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.

[@geerliglecluse5297]

True, regardless how good GIMP may be, it's anything but user-friendly if you're new to GIMP

[@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.

[@KevinBReynolds]

Very cool video. Thanks!

[@johnathanbeats]

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

[@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

[@Gelo2000origami]

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

[@keggsproductions]

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

[@earlybeans9104]

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

[@watynecc3309]

Yessss A Nice tutorial for open source software!

[@SFSAtlas]

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

[@gimcrack555]

Same here. I didn't had any money for Photoshop. Found GIMP and it did the job I needed it to do. Never used Photoshop. So became a pro using GIMP and didn't had to spend any money doing so.

[@Wannabelokesh]

@@gimcrack555 How did you learnt that? I am a CS major student, although gimp, photoshop and graphic designing is not in my syllabus, I want to learn graphic design with gimp plus gimp software itself. I follow these tutorials, I fail sometimes but I find them difficult. Same as You I don't have money to buy photoshop id and courses for me. How do I learn it?

[@mr.ypselon509]

You are the chosen one

[@johnnie3218]

@@gimcrack555 can you help me?

[@gimcrack555]

@@johnnie3218 This guy can help you better. kzbin.infovideos What's your question. I'll try my best to help you.

[@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.

[@jackkeifer]

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

[@robert58]

It's pretty _rare_ to find good tutorials like this.

[@ingen6351]

@@robert58 I liked that the length of the video was kind of medium long too and not dragged out

[@alexandrosvangelatos9979]

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.

[@bradleyeverson697]

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

[@p30street]

I like your new lens/camera! Awesome DoF

[@darrenrichard998]

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

[@gileswalburn6490]

DT is reading minds now, watch out Google

[@ChandanKr.16]

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

[@eduardoantunes2958]

Thanks for another great video Derek :)

[@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

[@amethyst_academy]

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

[@neradas7499]

Thanks,always great with more guides to this fantastic program.

[@illusioon1569]

Well done, please do more guides.

[@1711john]

Nice guide. Thanks for putting it together. Just getting started with art creation for video games and your tutorial was a great start.

[@ccroy2001]

This was very helpful! I've already made some images!

[@jarkkokorhonen6520]

Nice job! I've been doing graphics with my job but never with gimp so this was educating. Thanks!

[@LenaTheCutie]

Thank you for the Guide! Really helped me out when I was starting! seems so much simpler when you understand what everything does :D

[@koushik7604]

Much needed video

[@tusharkuntawar6170]

I needed this

[@devinhallsworth5531]

Thank you for this, tons of stuff I didnt know about GIMP I learned from this, like the create tab thing.

[@Yunesieh]

as always great. thank you

[@12Q46HPRN]

Thank you for this - I love your tutorials.

[@DougASAP]

Thanks! Good speed of tutorial!

[@user-ln8cc6bh8v]

Thank you very much for the basic guide . It is very useful since I'm a beginner.

[@katemccarthy2463]

Thank you and all the team for a great tutorial.

[@saidneder41]

DT you read my mind! thank you!

[@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.

[@brucexwayne2309]

Just what I needed, thanks bud

[@shashankbharadwajs9569]

Great content as always💫

[@DistroTube]

Thanks! :D

[@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.

[@abhabh6896]

It wont. People cant use GIMP professionally.

[@fahadus]

Yeah. I was shocked at that. Coming from Photoshop that's useful in everything and I was just shocked at the lack of a feature that is taken for granted in every workflow.

[@stewki]

i was just about to search how to make shapes in gimp

[@mattmadness]

@@abhabh6896 I beg to differ! I actually am taking Visual Communications classes in a trade school, and we were taught to use Adobe Photoshop which I used some of my skills from that and learned alot about Gimp and raster graphics in general, I used Gimp for an assignment instead of Photoshop once and my teacher didn't seem to notice until I pointed it out :D

[@paulg3336]

Do that in Inkscape and export as a png image and import into GIMP Or use Krita

[@elton9412]

Awesome !!!!

[@sbrazenor2]

DT mentioned key-bindings. The thing is, do we have a GIMP that's got Vim key-bindings? If not, we need VGIMP, with Vim key bindings. 🤣

[@howardcash8301]

Thank You! You did VERY GOOD! Yeah!

