Who needs shape tool when we have text tool
Welll first you draw this head…
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
If you want a circle outline, you can draw 2 circles, one smaller and the color of the background
really looks like more of a squircle
OoOOoO
I dont get it
Uhhh you can’t put image generarion prompts to it. Its a photo editor!
- 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.
Why would you do this when the functionality is built right in?
- Open Photoshop
- Select the Ellipse Tool
- Draw a Circle of Your Choosing
- Press Print Screen on Your Keyboard
- Voila! A Fresh Circle to Paste/Insert Into Your GIMP Project!
Don’t forget to draw the rest of the owl, too!
Just use Paint and do it within seconds.
does GIMP not have a circle/shape tool? Why?
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.
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.
That’s not actual shape tool.
Shape created by shape tools should be always editable. Using ellipse selection tool means the circle is rasterized.
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.
nope, and nobody knows why
- 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.
Why can a shape tool not be pixel based? There’s no intrinsic requirement for vectors.
Because a shape tool requires non-destructive vector layers.
No it doesn’t, why not a bitmap shape tool?
Why would it? It’s a photo editing tool, not a drawing tool.
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.
Yep. It’s not Krita.
Yep. It’s not FireAlpaca.
Yep. It’s not Pinta.
Yep. It’s not Tux Paint.
It’s easy if you use the right tool.
- Draw circle in Inkscape
- Export as bitmap
- Import bitmap in GIMP.
I drew some circles in Gimp once, check it out:
Squares and triangles too
That’s very nice
Please, I could do this in Photoshop if they added a shape that looks like this.
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.
outstanding move
some more unicode basic shapes for everyone
○ △ □ ▭ ◇ ☆Thank you for the new gimp toolbar
I asked AI for an anime style circle and got this
I just made one, just need to merge those three layers and I’ll be done…
How did you align both circles pwrfectly and with perfect size?
Ellipse selection -> fill with black -> new layer -> shrink selection by 1 pixel -> fill with white? It’s been a while since I’ve really used gimp.
now this is truly terrible knowledge.
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.
If you need it precise and adjustable use 2 layers and concentrate them with the alignment tool.
Please make a 45 minute tutorial video to share that knowledge 🙏
Sure. First 10 minutes will be intro ans last 10mins will be telling to like, share and sabaracribe
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
