GIMP Beginners NEED to Watch This Video Before Going Back to Adobe!!

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In this video featuring GIMP, the free photo editor and popular Photoshop alternative, I cover 10 things that drive beginners crazy when using the program. But don't fret! I also show you all the easy ways to fix these issues or idiosyncrasies with GIMP so you can keep editing and keep creating, stress free. This is a great introduction for beginners feeling frustrated with GIMP as it shows some common problems new users run into when using the software.
0:00 - Intro & Resources
0:46 - Move Tool Doesn't Move Active Layer
2:26 - Can't Save to JPEG
4:40 - Image Keeps Losing Quality After Transformation
9:56 - Path Tool Handles Operate Independently
11:43 - Can't Select Multiple Layers
14:56 - There's No Hand Tool in GIMP?
15:48 - Eraser Tool Not Erasing to Transparency
17:02 - Can't Move Objects On My Image
18:49 - GIMP Dialogues Are Missing
23:34 - Nothing Happens When Painting On Layer Mask
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@DaviesMediaDesign Жыл бұрын

Did I miss something that annoys GIMP beginners? Let me know below👇

@PeterGreatness Жыл бұрын

For some reason I can't scale images

@picklepixelpaperpepper8487 Жыл бұрын

yeah, that stupid menu that shows up if the stylus is moving to slow when drawing a line. little circle goes around the cursor and opens a quick menu. idk what its called, but I can't find the setting that gets rid of it.

@LazerPengWIN Жыл бұрын

@@PeterGreatness It could be because you were selected something else like text or something, if that is the case, then click "select" and then click none, it should fic the problem :)

@LazerPengWIN Жыл бұрын

@@picklepixelpaperpepper8487 It' probably just because you hold it down on it for too long, that used to annoy me aswell but I started just doing it quicker

@CourtWatchAu Жыл бұрын

Great video lessons, thankyou Davies, here are my issues with GIMP, 1) When moving the dialog tool box, even when i touch teh blue border of teh side it doesnt attach/connect, instead it creates a floating dialog 2) there is sometimes a yellow border or white border on a layer/object adn when i click Esc it doesnt d-select, even wehn i click Edit> Select >None the selection lines remain (i was PaintDotNet user) I prefer Esc since its easier to reach, I tried changing the chortcut in GMP but it wont let me assign Esc 3) When i want to delete a selection it doesnt let me use teh Del key, i have to use Ctrl-X but that is slower to reach on keyboard 4) the layer blend options are confusing, it would be good if there was a image example for every layer to show what it does. Having said all taht GIMP is super powerful adn free and has many many great things to offer, so i dont want to sound ungrateful, but they are the things i experienced since moving form PDN(Paint DOt Net). Thankyou for your great tutorials, imo your lessons re GIMP are the best . I fist moved to GIMP becasue teh perspective transofrm options in PDN were slow and i stll use PDN for basic stuff, but yes GIMP is impressive too. Thankyou Davies Media Design adn Thankyou GIMP :)

@CommoManCrypto 10 ай бұрын

Tremendously helpful that you "preorganize" the presentation around problems users run into rather than "how to use" a particular function. I had given up on using GIMP again because it was just too much of a hassle to track down what I needed because I didn't understand enough to know what I needed to know. Your approach gives a huge "leg up" on this problem. Thanks!

@MyCrystalPlaid 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the video. I don't know enough GIMP yet to be annoyed by anything, but you showed me how to do a lot of simple things (mostly shortcuts) that I haven't been taught in the dozen or so GIMP classes that I've taken.

