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1. Introduction: Welcome to the Imp course. In this course you will learn this amazing
software in and out. Hi, my name is Shall. I have been using Kemp for
roughly over two years now. I will teach you all of the features that I have
learned over these years. By the end of this course, you will be able to design
your first image using Kim. I'll walk you through the
entire process step by step. It doesn't matter what
operating system you have. I have made sure to provide you all the information you
need to start right away, right from installing Gim to making your first
design with it. Everything is covered. This course is perfect
for you if you're new to design and want to get started with a powerful
free software. Thanks for checking
out my course and I hope to see you there.
2. Settings : In this lecture, I
will go over some of the most important
preferences inside Gimp. Now on Windows. In order to access preferences, you will just need to go
over to the Edit menu. From here, you can
come down and click on Preferences that opens up all of the preferences
that Gimp has to offer. If you're on a Mac system, you can access preferences by clicking on the Gimp option. Now once we have the
preferences open, you can see that all of
these preferences are divided with the help of different tabs that
are available. On the left hand side, if you click on this
little negative icon, it will shut down
all the options that are below that
particular tab. If you click on plus,
you will expand all of the options available
underneath that particular tab. Let's now go over the
first important setting that I want to
talk to you about. This setting is
the theme setting. And this will determine the overall look and
feel of gimp right now, since I'm using the dark theme, our entire user
interface looks dark. If I select grey, it
will change the way Gimp looks and my
entire UI is now grey. Likewise, I can also select light or else switch to system. I will just click on dark because that is my
favorite theme. The next important preference
that I want to talk to you about is the
toolbox preference. With the help of the
toolbox preference, you can choose what all is
present on your toolbox. I will just increase
the size of this a little bit so that you
can see things better. Now, if you take a
look at the toolbox, we have a variety of options
available inside it. Now, let us suppose
that I do not want a certain tool to be
visible on the toolbox. I can do so with the help of
the preferences over here. As an example, let us suppose that I do not need
the text tool. In order to remove the text
tool from the toolbox, I will just click on this
little like I can over here that has removed a
text tool from the toolbox. If I want to bring it back, I will just need to click
on this blank area again. Now I have the text tool included back inside
our tool box. On the other hand, if
you want to change the order in which the tools
appear inside the toolbox, you can rearrange them by just clicking and dragging
these options around. As an example, if I want my pencil tool to be the
first tool inside my toolbox, I will just left click on the pencil tool and
drag it all the way up. Whoops, drag it all the way up. Now like you see,
the pencil tool is the first tool
on our toolbox. If at any point you feel like the default settings of
the toolbox were better, you can just click on this
little reset icon over here that will reset
your toolbox for you. Let's now move on and talk about the image windows setting. Under the image window setting, you can choose what happens
to your image window. Right now, we do not have an image window because
a file is totally empty. If I just go over to
File and click on New, and just click on, okay, I now have a file
and the black window that you see at the center
is the image window. With the help of the
initial zoom ratio, you can select the zoom level of your image once you
import it inside Gimp. Right now we have it set
to show entire image. If I click on this
drop down menu, I can also select one is to one, and that will fit the entire
image to the image window. The next preference that we
have over here is appearance. Once I click on appearance, I have a bunch of
options over here. The appearance
preference can be used to change the appearance
of our image window. At the top, we have a variety
of options that you can either turn on or off by
selecting these check boxes. What you can also do is you
can change the padding color, which is the color that
surrounds our image window. If I click on this
little color icon, I can choose whatever
color I like. Once I have the color
selected and I click okay, that changes the padding color. If at any point
you want to switch back to the default preferences, you can just click on Reset
and click on Reset on this dialog box that will reset all of the changes you made to the image
window appearance. Those were some of the most important preferences
inside Kemp. In the next lecture,
I will give you an overview of all the
important windows inside Kemp.
3. Project Creation : In this lecture, I will show
you how to work with files inside Gimp like we've seen
in the lecture before. You can create a new
file by clicking on File New That opens up this dialog box with a bunch of key settings
for that file. The first option that you see on this dialogue box is template. Now if I click on the dropdown, you will see that there are a bunch of templates that Gimp already has built in to create very particular
types of files. As an example, if
I click on four, you see that the image size
is set in such a way that it matches the settings for an four file below the
width and height settings. You can also choose
whether you want your file to be in portrait or landscape. Apart from selecting templates, you can also manually
type in the size of your image if that is
something that you want to do. If I want my width,
let's say 351, and my height to be 457, I can do so by just
typing these numbers in. Besides, I can also
change the unit for measurement by
clicking on this rub down. Now I can choose whether
I want these settings in pixels inches or some
other unit of my choice. I will just go ahead
and select pixels. And the MA size
will automatically be converted from
millimeter to pixels. That's a really huge image size, by the way, and we'll reduce
it later down the line. If I click on Advanced Options, I can also select the
X and Y resolution. From here, I can choose
what color space I want. By default, this will be RGB, which is red, green, and blue. Or else I can change
it to gray scale. For a black and white image, I'll just switch back to RGB. Finally, with the help of
the full width option, you can choose the color
of the initial layer. Right now, it is said to be the same as the
background color. However, you can click on the dropdown and change
this to white, or select any other
option from this list. You can also have your
initial layer as a pattern. By clicking on pattern, I will just switch
back to white. I will reduce the
colossal size of the image before
creating the project. And I will click on, okay, now my file is created. If you want to save
this particular file, you'll just have to head over
to File and click on Save. You can name your file
whatever you want. From here, I will just call
this one project Project One. Click on Save, that will save
this particular project. Note that Gim files
have acf extension, just like you would
have a SD extension for a Photoshop file. That is how you work
with files inside Gimp. In the next lecture,
I will show you how exactly to open an
external file inside Kemp.
