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    Who needs shape tool when we have text tool

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    [–] [email protected] 119 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    really looks like more of a squircle

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago
    [–] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago (2 children)
    [–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)
    1. Type letter 'c' using the text tool, as you've already done
    2. Create a new layer from text
    3. Duplicate layer
    4. Transform - flip horizontally
    5. Merge two layers

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Why would you do this when the functionality is built right in?

    1. Open Photoshop
    2. Select the Ellipse Tool
    3. Draw a Circle of Your Choosing
    4. Press Print Screen on Your Keyboard
    5. Voila! A Fresh Circle to Paste/Insert Into Your GIMP Project!
    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

    Don't forget to draw the rest of the owl, too!

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

    Just use Paint and do it within seconds.

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    [–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    I drew some circles in Gimp once, check it out:

    Squares and triangles too

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Please, I could do this in Photoshop if they added a shape that looks like this.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    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.

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    [–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

    outstanding move

    some more unicode basic shapes for everyone

    β—‹ β–³ β–‘ β–­ β—‡ β˜†

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

    Thank you for the new gimp toolbar

    [–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    how i'd do it:

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    [–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago

    Welll first you draw this head...

    [–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago

    It's easy if you use the right tool.

    1. Draw circle in Inkscape
    2. Export as bitmap
    3. Import bitmap in GIMP.
    [–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (10 children)

    does GIMP not have a circle/shape tool? Why?

    [–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    It does! And it's so easy to use.

    • Draw a circle with the ellipse selection tool
    • From the edit menu choose "stroke selection" and follow the dialogs
    • Remove your selection

    It's so obvious I can't imagine why anyone would be confused.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    That's not actual shape tool.

    Shape created by shape tools should be always editable. Using ellipse selection tool means the circle is rasterized.

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    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    nope, and nobody knows why

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)
    1. Because it's a photo editing tool, not a painter. Different priorities.
    2. Because a shape tool requires non-destructive vector layers.
    3. ...and implementing that would require a fundamental overhaul of the current vector backend from 2006.

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

    Why can a shape tool not be pixel based? There's no intrinsic requirement for vectors.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

    Because a shape tool requires non-destructive vector layers.

    No it doesn't, why not a bitmap shape tool?

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    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

    now this is truly terrible knowledge.

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    I just made one, just need to merge those three layers and I'll be done...

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    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    I asked AI for an anime style circle and got this

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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    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

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Please make a 45 minute tutorial video to share that knowledge πŸ™

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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Your circle is a bit off....

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

    ...its like wonky on the corners for some reason.

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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    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.

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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    This thread has made it clear to me that I should wait another year before checking on gimp again.

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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    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.

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