@ari-athbadminton0301 Жыл бұрын

TIPS FOR GIMP DEVS : - The simple way to fix the save feature is to unify the Export+Save options or to replace the labeling.. "Save NATIVE" instead of "Save".. that way it's much more intuitive. - Fix the Select Multiple Layers! This is a ruining behavior on the workflow - Add the Hand tool , it is a one icon addition that can save so much beginners frustrations - point 7 and 8 : make the crop to layer AUTOMATIC behavior, same for adding alpha channel, thing that are common sense for users should be automated Bonus: - Integrate the SIMPLIFY plug in (to improve the path tracing function since its very bad right now)

@musthavechannel5262 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for making this video. Being an occasional PS user, i have always been frustrated with GIMP. Here's a list of things I would like to change about GIMP - Automatically change layer size to content. Why would anybody like to have empty space around the content of a layer when they have erased it - Erase to transparency automatically. Erase means "erase", not "paint in my background color" - Do not present an options dialog when adding new layer. This is just an extra click and flow breaker - Create a layer out of the the image that I pasted into GIMP. Why keep it in a floating state until one presses the a button layers panel. - Confine selection to the image perimeter. Why would anything be allowed to be selected outside of the image confines :s - Improve interface. All interface elements, the cursors, selection lines, transform bounding box; everything feels janky, bloaty and unpolished - and most importantly, *optimize GIMP*. It is WAY TOO SLOW. Everything is "low FPS" in GIMP. I just doesn't feel snappy for even small tasks. Of course I do realize how much (huge) effort goes into creating a software of such scale and on top of that providing it for free. I'm very thankful for being able to use GIMP for free.

@devigarbage Жыл бұрын

pretty much agree with all of this, except sometimes there are reasons to have empty space around the content of a layer. for example, if you have content with a transparent background on your layer & the layer is cropped to its content, warping the content or applying gaussian blur or using the drop shadow filter thing would all end up cut out weirdly in abrupt straight lines, right along the edges of the layer.

@cheeto4493 Жыл бұрын

I'm sorry, but I would have to disagree with all of your points except pasting in a new layer.

@alnnorry Жыл бұрын

as an artist i disagree with you on some points, i use those you want to change quite regularly and are important for my work. i love it the way it is, and it is not PS user friendly.

@shingalani Жыл бұрын

Great one! Was very helpful. Thanks!

@deanjones2525 Жыл бұрын

This is a great resource and very helpful. Thank you very much.

@KeysTreasures Жыл бұрын

WOW! That was a lot of great tips, Thanks.

@bobdowling6932 Жыл бұрын

Nice video, but I think it might be helpful to distinguish “beginners” from “transitioners from other software (mostly Photoshop).” Five things that annoy image editing novices and five things that annoy people moving from Photoshop, perhaps?

@jesse7631 Жыл бұрын

The context of Michael's video is primarily for transitioners from other software. That is why it's called GIMP beginners, not simply beginners.

@kevin-parratt-artist 9 ай бұрын

Not necessary.

@conservativecontent Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this very helpful tutorial. Time to get back in the workshop!

@haresheranga Жыл бұрын

This is a much needed video. Thank you very much!

@K1ngSupr3m3 Жыл бұрын

Very very helpful! Thank you!

@WriterLady Жыл бұрын

Excellent tips, Mike. I've used GIMP for over a decade and still didn't know about three of these.

@vickilyn Жыл бұрын

Thank you!! I am getting back into creating images (had to take a medical break) and just uploaded the newest version. I love all the tips you give us. I am definitely going to be trying out some of the new Text images that you have created. Love the Wave one you did!!

@DaviesMediaDesign Жыл бұрын

Thanks Vicki! Welcome back!

@boken3408 Жыл бұрын

Love your videos, strait to the point no BS.

@DaviesMediaDesign Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@conorpodonoghue Жыл бұрын

Excellent tutorial - thank you. The thing that most frustrates me is managing image, layer and canvas sizes. For example, it is not (always) clear what the difference between image, content, layer, selection and canvas is. In some cases it is obvious but not in others.

@zakariafarhati583 2 ай бұрын

You saved my life, man! Thank you so much ❤

@TheChazk 10 ай бұрын

great turtorial, thanks

@GaryParris Жыл бұрын

Great video as always. this will hopefully help a lot transition.

