These tools will mostly assist you in basic photo resizing, rotating, selection, zooming etc. This next section will explain your transformation tools. Holding ‘shift’ will allow you to smudge in a straight line. Smudge: (finger icon) The smudge tool will allow you to blend and smudge images to allow a smoother, blended look. GIMP will automatically measure the darkness/brightness of the pixels and change them accordingly. When you want to only change lighter, mid tones or darker pixels, you want to select either the ‘shadows’, ‘mid tones’ or ‘highlights’ tab. “Dodging” an image will cause selected pixels to lighten, while “burning” an image darkens the affected pixels. This allows for more detailed and efficient cloning.ĭodge/Burn: (wheel icon) This tool allows you to switch between lightening or darkening parts of an image. Perspective Clone: (stamp similar to clone) This allows you to clone objects while being able to adjust the angle, depth, and perspective of the object. This is a very long and complicated process and takes a while to learn. If you want to clone from the image, you have to give GIMP the image you are cloning from. This is a very long and complicated process to explain, so visit here to learn more about this tool.Ĭlone: (stamp) This allows you to mask any area by cloning a previous part of the image. This tool is used by scanning the surrounding area in the photo and imitating the colors and lighting of the photo to flush out any mistakes. Heal: (band-aid icon) This is mainly used for fixing wrinkles in scanned photos. You can change the color, size and transparency and can control the flow of the ink by how slow you move you mouse. It lets out in an uneven, flowing form, unlike its more rigid sister, the paintbrush. Ink: (inkbottle icon) This brush imitates the flow of an ink brush. You can change the transparency and the size in the option below. You can create a radial, linear, bilinear, spiral (clockwise), spiral (counterclockwise), shaped (spherical), shaped (dimpled), conical (symmetrical) and conical (asymmetrical) gradients.Įraser: (eraser icon) This allows you to erase any selected layer. Gradient tool: (gradient box icon) Dragging your mouse while left clicking on your canvas while using this tool will create a gradient using your foreground and background colors. The bucket tool automatically pulls from the foreground color, so if you want to use a different color, make sure to switch it out. While the airbrush allows more transparent and detailed shading, it is the hardest to manage.īucket fill: (bucket icon) This tool allows you to fill in areas with solid color without brushing it in manually. The paintbrush, while not extremely pixelated, is still not as soft as the airbrush. Your pencil tool is very crude and pixelated and does not sense pressure. Text: (letter icon) Add text to your canvas by left clicking when selected.īrush tools: (paintbrush, pencil and airbrush icon) These consist of your pencil, paintbrush, and your airbrush. These tools are the most common tools used in GIMP and will help you with the illustration side of your art. The painting tools are used for basic illustration, selection and blending colors together. The first section we will go over are the painting tools. There are 20 tools will be going over in this article, as the remaining 10 are reserved for a separate article.Your tools can be split up into two different groups: Paint tools and transform tools. There is a lot of tool options, and each option is able to be adjusted to your own discretion. If it is not open, go to (windows>toolbox) and dock it on the side of your screen by holding the tab bar at the top and dragging it to an open spot on your window. First, you want to open up GIMP and open your toolbar. This time, we will be going over all of your options and showing you how to manage them. The toolbar that is offered on GIMP comes with many different options for you to play around with. This includes crop, rotate, select and scale! This is the second article in a new How-To series with GIMP. In this lesson, you will learn about all of the tools offered on your default toolbar. GIMP (Gnu Image Manipulation Program) is an open-source image editing program that imitated the basic functions of professional programs like Adobe Photoshop.
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