1 00:00:23 --> 00:00:29 Welcome to Meet The GIMP. My name is Rolf steinort and I am recording this is Bremen, Northen Germany. 2 00:00:30 --> 00:00:36 In this tutorial i'll explain you the drawing tools in detail. 3 00:00:37 --> 00:00:43 The 1st drawing tool is pencil and it works with very hard edges. 4 00:00:44 --> 00:01:00 Here I have drawn a straight line and if I zoom into the image, you can see each pixel is either black or white. 5 00:01:01 --> 00:01:07 When I select the paint brush for drawing, I get a line which has soft edges. 6 00:01:08 --> 00:01:16 And when I switch back to zoom, you can see a hard line with visible jaggis when drawn with pencil. 7 00:01:17 --> 00:01:28 And when I draw with paint brush I get a soft line. 8 00:01:29 --> 00:01:31 Back to the pencil here. 9 00:01:32 --> 00:01:39 You see the pencil is very sharp in the edges and paint brush is smooth. 10 00:01:40 --> 00:01:43 But you can't see here the jaggis. 11 00:01:44 --> 00:01:46 This is called trick of the eye 12 00:01:47 --> 00:01:52 When I enlarge it you see it here its anti-aliest. 13 00:01:53 --> 00:01:58 This is the main difference between the pencil and the paint brush. 14 00:01:59 --> 00:02:12 Otherwise they are nearly equal and their options too. 15 00:02:13 --> 00:02:15 Now let's start with the paint brush. 16 00:02:16 --> 00:02:24 Click on the paint brush tool in the tool box and you get the options for that. 17 00:02:25 --> 00:02:39 The modes are just the same as in the layer modes as you can see here multiply or overlay and so on. 18 00:02:40 --> 00:02:49 Here is the Opacity slider and by using this you can control the visibility and the colour of the line 19 00:02:50 --> 00:03:01 I slide the value to say 25% and now when I draw, I get a light grey line instead of black. 20 00:03:02 --> 00:03:21 And when I cross this line with a new line you can see that the colour gets stronger but it only happens if I go over it with a new line. 21 00:03:22 --> 00:03:25 I zoom into this part and select a bigger brush. 22 00:03:26 --> 00:03:29 And now when I draw a line its gray. 23 00:03:30 --> 00:03:35 And I draw a 2nd line and the intersection of these 2 lines is dark gray. 24 00:03:36 --> 00:03:47 And now I draw a 3rd line over here and intersection gets more darker gray but when I paint back with the same line it doesn’t get darker. 25 00:03:48 --> 00:04:14 So this works only from stroke to stroke and you can easily paint an area with gray and you don’t have to watch carefully while filling this. 26 00:04:15 --> 00:04:19 Here you can see an option called Incremental . 27 00:04:20 --> 00:04:28 When you select Incremental, you get much stronger effect. 28 00:04:29 --> 00:04:44 Lets go to the options of the brushes and here you can see the spacing of this brush is set to 20%. 29 00:04:45 --> 00:04:53 Brushes is basically a stamp which stamps the same pattern on and on. 30 00:04:54 --> 00:05:06 And when I zoom in here you can see, after 20% of the size of the brush, there is a next impression of this brush. 31 00:05:07 --> 00:05:18 Here each brush overlays itself. 32 00:05:19 --> 00:05:33 When you de-select Incremental option you can see the each stamping of the brush, but there is no painting over and I have to start a second line. 33 00:05:34 --> 00:05:46 And when I select incremental, I can paint over and over. 34 00:05:47 --> 00:05:52 Go back to 100% . 35 00:05:53 --> 00:05:56 I have covered opacity and incremental options. 36 00:05:57 --> 00:06:06 Lets go back with the opacity with 100% and I can draw again perfect black. 37 00:06:07 --> 00:06:14 Incremental is meaningful only if you have an opacity lower than 100%. 38 00:06:15 --> 00:06:30 Scale slider controls the size of the pen here and when I slide down to 1, you get a small size of the brush. 39 00:06:31 --> 00:06:47 When I scale the brush to say 0.05, I can draw a very fine line and I set the slider to say 2 and I have a broad line. 40 00:06:48 --> 00:07:14 Scale basically controls the diameter of the bursh and you can also control with the square brackets on the keyboard. 41 00:07:15 --> 00:07:31 With the help of open square bracket I can reduce the size of brush and with close square bracket I can increase the size. 42 00:07:32 --> 00:07:37 You can see that the brush is nearly invisible. 43 00:07:38 --> 00:07:50 So I can adjust the size of brush without leaving the area where I paint. 44 00:07:51 --> 00:08:02 If someone of the GIMP people are looking forward, I would love to have a button to get back the slider to 1. 45 00:08:03 --> 00:08:05 So scale option is covered. 46 00:08:06 --> 00:08:11 And i'll cover the brush in detail in next tutorial. 47 00:08:12 --> 00:08:29 Here is an option called pressure sensitivity and I can use it while editing the image. So, 48 00:08:30 --> 00:08:34 Lets have a look here at opacity. 49 00:08:35 --> 00:09:03 Now when I draw without a lot of pressure, you get a line which is gray in colour and when I increase the pressure I get a dark colour and when I decrease the perssure I get a light coloured line. 50 00:09:04 --> 00:09:08 This option is useful, if you are painting a mask. 51 00:09:09 --> 00:09:16 This is quite useful. 