GIMP Basics Part 1

[kolmilyo]

nice!

very informative and logical.

are you a teacher?

you sure are one good one if you are.

[BladesOfMunch]

I love how GIMP includes all the most useful tools into a single package. Who the hell needs to download a demo - and then put up with the months of "Please by full package..." paraphrased signs? I could very easily recommend GIMP to anyone, and I've barely begun using it!

This is a good tutorial; I appreciate the voice over being alert, at a steady pace and enthusiastic.

[PavleCar1]

internet explorer? really!

[Fungledorf]

Please, help:

What I want to be able to do in GIMP is to select an area of my drawing and move it (for example, an arm that I was drawing wasn't proportional, but I like the way that I drew it so I want to move it to where it should lay; I want my canvas to remain the same, just the lines that I selected were to move) but I can't manage it. I followed the path portion of this video (minus the deleting of the outside) but moving only moved the selection lines and not the drawing on the layer.

[Somberwhispers]

Hey, I was just following your tutorial and when it comes to cropping with transparency I follow your steps, but my results are different. Instead of cutting to transparency, my program wants to cut to white background. How do I fix this?

[LycanthrA]

@Somberwhispers You have to create a new layer.

[bronterae1]

Great help ..Thankyou soo much ^^

[charadeyouareha]

can anyone tell me why I can't find a dialogue box? I'm using 2.6.11

[daichi2097]

@charadeyouareha: From the Windows menu in GIMP, select "Layers, Channels, paths..." - that should do it.

[charadeyouareha]

@daichi2097 awesome thank you.

[hmadureira]

@charadeyouareha I also use this release and i found it at Windows>Dockable Dialogs. :)

[sami1987hikmat]

:-) "redoes"... lool.. very helpful and well explained :-). thanx man, university of Kentucky delivers IT leaders :-)

[justaordinaryguy]

Thanks for the step-by-step, explicit walk-through!



[brookefay25]

thankyou, this helped so much!

[starwarsluvur]

Thank you

[sansandy1000]

Very helpful. An actual basics course in Gimp. Thank you.

[fullyM16automatic]

when I try to get my layer box back it is different like there is no file menu on the main toolbox. please help.

[Aciddaggerr]

whats the delete button?

[PARANORMALBEINGS]

So helpful, thank you so much :)

[concon1337]

I LOVE YOU TUTORIALS oh wait.. i hate tutorials.

[gamesmartarcade]

THIS IS VERY HELPFUL :) :) :)

[PUTURHANDSintheair22]

yo help i dont get the trancparency at the background instead i get a white back ground pls answer

[tohamyproductions]

can some tell me how to inport a image on the mac

please respond

[englishmovielover]

@tohamyproductions There are many ptions. download the mac option on the site. OR sIMPLY download Ubuntu alongside Macintosh. I think Gimp works much better on Linux, rather than windows or Mac.

[E5Bobby]

Wow! Fast response! Thank you so much. Unfortunately I'm not sure exactly what you mean by that. I'm an old dog and very good at PowerPoint but this is altogether new for me. Sorry.

[E5Bobby]

My version of GIMP doesn't have the "Dialogs' option under File. Any idea what I'm missing here?

[GIMPtricks]

@E5Bobby It's under windows in your version.

[TheCoolguy0925]

is it safe

[tpoore100]

okay i lost my layers box thing and i went to the toolbox like you said, but theres nothing there. its only on my picture box. and wen i went to files, it didnt have a dialogs option. so what do i do to get my layers box back?

[MrShitthead]

i want to be able to cut and move a single object without deleting everything.. how do you do that?

[joegt123]

Quick question. Is there a way to draw with transparancy so i dont have to try and rerender what i just cut out? Basically eliminating pixels of the image one at a time.

[Pr0ph3cyTech]

I am a pixel artist, i am trying to scale down one of my artwork without making it lose quality? PLZ HELP!

[pariastabendesa]

@Pr0ph3cyTech hahaha that's kinda impossible.

