Turn Photos Into Logos with GIMP
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2024
- In today's tutorial I'll be demonstrating how to trace over a photo to create a logo using GIMP.
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Intro song: "In Da Mood" by Combustibles, used with written permission
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Can we use this logo for our channels
@@darkman452 As long as it's your photo that you traced, go right ahead!
U can use photoshop also right!
@@maxedout2972 I guess the aim is to show that Gimp being a freeware is also able to do what Photoshop can do.
Thanx
Thanks for using open source software so we the hobbyists can do that too :)
just crack photoshop, not a big deal.
@@almog2795 yea right? Wtf
And thanks for showing us how to use it too. Not like the infamous 1,2,3 step owl painting.
@@almog2795 u mean Ai
Nicola Bechis They probably dont even know what that is.
Quick advice, if you want to avoid the cleanup stage, use the pencil tool instead of the brush when you're tracing, when you use the paint bucket tool to fill in the areas, it won't leave pixels behind.
UA-cam: "You may like this"
Me: "I LOVED THIS!"
I was in a photoshop class for three and a half months (which my teacher walked out on in the middle of the course) and I learned more in this video
Clearly, your "teacher" was no such thing.
bull crap
I taught myself photoshop since my teacher didn’t teach us anything. 😆
Guys cut his teacher some slack the underpaid teacher probably didn't know what he was doing
@@tausiftaha12 Yes that's the problem, they didn't know how to do their job, which is teaching you how to use photoshop
Honestly this guy is good teacher, he's not boring, his videos are short and easy to understand.
You're a Godsend, Nick. I've been wondering how to do this for quite a long time and your tutorial was very simple, effective, and easy to follow!
I've been using gimp to make logos for years, and I learned so much more from this tutorial than I knew I could. I learned stuff that I didn't know I didn't know. Bravo Sir
To get the outlines you can also use the drop shadow filter. Just set blur to 0, the offset to 0, and change the grow radius to your liking. Works for both the hand and black circle.
Started doing graphic design as a hobby lately and this gives me a few ideas. Thank you so much!
I am new to Gimp and this has shown me that the program has more capabilities than I expected, Thank you, this was very helpful!
Glad to help!
I just found this video, and within the day had downloaded GIMP (which I had never heard of) and made a first draft of a logo I've been scheming about for months but had no idea how to carry out. Thank you so much for this excellent tutorial, it was incredibly helpful and well done!
Great to hear that, thanks for the feedback.
You truly are a “Natural” with this!! amazing tutorial thanks!!!
You have... THE BEST tutorials like always. Thank you so much!
Agreed!
Best GIMP tutorials in youtube, thanks alot mate you helped me alot.
Thank you, Nick. Your narration is excellent and the step-by-step guide through the menus is really helpful. I also like how you skip ahead through those repetitive steps!
Till now, this is by far the best free software content available in the Internet. Keep up the good work Nick. Will be expecting more videos from you.
this is unreal , this video has given me motivation to create a proper logo for my Music.
How's that going?
@@franz8072 Unfortunately Juke Lexis died a few months back.
@@KAIIRU. Sorry for your loss.
@@KAIIRU. wtf...
Haha yeah
Hey Nick! Thanks so much for the tutorials! My Little Brother and I use them for homeschool material - he would be finishing the fourth grade if we didn't homeschool, so you can imagine these videos are really useful to us! Thanks a lot! Your tutorials are really to-the-point, they are well done, and your mic discipline is better than a lot of other tutorials (some of those guys smack their lips so much I just cringe.) Really useful - thanks!
One of the best tutorials I've ever watched on anything. You explain every single thing you do, even ctrl-z for undo. amazing teacher
That was a very instructional video. I want to create a logo in GIMP and I never managed to get it right. But it seems the most difficult thing to do in GIMP is have a nice, clean and functional user interface. My menus are all over the place and most of the times I am confused while looking for the next tool... THank you very much for the wonderful tutorial! ✨🖌👏🏻🙏🏻
Thank you for using gimp and teaching people how to use it.
This was so incredibly awesome!! Thank you for going step-by-step so we could follow along and learn. Definitely subscribing and bookmarking this one!
Man, just to show how much I like your channel, I ALWAYS watch the ads before your videos, I don't skip them! You deserve it! Your VIDEOS ARE AMAZING! Thanks!
For the white outline, you also could have merged the two layers, New layer, Alpha to selection, Grow selection, Fill selection with white
True, but that would have been too easy and this video wouldn't have been 15 minutes long lol
Love your videos! They're definitely one of the most helpful and detailed I've found.
I've actually practiced a lot with what I've learned and created a decent amount. My icon for instance was made using a method I learned from you mixed in with my own design.
Great work as always!
Lord Takahashi Amazing logo!
This is perfectly done, I love how you explain every little step and tool. Much love
thanks for showing us how the sausage is made! i like how you speed up the tedious stuff but you still show us everything instead of just skipping ahead, helps a bunch thanks!
You have become my new favorite channel. I'm so mad I didn't find you sooner 😂
Great job, well explained. Thanks a lot LB Nick!👍
that song is my ABSOLUTE FAVE! