How To Use Gimp 2.8.2 For Beginners 

I spent like 10 minutes just reviewing the tools, I don't think it was that hard, but everyone views things differently so I respect your opinion

CURRENTLY MAKING AN UPDATED VERSION OF THIS VIDEO SINCE GIMP UPDATED AND THIS VIDEO ALSO DOES NOT GO IN DEPTH ENOUGH. HOPEFULLY THE NEW VIDEO WILL SOLVE ALL YOUR PROBLEMS

AirBrush - 1:36 Pencil - 2:20 PaintBrush - 2:40 Eraser - 2:45 Scissors - 4:49 Free Select Tool - 4:58 Move Tool - 7:16 Text Tool - 8:30 Crop Tool - 9:30 Bucket Fill Tool - 9:45 Rectangle Select Tool - 10:45 Elipse Select Tool - 10:45 Fuzzy Select Tool - 11:00 Color Picker Tool - 11:22 Smudge Tool - 11:35 Healing Tool - 12:03 Blend Tool - 12:30 Measure Tool - 13:06 Select by Color Tool - 13:25

adding layers with certain selections and opacities also help to do that as well. for example, add another layer with whatever color you want, and change it's opacity to say 20. Then cut out the part of the image you don't want using the free select tool.

I consider myself a complete beginner with gimp, and expected to find a tutorial that covered the basics - tools, menus, descriptions of terminology (like what an alpha channel is etc) and there is no way I can follow this!! If I was already familiar with where the tools are, what they are called, and how they can be utilised, then it would be great, but to list it as for beginners?

I agree with AJ Alexander. Way too fast for people with no previous knowledge of Graphic editing. My tip to Galactics Tutorials would be to focus on just 2 to 3 things in each video. Repeat the steps and the explanation at least one time (with different examples) and at the end you could give a quick summary of everything you've done. Keep a timeframe of about 5-8 minutes for those 2-3 things. People need time to process them. Quality over quantity. Having said that, I really appreciate your effort for sharing your knowledge with a larger public. I am grateful for it. :)

This tutorial is NOT FOR BEGINNERS. You skip over everything.

Thanks for the quick overview of Gimp. Loved your tutorial!

ohmygoodness ... I'm a trainer, and have used Gimp before, but you are going the wrong way about explaining stuff. Slow down, prepare what you want to tell people and show them what the tools do.

Love the breakdown in the Published area

well I personally just like using the regular select tool for everything because you can be as precise as you want, but you could use the Select by Color Tool if you're dealing with an organic object

my best digital painting to this day

yes go onto the right window or the histogram window and click the tab that looks like a stack of papers and lower or higher the opacity.

hey man best tutorial ever just what iv been looking for to get me started thanks man !

Your tutorials are the best I'm loving them

Thank you so much, this is exactly what I was looking for. It took me a while to find something this good, thanks :-)

well if the picture itself is small to begin with then the quality might become a bit crappier when you make it bigger, but to make the picture bigger simply click on the image tab, click on scale image and increase the size. If you said that the picture was the size of your thumb before, and you want a more definite size (inches/centimeters) you can set it to increase the picture by centimeters by changing the adjusting size from pixels to inches/centimeters - Hoped this Helped

thank you so much dude for the support! you're really awesome!

you want a part two? no one requested it so I didn't really want to make one. But I suppose I could make a much more advanced tutorial with like an extreme look into more processes that I left out before :D thanks for the feed back too

the round selection tool? it's right next to the rectangular selection tool

did you go into the histogram window and click add an alpha channel before you selected your picture, inverted it, and cleared the excess image?

thx i have to use gimp 2 for my tech ed class in school and this really helps

yea part 2 would be cool man, and this is a massive help

you have to right click the layer on the histogram tab, and add an alpha channel, then when you delete the selected area it disappears or turns background color which is the checkerboard-like pattern.

oh jeez sorry, thanks for the feedback. To be honest it has been a learning experience for me to make these tutorials, although I have been trying my best to improve it is difficult to teach people without having any live feedback. I hope that the video wasn't too bad though, and thank you for watching.

hey, how do i get the tools to work? everytime i try i can't make it work...

possibly it may be behind the main window/histogram-layers? I know I sound really stupid, but a lot of people that I've talked to actually came to this conclusion. If not you could always close gimp, open it up again, and then go into windows: toolbox and try for some luck?