[jneen420]

I don't have a layers panel.

[MrSalSells]

Thank you.

[chrissd40]

I just want to tell you that you did a really nice jod on this tut. It is obvious that a lot of work went into it. Good job!

[kiuhy8]

very good. thanks

[KyronKaseyMusic]

All I'm going to say is I was look away and looked back kinda fast at 3:29 and I thought instead of reducing it said seducing... NO I DON'T HAVE A SICK MIND THANK YOU! Okay, if you did it you would probs say the same thing...

AND THANKS FOR THE TUTORIAL

[FaroeFigther]

i mean i dosent have the file menu on toolbox

[FaroeFigther]

what if i dosent have the dialogs wich i dosent have ?

[FaroeFigther]

i dosent have the layers panel

[BRADARISTA]

you know the layers window thingy? well i closed it by accident and how do i get it back open?

[BRADARISTA]

@BRADARISTA i posted before i watched the whole video sorry :L

[maddscyantis3]

great vid dude 

[azraef94]

cutting with transperency??what shortcut??shift v..i..??

[2457rawr]

supposibly left and right are both on the left side lol

[NYCxPLAYB0Y]

owww wow very fucking great tutorial for beginners ... i looked at 20 vids and couldent find anything as informative as this vidc...EXCELLENT JOB ..THANKYOU

[KingBarve]

thank you, very very good guide and i relly know how to work with gimpp now :)

i have just one question:

i have a pic and i did as you said but i dont get the black/grey (checkered) background i get i white or black backgrund can you change this?

hope you anderstand my english, its not good cuse im in 7th grade from sweden

thx for you help anyway!

Barve

[TheBestttesttt]

@KingBarve the chekered shows it is transeparent

[l6v9boi]

Mark - I finally worked things out and it was a bad error on my part. I realized that I had not been closing off the Path properly and therefore the commands could not be performed. Sorry! Do you have many more tutorials? I find yours are the best for clarity of video and excellence of voice enunciation.

[l6v9boi]

An excellent tutorial, thank you. I have the latest download of Gimp. I am really having a problem on one point. At the end of the Path section & the Shift V and Ctrl I, you say delete. I could find no command area where 'delete' is shown so I used the delete key. Nothing happened. I redid the section as describe & clicked delete again - nothing. Would you have any idea as to why there is no delete command in the program or why it cannot be applied from the keyboard ?

[myusernameaj]

Just downloaded GIMP today. Thanks for the tutorial.  I hope to find your other one.

Thanks!

[QucciMaMa]

i have gimp and gimp portable 2.6 and i aint went through all of that to get it

[House3272]

question: im trying to copy/paste a image into another one. But the picture is filled with white surrounding the object. How do i make that white transparent, or not show up when i paste?

[subflame11]

Tohritheloneone u just use layers have the original image then make new layer put new image on it and above the layers in the same box it says opacity lower that to make it see through hope this helped :)

[catlover19989]

this is old gimp

[planetbieng]

Great Tutorial.d=

But - Which screenrecorder dó u' use?^^'

[TohriTheLoneOne]

..How do you get it so you have an image and another image, one upon the other, but the one that's on the other one is see through, yet both images are there o.e?

I'd really like some help with this, from anyone.

[olivebates]

I'm missing the right window, with the Layers... It doesn't appear when I open GIMP :(

How do I get it to show?

[DaRealiVan]

this was so helpful, thanks

[GregCorporations]

your from kentucky too

[juniordirector26]

i hit ctrl i and then delete everything but whats in the path but instead of it becoming transparent like in your video its just a white background. what am i doing wrong?

[SilentManga]

I couldn't get it to load for the "Download for windows" thing, so I downloaded mine from Cnet( Thats what my gimp- genious friend said to do) is that alright?

[Tannersvan]

@SilentManga yes it is because gimp is a free open source program

[Nuzhani]

Clear, straightforward, quick tutorial. You deserve to be called a teacher! Thank you.

