A Beginner's Guide To Gimp DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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Winnetou17
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!
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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!
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Mr
As someone who went to College for graphic design, I find that I can achieve great results with GIMP. Adobe peeps be like -Ugh, the interface is different so it's bad- so in that case I would recommend Krita as the interface more closely resembles Adobe apps. For vector graphics on the otherhand, I've only seen 1 viable Adobe alternative (Inkscape) which is good and (almost) as fully-featured as Illustrator, I just have problems on my system with it crashing often when my projects get too big, and I have found some scenarios where Illustrator just worked better but overall, I still ditched Adobe for freedom and am glad I did.
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As someone who went to College for graphic design, I find that I can achieve great results with GIMP. Adobe peeps be like -Ugh, the interface is different so it's bad- so in that case I would recommend Krita as the interface more closely resembles Adobe apps. For vector graphics on the otherhand, I've only seen 1 viable Adobe alternative (Inkscape) which is good and (almost) as fully-featured as Illustrator, I just have problems on my system with it crashing often when my projects get too big, and I have found some scenarios where Illustrator just worked better but overall, I still ditched Adobe for freedom and am glad I did.
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Elizabeth
I use it very little, last time I remember the workspace being transparent
OK, what's going on today
it has some king of grey background, go to preferences and it goes to CRAP, the preferences window goes OFF SCREEN making the OK button inaccessible
I experience this a LOT in Linux programs, programmers ASSume that everyone has huge screens & sytems like they do, something my college profs told me NEVER to do - ASSume everyone has the same system
programming today is WORTHLESS CRAP! when you can not even get out of the preferences dialog
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I use it very little, last time I remember the workspace being transparent
OK, what's going on today
it has some king of grey background, go to preferences and it goes to CRAP, the preferences window goes OFF SCREEN making the OK button inaccessible
I experience this a LOT in Linux programs, programmers ASSume that everyone has huge screens & sytems like they do, something my college profs told me NEVER to do - ASSume everyone has the same system
programming today is WORTHLESS CRAP! when you can not even get out of the preferences dialog
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A.J.
May I suggest that you present all of this information in a slower pace. You delivered this information (as great as it was), much too quickly. I could not keep up with everything you were saying or showing, because you were already on the next thing. I've sat through enough training seminars to know that the best way to help your audience absorb what you are showing them is by a clear, concise, moderately paced presentation. Again, great info, but slow down your presentation.
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May I suggest that you present all of this information in a slower pace. You delivered this information (as great as it was), much too quickly. I could not keep up with everything you were saying or showing, because you were already on the next thing. I've sat through enough training seminars to know that the best way to help your audience absorb what you are showing them is by a clear, concise, moderately paced presentation. Again, great info, but slow down your presentation.
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simon
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.
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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.
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Mr
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?
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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?
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ABH
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.
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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.
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Quiet
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
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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
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John
Nice guide. Thanks for putting it together. Just getting started with art creation for video games and your tutorial was a great start.
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Nice guide. Thanks for putting it together. Just getting started with art creation for video games and your tutorial was a great start.
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Johnathan
I like how you teach. I always have problems learning new programs because people jump around. You kept my attention. Great video!
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I like how you teach. I always have problems learning new programs because people jump around. You kept my attention. Great video!
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