If you want to learn more about how GIMP works, I have a 60+ part video series where I explain all of the tools and features in GIMP and demonstrate how they work. Here's the link if interested: logosbynick.com/gimp/
Quick advice, if you want to avoid the cleanup stage, use the pencil tool instead of the brush when you're tracing, when you use the paint bucket tool to fill in the areas, it won't leave pixels behind.
@@jazzram_ that happened to me the first time. My cord has to stay plugged in or it shuts off. I need a new battery. It has happened alot when my doggies get playing. 😞
To get the outlines you can also use the drop shadow filter. Just set blur to 0, the offset to 0, and change the grow radius to your liking. Works for both the hand and black circle.
I just found this video, and within the day had downloaded GIMP (which I had never heard of) and made a first draft of a logo I've been scheming about for months but had no idea how to carry out. Thank you so much for this excellent tutorial, it was incredibly helpful and well done!
Hi, great video. Anyone know if that feature to "grow" a selectio is a thing in photoshop, too and where I can find it? Thanks! edit: It´s select -> modify -> expand
It doesn't really apply to this design because the whole back is white anyway but hiding layers like that can potentially cause issues when printing via some processes like silkscreen where each layer is printed separately.
Allan Savolainen Are you able to open the design he made in Inkscape, and convert it to vector to use as a logo? Or should it be made specifically in Inkscape, etc? I hope that question makes sense and wasn’t dumb lol.
@Joey Tech Talks What about making such kind of Logo in the desired software like GIMP and then just afterwards converting it to .SVG using a for example Inkscape, of-course it could be already completely made in any vector application but if somebody prefers an software like GIMP, Photoshop &co instead they should be able to use it too.
@@HopOnsWelcome as far as I'm aware and speaking from my very little experience, you can atleast sort of convert more "simplistic" logo like 2D graphics to a .SVG vector format using certain tracing tools of Vector applications like Inkscape. It can take a while finding proper tutorials for that though, I actually once made a tutorial for exactly said same purpose though apparently deleted it due to some reasons which I can't exactly remember ...
That was a very instructional video. I want to create a logo in GIMP and I never managed to get it right. But it seems the most difficult thing to do in GIMP is have a nice, clean and functional user interface. My menus are all over the place and most of the times I am confused while looking for the next tool... THank you very much for the wonderful tutorial! ✨🖌👏🏻🙏🏻
Logo master 👏 As a question, is it possible to do in gimp the effect of mirror dimension used in Doctor Strange? And if it was doable, would You explain how to get down to it?
I've been using gimp to make logos for years, and I learned so much more from this tutorial than I knew I could. I learned stuff that I didn't know I didn't know. Bravo Sir
It's probably a new addition, but if you want to change a single-color image to some other color (like black) you can use Color -> Colorize instead of your method. Way easier and surer.
S3G.Sourc3 So did you update to ver 2.10? and was it worth it? What I mean is did you get more functions and was it still similar to navigate like 2.8?
@@NINJUTSUguy totally worth it.. for me I got more out of it with more fuunctions and tools than what is on the previous version.. But it's still somewhat the same to navigate so not too much changed on the layout :)
Love your videos! They're definitely one of the most helpful and detailed I've found. I've actually practiced a lot with what I've learned and created a decent amount. My icon for instance was made using a method I learned from you mixed in with my own design. Great work as always!
I have a new and old version of Photoshop and most versions in between and none that I have seen have “Colors or Tools” in the menu. How did you get that in there?
For the circle around the logo, wouldn't it have been easier to just merge both layers (hand+black circle), then put an outline (grow) on the layer? Would have saved you some work.
Even on 100% hardness the brush still has anti aliasing. So there's still pixels on the edge that get blended making them not exactly the same color. Double clicking the bucket tool revolves it. He also could've picked the pencil tool instead of the brush. (But this looks way worse while you're still tracing.)
Instead of filling it in twice I personally recommend you increase the threshold in the tool options of the bucket fill. This way, if fills it up better without adding extra thickness to the outline.
@@primalpenguin That's a good tip, but in this example it either won't matter or give a worse result. I'm not going to watch the video again, but I believe there's a step which makes the edges hard again. And if that step isn't included the end result will looks worse when you fill in the outline, it will also be harder to print.
I just looked for "keyboard shortcuts" for this like a week ago and found nothing on using the bracket keys...all the top results were trying to get you to program a custom hotkey :/ This tutorial was very good.
