I know how to draw a circle in GIMP, anon!
I know how to draw a circle in GIMP, anon!
Who needs shape tool when we have text tool
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really looks like more of a squircle
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OoOOoO
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I dont get it
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- Type letter 'c' using the text tool, as you've already done
- Create a new layer from text
- Duplicate layer
- Transform - flip horizontally
- Merge two layers
It's a basic GIMP knowledge, really. Don't forget to add an alpha channel to your layer after step 2, otherwise it won't work.
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Uhhh you can't put image generarion prompts to it. Its a photo editor!
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outstanding move
some more unicode basic shapes for everyone
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Thank you for the new gimp toolbar
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I drew some circles in Gimp once, check it out:
Squares and triangles too
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Please, I could do this in Photoshop if they added a shape that looks like this.
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I know you're probably joking but Gimp has neither shape tools nor Vector Layers.
The secret ingredients are setting up a grid and resizing to work at a high resolution, turning on snap to grid, using the brush tool by clicking then holding shift then clicking again to create a line, fill tools, and using a very large brush followed by the same brush at the same point but smaller, and lastly the copy/paste, mirror, and rotate tools to create symmetrical or circular patterns.
Tbh its pretty time consuming but very simple to do.
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That's very nice
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Wow, cool!
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how i'd do it:
- open https://minecraftcirclegenerator.co/
- put firefox in second monitor
- go in gimp, select pixel brush
- draw the circle pixel by pixel
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If you want a circle outline, you can draw 2 circles, one smaller and the color of the background
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indeed, i could
- open https://minecraftcirclegenerator.co/
- put firefox in second monitor
- go in gimp, select pixel brush
- draw the circle pixel by pixel
- draw the inside of the circle, pixel by pixel, just as before
- go back to https://minecraftcirclegenerator.co/
- get a slightly smaller circle
- draw that circle pixel by pixel with the same color as the background
- draw the inside of the new circle pixel by pixel with the bg color
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Welll first you draw this head...
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It's easy if you use the right tool.
- Draw circle in Inkscape
- Export as bitmap
- Import bitmap in GIMP.
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does GIMP not have a circle/shape tool? Why?
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It does! And it's so easy to use.
- Draw a circle with the ellipse selection tool
- From the edit menu choose "stroke selection" and follow the dialogs
- Remove your selection
It's so obvious I can't imagine why anyone would be confused.
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nope, and nobody knows why
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- Because it's a photo editing tool, not a painter. Different priorities.
- Because a shape tool requires non-destructive vector layers.
- ...and implementing that would require a fundamental overhaul of the current vector backend from 2006.
The development of 3.0 was focused on GEGL and non-destructive editing. Working on the shape tool in parallel would've taken away resources and pushed back the release date even further.
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now this is truly terrible knowledge.
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I asked AI for an anime style circle and got this
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anime style anything and gpt will stick a character in it
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Honestly it's not that hard to make a circle, you just use the selection tool and paint can, add a border if you want a hollow circle.
That being said it's absolutely absurd that the shape tool isn't a thing and triangles are a bitch
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Your circle is a bit off....
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...its like wonky on the corners for some reason.
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Of course its an o.....
Good enough circle yay
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There are so many weird things about GIMP, and it feels like they add more over time. I've moved a layer and then tried to draw on it and had nothing happen. Why? Because the layer was created as an array of pixels the size of the image, and when I move it there's now a dead zone where there's no pixels in the visible image. It turns out there's a special command to expand moved layers to fill the image: https://docs.gimp.org/3.0/en/gimp-layer-resize-to-image.html
There are times using it that it feels like a maze to navigate to just get my changes reflected in the document.
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Please make a 45 minute tutorial video to share that knowledge 🙏
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Sure. First 10 minutes will be intro ans last 10mins will be telling to like, share and sabaracribe
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Astounding.
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You can also use the brush tool and just draw a circle that's completely filled in at whatever size you want and then remove the inner portion that you don't want by switching to the erase tool and then shrinking the size of the circle brush to what you don't need and clicking directly in the center of the circle.
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Btw, clicking exactly in the middle is the hardest part
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You know?
You made me think about this for a minute and I think I figured it out.
Use the circle pin to draw the circle.
Then use the select tool to select the circle that you drew.
Then use the grow/shrink tool to shrink the selection by however many pixels thick you want the circle to be.
Then use the erase tool to erase all the parts of the circle that you don't want.
Easy peasy.
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Thank you. I was afraid I was being a little too subtle.
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Set a large pencil brush size and click a large black dot. Then make the brush smaller and white, then click once in the middle.
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If you need it precise and adjustable use 2 layers and concentrate them with the alignment tool.
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This thread has made it clear to me that I should wait another year before checking on gimp again.
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edit -> stroke selection
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you motherfucker
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mad skills
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Circles are easy. Squares and rectangles, too. What gets me is curvy lines. Not just randomly curvy because my hand is shaky, but like precise curves. I use mspaint every time.
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