4. Open External Files: All right, in this
lecture I will show you how to open an external
file inside Gimp. The type of file that I
will use for demonstration in this particular lecture
will actually be an image. I will just head over to Google and I will
search for free images. Now out of all the Serps, I will just scroll down
and go over to Pib. The reason why I'm using Pia B is because it's
an amazing website. If you're new to designing, you will love this
website as well. This website offers
free stock images, all of which are free for commercial use and don't
require any attribution. I will just open up Pixab in a new tab and I will just download some sort
of a simple image. Let's just get this one. I will select my dimension of choice over here and
click on Download. Back to the Gimp interface. I will now try to open the
image that I just downloaded. In order to open an image, all you have to do is double click on this blank canvas area. Once you double click, you
will now be able to navigate through all of your files and get the file that
you're looking for. I will just click on Downloads. It's taking a bit of time. I will come down
to the file type. From here I will just filter
out JPG by typing in J. Once I select this file type, now have all the files and folders with a JPG
file filtered out. This way it becomes
extremely easy for me to find the file
that I'm looking for. I will just minimize the
file type by clicking on this negative sign and search
for the pineapples file. You can select any file and press P on the
keyboard right there. That is image file. You can tell if you're selecting the right image by
looking at the preview. Once you're sure that you have the correct image selected, all you have to do is
either double click on the file or select the
file and click on Open. And both of these options
will do the same thing. There you have it.
We have successfully opened an external
file inside Imp. Now this is an image file, but you can also open all other types of files in the same way
that I showed you, that is how you open an
external file inside Kim. In the next lecture,
I will show you how to take control
of your workspace.
5. Toolbox Overview : In this lecture,
I'm going to show you how you can actually handle your workspace and control what part of the picture
you see on your canvas. Now I have my image open inside my canvas and it pretty
much fits the screen. However, there are
certain images that will simply not fit the
screen of your computer. That is the size of the canvas, will actually be bigger
than your screen. In cases like these, you can use the scroll bars that are given on the
canvas right now. As you can see, this image is slightly bigger
than the canvas. If I scroll to the right, I'm able to see a part of the image that I wasn't
able to see earlier. Now that is one way of doing it, is arguably the more difficult
way to achieve this. We will talk about a
better way to scroll through your image
later in this lecture. For now, let me just go
ahead and show you how you can zoom in to a particular
part of the image. If you want to, let us
assume that I want to zoom in on the last pineapple
that is on the image. In order to do that, all I have to do is how over
this pineapple. Next, I will hold
down control on my keyboard and scroll
up with my mouse wheel. If I want to zoom back out, I will have to
repeat the process, except this time I will scroll
down on my mouse wheel. Now that is one
way of zooming in. An easier shortcut
that you can use to zoom into a particular
part of the image in gimp is simply hovering over the part of the image
where you want to zoom in. And pressing two
on the keyboard, This will zoom in your image by 200% If you push three
on your keyboard, it will zoom in by
400% If you push four, that value will double to 800. If you push five, the
zoom level will be set to 1,600% Now you can see that we are really
zoomed into our image. It is all pixilated. Now we really have a scope of navigating with the
help of the scroll bar. However, reaching out for
the scroll bar each and every time scroll through your image may not be
really convenient. What you can do instead
is hold down space par on your keyboard and just hover over the image with
the help of your mouse. This way you can scroll through the image with much more ease. If you find it really
difficult to figure out on what part of the image
you actually are on, there's an easy way
to find that out, and you can do so by clicking
on View From the menu bar. You will find this option called Navigation
Window under it. Once you click on
Navigation window, this opens up a tiny navigation
window towards the right. And the area of the
image where you're on is highlighted on
the navigation window. If you want to go over
to some other part of the video with the
same zoom level, you can just how over
this highlighted area, left click and drag. Now I can tell that I'm watching the first pineapple
at 1,600% zoom level. If you want to quickly
reduce the zoom level, you can just come over to the drop down menu at the
bottom of the screen. From here, you can
choose from a variety of zoom levels that are
present on this list. Now we are back to the
default zoom level, which is 100% If you want to quickly go back to the
previously set zoom level, all you have to do
is click on View. From under the zoom dropdown, you will need to click
on revered zoom. This is like an undo for zoom. If for some reason you are at a zoom level that is below 100, you can quickly
jump back to 100% zoom level by pushing
one on your keyboard. That is how you
handle the view of your canvas inside Gimp. In the next lecture,
I'll give you an overview of the tools
available in the toolbox.
