LEARN GIMP IN 30 MINUTES | Complete Tutorial for Beginners 

EXCELLENT VIDEO - I had such a bad experience with Adobe this summer I vowed to NEVER use them again nor their inefficient Call Centers in India. Their products can no longer be used unless you are online and connected to the cloud. I bought thousands of dollars of software from them in 2009 to be told I have to buy it all again now. I"M DONE with them and think Gimp will serve my needs even better. We got to refuse to do business with the companies like Adobe Software that has no problem screwing over their clientele if it means more money. By the way, when I came to your tutorial on RU-vid there was an Adobe Software video being advertised. I hate the way companies monopolize on screwing over customers so they can get optimal dollars. But back to GIMP - loved this - had the tool over a month and what you just did will get me far. Got you bookmarked and will be back for more. Thanks so much for you time and knowledge.

me: wants to move text very slightly to the right me: loads a 30 minute youtube video tutorial

All I wanted was to put memes on things in Maplestory 2 and now I'm crying tears of graphic design blood

I just want to make memes. But now I guess graphic design is my passion.

Amazing tutorial! Wish you'd have included time stamps though, so I can quickly refer to which parts I need to re watch & follow along to.

After a long hiatus I came back to Gimp and forgot a few things here and there. This was a great refresher, thank you.

This has a lot of direction packed into 30 minutes. As a former Photoshop user, I found this video very helpful!

as a new person to this whole image editing thing, i would like to say that u are the best, i watched 3 tutorial videos of Gimp before i saw your video and yours was the only one that made me able to learn about this application, good job man

This is the best tutorial on all of youtube

Is it possible for you to do a tutorial specifically about the use of selection tools and moving or editing that selected area ? I mean, a tutorial that could mainly clarify the differences in which Photoshop and GIMP handle selected areas .. I Have not seen a particular tutorial that could help clarify the confusion many Photoshop users migrating to GIMP are having and I would like to share the videos in our facebook community (Open Source Creative Tools) Many thanks for your great work on all these tutorials.

I took a graphic design/image editing class as an elective in High School, and they taught us on both Gimp and Photoshop. I personally love Gimp because everything is so customizable. I love open source programs :)

I just want to thank you so much for this! I wish I had found this earlier on. I was taking a Masters degree course and one of our sections HEAVILY utilized GIMP but there was no instruction on how to use it. This video is such a great tutorial! Well explained and demonstrated! Awesome!

Love it! before I was just making memes, and had no idea of the variety of options that GIMP gives the user. Looking forward to using a lot more now!

Very helpful. Thanks!

It is *very* frustrating but once you learn how to do a particular job, it works just as well as the expensive alternatives... so videos like this are a God-Send! :-)

Fantastic tutorial! Loved how you moved at a fast pace so could listen to the whole concept, and click back for a repeat lesson on hard stuff, but move on for the easy.

I'm watching this in 2021 - it's still so useful. Good Stuff. Thanks Chris.

Chris, you are a fantastic teacher. Thank you for this tutorial

I don’t understand why people are so confused, I think you did a great job explaining this, thanks!

thx i have always been wandering how to use gimp and now i know how to use its going to be very helpfull this video is a very good video i think its amazing

Very well explained for beginners. I have Gimp for years without all the features.

I just feel that GIMP is overly complicated for no reason. Wanna drag and drop a picture to place it somewhere else ? Yeaaaah....

You are a legend bro! Thank you!

Wow! Exactly what I was looking for.............Thank you so much!

Thanks a lot! This helped me remember the order, top to bottom, in the the layers dialog box. Learned lots.

You are doing a wonderful job by giving Knowledge many thanks

GIMP is a great product, create by talented programmers, and appreciated by millions. And it's completely free. To the photoshoppers who can't use GIMP, why are you trying to use GIMP? Stick to photoshop, if that's what you know. To those that can't make a square on GIMP, try using your search engine, or RTFM. Anything new will have the basic requirement of educating yourself on its functionality.

Great tutorial! Thank you!

