Hi

I would want to begin with Krita. I did only install KDE, Calligra with Krita in an Linux derivate of LFS. my major occupation is not to really process picture but to add them into documents after they are been adapted and improoved.

I did find a lot of time a short basic tutorial how to do diverse basic jobs in GIMP:

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

and I would be happy to find a corresponding thing for Krita.

Kind regards