Started with GIMP 2 months ago at age 70. Your approach to teaching is quite intuitive and I appreciate that you do not go off on tangents. Looking forward to enrolling in your training series. Thanks for offering all these and sharing your expertise.
Gimp is extremely underrated in it's capabilities. Many people don't even know why they are paying for Photoshop. They are just using it because everyone does. (My past self included)
Gimp, and anything other than Adobe software isn't even taken serious by advertising companies, go figure. ;-) The offset and digital printers are so accustomed to using the Adobe format that some even don't consider printing if it is not Adobe. So there's the bottleneck issue. I believe if Adobe has to release the exportformat, competition is fair again.
Adobe is the ProTools of graphics software. Everybody uses it because everybody uses it and it keeps getting worse and worse until one day, it will no longer be used at all. I was a paying, professional customer since PS version 6 all the way through to Creative Cloud. It’s overpriced, bloated, resource hungry nonsense.
GIMP can do a lot of stuff. I bet there are many features to add in, but GIMP is now very capable now. You're contributing so much to GIMP with these tutorials and explanations. Keep it up and I hope the best comes your way.
This is a terrific video. I started using Gimp in September 2023. Learning all the tools and features has been a struggle. But I feel like I've taken a leap since I watched this video. Now things in Gimp make a lot more sense and I see how can use these tools to help create better images. Thanks Nick for doing such a terrific job.
That was truly useful in deciding that Gimp is not what I want. Gimp is described as an alternative to Lightroom by many sources and clearly it is not. Saved me a lot of time.
I've watched this three or more times now. I'm learning - slowly - but the hard part is now becoming how to know which tool to use and how to get the platform to release a tool when I'm done with it. GIMP is nearly too many options for me - but I WILL NOT Give up! Thanks.
I highly appreciate your videos Nick. I don't use gimp nor inkscape, but I watch your tutorials frequently as a means of freeing myself from thinking that my tools limit my creative process. Cheers all the way from the Philippines!
I was always curious about Gimp but it was so owerhelming with all the tools and functions and the official guide didn't helped much, but with this video it seems much more digestable. Thank you!
Thank you, this video was very helpful and I love your videos. For this one it would have been additionally helpful though to illuminate the symbol for each tool right before you explain it.
easier version: Move tool: Lets you move Alignment tool: Lets you align Rectangle select: Lets you select with rectangles Ellipse select: Lets you select with ellipses Free select: Lets you select freely Scissors select: Lets you select with scissors Foreground select: Lets you select the forgeground Fuzzy select: Lets you select fuzzily Select by color: Lets you select by color Crop: Lets you crop Rotate: Lets you rotate Scale: Lets you scale Shear: Lets you shear Flip: Lets you flip Perspective: Lets you change the perspective Unified transform: Lets you transform unified 3D transform: Lets you transform in 3D Handle transform: Lets you handle transforming Warp transform: Lets you warp your transform Cage transform: Lets you transform a cage Bucket fill: Lets you fill a bucket Gradient: Lets you gradient Paintbrush: Lets you paint with a brush Pencil: Lets you sketch with a pencil Airbrush: Lets you draw with an airbrush Ink: Lets you draw with an inking pen MyPaint brush: Lets you paint with a MyPaint brush Eraser: Lets you erase Clone: Lets you clone Perspective clone: Lets you clone with a perspective Healing: Lets you heal Smudge: Lets you smudge Blur & sharpen: Lets you blur and sharpen Dodge & burn: Lets you dodge and burn Paths: Lets you make a path Text: Lets you put text Color picker: Lets you pick a color Measure: Lets you measure Zoom: Lets you zoom (this was intended as a joke, pls dont take it srsly)
Loving Unified Transform recently. I shift around arrows for my thumbnails often and it's far easier to turn, scale and rotate in one take. After this video I'm going to look at perspective tools more often :) Thank you!
Being brand new to GIMP I love the effort. Thank you. But man, you're like blazing through the tools. I don't even know which one is which cuz the icons are so small on my 13" laptop. Would be great if you'd show us the tool you're selecting, like a blow up of the icon. Perhaps as I learn more, I'll give it another go. Cheers mate.