@DaviesMediaDesign Жыл бұрын

I hope it does! Thanks for watching.

@christophercricket2502 Жыл бұрын

Lot of good stuff but I just gave a thumbs up for the reset saved windows positions to default values! Thanks, man!

@electronstudios1411 Жыл бұрын

your one of my most favorite tutorials for GIMP to Follow! I Subscribed!

@DaviesMediaDesign Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@angelluismillan Жыл бұрын

Very usefull overview. An other trick I use often is to affect a letter to "paste as a new layer" (for exemple "Ctrl+y) and to do Crtl+c, Ctrl+y, Maj+Ctrl+a, to work on a new copy of an area.

@DaviesMediaDesign Жыл бұрын

Great tip!

@verajaouadi7869 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@Faithdrawn 9 ай бұрын

My GOD, man... your channel is a freaking treasure trove.

@boxbiru Ай бұрын

Thank you very much.

@TheCocoaDaddy Жыл бұрын

Awesome video! I didn't know about using gray as a color for painting on a layer mask with some transparency. Groovy! By the way, "dialogue" should be spelled "dialog". :) Thanks for posting!!!!!

@huzaifasafdar8035 11 ай бұрын

Wonderful stuff.. I learnt using GIMP by watching your tutorials and that is too within a very short period of time! Respect and appreciation for your dedication! For the sake of improvement, I would like to suggest to keep your words speed slightly slow as it will make these videos more easy to understand for people whose native language is not English!

@raccoonsparkle 6 ай бұрын

YOU. are the GIMP guru, thank you for this video! :)

@JOEZEP54 Жыл бұрын

Some of this I painstaking learned, some I learned from you previous videos & some were new to me. As always a great tutorial, thank you. Big 👍# 5 Stay well, Joe Z

@DaviesMediaDesign Жыл бұрын

Awesome - glad to hear I taught you well, and that there was still more to learn from this vid!

@JOEZEP54 Жыл бұрын

@@DaviesMediaDesign Always learning & sometimes have to relearn LOL

@badger67 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 👍

@DiegoWeb13 Жыл бұрын

Hi Michael, beautiful tutorial. 🔝🔝👏🎬👍A big hello.😉👍

@caspervandermeer Жыл бұрын

awesome video!! there is something that i really dont like about the workflow in gimp. whenever i scroll with my mousewheel through the side panels it accidentally changes values of different parameters instead of scrolling. i was wondering if there's a way to turn that off. thanks:) all the best.

@johnrobinson1020 Жыл бұрын

Thankfully I found this video, I was just about to give Gimp away and delete it but your video has resolved most of the problems I was having so thank you for this video.

@kokapeli Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@DaviesMediaDesign Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@Culture101Podcast Жыл бұрын

Love your channel it has been very helpful with my photo/video editing. Do you know of a way to cut a section(s) out of an image and keep that section(s) transparent? Transparent to the point I could apply it over a video like a filter, is that possible with GIMP? If so how does it work?

@DaviesMediaDesign Жыл бұрын

Yes - simply right-click on the image layer and click "Add alpha channel." Cut out the area you want to make transparent using any of the selection tools (i.e. rectangle select, lasso, ellipse select). Then, export to a filetype that supports transparency such as PNG.

@DaveChips Жыл бұрын

Great video and perfect timing just today I downloaded Gimp... Moving tool was messing me up... I couldn't move the layer pixels it was just moving my selection 😅

@DaviesMediaDesign Жыл бұрын

Always great to hear - thanks!

@triplewinlin5576 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this video. New sub :)

@DaviesMediaDesign Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the sub!

@skelebro9999 Жыл бұрын

I never knew there was a thing called the bird's eye tool. Good video Davies.

@ari-athbadminton0301 Жыл бұрын

Its a proof of lack of documentation.

@skelebro9999 Жыл бұрын

@@ari-athbadminton0301 They should add some kind of tips when GIMP starts. That would help a lot of newbies.