For years I have been hearing people complain about Gimp not being intuitive. It is an open source volunteer programmed software and that is why it really ought to be good. The way to solve this problem is to go to the GitHub repository and fork the project. I suggest a name like Intuitive Gimp. Just Fork it! I am not a programmer but actually I could do this because GitHub is not necessary only about programming it may be possible to enlist non-programmers into a discussion of heuristic design like the discussion that tool place in Xerox when their team invented the mouse. The project starts by imagining how one thinks computers should help you draw. The next step is rearranging how modules are called by the user. So the new fork would really only be creating a new menu system because the program is there. Hopefully at least. One utility I wish they had was a function finder where if I type in a function the menus open up and the boxes fatten up to show where those things are. As far as I know that is new a no one has programmed that. When you imagine what a drawing program should be you wish you could reach into the screen with your hands and pick things up and move them. The whole process needs to be examined as to the perspective of a caveman or a child trying to make a picture but for the most part the program is there and it works. It just needs to be rearranged and organized where grug brainlets like me can pick it up smoothly.

Thank you for the video I will share it with my dad. I am going to use GIMP to aid in scrap-booking. THe drop in picture feature looks better than open as layers.

Good, comprehensive overview. I slowed down your voice in parts, so I could get it. Will watch several more times. I've been wanting to learn this program, just downloaded. I subscribed. Thanks for sharing your expertise.

This is a wonderful tutorial! I will now move on to full course. Thank you. 😊

The only thing I can say is.....thank you, I'm not good with these tools but this will be enough for the things I wanna show up so humm...thank you for actually bothering in doing this, it really really helped me out doing yt thumbnails XD.

Great tutorial, thanks. After watching all this I got inspired and decided to keep using Canva for designs and image manipulation...😁

One hint: It might be better to show all image altering tools on an empty layer, which is above the real picture. This is good practice and would help beginners to get used to intelligent usage of layers.

Excellent presentation of GIMPS functions, and the subsequent effects of those applications ❗ Concise, and linear narrative that's simple to understand...THIS IS GIMP~ GOLD🏆❗🏁🏁🏁

Very very helpful. Thank you for this!

thank you, even if it's 2021 now, it's still useful !

Very helpful. Seems that layers is a key.

Thanks, Even after 6 years it’s a great video. I learned a lot !

Really enjoyed the video and the use of examples of where you might want to do something is very useful - thank you

Very well done overview of various common GIMP tools and functions. The layout and tools are very similar to Photoshop. Had I seen this video several decades ago, I would have stayed with GIMP and not bother buying Photoshop. GIMP was the first photo editor I came across. Unfortunately, I was not aware of how to used the program because I never found any tutorial for GIMP.

Great video for Beginners. Chris is a good teacher

Succint. Clear. Well done. thank you

clicked on. Very detailed and to the point, thank you so much for tNice tutorials! I subscribed and I look forward to watcNice tutorialng and learning more about

Oh man, the comments have me questioning what I got myself into. Anyway, I imported an image, and I don't have layers. I only have one layer, and it's the image I imported. And when I make that layer invisible, I see gray and white checkered, instead of white.

Thanks Chris, Great crash course on Gimp

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Great video, I had Gimp in Ubuntu but never used. Now I need in Mac :)

Great guide Chris

Thank you allot... I was using 3D paint for my first ever project which was more of a hastle than id like to remember... but i got it done... thats when i thought i need a way better app to o stuff like that on. so i want ahead and downloaded gimp, as soon as it started download ing, i came here, cos i dont want to figure it out be myself, that would have taken too long... so thank you for the run down, it makes my life allot easier. liked subscrbed and turned omn the notification icon cos i thought why the hell now, you scratched my back, so ill scrathc yours haha.. thanks again.. have a wonderfull day.

to import you can just go on files and click open and it will open your documents and images on the computer then you select what photo you want. like putting an image onto word doc. You dont have to drag the image if u dont want to

holy crap...if I could get gimp to open with the layout this guy has I wouldn't have problems using gimp

VERY high learning curve. For example: how do you add text and change or manipulate it.

got an add for photoshop on this video. 10/10 marketing

So much to learn for someone new to layered art programs. This is a great start. Thank you so much!

Really nice and helpful... Thanks!

