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Published: 2010-06-25 21:53:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 16139; Favourites: 436; Downloads: 710
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Hi pplz! Here's the GIMP tut I've been promising! This one is a look at all 33 of the tools available in the GIMP's interface
The next tut will be on how to make super lazy lineart, and directly following that, a coloring tutorial specific to people who are used to coloring in MS Paint and are not familiar to working with layers (basically kind of like cell shading 
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GIMP cannot handle vector images, however it can do plenty of other things
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Hi! Thank you for having this posted! Just started today with the program so I'll need all the info I can get! LOL
Also, I was wondering, is there a way to convert GIMP brushes to Photoshop 7? I've found a few for PS to GIMP, but I've not found any for the reverse! ><
Thank's in advance!
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You're welcome! and yaaaay! GIMP is fun 
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No prob!
I looked around the web and really didn't find much, so, I thought about just making a png of the image I want on GIMP then transfer it over to PS and make a brush out of it. XD LOL
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Wolfboy, just happened by this post and thought you (and others) might want
to look at this program (which is free). I use it extensively for what you appear to need as well.
Over at Texturemate:Β www.texturemate.com/abrMate
All best,
Grey
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Thank you for making this! Now, I can try to use layers in GIMP! YAY!
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Oh, thank you so much for having the patience to explain all those things in detail
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you're welcome! There aren't many GIMP tutorials out there, and the ones that exist on their website tend to be kind of confusing 
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Oh, cool 
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Hi, I also have GIMP and I've been trying to figure out how to use the paths tool but it's really frustrating and confusing. Could you help me?
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the paths tool is similar to drawing paths in illustrator or photoshop, the only difference is that it's not vector, so you don't need to worry about closing shapes. All you have to do is outline whatever line art you're making, or draw whatever image you want with the tool, then when you're done, choose the line weight and click stroke, and it automatically fills the lines you drew in
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I tried that and I've been trying to follow a tutorial I found in GIMPies but it doesn't seem to work after I click "stroke". And it's still pretty confusing.
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You have selected a line weight before clicking stroke right?
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OwO a line weight?
Oh & I got the line to show up, but it's still really confusing on how to make a curve.
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When you draw the line at the end there should be an anchor that you can move that curves the line
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I know, but usually my lines end up....weird. -.- Thanks anyway, I'm probably annoying you so I'll try to figure it out myself. ~3~
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an alternative to this is using the "smooth stroke" setting on the brush tool. It looks like the paths tool when you use it
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circle fuzzy brush is a sub-tool that can be accessed by either the pencil or paintbrush tool.
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hi.
i'v using GIMP for a while but i have a problem.
Everything (from GIMP) that i want to submit in DA don't want to submit.
Could you help me
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save the images as png or jpeg, not xcf, that should fix everything
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whoa! I hadn't tried yet, but thanks for helping ! It helped me too! (γ»Ξ΅γ»)
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no problem! yeah, the xcf file type is only a gimp filetype, it's not compatible with anything else
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This is exactly what I've been looking for! Thank you so much.
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piacere di conoscerti
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^^anche per me lo Γ¨!E' sempre bello trovare italiani^^
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grazie! Mi basta usare un traduttore sul mio computer per questo a volte io amo la lingua ... Mi dovrebbe imparare uno lol giorni
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hahah!io lo uso per qualsiasi cosaXD
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This is really helpful! Thank you for sharing!
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Good basic stuff. There are one or two tools on there I've never used because I've never gotten around to trying them out. Now I've got an excuse!
Thank you for the work you put in this!
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hey no problem! i figured that most people stayed away from GIMP because there's no good explanation of the tools used
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True, but, there are a few online. I found this one a while back [link]
It's pretty clear cut and simple, so, you might want to pass it along.
Have a good one
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thank you! i'll add it to the artist comments ^ ^
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You're very welcome!
Helping each other out is what open source is all about.
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