@Dawoodyoutube Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your videos please tell me about Text effect of photoshop or word art in MS word in gimp.

@GustavAgar Жыл бұрын

best gimp's videos on youtube

@futuretech8419 Жыл бұрын

Hello! Been watching your vids lately since im looking to get into some small editing of my own pictures and stuff like that. DIdnt find any movie about this spesific case however. If i have a picture where there is bunch of small hair slightly covering an eye on a photo, i couldnt find any way to remove this. Even with the heal function on gimp:) Any tutorial possible?

@alnnorry Жыл бұрын

ive been using Gimp for 10 years and i admit i am the beginner :c , thanks for this very valuable tutorial and hope i will be alive during this century for the next update :)

@dimplesbratt4508 Жыл бұрын

U deservez more subscriberz!!!!

@devigarbage Жыл бұрын

14:39 I think the wording is a little misleading here. what really moves the layer group is having the move tool set to "move the active layer". it worked in the video because the tool was set to "pick a layer or guide" and the shift key toggles the other mode, as covered in the 1st tip, but if "move the active layer" is already the default, holding the shift key only reverses the effect. thank you for the video, though :) very straightforward

@PauloCrepaldi Жыл бұрын

Michael you are so funny!!! Which will eventually come out sometime this century kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk... That was the best!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@AudioBoi1 4 ай бұрын

7.1 tip. You can enable automatic alpha channel attaching to each picture you import. Handy.

@ZanaGBYT Жыл бұрын

For a second i was imagining Item 7 would be that weir dbehaviour where if you are drawing and erasing in one layer, you can still see what you erased because the color information is there, it's just set it's alpha to be completely transparent, so if you mess up with the export or export to something like GIF that doesn't support alfa beyond 1 bit, you get all the things you thought you erased back. Absolutely fun when you're working on a bitmap font and you suddenly get a garbled mess because the eraser tool kept the RGB channels of your previous strokes intact.

@josephbupe Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Davies

@techofe-anopensourcebasedd5822 Жыл бұрын

Now great 10/10

@TheElfishGene Жыл бұрын

My biggest gripe with gimp is getting the icons large enough to see on 4K monitor/TV. Even with the custom icon size set to huge!

@motthebug Жыл бұрын

Seriously!!! I at least am old enough to have 2.5 magnification readers at the ready... I'm going to introduce GIMP to some teachers and *this* will be very handy to refer them to.

@crowwatcher172 Жыл бұрын

Yes even on "huge' its too small.

@stevend2748 Жыл бұрын

6:38 for me was the most important part of the video

@arnabsantra2495 Жыл бұрын

Hello Davies.. Sometimes I fail to save a jpeg with exif in gimp. That doesn't happen always. Though the original file has exif info, after saving as jpeg from gimp, it doesn't show any exif info. Any solution? Thank you.

@cupriferouscatalyst3708 8 ай бұрын

Hello! This is the closest related video I could find to my problem: Every so often when I switch over to the eraser tool (with E) it automatically toggles "Anti erase". I shouldn't have to hold down alt, since most of the time it just switches to the regular eraser, but having to manually uncheck "Anti erase" every third time or so is driving me crazy. Any idea what the cause could be? I'm using an old Wacom drawing tablet, if that makes a difference. Thank you in advance!

@onesandzeroes Жыл бұрын

Won't an image lose quality when you scale it up in any software? Unless it somehow remembers the earlier versions (non-destructive transformations?)

@ucnguyeninh7957 3 ай бұрын

How can you record the video of using Gimp? Whenever I start screen recording, Gimp doesn't work properly anymore. Specifically, it doesn't let me drag & drop anymore

@Krishanjot Жыл бұрын

Make tutorials on typography using inkscape and gimp Please sir 🙏

@ArturJBCosta Жыл бұрын

Thumbs Up

@lanslater Жыл бұрын

You managed to scale a layer independently of the other Iv got this job with multiple layers (a .pdf from a scan) & yes ofc Im a Gimp noob ...I cannot seem to drag just one layer into to align it within the ruler guides I was set - without all the other damn layers copying that move OMG what am I not doing or seeing here??