Thank You! 🌟

Thank you for sharing your skills. I like the pacing of your explanation and detailed demo. It was very useful to know why things have to be done a certain way. I've watched a few tutorials for beginners and yours is the best. God bless you and keep you safe and healthy.

Hi Chris, thank you for making these videos, i just downloaded the newest GIMP program and i love it . Iam an older guy 53 to be exact and i used to use Micrografx Picture publisher a long time ago and this GIMP is so much better, do you remember that program ? Well keep up the great work and thanks again for sharing your knowledge to everyone ! : )

Great job! Thanks. You covered the basics of a very complicated program. FREE! That's the tag everybody wants to see, right?

Thank you Chris. That was an excellent video - clearly explained relevant content, and a lot of it. One of the best tutorials of any type that I have seen on RU-vid.

nice and easily understandable tutorial

Legend. Cheers brother!!! Ohh nerd comments crack me up! Love all you guys - taking over the world one mouse click at a time.

The church picture is of Twizel, New Zealand

Great job, thank you.

Thanks for the tutorial. I appreciate that you get to the point quickly and provide a lot of information in a short time. Many tutorials are too slow for me and yours was just right.

Great tutorial, I want more videos :-D.

I would love to use this to create possible covers for my Ebooks, and maybe for others' too.

It's kind of frustrating when the tutorial begins with a workspace that doesn't match mine. You open with colorful tools, mine are gray. You have a panel on the right with colorful patterns or textures. Not there for me. I'm using ver. 2.10.18. Is this a difference between versions. I'm stopping until I know what's going on.

What a rigmarole to do something so simple. With xara photo & graphic designer cheap program you simply type your text and you copy it over to the image by simply dragging it onto the image and then you can resize the text to any size you want and then select lock to your image or photograph. If you need to put an image on an image you just resize the image and drop it onto the other image and select lock. Gimp belongs in the 80s with AmigaBASIC.

using gimp with photoshop or paint 3d will speed up your workflow and give you different ideas. 3-d paint works faster at simple task like removing backgrounds or highlighting subjects, photoshop does layering brushes and stamping.

This is a really good guide

Me: *Sees Time Stop Effect and Mirror The World* Me: Ah, I see you're a man of culture aswell.

Man... Gimp is difficult to learn

Excellent intro. I've been playing with it recently and learned some things I was having trouble with.

not used gimp for a really long time so this was very helpful indeed. Thank you.

Thanks:)

I just downloaded gimp because it is a free Photoshop litteraly and this helped me so much because I understand nuthin

maybe you could make a video showing use how u have set up your gimp?

thank you so much, when I came I knew nothing about gimp and you helped me a lot with this. thanks!

I will try but it is difficult to learn GIMP. Thank you for making it easier

Great video, it was really helpful for a beginner like me!

Colorized Tool Shortcuts in upper Left and Right corners of the screen. I know it may havee been asked before, but how id you colorize the Tool shortcuts on your screen?

Thanks for your help. My only suggestion would be to slow down a bit, make the video longer for us who are slow to learn. I am trying desperately to learn Gimp but you move so fast, my brain/eyes can't follow along. Other than that, you have covered it pretty well.

Brilliant !

the mini bar at the top is present for me, using Gimp for mac btw

I think I can tell you where that church in the picture is. I'm pretty certain it's the Church of the Good Shepherd, by Lake Tekapo in New Zealand. I live in New Zealand and have been past it quite a few times.

so the select tool has changed to just free hand and selection based on colour, how do i use the method shown in this video where you place dots and it works out the points in between?

18:28 And that's how much effort went into making the Old Navy logo...

Thank you. I'm trying to transition from Krita to Gimp and although it's hard, I think it's worth it.

Can you do a tutorial for the 2020 version please?

Can you do gradients on text color ?

Thank you for the nice tutorial in detailed. so much valuable.

Can you make a video on how to take say a stationary logo and make it into a spinning in and out transition like the old school batman tv show transitions from the 60s

thanks man

keep it up broo ty for educating

A big thank you!! Great Tutorial!!

how do you remove the alpha selection after you have created the drop shadow.

Thanks, very nice! Will be moving to GIMP.