GIMP Tip! Don't stroke the selection, stroke the path!

This GIMP tutorial shows you how stroking the path gives you much better results then stroking the selection.
Stroke the path!
It also shows how to make a selection into a path.

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[Rednilec]

Wow. Thank you SO much. I've been looking all over the internet for this tutorial..

Works great on text, too..

(No, won't teach anyone to do so)

So thank you very much..

[GIMPtricks]

You're welcome. I used it in my Hippie Text tutorial.

[theLTspock]

You are SO dutch ;)

[ilikepieism]

How did I not know this...

[RATHAHONNI]

Seems like a lot of trouble to do for every shape u make.

[haikalyousuff]

Hi, nice tutorial you got here . i'm very new to GIMP , i want to know how to remove th path after 'stroke path'. Thanks in advance !

[sumwunn]

@MrSuperMation I think they pressed the delete key while nothing was selected. I tried it just now and it seems to work.

[Akosuaification]

Thanks very much! I was trying to see if it was possible to make a path from the selection and now I can. And now I know to stroke the path instead of the selection. Very helpful.

[mikeshome1]

Hi I love your videos they help me a great deal i have a question how would you do that say with a chain link, to make a chain look like it is hanging from a rope from both ends. Sent you a video on what i mean

[MrSuperMation]

Around the 00:01:00 mark you cleared the first circle. How did you do that?

[NitekMuscle]

Very good tutorial!

[gavdown]

great video ;) thank you