12-08-2021, 10:01 PM
(12-08-2021, 04:04 PM)winny Wrote: More things, where can I choose colors and shapes to draw with? How can I draw circles, rectangles, triangles and the like?
There is an awful lot to absorb in the Gimp control interface. You just gotta "jump in" and get comfortable finding where everything is.
Specific to your question above, I have 2 suggestions.
#1, make a rectangular selection on the drawing area, and then go into the "edit" menu. work your way down till you find "stroke selection", clicking on that will give you a set up menu, giving you the chance to set up how thick and what kind of line you are going to draw your rectangle with...and then click on the [stroke] button...and voila you just drew a rectangle.....same thing works for the circular select tool.
You should also get accustomed to using the paths tool
to plot lines, and then use the "stroke path" function, also located in the edit menu. to turn the path plotted into a drawn line.and #2, notice that you can select many different brushes, and that you can set the size for most brushes. So, if you select a square brush, and set the size up to 200 pixels, then each time you click on the canvas you will draw a square 200 x 200 pixels Same goes for round brushes, star shaped brushes, triangular shaped brushes...and the best part is, you can eventually create your own brushes, giving you an infinite number of items you can readily draw.
But, creating your own brushes is kind of a "201" thing, so better for you to work towards that eventually, and not put the apple cart before the horse. I mention it mostly to illustrate that what might look to you like an impossibility to you now, is more along the lines of waiting for you to discover....
Don't be afraid to explore, don't be afraid to make mistakes, and get real comfortable with the most powerful tool in the Gimp Arsenal...the "ctrl-z" key combination....it makes everything else easier to learn (repeat until satisfactory results are obtained)
