GIMP 2.4 Tutorial - Selections

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HybcYXwt9lQ&fmt=18

By following this tutorial you will learn the concept of selections in GIMP. Whenever I said "layer mask" I really meant "selection mask".

This video was created on Ubuntu [1] using recordMyDesktop [2], Cinelerra CV [3], GIMP [4], MPlayer / MEncoder [5], a lot of trial and error and fair amounts of general computer skills and Linux knowledge. I hope you enjoy it!
[1] http://www.ubuntu.com
[2] http://recordmydesktop.iovar.org/
[3] http://cv.cinelerra.org
[4] http://www.gimp.org
[5] http://www.mplayerhq.hu

Feel free to spread this video in YouTube-embedded format as much as you like. The video is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Sweden Licence.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/se/deed.en

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• gimp
• tutorial
• selections
• ubuntu
• linux
• ffmpeg
• mencoder
• cinelerra
• mplayer
• recordmydesktop
• basics

[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.

[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)

[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!)

[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)

[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!

[plumbersteve]

shut up you ugly

[a2zhandi]

great tut. I learned a lot!

cheers