Watched the similar Inkscape video and wished you'd make one for Gimp...and here it is! Even if I'm perfectly fine with Windows and the Affinity suite, I often force myself to learn a new environment and software to avoid becoming a slave of the software's tools rather than using it as I want. I'm currently trying everything Linux with PopOS and despite finding Inkscape really good, a lot of stuff in GIMP doesn't make any sense to me. This video clarified a lot but having used a bit of different graphic software I still think GIMP is kinda clunky/unintuitive...hope they make it more similar to Photoshop/Affinity Photo as Inkscape is more similar to Illustrator/Affinity Designer.
I really want to learn this because I need to save money..😪😔 Edit: I'm half way through this video and I'm BEYOND blown away at what GIMP can DO!! I need to share this with my friends. Edit 2: TAKE MY MONEY!!!! Thank you to all who put time into making this amazing piece of software! 👌🙌
puedes copiar y pegar en Google Translate, el traduccion 1 > Click the 3 dots to the right of the word "Save" underneath the video 2 > Click "Open Transcript" 👉The transcript will have its own 3 dots. Toggle the timestamps to make it easier to copy and paste into a translator. This way, the translator does not get confused You'll notice that if you copy and paste the transcript into Word, it does not take up the whole width of the page. So you need to delete those hard line breaks one by one, or record a macro that will do it for you I got super nerdy on transcripts. I made a macro in Word to delete the hard line breaks and replace them all with spaces. If I want to print a transcript, it can now fit in a much smaller space to save paper. 🧡 i'd be glad to record my screen and post it to my channel if anyone is interested 💥DISCLAIMER 💥 some videos do not have a transcript included. In that case, there are some extra steps to record the audio and create your own transcript
Hey nick! I tjink you pretty much covered almost everything. But one thing you nee to do tutorial about and will get tons of views is .GIF tutorials on gimp! ♥️ Comparing myself 2 months ago i knew basic sfuff about gimp. Gladly with the help of your eaay to follow straight to point tutorial videos, i'm way way better.
Thank you very much I really need that video to differentiate between tools😊 Also I started to design logos and designing pictures and effect because of your videos and I was searching for videos to learn me designing and graphics for a long time😁 Thanks for the second time😁😄
If you got confused about the alignment tool like I did, Nick has another video showing an easier way to display these called, "How To Show All Tools in Gimp": - th-cam.com/video/QfO-8Nou3Qk/w-d-xo.html and I watched that first before I could fully understand this tutorial. I hope this helps some other beginners out there! I am really enjoying it!
Excellent and very informative video, Nick! Wish I would have seen this before I started to learn how to use GIMP. Keep on rockin', Jarkko / MyVinylBar
I was trying to learn how to enlarge an image for printing, without the image pixielating. Started out brilliant, became totally confused by the end. I shall have to watch this video a few times I think. I thought increasing the number of pixels per inch would improve picture quality. I appreciate it enlarges the image.
I could do with you telling me where the things are on the screen rather than expect me to see the tiny icon, or pointer. Very difficult to follow at the moment.
Hey Nick. I'd like to ask you to consider making a video about matching Ps by combining GIMP, Krita, and OpenToonz. That is, use GIMP tools that are unavailable on Krita, such as the Clone-Stamp tool, or text along a path, etc. Save objects as PNGs with transparent background. Move objects to Krita for final composite, where the layers panel allows for multi-select by ctl-click, non-destructive layer styles and effects, as well as non-destructive adjustment layers. Finally, for the Ps/Ae puppet tool, OpenToonz has the Plastic Tool, which is the best mesh deformation tool on Linux short of Blender (where you'd have to import image on a plane, add a mesh, and then a mesh deformation modifier - which is a lot to do for a simple mesh deform). I think a lot of people could use this kind of approach. shrug. Just a suggestion.
@LogosByNick The foreground select tool doesn’t work like you have shown in ur video. The problem ist that once I combine the last point with the first I don’t get a blue selection respectively a stroke to give the program the data which it needs 🤔
I just need someone to explain very simply to me how things work on this app cause every time I click on something I barely know what it does and I feel like I've started a fire. thanks for going through the basics.
Started with GIMP 2 months ago at age 70. Your approach to teaching is quite intuitive and I appreciate that you do not go off on tangents. Looking forward to enrolling in your training series. Thanks for offering all these and sharing your expertise.
I've been using GIMP for YEARS and just learned a million new things! Thank you so much.
