Gimp Tutorials

Paths, Selections, and Channels in GIMP

by adlabs6
March 14, 2007

GIMP is a free graphics package that has been avaliable for several years. My first experience with GIMP came a good while ago, and it was not a pleasant experience. Frequent crashes made my working on a project almost impossible to manage.

About two months ago I started wondering what ever became of the GIMP project, and decided I'd give it another try with it's most current stable release. I can happily report that release 2.2.13 has been wonderfully stable on my WinXP machine. Shortly after I decided that I would write a few tutorials on using the GIMP for skinning or profile creation, focusing on the parts of the application that would be most useful for artists new to the software.

In this article I'll look at the application of paths, selection tools, and channels in creating selections.

Paths

The first feature I'll look at is the path tool. I'll outline this tool first because it is also useful during the creation of selections, which we'll cover later.

Paths in GIMP are vector shapes, which are handled in their own layer stack separate from the main raster layer stack. A vector shape is not made of pixels, such as the bitmaps we are used to working with, but are instead made up of anchors which have mathematically calculated ...

Working with patterns in GIMP
by adlabs6
06/01/07

Creating a new pattern

GIMP has a pattern brush which allows us to paint with an image, instead of just a solid color. This has some particular uses in skinning and profile painting where an artist would like to create a surface ...

Adding Brushes in GIMP
by adlabs6
05/30/07

I've been using GIMP on and off for a few months now, and have got to know it pretty well for my purposes. Since GIMP is quite functional for skinning and profile painting, and is an easy choice for those who either prefer freeware, are linux users, or are wanting to test the waters without laying out the cash for PaintShop or Photoshop, I'm putting together a few tutorials that I hope will help out.

In this article we'll be looking at brush and color management, with the brush tools being a particularly difficult ...

by adlabs6 08/28/08


This short tutorial demonstrates how to created outlined path stroking in the Gimp.


Firstly, I have created a new path which I will use for the stroke operation.


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Found a Youtube vid that shows a text tutorial that would be perfect for making Luftwaffe Outline Numbers ...

INTRODUCTION

This tutorial will show you how to use and manipulate layers in Gimp. For clarity's sake, ...