6. Rectangle Tool: In this lecture, I'm
going to show you how you can use the
rectangle select tool. In order to use the
rectangle select tool, you first need to select it. Once I have the rectangle
select tool selected, I can just hover over
my canvas and select any area of my image by
left clicking and dragging. Once you release the mouse key, you have an area of
your image selected. Now once I have selected a
defined area on the image, you see that there are four
handles on the selected area. These handles can be used to
resize the selected area. As an example, if I have
over this particular handle, left click and drag, I can now change
the selected area anyway that like similarly, I have three more handles on
the edges of the rectangle. If I have over the
sides of the rectangle, I can see an additional handle. And if I left click and drag, I can resize the selection
for that particular side. If I want to resize my selection
area towards the left, I will just have to have over the left side of the rectangle, left click and drag. I can do the same for the area at the top and at the bottom. That is how you work
with the rectangle. Select tool inside Kemp. In the next lecture,
we will go over all the options associated with the rectangle. Select tool.
7. Rectangle Tool Options: In this lecture, we're
going to discuss all of the options associated with
the rectangle. Select Tool. The first option under
the tool options for the rectangle select
tool is anti aliasing. What this option does
is that it will smooth out all of the edges
of the selected area. By default, this
option is always on and I would recommend
that you leave this on. The next option that I have
over here is feather edges. This option will just
soften your selection area. Let me show you what I mean. And select everything by clicking on Select.
And then none. My previous selection is gone. Now I will turn
on feather edges. Once we enable feather edges, we have an option
to set up a radius. Now this option will just determine how soft your
selection really is. I will leave this at 55. With these settings turned on, I will make a
selection on my image. Now once I have the
selection done, if you observe the handles
of the selection area, you will see that there's
a slight curve on the selection indicating that this is not a perfect rectangle. And there's a small area in the selection which
is not selected. And the area of
that selection has been taken up by a small curve. To explain this better, what I will do is that I will
push delete on my keyboard. What this has done is that it has deleted that
part of the image and I'm now able to see the background color
that I have set on Gimp. As you can now see,
our selection is not a perfect rectangle and there are all these soft
edges surrounding it. That is what feather edges
does to our selection. Let me uncheck feather edges. Let us move on to the next
option that we have over here. The rounded corners option will just round the corners
of your selection. If I turn this on, I can set up a radius just like our
feather edges option. If I select an area and delete this part of
the image to you see that the edges of the selection around our next option
is Expand from Center. Let us first undo what we
have done to our image. I will check this option,
Expand from center. What this will do is
that it will make the starting point of my selection the center
of the rectangle. If I click and drag, it is now considering my
initial point of selection, the center of the rectangle. The fixed option will just make a fixed selection of the
size that you specify below. If I check this and
draw a rectangle, I'm only able to make a selection of 100
pixels by 100 pixels. You can also change this 2 " or some other unit
of measurement. The position tab will indicate the position
of your selection. You can also make changes
to this from here manually. Like you see that alters the
position of your selection. The highlight option will highlight just the part
that you have selected and dim everything
else outside of your selection like this. You can also place guides inside your selection area with
the help of this option. All right, so that was about the options of the
rectangle select tool. The next lecture is really
important and we will be going over the different modes of selection of the
rectangle select tool.
8. Rectangle Tool Modes: In this lecture, we will go over the four modes of the
rectangle Select tool. Now the Rectangle Select
tool works in four modes. The first one is
the replace mode and that is the mode that
we have been using so far. The second mode is the add mode, the third is subs mode, and the fourth is the intersect mode with
the replace mode selected. If I make a selection
inside my image, let's say I want to select
some more area of the image. I can't do that because as soon as I select
something else, my first selection is automatically replaced
with the new selection. On the other hand, if I
switch to the add mode, I can make a selection
inside my image. From there on I can
make another selection. If I resize this, it will be added to my
current selection. Let's just deselect everything. Let's now talk about
the third mode, which is the substract mode. Now, with the ad mode selected, if I make a selection
inside my image, and if I switch over
to the substract mode. Now if I make a selection, what will happen is that the
part of the selection that I make with the substract mode selected will be deleted
from my original selection. Now when I click
out, you see that the intersecting part of
the two selections is gone. If I use the intersect mode, it will only select
the intersecting part of the two selections. If I make a new selection and make it intersect with
our original selection, you see that we only
have the area of intersection of the two
selections selected. That is how you work with the four modes of the
rectangle select tool. Now these four modes have
their own shortcuts. The add mode has the shortcut of shift if at any point while working with
selections inside Gimp, you want to switch from letter, say the replace
mode or any other, more really to the add mode. You will just have to hold
down shift on your keyboard. As soon as a left click, you see that there's
a small plus icon indicating that the
rectangle select tool is now in the add mode. I now have the new area of selection added to my
original selection. Likewise for the substract mode, you can use the
keyboard shortcut control and then
left click and drag. For the intersect mode, you can use the
keyboard shortcut shift control and then
left click and drag. That is how you work with the different modes
of the rectangle. Select Tool. In
the next lecture, we will go over the
ellipse Select Tool.