52 00:09:17 --> 00:09:19 Next option is hardness. 53 00:09:20 --> 00:09:37 When I draw with not much pressure, there is a soft border and when I increase the pressure, the paint brush acts like a pen. 54 00:09:38 --> 00:09:50 When I select the pencil tool and draw I get hard border and this can make a hard border if really press on the tablet. 55 00:09:51 --> 00:09:59 I can change the size of the brush with pressure sensitivity. 56 00:10:00 --> 00:10:04 I can also change the colour using pressure sensitivity. 57 00:10:05 --> 00:10:11 So I select another colour from the background colour, how this one here. 58 00:10:12 --> 00:10:14 So lets select this red colour. 59 00:10:15 --> 00:10:20 And for the foreground colour lets select a nice green. 60 00:10:21 --> 00:10:40 And when I start painting here with the selected colour, with low pressure I get green and when I am increasing the pressure I get red and If release I get green or greenish stuff again. 61 00:10:41 --> 00:10:48 And in between the colour changes between green and red. 62 00:10:49 --> 00:11:00 The last option is using colour from the gradients. 63 00:11:01 --> 00:11:17 To select the gradient go to File, Dialogs and Gradients. 64 00:11:18 --> 00:11:19 Here the gradient. 65 00:11:20 --> 00:11:27 And now I just grab this window and pull it to here and now I have a gradient here. 66 00:11:28 --> 00:11:32 In gradient I have a big selection of patterns. 67 00:11:33 --> 00:11:41 Let’s select this one and now I go back here. 68 00:11:42 --> 00:11:47 Now when I am painting the paint goes through this pattern on the gradient. 69 00:11:48 --> 00:12:01 Its quite funny for some things like writing or working with gradients. 70 00:12:02 --> 00:12:06 It looks like made out of tube or so. 71 00:12:07 --> 00:12:10 These were the options of the gradient. 72 00:12:11 --> 00:12:29 These options are common for all the tools which uses brushes 73 00:12:30 --> 00:12:49 i.e, pencil, the paint brush, the eraser and the airbrush which has some additional options. 74 00:12:50 --> 00:12:54 The Ink has no brush but it has lot of the other options. 75 00:12:55 --> 00:13:13 The Clone tool, the Healing tool , the Perspective clone tool and even tools like blur, sharpen or dodge and burn has the option of brushes. 76 00:13:14 --> 00:13:20 Now lets go back to pencil and paint brush. 77 00:13:21 --> 00:13:23 Just clear this again. 78 00:13:24 --> 00:13:28 There are some tricks which you can use here. 79 00:13:29 --> 00:13:32 the 1st trick is about drawing a line. 80 00:13:33 --> 00:13:38 When I try to draw a straight line its a bit difficult. 81 00:13:39 --> 00:13:47 But when I 1st set one point with a click and press the shift key, I get a straight line. 82 00:13:48 --> 00:13:50 Here I have a straight line. 83 00:13:51 --> 00:14:04 The next trick is, just set one point and press Shift + Ctrl and now the rotation of my line is locked to 15 degree. 84 00:14:05 --> 00:14:19 And so I can draw easily straight lines with defined angles. 85 00:14:20 --> 00:14:23 So what a master piece here. 86 00:14:24 --> 00:14:28 There is something else that you can do with this Shift key. 87 00:14:29 --> 00:14:36 For that select the gradient tool. 88 00:14:37 --> 00:14:44 Draw a line with gradient selected and you get lots of different colours. 89 00:14:45 --> 00:14:54 I select a small brush and de-select the gradient tool and select my standard colours. 90 00:14:55 --> 00:15:08 Now when I press the Ctrl key, I can select a colour from the line I had drawn and you can see, the foreground colour is changed to the blue tone. 91 00:15:09 --> 00:15:16 So I can pick a colour, somewhere out of the image which is a quite nice. 92 00:15:17 --> 00:15:24 And if you want to paint in something in a picture and it has the colour you need. 93 00:15:25 --> 00:15:35 Just ctrl click on it and you have that specific colour on your palet. 94 00:15:36 --> 00:15:38 That is a nice trick. 95 00:15:39 --> 00:15:51 Basically the eraser tool is the same tool as the pen or the brush because its just the opposite of them. 96 00:15:52 --> 00:15:56 The eraser also paints but it gives the background color. 97 00:15:57 --> 00:15:59 You can see it here. 98 00:16:00 --> 00:16:07 But for that you should de-select the Pressure sensitivity and opacity. 99 00:16:08 --> 00:16:24 When I just switch the foreground colour and the background colour to black and white and switch white as the foreground colour and select the pen, I can get the same effect as the eraser. 100 00:16:25 --> 00:16:40 After changing the colour erasing gets black. 101 00:16:41 --> 00:16:49 You can change the foreground and background colour by pressing the X key. 102 00:16:50 --> 00:16:58 I have covered the pencil, the paint brush and also the eraser in detail. 103 00:16:59 --> 00:17:09 For more info goto http://meetthegimp.org and if you want to send a comment, please write to info@meetthegimp.org. Good bye 104 00:17:10 --> 00:17:15 This is Hemant Waidande dubbing for the Spoken Tutorial project.