[@delected]

Thanks for this! I can seem but stop pulling up my VM to use something like Photoshop or Illustrator. Trying to get into GIMP and Inkscape, this might help me.

[@bogdanlupu3679]

If you have black and white you can use multiply on layer and have similar effect Regarding floating object you can anchor them instead of merging.

[@aromalito63]

the piv with the open mouth,put some -5 or 10 oval rings with some miniter some a little larger ,change the black color a bit,it will look like you are being swalowed by an invisible force,keep up the god work you do,Respect

[@simonlloyd7557]

Thanks for creating this tutorial. Lots of great information. I think it would help if you could explain why you are selecting certain options within the menus and also explain what they do..for instance when you use the Anchor option in layers... Im a beginner and don't know what that is or what it means. Apart from things like that, it was really helpful and should help me in creating thumbnails.

[@thebesteverwasme]

very helpful thank you

[@catmanbluz]

you are a good teacher, here's an apple

[@jesse7631]

Bro, you can use the jar as a layer mask to perfectly put the water in the jar only.

[@NeonNAX7]

Does someone have tricks to optimize gimp on windows, a friend of mine saw it on my PC and installed it and it runs bad and takes forever to zoom f.e. just the standard windows stuff would help or everything that works for any system (I never had to do anything and it ran fine on my system).

[@zombiesalad2722]

Nice Kali -Linux- tshirt DT

[@paulg3336]

Fuzzy select tool would be a better choice to mask the base of the jar

[@GeorgeSukFuk]

Awesome, you should do an Inkscape one next

[@Winnetou17]

Hey DT! Do you know that when you have a floating selection (like after pasting) you can press the new layer button at the bottom of the layer window and it will merge the floating selection into a new layer. Personally I only use this all the time and I merge or whatever the new layer into another one instead of anchoring the floating selection. I honestly don't really understand the need of a floating layer. It confuses new people greatly. Sorry, not greatly, but MASSIVELY. Why wouldn't the Paste command simply create a new layer is beyond me. Aaanyway, at the end, the cut and paste of the layers wasn't needed. There's a tool to move layers (the icon is a 4-direction arrow). By holding Shift and dragging, it will move the active layer. Without Shift, it will try to guess the layer you want to move based on where you started dragging. There's other options too. Hope these little tricks helped. Cheers!

[@soldierofchrist7343]

Thank you!

[@jacksystems]

I've used GIMP for a very long time. I remember telling my Grandma that I installed gimp, she asked what it stood for and I said "G N U Image Manipulation Program, I'm not sure what G N U stands for..."

[@waakca]

Please consider using a larger pointer with a contrasting color. Thanks!!

[@hemnnigar6594]

thanks that's great.

[@lechiffre5078]

You mean, “The Gimp” . 😉

[@priyansu7380]

Free and opensource!!

[@JeffTurner0227]

I use gimp a lot with a combination of Pixeluvo. Which is cross platform.

[@ibrahimbaim6236]

nice video

[@marcv610]

THANK YOU

[@DistroTube]

My pleasure! :D

[@marcv610]

@@DistroTube I've been reading all the documentation I can find but I can't get the hang of it- this is going to help a lot

[@hulainwa]

Thanks.

[@wellifthemediasaysit]

Hi how do i highlight, and move text, either whole words, (large) or just single letters/numbers, without its background? Im sure i did it before, but cant remember how? Doesnt seem to be the 'foreground highlight' tool! There must be a fast and simple way? Cheers

[@katemccarthy2463]

Where did you get the images for this tutorial? Like the fact already have transparent background

[@anantgupta1188]

BTW have you been running brave as your main browser (on your desktop) instead of Firefox?

[@crazychicken0378]

He’s probably sticking with brave on account of Mozilla not like that users have freedom. Brave is, for now, the superior free browser

[@anantgupta1188]

@Bitten Apple oh, i know was just within 10 minutes of the video uploaded so was expecting an answer

[@anantgupta1188]

@@crazychicken0378 yeah I also think that..

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

What does it matter what browser he's using? They're all FREE, you only have to invest a little of your own time to try them for yourself. How many of you people here can't make a decision for yourselves?

[@Winnetou17]

Firefox forever!

[@janewing5261]

I downloaded GIMP to my iMac running Monterey. For some reason, filenames and some labels print in a garbage typeface I do not have. They are unreadable. Any idea what I need?