Gimp is extremely underrated in it's capabilities. Many people don't even know why they are paying for Photoshop. They are just using it because everyone does. (My past self included)
Gimp, and anything other than Adobe software isn't even taken serious by advertising companies, go figure. ;-) The offset and digital printers are so accustomed to using the Adobe format that some even don't consider printing if it is not Adobe. So there's the bottleneck issue. I believe if Adobe has to release the exportformat, competition is fair again.
Its lack of user friendliness is the main reason for its low adoption.
Adobe is the ProTools of graphics software. Everybody uses it because everybody uses it and it keeps getting worse and worse until one day, it will no longer be used at all. I was a paying, professional customer since PS version 6 all the way through to Creative Cloud. It’s overpriced, bloated, resource hungry nonsense.
I use mainly paintdotnet on windows and Krita on Linux-based systems. I do not like either GIMP or Photoshop.
it's expensive and people who are broke like me (aka Students) can't have it !
Just wanna thankyou for existing man. I really appreciate everything you do for us ❤
GIMP can do a lot of stuff. I bet there are many features to add in, but GIMP is now very capable now. You're contributing so much to GIMP with these tutorials and explanations. Keep it up and I hope the best comes your way.
This is a terrific video. I started using Gimp in September 2023. Learning all the tools and features has been a struggle. But I feel like I've taken a leap since I watched this video. Now things in Gimp make a lot more sense and I see how can use these tools to help create better images. Thanks Nick for doing such a terrific job.
Very clearly explained. Thank you for this video 👍
I wish you have made this video years ago. Thanks a million.
That was truly useful in deciding that Gimp is not what I want. Gimp is described as an alternative to Lightroom by many sources and clearly it is not. Saved me a lot of time.
Wow!! Excellant eye opener for me toward edting photos. No body , on one explained like you did. God Bless . Thank You.
I've watched this three or more times now. I'm learning - slowly - but the hard part is now becoming how to know which tool to use and how to get the platform to release a tool when I'm done with it. GIMP is nearly too many options for me - but I WILL NOT Give up! Thanks.
Straight to the point, no blah blah. Thanks
Thanks man, you don't know how much your videos help
Actually the best video I found so far!
Coming back to GIMP after a couple of years, great refresher video
Thanks a lot, this is super useful ☺️
This is really great. Show the power of gimp for newbies
Thank you Nick for all GIMP n Inkscape videos tutorials. I have learned a lot in the last few weeks.
Your videos are pure gold. Thanks so much!! I've been using Gimp for many years but this video widened my horizons to what I can actually do with it.
This sick thanks bro it’s crazy what you can do in gimp I wrote them all down and defined them I got work to do 🤦♂️
This video seems to be good for those who are expirenced in working with gimp, request you to kindly publish the same for novoice people like me 🙏
I highly appreciate your videos Nick. I don't use gimp nor inkscape, but I watch your tutorials frequently as a means of freeing myself from thinking that my tools limit my creative process.
Cheers all the way from the Philippines!
3:34 You can also increase and decrease the fuzzy selection threshold by sliding the mouse right (+) or left (-)
I was always curious about Gimp but it was so owerhelming with all the tools and functions and the official guide didn't helped much, but with this video it seems much more digestable. Thank you!
Thank you, this video was very helpful and I love your videos. For this one it would have been additionally helpful though to illuminate the symbol for each tool right before you explain it.
Hi Nick. Great video again and thank you. I know and understand most of the tools of GIMP, but where I still struggle is the perspective clone tool.
the best explanation for GIMP Tools ever !
Ahhh yes, one of the first clicks. But I will come back when I forget something. Thanks tho
Best teacher. Thanks for all your help.
Nick, your videos are perfect! Thanks for your time making these.
