Difference between revisions of "GIMP/C2/Drawing-Tools/English-timed"

|Welcome to  Meet The GIMP. My name is Rolf steinort and I am recording this is Bremen, Northen Germany.  

| In this tutorial i'll explain you the drawing tools in detail.  

|The 1st drawing tool is pencil and it works with very hard edges.  

|When I select the paint brush for drawing, I get a line which has soft edges.   

|And when I switch back to zoom, you can see a hard line with visible jaggis when drawn with pencil.

|But you can't see here the jaggis.

| This is called trick of the eye

|When I enlarge it you see it here its anti-aliest.  

|Now let's start with the paint brush.  

|Click on the paint brush tool in the tool box and you get the options for that.  

| The modes are just the same as in the layer modes as you can see here multiply or overlay and so on.  

|Here is the Opacity slider and by using this you can control the visibility and the colour of the line

| I zoom into this part and select a bigger brush.

|  And now when I draw a line its gray.  

|  And I draw a 2nd line and the intersection of these 2 lines is dark gray.  

|  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.  

|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.

|Here you can see an option called Incremental .  

|When you select Incremental, you get much stronger effect.

| Lets go to the options of the brushes and here you can see the spacing of this brush is set to 20%.

|Brushes is basically a stamp which stamps the same pattern on and on.   

|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.

|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.  

|And when I select incremental, I can paint over and over.  

|I have covered opacity and incremental options.

| Lets go back with the opacity with 100% and I can draw again perfect black.   

|Incremental is meaningful only if you have an opacity lower than 100%.  

|Scale slider controls the size of the pen here and when I slide down to 1, you get a small size of the brush.  

| Scale basically controls the diameter of the bursh and you can also control with the square brackets on the keyboard.  

|With the help of open square bracket I can reduce the size of brush and with close square bracket I can increase the size.  

|So I can adjust the size of brush without leaving the area where I paint.  

|So scale option is covered.  

|And i'll cover the brush in detail in next tutorial.  

|Here is an option called pressure sensitivity and I can use it while editing the image. So,  

| Lets have a look here at opacity.  

|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.  

|This option is useful, if you are painting a mask.

|Next option is hardness.  

|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.     

| I can change the size of the brush with pressure sensitivity.  

|I can also change the colour using pressure sensitivity.

| So I select another colour from the background colour, how  this one here.

| So lets select this red colour.  

|And for the foreground colour lets select a nice green.  

|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.  

| The last option is using colour from the gradients.  

| To select the gradient go to File, Dialogs and Gradients.  

|Here the gradient.  

| In gradient I have a big selection of patterns.  

| Now when I am painting the paint goes through this pattern on the gradient.

|  Its quite funny for some things like writing or working with gradients.   

| These were the options of the gradient.  

| These options are common for all the tools which uses brushes  

| i.e,  pencil, the paint brush, the eraser and the airbrush which has some additional options.

|The Ink has no brush but it has lot of the other options.  

|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.  

|Now lets go back to pencil and paint brush.  

|the 1st trick is about drawing a line.  

|But when I 1st set one point with a click and press the shift key, I get a straight line.  

| The next trick is, just set one point and press Shift + Ctrl and now the rotation of my line is locked to 15 degree.  

| So what a master piece here.  

| There is something else that you can do with this Shift key.  

| For that select the gradient tool.  

|Draw a line with gradient selected and you get lots of different colours.

| I select a small brush and de-select the gradient tool and select my standard colours.  

|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.  

|So I can pick a colour, somewhere out of the image which is a quite nice.  

|Just ctrl click on it and you have that specific colour on your palet.  

| Basically the eraser tool is the same tool as the pen or the brush because its just the opposite of them.  

| The eraser also paints but it gives the background color.  

| But for that you should de-select the Pressure  sensitivity and opacity.  

| 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.

| You can change the foreground and background colour by pressing the X key.  

| I have  covered the pencil, the paint brush and also the eraser in detail.  

| For more info goto http://meetthegimp.org and if you want to send a comment, please write to info@meetthegimp.org. Good bye  

| This is Hemant Waidande dubbing for the Spoken Tutorial project.