9. Ellipse tool: In this lecture, we are going to discuss the ellipse tool. Now, just like the
rectangle select tool, the ellipse tool also makes
selections in your image, except the selection area
this time will be an ellipse. Just like I showed you
for the rectangle tool, you can make changes to your selection area with the help of these
handles that you get. Just to demonstrate you
can change it in area like this or make it longer towards the left by hovering
over the left hand side, Left clicking and dragging. And increase the
height of it from the bottom or the top like this, and turn it into a
circle like this. All of the other
options and modes work just like they did for
the rectangle Select tool. I will save you the
redundant information. That is how the
ellipse tool works. In the next lecture, we
will go over our next tool, which is the free select tool.
10. Free Select and Scissor Tool: In this lecture, we
are going to talk about the freehand select tool. And one more tool that is closely linked to the
freehand select tool, which is the scissor tool. Now these two tools
are almost similar, except there is one
key difference. We will take a look at this difference later
during this course. Once I select the
free select tool, I only get two options below, one is anti aliasing and
the other is feather edges. I will turn off feather edges. Like I've said before, I would recommend that you
leave anti aliasing on. Now, with the free select tool, you are not tied to
a particular shape, like a rectangle or an ellipse. You can make your selection
in any way that you like. In this image, if
I want to select the top part of this
coffee machine, I will just left click and draw a rough selection around
this part of the machine. When I reach the starting point, I will see a yellow dot, which means I have reached
where I began from. I will just release
the mouse key. Now I have this area
of my image selected. Now if I do not want
to draw a rough shape, I can also use the
Free Select tool to draw lines around the image. To do that, I will just left click to create
my initial point. From here, I can create
as many points as I want. I will left click
again to create another point. Left click again. The end result is
a straight line instead of a hand
drawn curve like this. Now if you want Gim
to figure out where the outlines of the object
of your selection is, you can use the scissor tool. That is the only
difference between the free select tool
and the scissor tool. In other words, the
scissor tool is more intuitive and it will automatically detect the border of the object of your selection, especially when there's
a high contrast between the object of your
interest and the background. With the scissor tool selected, I will turn on
interactive boundary on the tool options which will enable Gimp to automatically
detect the boundary. I will just left click to
create an initial point. Once I have this point down, I can just click
and drag from iron. Like you see, Gimp
is automatically detecting the boundary of the object that I
want to select. Now if at a certain
point Gimp is no longer able to pick up where the next
boundary should be, all you have to do is
left click and create a new point that will increase the precision
of the scissor tool. I will just continue clicking
and dragging from Iron. Make another point here. Make another one here. There our selection
is now complete. Now, even though we have come full circle back to
our initial point, our selection is not made. We do not see the marching ends like we have seen on
previous selections. That is because the scissor tool works a little differently. In order to make your
selection active, you will need to push
enter on your keyboard. If you're using a window system, you can use return on a Mac. And that should make
the selection active. Now you see the marching ends, which means May
selection is now active. Now you can process your selection in any
way that you like. In the next lecture,
we will go over the fuzzy select tool and
the select by color tool. Both of these tools do almost the same thing except
there is one key difference. I will show you what
that difference exactly is in the next lecture.
