Gimp Tutorial: Paths 2 (Part 2 in Vector Art series)

[Epicgullycat]

Whenever i try coloring or using the gradient fill tool inside the lines after using the fuzzy select tool, there's a thin white line between the lines and color... can someone help me???

[intoxicatedrodent]

How do you save these as vectors?

[Rummelhart]

Love your vids, the calm approach, the amusing language. Like I said on the other one, I hate the idea of the slow drawing of vectors, but I'm going to follow all your tutorials anyway. Theyr'e really nicely done.

[xOptimisticCynicx]

I feel like the beginning is unneccessary. If you select the white background, invert the selection, use the selection To Path tool, and you should get the path you created rather easilly. Then just stroke that path.

[NineHopeKeys]

@xOptimisticCynicx I agree. It would be much easier and less time consuming to use that.

[jgowrie]

Like so many others have said, these tutorials are very easy to follow. You are a natural teacher so thank you for these videos.

[Yoshimitsu74]

i love you



[omiguelion]

Just getting into GIMP with zero previous experience apart from some Paintbrush in the past. I´m finding your tutorials very helpful, thank you.

[linkbekka]

I`ve subscribed because you work at a sensible speed and explain as you proceed.

Many of the so-called tutorials are made by children (usually American) who work at a breakneck speed and gabble and mumble.

Keep up the good instructive work. I`ve already picked up a couple of shortcuts I didn`t know just from this one tutorial.

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[MusicBoxDancer2010]

Definitely one of the easiest to follow tutorials for a beginner like myself. I shall continue to watch this man's tutorials as I hope to learn how to use this program to my best ability.

[MusicBoxDancer2010]

Definitely one of the easiest to follow tutorials fora beginner like myself. I shall continue to watch this man's tutorials as I hope to learn how to use this program to my best ability.

[ekkkkkknoes]

Why using the wand tool to fill it with color? It would look better if you stroke the path on a new transperent layer, select from the path, and fill the selection on a new layer UNDER the stroked layer thingy.

[IncoherentQuestion]

How did you get that curves tool? Mine is hiding.

[VanillaCamillaa]

good information and nice tutorial, only odd part about it is i think you waste to much time (only seconds, but seconds are a lot on youtube) adjusting and mumbling about how your points (handles or anchors or w/e) arent perfect...lol....just a minor criticism that isnt related to the information on paths.....

[doctorsizzle]

@VanillaCamillaa YOU JUST WASTED time adding commentary on shit that has nothing to do wit the purpose of this video. as a result i've commented which now makes two. ONE dumb ass gesture leads to multiple foolishness.

really, you could've kept that shit to yourself.

[407pobox]

Thank you, I give u props on this beginners tut, hard to find. For instance, anyone can can perfect there education like going to college, many places to choose from, But often it is hard to start elementary. - to the haters... don't take this literary. As a beginner I appreciate the tutorial.

[malgalin]

I used to use Camstudio, but now I use Blueberry FlashBack Recorder Pro, which allows zooming.

[reldas11]

Are you using cam studio? and if you are what settings do you use. And how do you

get the program to zoom? There is no zoom in camstudio. reldas11

[adroits123]

The demonstrations are so easy to do, you can simply open your canvas and keep practicing while the lecture is going on. I find these videos many times more helpful than the help manual in GIMP and the notes below the video aids in improving your performance. Keep it up!  You at least need to open the GIMP program rather than simply watching it like a couch potato.

[adroits123]

The demonstrations are so easy to do, you can simply open your canvas and keep practicing while the lecture is going on. I find these videos many times more helpful than the help manual in GIMP. Keep it up!  You at least need to open the GIMP program rather than simply watching it like a couch potato.

[TempusFugit32]

Well for someone who has done this before this may have been a little basic....however for someone like myself who is trying to learn a completely new skill this was an AWESOME video. Most tutorials assume you already have an idea of what your doing and they dont start from basics or explain every step....I like learning things from the ground up because once I have all the pieces I can put the puzzle together myself...Personally I really appreciated this tutorial!!!!

