After complaining about the GIMP user interface I have found
some brief help and an online GIMP user's manual.

Basic howto: 

http://mozillaquest.com/OpenSource04/
Gimp-Photo-Edit-Tutorial-01_Story01.html 

Online user's manual: 

http://manual.gimp.org/ 

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