11. Fuzzy & Color Select Tool: In this lecture, we
are going to go over the Fuzzy select tool and
the select by color tool. In order to show
you the differences between both of these tools, I have opened both of my projects side by
side on two new tabs. The first project that we have open is the coffee
grinder machine image, and the second one is
our pineapple image. First, we will go over
the Fuzzy select tool. In order to use the
Fuzzy select tool, I will select it
from the toolbox or else I can use the
keyboard shortcut. What the Fuzzy select tool
will do is that it will select all the pixels connected together that have
the same color. If I click on the leaf
of the second pineapple, it has selected a tiny selection of all the pixels that
were exactly the same. Now if I undo that by
unselecting everything, I can also select all of these
leaves by making sure that I use the fuzzy
select tool to select a wide variety of
colors on these leaves. In order to do that, I can just click and drag
over these leaves. Now like you can see,
dragging over these pixels has selected a wide range of colors present on these leaves. I have a pretty good selection. I can also change the
mode from replace, to add, and select some of these leaves
that were left out. Now my selection is complete. Just so you know, we also have the subtract and intersect modes on the fuzzy select tool to I will switch back
to the replace mode. Now all the connected pixels are selected with the help of
the fuzzy select tool. Now if I switch over to the
coffee grinder machine image, and let's unselect everything
first on this one. If I select the
select by color tool, what this tool will
let me do is that it allows me to
select the color of my choice throughout the image regardless of the pixels
being connected or not. As an example, if I select this black
part of the machine, it will automatically select all the black areas
inside my image. I will just let
now everything on the image that was
black has been selected as these
marching ants indicate. Now let us go over a few
important tool options for both of these tools. The tool options for both of these tools are
pretty much the same. The threshold option
will allow you to increase or decrease the
precision of your tool. Like you can see, both of these tools have the
threshold option. The second option that I want to talk to you about is draw mask. This will just draw a mask over your selection area so that you know what
exactly is selected. You can see on the
coffee grinder machine, all selected areas
have been mask pink. Once I release the mouse
key, the mask goes off. If you want to
have a better view of what is selected
and what is not, you can just click
on Select from the Menuba and choose
Selection Editor. Now all the areas that are
selected will appear in white. Those that are not selected
will appear in black. Finally, the last option
that I want to talk to you about is sample merged. This tool option
will allow you the flexibility to select colors
from multiple layers. We will get into the details of what layers are later
during this course. All right, so that is about the fuzzy select tool and
select by color tool. In the next lecture,
I will show you a tool that will allow you to select the fok round of your image and separate
it from the background.
12. How to select the Foreground: In this lecture, we're going to talk about the four
ground select tool. Now the four ground select tool will allow you to
select the foreground of an image so that you can process it later
anyway that you like. In order to access the
four ground select tool, you can just select
it from the toolbox. And once you have the
four ground select tool, you can use the tool
options to choose whether you want
to draw the ground or draw the background. I will leave it set
a ground from below. You can choose the stroke width, which is basically how
wide your brushes. And then you have the color of your preview mask over here. Now let's go over to the image. Let's suppose that
the last pineapple over here is the
foreground of our image, and the rest of them
are the background. In order to select it as the
foreground of the image, I will just left click and draw a rough border
around this image. Then I will push enter to
make my selection final. Now there's a mask around my image indicating that everything in blue
is our background. The area in white
is our foreground. Now like you see our foreground, Select Tool has converted into a paint brush and I can
paint over this object. As I click and drag
and draw with white, it is choosing the
foreground of my image. So I will just
roughly paint over the pineapple and try to
make my selection better. I have a pretty good rough
selection over here. In the interest of time, I will just stop over here. Once I'm happy
with my selection, I will just push enter. And that has made my selection, which is also visible over here. Now let's deselect everything. Let us talk about a few
important tool options. If at any point you feel like you have drawn
the wrong foe ground, or you have exceeded
the boundaries of the object that you wanted
to select as the foreground. You can switch the
draw mode from draw foreground to
draw background. And that will undo the
drawn foreground and draw the background around that
part of the paint stroke. Okay, so I quickly drew
the border all over again. This time we will switch from draw foe ground to
draw background. Now instead of selecting
the foe ground, your paint brush will now select the background
in your image. Let us increase
the stroke width. Now as a stroke, I'm
actually selecting the background in the image
and not the foe ground. If at any point if I mess up
in my selection like here, I can switch between
these two draw modes and rectify my
mistake like this. If you don't like the blue mask, you can change the color of
the mask from here by left clicking and changing the color and picking the
one that you like. Now your mask is yellow. That was all about the
four ground select tool. In the next lecture, I will
show you an easy way to make your selections more precise using any of the
selection tools.
13. How to Make Selections Accurate : In this lecture, I'm
going to show you an easy way to make your
selections more precise. First of all, I will
just go ahead and select the free select tool and I will make a rough selection
of the third pineapple. Okay, that's my selection. Now like you can see, it is not at all accurate. It is just a rough selection. Now you can make your
selections much more precise with a belt
in tool inside kimp, which is called the Quick mask. To activate the quick mask, you can just click
on the tiny icon on the left hand
side of your canvas. What this will do
is that it will cover all the unselected areas of your image with a
pink mask from here on. What you can do to make
the selection even more precise is that you can select the paint tool
from the toolbox. From there on I can
choose the Sis. I will just turn this
down a little bit. I will change the
background color and using black as the
paint color will allow me to select the unselected
area as a stroke over this. You see that I'm now selecting the area that
I do not want to select. On the other hand, I can switch my foreground color to white. That will let me
include parts of image as a selection like this. I will switch over to black and increase the
size a little bit. I will just roughly make
a selection if you want. You can also zoom in so that you can see things better and
paint the mask accordingly. In the interest of time, I will leave my selection at that. To make a selection,
I will shift on my keyboard now that has made a selection on the basis
of the mask that I painted. If your initial selection with any of the selection
tools was in that precise and you want to zero and make the
selection more accurate, you can use the
quick mask option. From the next
lecture on, we will start going over the
transform tools.