[Aurelius6299]

lol 150% is quite far? You've never rendered an image before....try getting in at near 800%

[malgalin]

@Aurelius6299 I don't really understand your sarcasm, but you're probably making a valid point. Would you care to clarify it a little more? I'm no expert and would appreciate your constructive feedback.

[Aurelius6299]

@malgalin Rendering is basically cutting out a figure or a person from a larger image. In order to get a clear cut out without an outline or fuzzy features, you sometime have to zoom in as much as 600% to 800% in order to get the most precise edge of the image you're cutting out. Granted this sometimes Pixelizes the area you're viewing, it is necessary to get a good cut.

[eniac78]

@malgalin I'm no graphic design artist by any means. However, when I do design for the web often I have two views of the same image open in gimp (View->New View) one at regular zoom (100%) on an extra monitor and one extremely zoomed in at say 800% that I'm editing on my main monitor. So, for me, 150% is not that out of the ordinary.

[ashtonnikole]

@Aurelius6299 if you don't like it so much then why are you watching it? That's not very well thought out, it's a really good video if you ask me, and I love British accents ;D

[zhenio]

my gimp power is increasing. th.anks buddy

[zildjiansabian]

instead of using the paths tool can i use my tablet pen for more quick results?

[Iewkas]

Beautiful, Leathery... Crooked?  Can we touch... the subject? Absolutely not, no touching the sneakers!

[malgalin]

@Iewkas I have no idea what you just said, but it was beautiful.

[Opss56]

@malgalin Rofl, it's an add from Footlocker.

[Nicro327]

@malgalin He's talking about a shoe commercial

[SCAM918]

@Iewkas

That was a commercial!

[1ockedand1oaded]

man. i NEED to get a scanner. :P

[kieran481]

ok man. i can fill it, but its all white at he edges inside

[malgalin]

@kieran481 you may need to zoom in a manually colour any remaining pixels that did not get filled due to pixelated, jagged edges.

[kieran481]

@malgalin Okay ill Try That. Thanks Man!!

[kieran481]

@malgalin Wait Wait Wait, You Saying I haved to do it in strait lines?? but what about when i haved to do it diagonal?? lol man. i only downloaded dis yesterday...

[kieran481]

HEY MAN! I DONE THIS AWWSOME PICTURE ON GIMP AND ITS GOOD. I PUT IT ON THIS WEBSITE ERR DEVIANTART. PLEASE CAN U ADD ME ON IT AND TELL ME IF ITZ ALL RIGHT? THANK YHOOO! USERNAMES: x-pert-x

[malgalin]

@kieran481 You don't have anything on Deviant Art, Kieran. If you must type in ALL CAPS (which is really annoying) at least do it to publicize something you have actually done and people can see. Otherwise it is just a waste of time for all involved :)

I dig your enthusiasm...but chill out!

[kieran481]

@kieran481 kk lol. btw i wasnt havin ago at u. so its not on deviantart? thats weird. ill try make a vid of just that image and put it on yt. really want to know if theres anything wrong with it or if i can change it,

[malgalin]

@kieran481 Deviant art is a good place to upload to and I do recommend it - I noticed on your Dev Art page you were having trouble uploading .xcf files? If you save it as a PNG or JPG file it will upload fine. Let me know if you have trouble changing the file format.

[kieran481]

thanks lolzz. i put the pic of the sun on my fb page, but everytime i clck post with the link in the coment it says error try again

[kieran481]

I Cant Colour It. :L Please Help

[MsEva45]

Great tutorial for beginners like me. Thank you very much. Just starting with GIMP.

[Xyrhoshii]

I usually hate watching tutorial videos because most of the people doing such videos try to aim for entertainment as well. You though keep straight to the point and provide all the details in simple terms as well; a fantastic job.

