A Beginner's Guide To Gimp
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- čas přidán 12. 06. 2024
- One of the most popular pieces of free and open source software is Gimp (GNU Image Manipulation Program). It is the free and open source alternative to things like Adobe Photoshop. I've used Gimp for many years, even before I was a Linux user since Gimp is cross-platform, meaning it's available on Windows, Mac and Linux!
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Introduction
0:40 The default layout of Gimp
== A picture with a color-to-alpha gradient added ==
3:35 Let's create a new image
4:00 Background and foreground colors
4:10 Bucket fill
4:33 Gradients
5:13 Create a new layer and add an image to that layer
6:18 Color to alpha
== A jar of water with a goldfish in it ==
7:30 Dragging images from file manager into Gimp
8:38 Playing with a transparent jar
9:21 Adding picture of water into the transparent jar
10:25 Adding a layer mask
15:02 Adding picture of goldfish into the jar of water
15:35 Rotating the goldfish and adjusting hue-saturation
== 3D text effects ==
17:06 Create a new image and add some text
18:09 Adding "New From Visible" layer
18:27 Gaussian blur
18:45 Plasma noise
19:01 Bump mapping
19:37 Adding a layer mask
== Cropping a photo of yourself for a thumbnail ==
20:43 The free select tool and "invert" select
22:18 Trying to paste my face into the 3D text we created earlier
== More effects ==
23:23 Drop shadow
23:56 Long shadow
24:18 Checkerboard
24:52 Grid
25:26 Apply canvas
25:39 Cartoon
25:48 Cubism
== I will create the thumbnail for this video ==
26:13 Importing a background image
26:35 Create the text
27:14 Create rectangular backgrounds for the text
28:28 Importing an image of paintbrushes
29:22 Flip horizontally
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"one of the confusing things if you're new to GIMP, is ... what is going on with all this stuff on the screen here"
well. yes. yes indeed.
True, regardless how good GIMP may be, it's anything but user-friendly if you're new to GIMP
This guy just showed us everything we learned in school, just in 32 minutes, 34 seconds..... not 2 weeks.
DUDE this helped so much clearing certain stuff up for me. great video man keep up the great content
Thank you for making this video. I use GIMP everyday and I hope more people will use it after they've seen your video.
I like how you teach. I always have problems learning new programs because people jump around. You kept my attention. Great video!
thank you man, before today I knew literally nothing about gimp, in the past hours after watching this video i've made some cool logos and posters. Great job
I've never used gimp (krita gang rise up), but I'll give it a try after this
I've used GIMP forever, even before I knew about Linux
Same here. I didn't had any money for Photoshop. Found GIMP and it did the job I needed it to do. Never used Photoshop. So became a pro using GIMP and didn't had to spend any money doing so.
@@gimcrack555 How did you learnt that? I am a CS major student, although gimp, photoshop and graphic designing is not in my syllabus, I want to learn graphic design with gimp plus gimp software itself. I follow these tutorials, I fail sometimes but I find them difficult. Same as You I don't have money to buy photoshop id and courses for me. How do I learn it?
You are the chosen one
@@gimcrack555 can you help me?
@@johnnie3218 This guy can help you better. czcams.com/users/DaViesMediaDesignvideos What's your question. I'll try my best to help you.
Yessss A Nice tutorial for open source software!
Thank you very much sir, I needed this video. Love from 🇮🇳
This guide is like a nicely cooked steak... very well done.
It's pretty _rare_ to find good tutorials like this.
@@robert58 I liked that the length of the video was kind of medium long too and not dragged out
Much needed video
I needed this
Hey DT. Thanks for the crash course using The Gimp. Definitely a very powerful tool. Thanks again.
Damn I was waiting for this video. Loved it man. liked it before actually starting.
Nice guide. Thanks for putting it together. Just getting started with art creation for video games and your tutorial was a great start.
Thanks for another great video Derek :)
Thanks for the guide. I've been using GIMP way back even on Windows since I couldn't afford Photoshop then. I just used GIMP mostly for quick editing of screenshots and resizing images. I'll definitely keep this guide in mind if I need to do more stuff.
Thank you for the Guide! Really helped me out when I was starting! seems so much simpler when you understand what everything does :D
Thanks Derek. I was thinking earlier about trying to learn Gimp after watching your video on how to create a thumbnail. So this video come out right on time :-D
DT is reading minds now, watch out Google
I like your new lens/camera! Awesome DoF
Very cool video. Thanks!
I liked this video.
I've used gimp for years so simple edits.
I now know what mask transperancy is and how to use it.
Thanks,always great with more guides to this fantastic program.
Thanks! Good speed of tutorial!
Well done, please do more guides.
Thank you very much for the basic guide . It is very useful since I'm a beginner.
Nice job! I've been doing graphics with my job but never with gimp so this was educating. Thanks!
Thank you and all the team for a great tutorial.