@Krishanjot Жыл бұрын

How to make portrait illustration using inkscape

@sicuasi Жыл бұрын

Something that annoyed me was the layer boundaries. When I was working with several layers of different sizes and I wanted to paint outside that layer's boundary, it wouldn't let me, I thought it was because I had something selected, clicked Shift+Crtl+A, and still wouldn't let me. Now I understand that the layer boundaries exist and how to change them in the layer menu (perhaps there is a quicker way, I'm still learning).

@stabokbose Жыл бұрын

Tips for GIMP devs- Please add Smart object feature like Photoshop 🥺

@ElleCoyote Жыл бұрын

Now all I have to do is remember all this! 🤣

@TooTTiFruiTTi Жыл бұрын

I'm a beginner in Gimp and find where layers are is very small don't know how to make this area bigger so I can see it better

@bookswithatwist-vanvelzerp9262 Жыл бұрын

there is a view option in the menu - and you can super zoom in on any part to do small work ....

@robertleeimages Жыл бұрын

Tried Gimp and just can't navigate any of it, it's just messy and non flowing for me when trying to navigate tools i want or need to use

@DaviesMediaDesign Жыл бұрын

Like anything, learning GIMP and getting used to its layout and way of doing things takes time.

@ARMA2ARMENIA Жыл бұрын

👍

@RajarshiKhatua100 Жыл бұрын

please make a video on gimp beta

@DaviesMediaDesign Жыл бұрын

I cover the latest development versions on DMD Premium

@cinemonti 9 ай бұрын

How do I slide/move/readjust the image within the mask without disabling the mask?

@DaviesMediaDesign 9 ай бұрын

Create a layer group, add the image to the layer group, then add the mask to the layer group itself. You can then move the image inside the mask.

@cinemonti 9 ай бұрын

@@DaviesMediaDesign Thankyou 🙏

@spraynpray Ай бұрын

90% of the time, I can't get any tool to work, because it wants to be the move tool. Right now, I've clicked the fuzzy select tool at least 50 times and when I hover over the image, it changes to the move tool, which is absolutely obnoxious.

@DaviesMediaDesign Ай бұрын

That sounds like a bug - you may want to reinstall GIMP.

@tracypowell8004 Жыл бұрын

Re images losing quality...why not do all the manipulating you want to do and when finished, delete the image/layer and replace it with the original.

@oldi184 Жыл бұрын

So people scale down a layer from say 3000px to 1000px and wonder why the layer has lost quality? Do they want 1000px to look as good as 3000px? Are they being stupid?

@cafox513 5 ай бұрын

Only one complaint -- 83-year-old ears cannot understand a video well enough. Is any of this available in a form I could print out myself? It is so taunting!

@ShaunakHub Жыл бұрын

Are you sure GIMP 3.0 will come out in this century ? 🤔😂

@axis0881 6 ай бұрын

would be nice if there was a an actual tutorial for, "how da f*ck to make gimp not lag when moving around"

@wall150 Жыл бұрын

TELL ME how to bring back your image files you didn't save in gimp NOW

@ton146 Жыл бұрын

Too many keyboard shortcuts for begenners sadly. Tony

@FixBroker69420 Жыл бұрын

when in doubt SHIFT it out

@allensmith9312 Жыл бұрын

It was awful, just deleted it..

@whukriede Жыл бұрын

No doubt this tool isn't fun, which implies you only use it when you really have to. Result is that there's no chance of gaining any proficiency; the thing defeats itself. I almost cannot say how much I hate it.

@hardboiled2987 8 ай бұрын

@whukriede skill issue. Stop blaming your shortcomings one xternal factors