14. Transform tools: In this lecture, we're
going to take a look at some of the transform
tools inside Kemp. In order to show you what the individual
transform tools do. I will just create
a simple rectangle with the help of the
rectangle. Select Tool. Once I have the rectangle, I will select the
bucket fill tool. From pattern I will just
select a random pattern. Let us just select this one. I will click inside the shape. Now I have a rectangle
filled with a pattern. Now let us start going over these transform
tools one by one. The first tool that
we're going to talk about is the move tool. With the help of the move tool, you can either move a selection, a layer, or a path. We will get into the details of layers and parts
later in this course. In this particular lecture, we will only focus on selection once I've set my
mood to selection. Now when I left click and drag, it moves our selection to an
entirely different place. Not that it doesn't move the contents of that
particular selection though. If you want to
move the contents, you will need to add it
to its own layer and then change the mood
from selection to layer. I've quickly gone
ahead and done that. Now we have a separate
layer for our pattern. I will show you
just how I did this in a separate lecture
dedicated to layers. But now if I switch from
selection to layer, with the pattern layer selected, I can move it around
way that I like. Now let us move
on and talk about a next tool which
is the crop tool. Like the name suggests,
the crop tool will allow you to crop any
part of your image. As an example, if I want
only half of the rectangle, I can just hover over left click and drag over
the area that I want. Once I release, I will have this highlight showing me
the area that I've selected. Then I can just enter
on my keyboard. Return on. That will crop out that part of the image I will
undo by pressing control Z. The next tool that I want to
show you is the rotate tool. This will allow you to rotate a layer selection
path or an image. I will leave this at layer. With my layer selected, I will just click on the
center of this rectangle. Now this has set an anchor point around
which my layer will rotate. I will just left click
and drag it around. Once I'm done, I can click on
Rotate on this dialog box. Now my layer is rotated.
I will just undo. The next tool we will go
over is the scale tool. This tool can be used to
scale up or down any layer, selection, path, or image. Now if you do not
scale in proportion, chances are you will end
up distorting your image. What I will do is
that I will hold on control on my keyboard
command on Mac, and that will keep
the aspect ratio and the image will not distort. Then once I'm happy
with the result, I will just click on scale. I now have the new pattern. I will push control Z. I would recommend
that you leave all of these settings as they are because these settings
produce the best results. Our next tool is the Shear Tool. This will just skew your image in the way
that you click and drag. If I go from left to right, you see that it is
sharing the image. I can also go from right
to left like this. Once I'm happy with the result, I will just need to click She on this dialog box that I get. Now this is a final
result I will just undo. The next important
tool that we have on the list is the
perspective tool. This will add a
three D aspect to either your layer
selection path or image will just left
click and drag it around. Like you see this is making a three D in the weed
that you click and drag it. I can make it look
like it is coming out of the screen like this. Send it backward,
bring it forward, move it right, Make it
look like it's going up. This is a great tool to give your layers a three D effect. Once you're happy
with the results, you can click on Transform
that has transformed a layer. Our next tool is the flip tool. This is just a mirror effect. If I click and drag, you see that a mirror effect
is added to a layer. I can also make it go from
top to bottom like this. Our next tool is the
Cage Transform tool, and this one is similar to
distort from Photoshop. You can set your anchor points by left clicking and dragging. Once you reach your
initial point, you get this yellow dot. Now your anchor points are set. Now to change the
shape of your object, you can change the position
of these anchor points. This creates a new
shape altogether, like I will just now, we have an entirely new shape. If I undo this, fill the original position of
the cage with a color. If I set the anchor points
and transform this, it will fill the cage with the background color
which is white. Now when a push enter, you
don't see the object anymore. You now see this entirely transformed object in its place. The next tool that we have
over here is the Warp Tool. This will just warp your
image once you left click and drag
over it like this. This is an interesting
effect that you can use if you want
to warp your images. Then you have all
these other settings related to the tool that you can tweak and experiment for yourself and see what
best suits your needs. Those are all of our
transform tools. In the next lecture, we
will be going over layers.