[@dungeonseeker3087]

Excellent stuff, any chance you can do the same thing for Kdenlive?

[@Gelo2000origami]

He did a video on kdenlive a week or two ago

[@konstantina9874]

Good evening, I want to ask something because I can't find a solution. I have a 960*720 image and want to make it 100KB in size and 640*450 in dimensions. I change the dimensions and in the quality I put 100, but it turns out that the image has a size of 89.5 KB. What am I doing wrong? Thank you very much

[@bonce]

I've been trying to migrate from Photoshop to Gimp for years and frankly the two things that have been blocking me I now realise is not immediately anchoring and alpha masks. Seeing you do these both in such simple terms gives me the onus to give it another crack. ...don't suppose you also use Freecad and/or Inkscape?

[@charlessands6933]

Fantastic program. Also, the G in GNU is silent .

[@Wannabelokesh]

Learning Gimp for freelancing, instead of photoshop. But I see those videos too just for knowledge and help purposes.

[@Jakeu1701]

Interesting. Gimp does not automatically anchor the mask? I bet there is a setting or a plugin for that.

[@JayRCela]

Thanks :_)

[@SB-qm5wg]

My layout of gimp is way different than yours. Great tutorial. TY. 👍

[@TecnocraciaLTDA]

Please make a video "A Beginner's Guide To Inkscape"

[@bleighhh]

is there any linux community or chat or server where i can ask for support? it's been a couple of months i am a linux users and i want to stick with it but to exploit all of his potential i need some help and guidance

[@punishr90]

Is there no clipping option?

[@BULLIBULBUL]

[@_antoniocouto]

One of things that get in my nerves about using GIMP is that you can not select several layers with your mouse. Man! The amount of time that I have lost moving them one at a time.

[@Suddhadeep]

What about Krita?

[@johnnie3218]

This thing is difficult for me, anyone who can help me in zoom?

[@aromalito63]

Swalow da Fish

[@restorednhighlyfavored7779]

Do more

[@willardorwud]

First

[@DistroTube]

Confirmed!

[@oneirophon8912]

A beGIMPer's guide! ...Don't worry, I'm leaving.

[@gt-c-]

* * And I thought this is SIMPLE...!!! Oh boy how WRONG I was...!!! Need a new diploma ! * *

[@kingofutopia]

First experience about gimp: why doesn't it do the obvious?

[@weedwanker4884]

YES

[@nobilkwt7222]

there is something called crop Mr Distrotube 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@rothbardfreedom]

Terminal-based alternatives to GIMP?

[@eastereggo]

Why you would want to edit photos in terminal? Just stick with the GUI

[@nextorLeon]

ImageMagick but i think is very hard to know what are you doing and to know all the parameters and commands and what parameter values do you need, but for scripting is really nice. If you are asking for a terminal gui, then i dont know any.

[@xrafter]

This gimp thing is used to make memes . Good program

[@potentialgaming6566]

RRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@abhabh6896]

As long as GIMP keeps its name it will never be popularized. No scools would ever teach gimp, no companies would ever use it either and tgats sad since its a really good program.

[@collins907]

drinking game: every time he says "gimp" drink

[@potentialgaming6566]

BRUH U DIDNT TELL MEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@Alijae1019]

May I suggest that you present all of this information in a slower pace. You delivered this information (as great as it was), much too quickly. I could not keep up with everything you were saying or showing, because you were already on the next thing. I've sat through enough training seminars to know that the best way to help your audience absorb what you are showing them is by a clear, concise, moderately paced presentation. Again, great info, but slow down your presentation.

[@ratlinuxgamer2855]

Bad resolution

[@sbrazenor2]

I'm still surprised the social justice warriors haven't attacked GIMP because of the name. It has an ableist connotation. 🤣 That, or it's against people that like things like Gimp masks. 🤣 I'm sure the name offends someone, that's all I'm saying.

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

They did try to attack it - it was forked into a project called "Glimpse" for a while but I think it's dead now, or close to it. Oh, kindly don't call them "social justice warriors" - there are "nutjobs" on the far left and the far right with we "poor sods" stuck somewhere in the middle between them. Don't give them a "banner" to fight under or against, stupidity is always just stupidity.