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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

Who needs shape tool when we have text tool

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[-] koncertejo@lemmy.ml 116 points 4 months ago

really looks like more of a squircle

[-] hilliard@lemmy.world 57 points 4 months ago
[-] pelya@lemmy.world 55 points 4 months ago
  1. Type letter 'c' using the text tool, as you've already done
  2. Create a new layer from text
  3. Duplicate layer
  4. Transform - flip horizontally
  5. 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.

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 41 points 4 months ago

Why would you do this when the functionality is built right in?

  1. Open Photoshop
  2. Select the Ellipse Tool
  3. Draw a Circle of Your Choosing
  4. Press Print Screen on Your Keyboard
  5. Voila! A Fresh Circle to Paste/Insert Into Your GIMP Project!
[-] EldritchFeminity 13 points 4 months ago

Don't forget to draw the rest of the owl, too!

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago

Uhhh you can't put image generarion prompts to it. Its a photo editor!

[-] festnt@sh.itjust.works 48 points 4 months ago

how i'd do it:

[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

If you want a circle outline, you can draw 2 circles, one smaller and the color of the background

[-] festnt@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

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
[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 47 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

outstanding move

some more unicode basic shapes for everyone

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[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 months ago

Thank you for the new gimp toolbar

[-] HStone32@lemmy.world 41 points 4 months ago

Welll first you draw this head...

[-] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 4 months ago

It's easy if you use the right tool.

  1. Draw circle in Inkscape
  2. Export as bitmap
  3. Import bitmap in GIMP.
[-] callyral@pawb.social 26 points 4 months ago

does GIMP not have a circle/shape tool? Why?

[-] neclimdul@lemmy.world 34 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] callyral@pawb.social 13 points 4 months ago

Draw a circle with the ellipse selection tool

So it does have what is effectively a circle shape tool. I don't know why people are saying it doesn't.

[-] neclimdul@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago

I was being sarcastic because really it doesn't have a tool with explicit features, just a workaround using a couple features together.

For a new user it's very difficult to do a pretty basic task.

[-] nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 months ago

That's not actual shape tool.

Shape created by shape tools should be always editable. Using ellipse selection tool means the circle is rasterized.

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[-] festnt@sh.itjust.works 18 points 4 months ago

nope, and nobody knows why

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago
  1. Because it's a photo editing tool, not a painter. Different priorities.
  2. Because a shape tool requires non-destructive vector layers.
  3. ...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.

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 4 months ago

Why can a shape tool not be pixel based? There's no intrinsic requirement for vectors.

[-] callyral@pawb.social 12 points 4 months ago

Because a shape tool requires non-destructive vector layers.

No it doesn't, why not a bitmap shape tool?

[-] AugustWest@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago

Why would it? It's a photo editing tool, not a drawing tool.

[-] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yep. It's not Inkscape.

Do PhotoShop and Illustrator both do full vector editing? I never paid to find out.

Photoshop can't draw capsicums so GIMP is still better.

[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 6 points 4 months ago
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[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 16 points 4 months ago

now this is truly terrible knowledge.

[-] jpablo68@infosec.pub 14 points 4 months ago

I just made one, just need to merge those three layers and I'll be done...

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[-] rodneylives@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] dangeratio@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago

Your circle is a bit off....

[-] dangeratio@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

...its like wonky on the corners for some reason.

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago

Of course its an o.....

Good enough circle yay

[-] Skunk@jlai.lu 8 points 4 months ago

Please make a 45 minute tutorial video to share that knowledge 🙏

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago

Sure. First 10 minutes will be intro ans last 10mins will be telling to like, share and sabaracribe

[-] glitchdx@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

This thread has made it clear to me that I should wait another year before checking on gimp again.

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[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 5 points 4 months ago
[-] ian@feddit.uk 4 points 4 months ago

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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[-] traches@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

you motherfucker

[-] bizarroland@fedia.io 4 points 4 months ago

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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[-] h4x0r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago

edit -> stroke selection

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