[cbgbomfugrip2006]

Very helpful for real beginners like me, I just downloaded GIMP and your tutorial is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks mikenku!

[XetherealeyesonmeX]

This is probably the most useful gimp tutorial. Thank you for sharing, you've done a wonderful job explaining clearly :)

[rdtatx]

can you put it in after effects?

[Langka1000]

thnks man . it makes my life easy

[shikamaru0915]

I use 2.6

[benyooro]

This is brilliant - thanks for posting!

[koentitjuh]

lol, great tutorial tough,

eh i got a question i can't get rid of the yellow lines arround any text when i don't need them. i saw some reactions about Ctrl + Shift +A but that didn't work

[pokeplatinum62]

you named the file the big six , yes i noticed

[kylergillespie]

when it comes to my mac laptop, and cutting. I get to the part where i delete the surrounding environment, my delete key does NOTHING. so i tried cutting instead, but the background around the selection turns black, and then the whole things becomes a selection :'( someone please help!?

[cqcboy100]

i think you have to go to your layers and find the image you want to change and right mouse click and select Alpha channel and you should be able to do it

[yuutjuh]

I have a problem with the transparancy part, wen I want to delete something it becomes white, and not trancparant!

Can you pease help me?

[SourCandy24x]

Thank you so much for the video!!! You made it very simple. Okay, I added yours to my favorites. I know I'm going to need this later ^^ and about the tools, thanks! I used to go crazy trying to figure out how to get it back! =]

[daitran1987]

thanks a lot for this ^^

it helps me a lot ^^

[Kayvon11]

Excellent tutorial! You answered all of my questions! Thanks!

[Carcinogenesis]

Is there a way to crop extremely accurately?

[rambovshopey]

just got gimp and just watched this vid, really helpfull, cheers,,,are there any more?

[supermert123]

is it a virus?

[TealRisa]

THIS IS SO HELPFUL! THANK YOU! :D

[mewzoeynya]

u r a very good tearcher btw....i want to now how to delete part of a layer to transparency but make it fade like...do u now wat i mean? i have gimp 2.6 so if u would explain that, i would be very thank full,

[chumbucket66]

help! how do I rotate a layer? im fairly a noob to this, and I've tried all I can think of, but can't seem to rotate a text layer over the original picture.

[gmodman999]

i can get the layer panel back... i dont have your gimp i have 2.6.6... :( Plz HElp!

[yoyomatafaka]

go to "windows" and theres a logo wich says layers

[RoadVictim]

An easy to follow and well made tutorial!

[mmx327]

thanks u helped alot u should make more vids like this for gimp

[ChrisStrother]

is there any way to rotate the brushes ? :P

[JGthedirector]

can you helP?

im trying to cut out a video which has gennscreen so i know that you use the select by couler range tool, but when i cut out its doing this big weird thing, but i need to know how to unselect the page, because the page is usually selected when you file>new

[shakaama]

when you do the scaling and then do fit canvas to layers... can i do the same thing when i create a button so the background isn't outside the button? I bring it to my website and am shocked to find a big rectangle around the button [oval] :(

[shakaama]

excellent video

[lindsaymacvean]

excellent, no rushing through bits. Thankyou Mikenku

[Lovett18]

Thank you very much for this video :)

[bulletproofmonkey566]

i would have recommended showing you going to the tool bar and selecting instead of the short cuts.

[Gameoddities]

how do you put it as a desktop background?it wont save as a regular pic?

[aberfitch82]

Thanks for the video. I was getting frustrated cause I literally didn't even know how to resize my image and this really helped me out.

[clementi1000]

Your tutorial is very thorough and understandable. Thanks for sharing with the world.

[alydhiends]

(6:55) To close the path, hold "ctrl+click" to completely close it. :)

[raymond1133]

You know the one thing i cannot do is after say i have moved something i cant deselect the box then i can only draw inside the box and it stays like that forever. And in your tutorial you just use ctrl+z so you never answered how to defreaking select something.

[malgalin]

Excellent for beginners. Very clear and informative.