A Beginner's Guide To Gimp

One of the most popular pieces of free and open source software is Gimp (GNU Image Manipulation Program). It is the free and open source alternative to things like Adobe Photoshop. I've used Gimp for many years, even before I was a Linux user since Gimp is cross-platform, meaning it's available on Windows, Mac and Linux!

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Introduction
0:40 The default layout of Gimp

== A picture with a color-to-alpha gradient added ==
3:35 Let's create a new image
4:00 Background and foreground colors
4:10 Bucket fill
4:33 Gradients
5:13 Create a new layer and add an image to that layer
6:18 Color to alpha

== A jar of water with a goldfish in it ==
7:30 Dragging images from file manager into Gimp
8:38 Playing with a transparent jar
9:21 Adding picture of water into the transparent jar
10:25 Adding a layer mask
15:02 Adding picture of goldfish into the jar of water
15:35 Rotating the goldfish and adjusting hue-saturation

== 3D text effects ==
17:06 Create a new image and add some text
18:09 Adding "New From Visible" layer
18:27 Gaussian blur
18:45 Plasma noise
19:01 Bump mapping
19:37 Adding a layer mask

== Cropping a photo of yourself for a thumbnail ==
20:43 The free select tool and "invert" select
22:18 Trying to paste my face into the 3D text we created earlier

== More effects ==
23:23 Drop shadow
23:56 Long shadow
24:18 Checkerboard
24:52 Grid
25:26 Apply canvas
25:39 Cartoon
25:48 Cubism

== I will create the thumbnail for this video ==
26:13 Importing a background image
26:35 Create the text
27:14 Create rectangular backgrounds for the text
28:28 Importing an image of paintbrushes
29:22 Flip horizontally

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[heliosjiee]

"one of the confusing things if you're new to GIMP, is ... what is going on with all this stuff on the screen here"

well. yes. yes indeed.

[earlybeans]

This guy just showed us everything we learned in school, just in 32 minutes, 34 not 2 weeks.

[Yalyn]

Thank you for making this video. I use GIMP everyday and I hope more people will use it after they've seen your video.

[johnathanbeats]

I like how you teach. I always have problems learning new programs because people jump around. You kept my attention. Great video!

[Geloorigami]

I've never used gimp (krita gang rise up), but I'll give it a try after this

[polisparamountleader]

thank you man, before today I knew literally nothing about gimp, in the past hours after watching this video i've made some cool logos and posters. Great job

[SFSAtlas]

I've used GIMP forever, even before I knew about Linux

[jackkeifer]

This guide is like a nicely cooked steak... very well done.

[keggsproductions]

DUDE this helped so much clearing certain stuff up for me. great video man keep up the great content

[watynecc]

Yessss A Nice tutorial for open source software!

[shijai]

Thanks for the guide. I've been using GIMP way back even on Windows since I couldn't afford Photoshop then. I just used GIMP mostly for quick editing of screenshots and resizing images. I'll definitely keep this guide in mind if I need to do more stuff.

[alexandrosvangelatos]

I liked this video.
I've used gimp for years so simple edits.
I now know what mask transperancy is and how to use it.

[UNSCPILOT]

Been using GIMP as the last step in my Photography (And Astrophotography) process as well as just general use since forever, always loved FOSS/GNU

[doncanjas]

I am a photoshop user, I am very uncomfortable using GIMP, specially because of being able to do some tasks easier (like being able to rotate the text box on the fly, while writting text).
This video helped me a bit with my struggles with GIMP.

One of the advantages of GIMP is being able to convert color formats perfectly out of the box, like YUV to RGB conversion, which is very bad on photoshop.
I'd just like that as an open source project, GIMP would have the z.lib aka libzimg. I don't like the scalers that come with GIMP and photoshop, and being able to use Spline36 on a image editor would be awesome.

[darrenrichard]

Thanks Derek. I was thinking earlier about trying to learn Gimp after watching your video on how to create a thumbnail. So this video come out right on time :-D

[ChandanKr.]

Thank you very much sir, I needed this video. Love from 🇮🇳

[eduardoantunes]

Thanks for another great video Derek :)

[amethyst_academy]

Damn I was waiting for this video. Loved it man. liked it before actually starting.

[mattmadness]

I use Gimp for all my raster graphics too! It's nice to see you making a guide like this, it will definitely attract more people to Gimp.

One thing I wish that Gimp had is the ability to make shapes. Of course I know that you can make shapes by selecting an area and then filling it, but so many other raster image editors have this ability and it pushes people away from Gimp.

[bradleyeverson]

Hey DT. Thanks for the crash course using The Gimp. Definitely a very powerful tool. Thanks again.