I did just start this video and saw this... well i'm bad at these things, and i would love a part 2 ^w^

Hey, guess what. Beginners have zero use for 'fast paced tutorials'. They're just trying to figure out how to get the image file into GIMP and how to get it to do the basic-most stuff. Don't kid yourself. This video is not for absolute beginners. Hyper-teens, maybe. You've got a lot to learn about how to teach/instruct people. Slow and steady - If it's really for beginners, you should assume your audience knows zero about image file manipulation - that's if you care about how well your training goes down. Good journey

go look at the tabs, click file, and then click open or open as layer and you can open .jpegs, .pngs or any photos/images for that matter

Go into edit, preferences, input devices, configure extended input devices, and make sure that core pointer is set to screen, Virtual core XTEST pointer is set to Disabled, xquartz virtual pointer is set to disabled. If this does not work, than change the settings on cursor from disabled to screen, or screen to disabled

I love your videos and this helped me out a lot. Thank you and I will be subscribing :)

Dude I'm a pretty advanced user looking for tips and tricks and the amount of disorganization in this video is mind blowing. If you ever want to be successful PLAN YOUR TUTORIALS IN AN INTUITIVE WAY before you ever start recording.

I'm so glad you are redoing this! You went so fast...for us beginners...this was NOT helpful...

Thank you for your videos! You have definitely earned a subscriber!

Thanks so much. I learned a lot watching this video and following along.

you mean in the picture you're editing? or the gimp default?

Hi, I'm from germany and my english is not so good, anyway thank you for this tutorial I don't understand the german tutorials but now I think I know what I have to do, Thank you!!!!:D

are you changing the brush, or the actual radius?

You're a really good teacher! :) Thanks!

your welcome, thanks for watching

Thanks. This help me a lot. I've learn this before but I forgot it already since i left my college. hehe :) Thanks a lot btw.

I want to export my image but when I press file, there is no option to export

Ctrl B for the thing on the left, (Toolbox) and then go to Windows- Dockable Dialogs and Tool Options for the thing on the right- if you want you can click the tabs button (looks like a left pointing arrow in a box) and add tabs like Layers.

if you make multiple frames, and turn it into a .gif then yes it could be turned into a pretty amazing intro

when you use pencil or paint, how you change the circle shape to a square

so if it isn't required, and gimp runs fine...what do you need help with?

Here I go again with the Gimp tutorials. seeya ronny

my fotos come up with a black bloks how do i take that feature off

i loaded something in gimp that makes my brush goes around an around an when i click it its makes it own thing i cant keep it straight

go onto the text you created, highlight it, then increase the number on the textbox editor

I know you can use the paint bucket but if every little pixil is different color than what do you do?

What is the "alfa channel" and ther other tool you used & what is it for? i guess it freezes the picture but I wasn't sure.

i need help, i can't get the window that helps you change the size of the pencil.

Thank you thank you!!! Was wondering how to cut an image to use it on a flyer..... question answered here.

Hi, after i downloaded it and installed i only one window pops up the "GNU" how can i get the other two?

Dah, I just ended with even more questions than I started.. Good tutorial its just that now I want to learn more about it :(

yeah sure it's really easy. Just go into the windows tab, click histogram-layers, and then click toobox. You should get both the windows back. Hoped this helped

try going into the windows tab and opening a fresh tool bar. If that doesn't work replay back

go to file, click export, in the file name type in whateveryouwanttonameit.jpeg a new window should pop up so you should adjust the quality and then click export

@ 6:24 i followed the steps u said i outlined and went 2 files & saved it but no pop up came frm regular "save" i had to go 2 "save as" then i went 2 export & it says the given file name does not have any known file extension....does anyone know what i can do?

GIMP isn't installing. I click on it. And it says Select a Language during this operation. I click it and it goes to Customize then Install. I clicked install. I guess it did but it's not anywhere... :(

Despite I saved a cutted photo as png file, it preserves the white backround, so, when I put the image above other, its backround doesn't disappear. There's a hateful white rectangle which I can't get rid of. What can I do? Thank you very much in advance.

how do you get the block things behind the part you selected, I did every thing what you needed to do but the part behind it is whit not filled with blocks. It's peforethe part you have to save it. What did I do wrong?