15. Layers Basics: In this lecture, we are
going to discuss layers. In the previous lecture,
if you remember, I had removed this
particular pattern from the background layer and added
it to a layer of its own. In this lecture, I will go over the details of how exactly I did it and we will cover a lot
of details about layers. Let us first start by
understanding what layers are inside
a Gim document. Before you export your image, you might need to put
together a bunch of different objects to
get your final image. As an example, inside a
coffee machine image, the artist might have created a different object for this section of the
coffee machine. And maybe a different layer for all of these
knobs at the bottom. A different layer
for this handle, a different layer for
the body of the machine, maybe a different
one for this cup. But the end result
that we see after exporting is this
image as a whole. Likewise, in our game document, we can have a variety of objects in order to
produce the end result. Like for example,
in this document, we can have two layers, one for the background and one for this pattern that
we have right now. And that is exactly what I
did in the last lecture. In order to do
that, I will first make sure that my
selection is active. Next, I will just cut out
this particular part of the canvas by pushing
control X command X on Mac. Once the pattern is cut out, I will just go over
to the layers menu. From here, I will choose the first option
that I have over here, which is create a new layer. Now I will get a few options that will help me
set up my layer. The first option
that I have over here is the name of the layer. I will just leave it at layer and then I can
choose a color tag. The purpose of a color tag is
to easily identify a layer. This option comes
handy when you're working with a very
complex Gim document. And you need to easily figure out what all layers go together. If I set mine at blue, the layer will have
a blue color tag. The next important option over here is the width and
height of the layer. Notice that when
working with a layer, you can only work inside the area that you
set up over here. Finally, you have
a background color that you can choose from here. For now, I will just go
ahead and click on Okay, and that has created a
new layer over here. Now once I have my new layer, I will just push control V on my keyboard to past the layer. Notice that the pattern is not directly pasted
onto my new layer. Instead, Gimp has created a temporary floating section
for this particular object. In order to past this
floating section, which is a pattern
onto a new layer, I will first need to make sure that the layer I want to paste my pattern onto is immediately
under floating section. Once I have the layer immediately under the
floating section, I will just go
ahead and click on this anchor option that
I have at the bottom. Now you can see that the pattern is pasted onto the new
layer that I created. In order to move layers around, you can just left
click and drag them. The layer that is immediately at the top will be the one
that is first visible. Like you can see, the background is now covering a pattern. In order to bring
a pattern back, I will need to pull the
layer above the background. So I will left
click and drag it. Once I see the line highlighting the position of the layer, I will just release my mouse key that places the layer above. You can also lock your
layers in order to avoid any accidental
changes to them. You can lock pixels, which will lock all
of these pixels and you will not be able to make any changes to the design. The second is lock
position and size. When you lock the position, you will not be able to
move this particular layer. When you use the move tool,
I will just unlock this. Let me just move the background above the layer one more time. Now I will show you an
interesting feature in Gimp, which is the opacity
of the layer. You can choose how transparent
your layer of choice is, with my background selected. If I turned down the opacity, you can see that a pattern
is now partially visible. This is really handy when you're trying to blend in two layers. I will send it back to
100 and move this down. All right, so those are some
of the basics of layers. In the next lecture,
we will go over some of the advanced
features of layers.
16. Layers Advanced: In this lecture, we're
going to go over a few advanced ways in which
you can use layers. Notice here that I have created an additional
layer called circle. I just drew a circle and filled it with black on this
particular layer. The first thing that
I want to talk to you about is that you can change the visibility of any
layer at any point in time. If I want to make this
circle invisible, I can just click on this icon that will
hide this circle layer. If I want to bring
it back again, I can click on this blank space. Now I have the circle back. I can repeat this with
any layer of my choice, including the background layer. Now you notice a small area of the canvas that is
filled with checkers, indicating that it
is transparent. The rest of the area
remains filled with white color is because a second layer has a
background of white as well. A circle layer, though,
is transparent. The next feature that
I want to talk to you about is grouping layers. You can group together
certain layers. As an example, let us
suppose that I want the pattern and the circle
in one layer group. I will click on this option from the bottom that will
create a new layer group. I can rename it by double clicking on
the Layer group name. I will just call this Group One and push Enter on the
keyboard. Return on Mac. Now to place these layers
under this layer group, I will just left
click and drag it up. Now once the group
name is highlighted, I will release the mouse key. Now you notice that there's a small negative icon
beside the group, indicating that the members
of the group can be hidden. I will just click on it that
hides all of its members. I will click on Plus again, to reveal all of the members. Now I will choose
the circle layer and pull it up so that it
becomes visible again. Now, I can also link layers to make changes
to them together. In order to link layers, just click on the
blank space beside them and choose the second
layer that you want to link. Once your layers are linked, I will just choose
the move tool. I will try to move
the circle around. That will move the
pattern together as well. In order to unlink layers, you can just click
on the link again, and that will
unlink your layers. Now let me show you how you
can blend together layers. As an example, let us
suppose that I want to reveal part of the circle that
is lying under a pattern. Now, because a pattern
has a white background, you are not able
to see the circle, but it is lying under the
white background of a pattern. In order to blend both
of these layers in, I will just make sure that a
pattern layer is selected. With this layer selected, I will just go over to the
Menuba and click on Layer. From here, I will come down to Mask and click on
Add Layer Mask. I will just leave these settings as they are and click on Ad. Now I have two
icons on my layer. The first is the pattern itself and the
second is the mask. The mask will allow you the flexibility to hide some of
the pixels from your layer. First, I will make
sure that I have my mask selected and
I will just click on this white box and I
will select the mask. Next, I will click on this paint brush tool with my foreground
color set to black. I will just paint over this mask that will hide the pixels
from my current layer. Now you can see that it has started to reveal part
of the ellipse from behind. If you mess up like this and hide the pixels that
you don't want to hide, you can just revert the
foreground color and set the foreground color to white and paint over the section
that you want to see. Again, that brings it
back into the image. Those were some of the
advanced settings of layers. In the next lecture,
we will go over parts.