Fantastic video. i'm also a gimp head .a nice video,sweet in fact.
easier version:
Move tool: Lets you move
Alignment tool: Lets you align
Rectangle select: Lets you select with rectangles
Ellipse select: Lets you select with ellipses
Free select: Lets you select freely
Scissors select: Lets you select with scissors
Foreground select: Lets you select the forgeground
Fuzzy select: Lets you select fuzzily
Select by color: Lets you select by color
Crop: Lets you crop
Rotate: Lets you rotate
Scale: Lets you scale
Shear: Lets you shear
Flip: Lets you flip
Perspective: Lets you change the perspective
Unified transform: Lets you transform unified
3D transform: Lets you transform in 3D
Handle transform: Lets you handle transforming
Warp transform: Lets you warp your transform
Cage transform: Lets you transform a cage
Bucket fill: Lets you fill a bucket
Gradient: Lets you gradient
Paintbrush: Lets you paint with a brush
Pencil: Lets you sketch with a pencil
Airbrush: Lets you draw with an airbrush
Ink: Lets you draw with an inking pen
MyPaint brush: Lets you paint with a MyPaint brush
Eraser: Lets you erase
Clone: Lets you clone
Perspective clone: Lets you clone with a perspective
Healing: Lets you heal
Smudge: Lets you smudge
Blur & sharpen: Lets you blur and sharpen
Dodge & burn: Lets you dodge and burn
Paths: Lets you make a path
Text: Lets you put text
Color picker: Lets you pick a color
Measure: Lets you measure
Zoom: Lets you zoom
(this was intended as a joke, pls dont take it srsly)
... how long did this take you?
thank you
Loving Unified Transform recently. I shift around arrows for my thumbnails often and it's far easier to turn, scale and rotate in one take. After this video I'm going to look at perspective tools more often :) Thank you!
Being brand new to GIMP I love the effort. Thank you. But man, you're like blazing through the tools. I don't even know which one is which cuz the icons are so small on my 13" laptop. Would be great if you'd show us the tool you're selecting, like a blow up of the icon. Perhaps as I learn more, I'll give it another go. Cheers mate.
These tool explanation videos are so good and helpful. Cheers.
Perfect tutorial, I just bought it and tNice tutorials helps heaps
YOU just made my day!!! Thank you, thank you.
Thank you very much for making this all
informative design based videos.
I love gimp because can work on every pc and can do everything like photoshop
Watched the similar Inkscape video and wished you'd make one for Gimp...and here it is!
Even if I'm perfectly fine with Windows and the Affinity suite, I often force myself to learn a new environment and software to avoid becoming a slave of the software's tools rather than using it as I want. I'm currently trying everything Linux with PopOS and despite finding Inkscape really good, a lot of stuff in GIMP doesn't make any sense to me.
This video clarified a lot but having used a bit of different graphic software I still think GIMP is kinda clunky/unintuitive...hope they make it more similar to Photoshop/Affinity Photo as Inkscape is more similar to Illustrator/Affinity Designer.
Thank you so much with this great explanation!
I really want to learn this because I need to save money..😪😔 Edit: I'm half way through this video and I'm BEYOND blown away at what GIMP can DO!! I need to share this with my friends. Edit 2: TAKE MY MONEY!!!! Thank you to all who put time into making this amazing piece of software! 👌🙌
Excellent video Nick!
Very helpful Guide, Thank you very much Nick.
Excellent Nick, I am also exploring Gimp for fun and drawing in the digital fashion.
I love your videos, and I've learned a lot from you over the years. Thank you c:
Nick, you are incredible!
Nick, could you please enable closed captions for the community to translate into other languages?
puedes copiar y pegar en Google Translate, el traduccion
1 > Click the 3 dots to the right of the word "Save" underneath the video
2 > Click "Open Transcript"
👉The transcript will have its own 3 dots. Toggle the timestamps to make it easier to copy and paste into a translator. This way, the translator does not get confused
You'll notice that if you copy and paste the transcript into Word, it does not take up the whole width of the page. So you need to delete those hard line breaks one by one, or record a macro that will do it for you
I got super nerdy on transcripts. I made a macro in Word to delete the hard line breaks and replace them all with spaces. If I want to print a transcript, it can now fit in a much smaller space to save paper. 🧡 i'd be glad to record my screen and post it to my channel if anyone is interested
💥DISCLAIMER 💥 some videos do not have a transcript included. In that case, there are some extra steps to record the audio and create your own transcript
Incredible video! Thanks for indexing it so I can can go revisit a tool quickly, too!
Very useful for me to learn gimp before deadline thank you so much!
Hey nick!
I tjink you pretty much covered almost everything. But one thing you nee to do tutorial about and will get tons of views is .GIF tutorials on gimp! ♥️
Comparing myself 2 months ago i knew basic sfuff about gimp. Gladly with the help of your eaay to follow straight to point tutorial videos, i'm way way better.