I accidently closed the thing that helps selec the size of the brush, can you tell me how to get that back up?

how do i get a picture to the clip board so i can make a colloage of pictures

how so? what system are you on? windows 7, apple, etc.

hey mate i was using Gimp to produce an picture so i could upload it as my thumbnail for my yt video but it keeps saying try again why is that?

Thank you for the tutorial videos. Shared on Facebook's GIMP+

how do you put special effects on the pictures??? sort of like... change it to sepia, amaro, walden, etc... or how do you darken your face or change eye colors etc. please help!

I'm trying to export & save but it keeps saying "Unable to run plug-in file-jpeg" & "pipe() failed: Too many open files". Can anyone help me out?

did you do open as layer or open :D try open as layer next time and see if that works.

If this is the video for the beginners, where do I become a beginner, for this video assumes a hell of a lot that I simply don't know.

A great tutorial!

Can you do something such as erase some letters that where on a shirt and replace with some letters of ur choice without erasing the shirt ?

when i downloaded it it took 6 minutes but it was worth it

Nice tutorial, but I got a question . How do you get the 2 things at the side? Like the toolbox and the other thing on the right hand side. Thanks

thats just to tell you what your highlighting, I don't believe it comes up in the final image, but if it does reply back

When I selected "clear" nothing happened....

The drop down type box that is on the far right of the large working space box.....I don;t have that box. I have redownloaded GIMP 4 times thinking that maybe it would load. I'm sure that there is probably something that I may need to turn "on" but I don't know what that box is called; therefore, I don;t know what I'm looking for. Thanks!!

Ok so i am having a problem with gimp's crappy UI... So i selected some parts of an image and made them a different hue but then I decided that I wanted the hue to be a different color for each selected area. But how to i SELECT the previously selected areas without having to do it all over again? is there a log somewhere of all of the actions that you did to the image that you can modify? I cant just simply click the area that I free selected earlier because the crappy UI wont give me my cursor back and still thinks that I am cutting out another part of the image again. Please help. i know that this is an easy solution but this crappy UI is impossible to teach yourself...

So I just started using gimp yesterday, but when I open it only two tabs open, the tool box and the the one in the middle.I don't have the one on the left, is there a way to open that one or something?

on the right side how do u get that thing on the right i only have it on the left

So when I make a new layer, I click ok, then it disappears before I can change the mode to my layer. How do I change the mode of my layers on a mac?

how did you get that little window with the star and shapes and fuzzy sizes and stuff?

Those toolbars at the side arn't there for me. What do I do?

I am interesting to use GIMP for painting, and also Im using Linux and this is the best Tool to paint in Linux, I subscribe your Channel bruh ... Keep doing great job !!

How to keep the same formatting for the new text as the already there text in the pic.

Can you change the color of the an image without doing it manually?

Anyone have an issue with their mouse/trackpad when using 2.8? My trackpad on my MacBook Air starts clicking or acting as if I am holding it and select anything I roll over...HELP!

Very helpful, but what tool should i use if I want to remove an organic object?

I am pretty sure I understand what I am supposed to be doing..but it is not working. I am trying to make a layered photo. For the fore-layer I select around it and then invert and clear. I get a white background around the selected image and even after I save and export the image as a PNG it is still surrounded by the white rectangle. So obviously I cannot layer it on top of my background. Any ideas what's wrong, peoples of the interwebs?

I have installed it twice, but after the full setup, i don't get the program, the setup just shuts down and... that's simply all that happens...

I can't change the size of a brush or the opacity. It won't show at the side.

Can you make a video of how to speed paint with gimp 2.8

u confused more than when i began excellent tutorial

when I use the pencil it erases stuff and I don't know how to change colors help me!

Go to windows option at the toolbar, ther you can click tool box or just click recently closed windows. and the rthey should be

Hey man, how do you do curvey pics coz i have a basketball background and i wanted to crop the basketball to make it stand out more.

I just downloaded Gimp, but for some reason the only layer showing is the histogram layer on the right, I clicked windows, tried to open the toolbar, but no luck, any suggestions?