GIMP 2.4 Tutorial - Selections

[iidaBrightest]

BORRRINGGG!!!!!! OMFG AT LEAST DO something cool! God give me my 5 minutes of life back!

[matriculita007]

hablas pesimo el ingles care maso...!!!!!

[AnthonyTheAngelFan]

Thanks man helped me do what I wanted to do with a picture of mine.

[spiralcosmosart]

I need a gimp tutorial on how to make custom "cookie cutters". I mean making a custom selection and copying the selection 's shape (NOT the selection, but THE SELECTION'S SHAPE), and then pasting and moving that Selection's shape somewhere else to make a new selection the same shape and dimensions of the old selection.

[ccsitaround]

great lesson--I have a newer ed of gimp--it doesn't have a scaler slide that can change brush sizes (for all brushes) like the gimp 2.4 has. any way to get that scaler slider into the newer version? thanks

[GerberosHilleri1]

how i open layers panel?

[eugenetswong]

Hi. Thank you for your hard work.

Before, I didn't have much faith in Gimp, because it seemed so difficult to use. After watching and reading several tutorials, such as yours, I'm convinced that Gimp is wonderful.

[Meisterluk]

Thanks a lot :-) GIMP rocks!

[a2zhandi]

great tut. I learned a lot!

cheers

[sietsk]

Very clear and very helpful. Thank you.

[almallegra]

FANTASTIC, thank you!!

[kghs10]

ugly

[plumbersteve]

shut up you ugly

[quantumuncertainty]

Thank you very very much for your tutorials. Before them I could do as much with Gimp as I did with Paint !!!!!. I was very interested in this thing: the selections. Now I have a pic from my eye and I could change the color of my iris, from dark to green.

[animelover6621]

when i drag the picture to where u dragged it nothing happens all it says is the file is not known can u help me?

[foodfighternat]

Thanks for this, very good job. You did a good job speaking clearly in english too! 5/5

[tautescu01]

nice tutorial

[CaitlynCareBear]

You're voice is so cool(: Nice video.

[EBTL0947]

You're cute. There! I said it! :P Great tutorials, by the by.

[77satellites]

what kind of sick freak makes homoerotic comments on a gimp tutorial?

[EBTL0947]

[77satellites] LOL! Aahhhh... Can't imagine how that was a freakishly sick homo-erotic comment. But if you felt homo-eroused...more power to you. Have a nice day; it's hot in California so I'm staying inside.

[Enselic] GIMP was always complicated to me, as compared to Photoshop Elements and PhotoImpact XL, so I'm glad that someone is doing tutorials on GIMP. Layers & Selections were ALWAYS a pain for me to get down! xP

[SCAM1948]

thanks for the vid

[ps3rulez2008]

ur videos are very nice

[CaiusTotorus]

Awesome ! Thanks a lot !

[M0rganstudios]

Hell yeah great tutorial man!!

[SushiStar18]

Thank you, very usefull.

[chalio5]

you should make more videos, you teach really good, I like your videos, make more, please.

[Enselic]

Thank you for the compliment. I will certainly make more videos, I just don't know when.

[reaverfc]

Thanks men nice vid

[ynnebbenny]

After watching many gimp tutorials from many members, I elect you as the winner for the best gimp tutorials. I am gratefull for everones contributions though. Please do more as yours are very professional.

[tito3898]

does is make your computer slow?

[Enselic]

Of course not, why would it?

[magnoliasouth]

Probably the user has had experience with other image software and many do slow computers down, especially when using hi-res images. I suspect that was probably the intended question.

[Enselic]

You're probably right. The answer to the question:

You can set the tile cache of GIMP to a value less than RAM so that GIMP does not eat up all your RAM, that way your system will be responsive even when editing high-res images (only GIMP will be slow since it has to swap data in and out from the disk)

[itsMido2]

man you look so cute!!

[netsnake24]

Frankly, I thought this is only for beginners. But to be honest, I was quite impressed.

Great tutorial, I very like yours very much!

(Now I know what the "Toggle Layer Mask" is for. I had no idea!)

[DolphTheHippo]

Coool .. Really impressed by you're tutorials and hope ur gonna make more soon

[rikboy123]

how can i get rid of the background in the pictures

[ViolentShampoo]

Intelligent scissors, eraser, freehand select tool or a combination of them.

[JHUNTER444]

Hey, many thanks for an awesome tutorial. It's easy to follow and helps provide a springboard to try other GIMP features. Plus-- you're cute! ;-)

[nerudaad]

Absolutely brilliant! Thanks a lot!

