

So now I select the paint brush as an example. All these tools in between uses a brush except for the ink. So lets talk about the brushes in this tutorial of Meet The GIMP.īrushes are used by a lot of tools starting with the pencil and I think ending with dodge and burn tool. Now I’ll tell you more about, paint brushes and the brushes you can select for painting. You can see that foreground and background colour is erased. So basically we are painting with the background colour and now I on the alpha channel by right clicking on the layer and add alpha channel and you can see the name is not bold anymore and now I select the eraser. Here my foreground and background colour are the same so I pick the orange colour by pressing CTRL+click as the background colour. A pen or brush with the background colour selected will paint in that colour,but the eraser will remove the colour,turning it transparent.Ok, lets try that.īlack id my foreground colour and orange is my background colour and you can see the layer name is bold, that means the alpha channel is not in the image. Hansen wrote to me that the eraser tool has one important difference from the pen or brush.To see it in action,Simply paint something on a foreground layer in transparency i.e with a alpha channel on. And that’s the secret of the jitter button.

Lets increase the amount and now you can see the cloud of dots here which are distributed around the lines I have drawn. Now I apply jitter and set the amount to let say around half or so and you see,the paint brush jitter’s a bit and the border is not that even as it has been before. When I paint some lines here,you see it has a smooth corner and it looks like it is done with a pen. In the last tutorial I showed something about the drawing tools and some how the apply Jitter button was lost.I remember doing that stuff but well it must have been gone during editing. My name is Rolf steinort and I am recording this is Bremen,Northern Germany. Welcome to the tutorial of Meet The GIMP.