Thank you for this - I love your tutorials.
This was very helpful! I've already made some images!
Thank you for this, tons of stuff I didnt know about GIMP I learned from this, like the create tab thing.
Been using GIMP as the last step in my Photography (And Astrophotography) process as well as just general use since forever, always loved FOSS/GNU
Just what I needed, thanks bud
as always great. thank you
I am a photoshop user, I am very uncomfortable using GIMP, specially because of being able to do some tasks easier (like being able to rotate the text box on the fly, while writting text).
This video helped me a bit with my struggles with GIMP.
One of the advantages of GIMP is being able to convert color formats perfectly out of the box, like YUV to RGB conversion, which is very bad on photoshop.
I'd just like that as an open source project, GIMP would have the z.lib aka libzimg. I don't like the scalers that come with GIMP and photoshop, and being able to use Spline36 on a image editor would be awesome.
DT you read my mind! thank you!
Great content as always💫
Thanks! :D
Thank You! You did VERY GOOD! Yeah!
you are a good teacher, here's an apple
very helpful thank you
Thanks for this! I can seem but stop pulling up my VM to use something like Photoshop or Illustrator. Trying to get into GIMP and Inkscape, this might help me.
Awesome !!!!
If you have black and white you can use multiply on layer and have similar effect
Regarding floating object you can anchor them instead of merging.
Bro, you can use the jar as a layer mask to perfectly put the water in the jar only.
Thanks for creating this tutorial. Lots of great information. I think it would help if you could explain why you are selecting certain options within the menus and also explain what they do..for instance when you use the Anchor option in layers... Im a beginner and don't know what that is or what it means. Apart from things like that, it was really helpful and should help me in creating thumbnails.
I use Gimp for all my raster graphics too! It's nice to see you making a guide like this, it will definitely attract more people to Gimp.
One thing I wish that Gimp had is the ability to make shapes. Of course I know that you can make shapes by selecting an area and then filling it, but so many other raster image editors have this ability and it pushes people away from Gimp.
It wont. People cant use GIMP professionally.
Yeah. I was shocked at that. Coming from Photoshop that's useful in everything and I was just shocked at the lack of a feature that is taken for granted in every workflow.
i was just about to search how to make shapes in gimp
@@abhabh6896 I beg to differ! I actually am taking Visual Communications classes in a trade school, and we were taught to use Adobe Photoshop which I used some of my skills from that and learned alot about Gimp and raster graphics in general, I used Gimp for an assignment instead of Photoshop once and my teacher didn't seem to notice until I pointed it out :D
Do that in Inkscape and export as a png image and import into GIMP
Or use Krita
Nice Kali -Linux- tshirt DT
Fuzzy select tool would be a better choice to mask the base of the jar
Does someone have tricks to optimize gimp on windows, a friend of mine saw it on my PC and installed it and it runs bad and takes forever to zoom f.e. just the standard windows stuff would help or everything that works for any system (I never had to do anything and it ran fine on my system).
the piv with the open mouth,put some -5 or 10 oval rings with some miniter some a little larger ,change the black color a bit,it will look like you are being swalowed by an invisible force,keep up the god work you do,Respect
thanks that's great.
Thank you!
Hey DT! Do you know that when you have a floating selection (like after pasting) you can press the new layer button at the bottom of the layer window and it will merge the floating selection into a new layer.
Personally I only use this all the time and I merge or whatever the new layer into another one instead of anchoring the floating selection. I honestly don't really understand the need of a floating layer. It confuses new people greatly. Sorry, not greatly, but MASSIVELY. Why wouldn't the Paste command simply create a new layer is beyond me.
Aaanyway, at the end, the cut and paste of the layers wasn't needed. There's a tool to move layers (the icon is a 4-direction arrow). By holding Shift and dragging, it will move the active layer. Without Shift, it will try to guess the layer you want to move based on where you started dragging. There's other options too.
Hope these little tricks helped. Cheers!
DT mentioned key-bindings. The thing is, do we have a GIMP that's got Vim key-bindings? If not, we need VGIMP, with Vim key bindings. 🤣
Please consider using a larger pointer with a contrasting color. Thanks!!
Thanks.
Free and opensource!!
Awesome, you should do an Inkscape one next
nice video
THANK YOU
My pleasure! :D
@@DistroTube I've been reading all the documentation I can find but I can't get the hang of it-
this is going to help a lot
You mean, “The Gimp” . 😉
I've been trying to migrate from Photoshop to Gimp for years and frankly the two things that have been blocking me I now realise is not immediately anchoring and alpha masks. Seeing you do these both in such simple terms gives me the onus to give it another crack.
...don't suppose you also use Freecad and/or Inkscape?
I've used GIMP for a very long time.
I remember telling my Grandma that I installed gimp, she asked what it stood for and I said "G N U Image Manipulation Program, I'm not sure what G N U stands for..."
