New to the whole photo/image editing but its very cool and im looking forward to making my own sigs and banners eventually. Does anyone know where i can find some gimp tutorials?
Id prefer to start at the VERY basics and work my way to the advanced tutorials.

Did you Google any like I suggested?
http://www.google.ca/search?q=gimp+tag+tutorials&hl=en&prmd=imvnsfd&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=DNxBT4j2NMqhgwffp5GAAQ&ved=0CC4QsAQ&biw=1920&bih=974

Also I'm sure you can also download a user manual from the same site that I linked you to

no i didnt try googling any, havent been home much in the past couple days.
ill be sure to check it out tho and thanks bro