17. Paths: In this lecture, we're
going to talk about paths. Now there are a few
different situations in which you would use paths. The first reason would be
that paths are really easy to export and import onto a
new project inside Kemp. Also they're very easy
to save and scale in situations where you would need an outline or a selection
all over again. On a new project, I would highly recommend that you use a
path over a selection. In order to create a path, you first need to
select a path tool. You can select it
from the toolbox or use the keyboard shortcut B. With the part tool selected, you can just come over
to your image and start creating points around the part of your image where
you want your outline. In this lecture, I will just use this handle that is there
on the coffee machine. I will left click to
create my first point, and click again for another. It will automatically
be connected. Let's create a third one. So far it has been
simple clicking because all these parts
have been linear. However, now we need a curve. In order to create a curve, I will create a new point. First of all, from here, I will just left click
and drag outwards. Now this has created a long line that you can see which is
referred to as handles. With the help of handles, you can create and adjust
the shape of a curve. Right now, I'll leave it at this and move on
to the next point. Like you can see
the path that I'm selecting is near,
close to perfection. You can also click and drag these points to fix them
and make them perfect. At first, this will take
a little bit of time, but with practice, you will be able to create these
parts for yourself. Now I have reached the initial
point to close this curve. I will hold down control on my keyboard and click
on the first dot. Now my path is closed. Now, in order to work with this path that we just created, we will need the path window. In order to access
the path window, I will come over to
Windows docu Ble dialogs. From here, I will select
paths that has opened up this window at the bottom with an unnamed path
that we just created. You can rename your path by
double clicking on this name. And I will just call this one handled just like a layers menu. There are a few options at the bottom for the
paths window as well. You can move them up and down. With the help of
these two options. Duplicate your path
with this option. Delete it with this one. If you want to create an
outline along your path, you will need to select
paint along path. I will just go
ahead and do that. Now this has given
me a dialog box. I will just fill
up a solid color around the selection
that I've made. I will leave anti using on so that my
selection is smooth. And I will leave
the paint tool at Paint Brush and click on Stroke. Now this has created this outline around the
path that we just made. In order to export your path, you will just need to write, click on it and click
on Export Path. From here you can just
name your path over here. I'll just call this one handle. Once you're done naming it, always remember that you need
to add an extension of Vg. If you do not add
this extension, the path will not work. If you import it back
into Gimp again, I will just put it on my
desktop and click on Save. That should save the
path on my desktop. To import it back in, I will right click on this Blankiece. Click on Import Path. Go over to my desktop. I have the file right here, which I can import
by double clicking. I will just go ahead and delete this duplicate path if you want. You can also simply
copy and piece your path over to some
other project inside Gimp. That was all about paths.
18. Filters: In this lecture, we're
going to go over some of the most commonly used
filters inside Kim. The first filter that
I want to talk to you about is the Gaussian blur. Like the name suggest, this filter can be used to blur certain objects
inside your image. In order to use
the Gaussian blur, I will go over to filters. From here I will
come down to blur. The first filter I see over
here is the Gaussian blur. Once I click on it,
I get this pop up. And from here I can
make changes to a variety of factors to
determine how my blur will look. With the default settings, you can see that
my baseball image is a little blurred out. Notice here that the
x and y coordinates can be linked together for a
more natural looking blur. As I increase the size, the blur will also
increase with it. The next filter that
I'm going to show you will help you add some
noise to your image. This filter is called the noise filter
and you can find it under filters noise hull. And with this filter you can add an old black and white TV noise. You can change the randomization
to randomize the noise. And turn up the repeat to
make it more intense like so. You can leave the rest
of the settings as they are and click on
Okay to apply it. This effect will
look really good on text and it will help
you add texture to it, although right now I'm
adding it to a baseball. Finally, once you're happy with the noise that the
filter is producing, you can just click on okay, and that will apply the
noise to your object. Finally, the last filter
that I want to talk to you about will help you
sharpen your images. This filter is called
the Unsharp mask, and you can find it under
filters and hence Unsharp mask. From here, you can
alter these settings to get the best value that you
think works on your image. The radius option will gimp separate the
boundaries of your object. In the back end, you can just tweak the setting to
see what works best. The next knob that we have
over here is the amount knob, and this will just increase
or decrease your sharpness. I would recommend that you leave the threshold value to zero, because in my experience, that is what works
best for this filter. Finally, when you like how
sharp your image has become, you can just click on Okay. That will apply the
sharpness to your object.
Vishal Vira, Music Producer, Investor & Entrepreneur