Thank you very much I really need that video to differentiate between tools😊
Also I started to design logos and designing pictures and effect because of your videos and I was searching for videos to learn me designing and graphics for a long time😁
Thanks for the second time😁😄
wow, so many untapped powers! thanks
Nice job bro.... for this knowledge i spent lot of time in other channel ... But you explained it short nd sweet
Well, good to find this after I made a bunch of stuff the hard way XD. You're a savior
Thank you for this site and your explanations
just after seeing thumbnail , what ? really ? yes ! Love
This is a Social Service you are doing!!
Thank YOU!
KEEP GOING
Quick and neat!! thanks Nick!! Great job!
Your video is very helpful.. thank you so much
If you got confused about the alignment tool like I did,
Nick has another video showing an easier way to display these called,
"How To Show All Tools in Gimp":
- th-cam.com/video/QfO-8Nou3Qk/w-d-xo.html
and I watched that first before I could fully understand this tutorial.
I hope this helps some other beginners out there! I am really enjoying it!
Your text effect tutorial really helped me a lot as a beginner. Cant wait for the next tutorial. Cheers mate👍
Thanks man, really needed this.
Here is how I describe you-----AWESOME!!!!😊
This helped me so much, thank you!
Awesome. Thanks very much. This was very helpful.
Great video, thanks so much!
Excellent and very informative video, Nick! Wish I would have seen this before I started to learn how to use GIMP.
Keep on rockin',
Jarkko / MyVinylBar
Really helpful video! Could you do a how to create vintage retro sunset Design with Inkscape or Gimp Video? I would love to know how that works.
Thank you so much, Nick!
I would have mentioned the "sample average" feature of the colour picker. I love that one and use it a lot.
thank you very much, you were very helpful!
I was trying to learn how to enlarge an image for printing, without the image pixielating. Started out brilliant, became totally confused by the end. I shall have to watch this video a few times I think. I thought increasing the number of pixels per inch would improve picture quality. I appreciate it enlarges the image.
I could do with you telling me where the things are on the screen rather than expect me to see the tiny icon, or pointer. Very difficult to follow at the moment.
wow!this is just the video i needed right now!
Hey Nick. I'd like to ask you to consider making a video about matching Ps by combining GIMP, Krita, and OpenToonz. That is, use GIMP tools that are unavailable on Krita, such as the Clone-Stamp tool, or text along a path, etc. Save objects as PNGs with transparent background. Move objects to Krita for final composite, where the layers panel allows for multi-select by ctl-click, non-destructive layer styles and effects, as well as non-destructive adjustment layers. Finally, for the Ps/Ae puppet tool, OpenToonz has the Plastic Tool, which is the best mesh deformation tool on Linux short of Blender (where you'd have to import image on a plane, add a mesh, and then a mesh deformation modifier - which is a lot to do for a simple mesh deform). I think a lot of people could use this kind of approach. shrug. Just a suggestion.
Thank you Nick !!!!!
Very Nice Job!!
Thank you for this great video ! I really like it especially it's with the new Gimp
Great video!
Cool You really help me Well done!
Awesome tips, 👍
@LogosByNick The foreground select tool doesn’t work like you have shown in ur video. The problem ist that once I combine the last point with the first I don’t get a blue selection respectively a stroke to give the program the data which it needs 🤔
Wow,. this is fantastic.
Thank you sir for this video......
I just need someone to explain very simply to me how things work on this app cause every time I click on something I barely know what it does and I feel like I've started a fire. thanks for going through the basics.
Very nice. Thanks.
decided to try it out.
Thank you for this sir
Sir plz upload videos on hard image manipulation like others on Photoshop
Hi Nick, for getting the Gimp course what should I do? What do you mean by entering a code number in the enrollment part?
Legend says he's still not back..
So helpful
Thank you!!
Two things are missing to be a worthy competitor to adobe-smart object and mask pinning, for separate editing of the layer from the mask.
I was so annoyed by using the unintuitive interface of GIMP that i now start learning the basics.
Its really great that its free though!!!
thank you 👍
thanks for making this video :)
Great tutorial. I am have a problem with using my PATTERN pallets transferring them to my image.
I wish you would do a video like this but for filters and Script fu/filters for Gimp
Very useful