Are you using a mouse and tablet/pen? Suggesting it if you don't. :-) Interesting--Gimp is much like PSD 4-5. And that's not a bad thing at all, as Adobe seems intent on bloating everything beyond real-world use these days. Thanks for a peek at what Gimp can do.
since your lines had hard edges without antialiasing, you could have just selected the space in the hand and deleted the black part on the layer under it instead of using the eraser tool other than that, great tutorial!
hey i am using gimp since years now. sometime it has some unprecised things like in 6:38, so you have to work around (if you noticed the hole hand got filled after the second fill click so the hand got one pixel thicker, somethime you may not want that :D)^^ but all in all i think you can do everything you want to do with it. I use it mainly to make game designes,which includes character models, wallpapers, icons, UI window designs, textures... and it works perfectly fine for me :D
It depends on your task to be done. If sth quite simple or intermediate then in Gimp you can make it. If u wanna do sth advanced and really quickly , effectively then Photoshop will be truly powerful giving truly the best tools. For example I dislike some filters in Gimp cos they even don’t give u any view of result i.e. u can adjust some parameters but you don’t see any change until u apply it to your image. The same is with selections. Photoshop gives you way more advanced and effective.
Great stuff man!.You have that software in the tip of your finger.It looks like you gave been in this business long time. I did not know that Gimp has so powerful.
I've used a similar technique to create black and white art for rubber stamps. My suggestions if you want to use it for that is import the image you want. Lay a white layer over it and reduce the opacity until you can see the original image clearly. Select black to paint with then pick a good solid brush size for the outline and major lines of the image, and then a brush about half that size for the minor lines. When done bring the opacity back to 100% and delete the original image layer. Export it in an image style that's appropriate for the people making the rubber stamp. Don't try to capture every detail, most ink bleeds a bit when stamped on paper anyway. (Pro tip, a good non-bleed ink is the Palette line from Stewart Superior, it's a pigment ink not dye ink.) But experiment, find what works best for you. This is how I do it, and I like the style.
Great video, thanks! Very helpful for a beginner like me. So my question is- once you've made your logo in this way- would you then be able to manipulate it to have an engraved or embossed on leather effect? Thanks xx
You could convert the white hand into path then path to selection make a new layer then fill it with white color again then delete the old one. That will have a fine edges too.
I guess that the logo on the shirt was made using Photoshop. He wanted to make tutorial for those who cannot afford Photoshop, because if you actually take a look, Photoshop is kind of expensive piece of software, and with the new CC version, it is paid monthly as a subscription, with no way to turn off certain features, like could sync, which is the main thing that cranks up the monthly subscription fee, and of course no way to obtain the previous one time purchase versions of Photoshop other than third party download services, which are notorious for virus downloads. And even when you download that one time purchase version (free 30-day trial, to be exact), you have no way to purchase this version anymore. It will work, and if you purchased it before, it won't stop work, it's that you can't purchase it anymore. The purchase button should take you straight to the store where you just fill in the credentials for payment, but intead it will redirect you to the subscription page where it prompts you to subscribe to one of the three level monthly subscription plans, all resembling the cloud sync as a basic service, with no way to opt it out. So basically if you want to use the older version legally, you can't. Adobe products are just too overpriced...
I think for the creative cloud subscription, they are reasonably priced. You get regular updates (unlike previous ones where you had to pay a hefty amount every year for a new update). Not to mention, you also get a portfolio website along with 100gigs of cloud storage. But I do understand why this is done in gimp. Hobbyists can work and practice on it. Other than that you can't even compare anything more intuitive than Adobe software. For example, yea one could create logos in Gimp. But its half the efforts in PS for people who are actually working for clients. It saves time and effort to save up for other projects, @@CZghost
@@hello_storm Actually, the answer is a lot simpler. Adobe products are actually meant primarily for corporations and those who run business in design. Therefore these prices are what they are. For an occasional hobby designer, this is way too much money to pay for such software (and yes, I am aware it includes a service not very cheap to run). I'm just saying that if you could exlude this cloud service, then Photoshop and other softwares could get a heck lot cheaper and even hobbiest would be willing to pay. Or bring back the way to purchase older versions, so one could get Photoshop CS6 legally for sure.
Good trick to get the first base is to use the blacks as mask. maybe you have to tinker a bit with the histogram. Your deletion of the inside of the hand is also easier if you select all transparent of the hand. Switch to the circle layer and delete.
You mentioned using Inkscape at the beginning, but didn't ever use it. Wouldn't it be better to use Inkscape to do most of this so you end up with a vector logo?