[nwintran]

Hi Malgalin,

I thoroughly enjoy your tutorial Path2 (part2 2 of vector art series. I am new to GIMP and I find your tutorial has been a big big BIG help! Tahnk you.

I tried to put a gradient colour on a headstand yoga pose but despite my following your tut correctly, I could not do it. I can do use the colour gradient tool on 3 simple closed paths inside each other though.

What do you think my trouble is? I can senan .xfc file.

[starwolffan13]

xD ahahaha x ] lolz you've stolen the color from a juice company starts with R something

[iLoveChocolateMilk00]

really goob tuto:)

[LolaxCazar]

This is sooo cool!

I don't think I'll end up killing my computer with anger next time I try the paths tool ^^

Really good! 5/5

[mjthacker]

I don't have a curve option, but other than that it was spot on.

[MoriKAshi]

Did you look under "Tools>Color Tools>Curves"?

[pissballs]

Excellent tutorial

[77nova454]

you make extremely easy to follow videos

[coolwaterdvr]

thank you. more tutorials to come? more pls. Awesome!

[chocofoxee]

thank you :)

[xxkish93]

dont worry about the low quality image, we get that you have to fit it in laik 10 minutes. I got the gist of it and thess videos are extremely helpful

[sweetalollipop]

thanks! learning a lot from this video!

[itsathea]

Thanks for this great tutorial! I do have one question, however. When I use the magic wand tool to select the area inside my shape, and then fill the shape with the gradiant... there is a white edge along my lines. Is there a way to eliminate this white space?

[SocialSeeker213]

seen many tutorials yours are the only ones i learn from

[MaronK1993]

thx you really are helping me thx

[megahpfan]

Thank you so much! I'm learning a lot

[or4ngot4ngo]

Great tutorial man :)

[Ruzzy]

These are excellent. Well done :D

[HiruzenSarutobi]

Thankyou

[7ygrr]

Very helpful..im an artist and this will help me make mor pro looking t-shirts

[kuostis14]

thanks. you are so helping me.....

[drsomeone1]

very useful thx alot

[plastiksp00n]

every time i try to stroke paths, Microsoft says there's an error report... i went to msconfig, and turned error reporting off, but it still wont work! so i cant do it, and im sad :'(.

[RisumTube]

That seriusly suck.. But I have an Idea.. You can minimize the selection until it's just about 1 pixels wide, and the feather the selection by 1 or 2 pixels and then fill the selection :D Should create the desired result.

[kryczuss]

great video, now I'm understaning how I can do some vetor art. Thx so much ^^

[yen1377]

i can't work with that thing that has to be like the line tool!!! it's annoying me to no end...

[Tylee1O]

keep these vids up.

5 stars and subscribing

[mamba109]

I have a question. When tracing an art using the curves, I have a tendency to press "A" (a habit I got from a shortcut from Blender which selects/deselects all). When I do that, it selects another tool and all those time consuming curves disappear. Is there any way to save the curves? I mean, I can't even CTRL-Z to bring my curves back, it's so annoying!

[malgalin]

You can set your own short-cut keys in the preferences menu. You need to check the dynamic shortcuts box to do this.

Of course you need to be areful when assigning new functions that you don't get rid of useful ones!

[malgalin]

I've just put up a new tutorial about creating shortcuts...

[dasamwallace]

I love your videos. Just got gimp and watching all your tuts

[Sccrchamp102]

great video :) thank you SO much.. I was actually wanting to learn to vector ^^ your videos are definitely helping.

[Eluktai]

im learning gimp from scratch, this series and the layers vid are great.

[Th3M0b]

great vid =]] helped a bunch thank you =]]

[Ziabol]

Awesome i learned something :D

[Sergiom65]

very interesting. I've learned some new stuff. I did appreciate your attention to shortcut keys.

[shadow403]

ur th best

[shadow403]

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[tingtongfromhongkong]

Great Vid and im a great fan ;)

[malgalin]

Glad to hear it!

Thanks