Who needs shape tool when we have text tool
really looks like more of a squircle
OoOOoO
I dont get it
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?
Don't forget to draw the rest of the owl, too!
Just use Paint and do it within seconds.
I drew some circles in Gimp once, check it out:
Squares and triangles too
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.
That's very nice
how i'd do it:
outstanding move
some more unicode basic shapes for everyone
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Thank you for the new gimp toolbar
Welll first you draw this head...
It's easy if you use the right tool.
does GIMP not have a circle/shape tool? Why?
It does! And it's so easy to use.
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.
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.
That's not actual shape tool.
Shape created by shape tools should be always editable. Using ellipse selection tool means the circle is rasterized.
nope, and nobody knows why
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?
now this is truly terrible knowledge.
I just made one, just need to merge those three layers and I'll be done...
I asked AI for an anime style circle and got this
Please make a 45 minute tutorial video to share that knowledge 🙏
There are so many weird things about GIMP, and it feels like they add more over time. I've moved a layer and then tried to draw on it and had nothing happen. Why? Because the layer was created as an array of pixels the size of the image, and when I move it there's now a dead zone where there's no pixels in the visible image. It turns out there's a special command to expand moved layers to fill the image: https://docs.gimp.org/3.0/en/gimp-layer-resize-to-image.html
There are times using it that it feels like a maze to navigate to just get my changes reflected in the document.
Your circle is a bit off....
...its like wonky on the corners for some reason.
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
This thread has made it clear to me that I should wait another year before checking on gimp again.
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You can also use the brush tool and just draw a circle that's completely filled in at whatever size you want and then remove the inner portion that you don't want by switching to the erase tool and then shrinking the size of the circle brush to what you don't need and clicking directly in the center of the circle.
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.
Hint: :q!
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