official home page of The GIMP. News about The GIMP and related software are regularly posted on the frontpage.
gimp-help
has to be
installed. This documentation is also available online in HTML and PDF
formats at http://docs.gimp.org. Translations into many
languages are available.
A collection of many interesting GIMP tutorials is maintained at http://gimp.org/tutorials/. It contains basic tutorials for complete begginers as well as tutorials for advanced or expert users.
Printed books about The GIMP are published regularly. You will find selection of the best ones with short annotations at http://gimp.org/books/.
GIMP functionality can be extended with scripts and plug-ins. Many such scripts and plug-ins are distributed in the GIMP package, but other can be downloaded from the Internet. At http://registry.gimp.org/, you will find a database of GIMP scripts and plug-ins.
You can also use mailing lists or IRC channels to ask questions about The GIMP. Please always try to find answer in documentation mentioned above or in mailing list archives before asking your question. The time of experienced users present on GIMP lists and channels is limited and it is better spent on answering questions that are not covered in available documentation. Be polite and patient. It may take some time before your question is answered. And don't ask to ask, just ask.
There is number of mailing lists about The GIMP. You will find them at http://gimp.org/mail_lists.html. The GIMP User list is the most appropriate to ask user questions in. If you do not want to subscribe to the list but want to read its archives, visit http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/lists/gimp-user/.
There is a whole IRC network dedicated to The GIMP and GNOME desktop environment—GIMPNet. You can connect to GIMPNet with your favourite IRC client by pointing it at irc.gimp.org server. The #gimp-users channel is the right place to ask question about using The GIMP. If you want to listen to developer's discussion, join the #gimp channel.