[b3rting0629]

great tutorial easy to understand. i hope you have other tutorials like vectors and typography.

[DaFozz]

Your Gimp TuTs were very helpful for me. Thank you.

[jadey4jensen]

hiya i just wanted to know how do ya fade pics and layers

[xkristenn2058]

i want to know about the layer mask...

[Enselic]

Did you check out my Face Replace tutorial? I use the layer mask there.

[becky123545]

how to export it? please reply izit click file and export but when i click file there have no export please helo me!!!!

[hanshiro9]

awesome. :)

[basesku]

great job with this tut

gz :)

[HeadDominion]

wow this is soooooooo awesome. this is the best turorials serious out there. keep em coming!

[jennarentz]

excellent tutorial! You are the best gimp teacher here. When can we expect another? :)

[Enselic]

Thanks :) The next video I have planned is "What's New in GIMP 2.6".

[jennarentz]

Amazing, I´m so excited!

[justzaz]

thanks a lot... all you videos were really helpful

[Sturdyhart]

You are a very good teacher, thank you so much for helping me to understand Gimp better. I look

forward to more!

[TheFrozenLight]

wow thank you for these tuts :) i had known about the gimp for ages but have never understood how to use it properly - thank you!

[DoodzRann]

lol CHEERS

anyways great tutorial, learned a lot from it. Cool last name by the way (you can see it at the copyright at 9:49)

[silverspidersamurai]

seriously i watched all ur tuts nice work and ama make u proud of this knowledge :) lol

[cervezaxx]

Thanks for all the GIMP tutorials so far. I have learned a lot about working with the GIMP from them.

[YuiTeub49]

wow....very informative thanks a lot... my favorite apart about the gimp is thats it free!!!...but also a very powerful program..thanks again for the videos... ^_^

[jellytroid]

just like linux..,exept it is an OS

[marcisz]

Useful tutorials, im just starting to use gimp and they help me alot. However when will you be making a video to show about layers?

Also i want to make some text on an image where the text has flames around it, is there anyway to do this?

[TuberX3000]

When I first saw "Selections" I thought what the hell I know all abt selections in GIMP! But man, I've learned some new stuff indeed.

Thanks for the tuts,

keep the job up!

[Enselic]

Thanks, great to hear!

[pkhamidar2com]

where is the script fu- shadow- drop shaddow, i cant find it, i have gimpshop

[Enselic]

GIMPshop is based on GIMP 2.2 which is 3 years older than GIMP 2.4 and so it misses a lot of new functionality that was added in GIMP 2.4. I strongly recommend against use of GIMPshop since it is IMO a pointless port, it's better to learn to use the original tool.

[ohdeasu]

i dont suppose you plan on doing a tutorial on skin tones with regards to face layering.

ive got a picture of my friend that i wanna put on his favourite tv character and ive got two great pics to put together but am having huge troubles with the contrasting sking tones (his pic being fery light and the character being quite dark.

im gonna subscribe in the hopes that you do somthing like this :)

[Enselic]

First of all make sure that shadowing and highlights match, then it will be much easier to face-replace. Then use the different things under the Colours menu, in particular Colours -> Levels... is very powerful. It's still pretty hard to get right though.

[nagaslrac]

CHEERS!! lol

But seriously, cheers.

Adelaide, Australia.

[Jdeadevil]

Just out of curiosity, you're not english are you?

[Enselic]

What does my Channel page say?

[deadlynova965]

Good tutorial Ensilic =D. Helped me A LOT!

[sjoisfreak]

ok , du är svensk :D hahh , men du har inte lust att göra berättarrösten på svenska? (A)

[Enselic]

Nope, siktar på en global publik

[dubdaz1]

Oops, accidently hit "post comment"button before I'd finished typing!!Anyway thanks to your excellant tutorials I now understand how to render from one picture to another.I also now get the selection tools as well.Please keep the tutorials up so we can get the most from this most excellant piece of software.Thankyou.

[dubdaz1]

Hi Enselic

I'd had gimp on my computer for ages but could never work out how to take parts of one picture and add them to another so gave up

[malgalin]

Cheers Enselic!

Thanks for this very clear tutorial. I was unaware of the quick mask capabilities - I might stop clumsily erasing layers now.

I'm glad to see you posting again. Your tutorials are by far the most clear and useful...keep up the good work in demystifying the gimp so everyone can see how great it is!

[Enselic]

Thanks malgalin! I'm really glad you benefited from the tutorial.