Excellent stuff, any chance you can do the same thing for Kdenlive?
He did a video on kdenlive a week or two ago
I use gimp a lot with a combination of Pixeluvo. Which is cross platform.
Fantastic program. Also, the G in GNU is silent .
Interesting. Gimp does not automatically anchor the mask? I bet there is a setting or a plugin for that.
Where did you get the images for this tutorial? Like the fact already have transparent background
BTW have you been running brave as your main browser (on your desktop) instead of Firefox?
He’s probably sticking with brave on account of Mozilla not like that users have freedom. Brave is, for now, the superior free browser
@Bitten Apple oh, i know was just within 10 minutes of the video uploaded so was expecting an answer
@@crazychicken0378 yeah I also think that..
What does it matter what browser he's using? They're all FREE, you only have to invest a little of your own time to try them for yourself.
How many of you people here can't make a decision for yourselves?
Firefox forever!
Hi how do i highlight, and move text, either whole words, (large) or just single letters/numbers, without its background? Im sure i did it before, but cant remember how? Doesnt seem to be the 'foreground highlight' tool! There must be a fast and simple way?
Cheers
Thanks :_)
I downloaded GIMP to my iMac running Monterey. For some reason, filenames and some labels print in a garbage typeface I do not have. They are unreadable. Any idea what I need?
Good evening, I want to ask something because I can't find a solution. I have a 960*720 image and want to make it 100KB in size and 640*450 in dimensions. I change the dimensions and in the quality I put 100, but it turns out that the image has a size of 89.5 KB. What am I doing wrong? Thank you very much
Learning Gimp for freelancing, instead of photoshop. But I see those videos too just for knowledge and help purposes.
My layout of gimp is way different than yours. Great tutorial. TY. 👍
Is there no clipping option?
What about Krita?
Please make a video "A Beginner's Guide To Inkscape"
is there any linux community or chat or server where i can ask for support? it's been a couple of months i am a linux users and i want to stick with it but to exploit all of his potential i need some help and guidance
One of things that get in my nerves about using GIMP is that you can not select several layers with your mouse.
Man! The amount of time that I have lost moving them one at a time.
This thing is difficult for me, anyone who can help me in zoom?
First
Confirmed!
Swalow da Fish
Do more
YES
Terminal-based alternatives to GIMP?
Why you would want to edit photos in terminal? Just stick with the GUI
ImageMagick but i think is very hard to know what are you doing and to know all the parameters and commands and what parameter values do you need, but for scripting is really nice.
If you are asking for a terminal gui, then i dont know any.
A beGIMPer's guide!
...Don't worry, I'm leaving.
RRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
* * And I thought this is SIMPLE...!!! Oh boy how WRONG I was...!!! Need a new diploma ! * *
This gimp thing is used to make memes .
Good program
First experience about gimp: why doesn't it do the obvious?
there is something called crop Mr Distrotube 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
drinking game:
every time he says "gimp" drink
BRUH U DIDNT TELL MEEEEEEEEEEEE
This is like Photohop 15 years ago. How can you even call this an alternative?
Is this really the best image manipulation software on Linux?
Ikr 😭😭
yes is true pothoshop is better than gimp,
Is also true that this is a basic tutorial doesnt show all the basic tools and doesnt show advanced stuff
for the 90% of users this is a good replacement for photoshop
@@nextorLeon DT had to manually select the stuff he wanted gone. Removing the background in Photoshop takes me literally a couple seconds using Adobe Sensei. So Gimp really doesn't cover the 90%. DT also had to carefully select and remove the water from the first image. Photoshop is able to auto detect and correct the paint errors. So again. You're wrong. If you got all the time in the world, Gimp is fine. But it's not very officiant.
@@MrDonCoyote Intentionally showcasing masking, perhaps.
I might've selected the empty space around the jar with the magic wand and used that selection on the water layer to delete anything outside of the jar. Two clicks and a delete key.
I haven't used PS since 7 but most of what newer versions of PS offer seems to be achievable just as quickly in GIMP either natively or via plugin. I think it's a matter of familiarity with the tool. We work fastest with the tools we have already learned to use, and depending on how much time we've devoted to mastering that tool. I'm not terribly fast in GIMP, not having bothered to memorize hotkeys and such, but there are proponents of it that could speedrun this video.
@@__hetz You're still gonna have to go over with a pencil and fine clean everything. Gimp is a pain becuse it's destructive, meaning I can't copy/paste from my undo history or go back and ix certain things that I forgot along the way. I'm not shitting on Gimp. For being a free app, it's great. But the fact that this is the best Linux has to offer is a bit of a joke. And when people compare it to Photoshop, you make yourself look like a fool. If anything, you're misleading people who aren't familiar with Gimp.
Wish it was called pimp
hi
As long as GIMP keeps its name it will never be popularized. No scools would ever teach gimp, no companies would ever use it either and tgats sad since its a really good program.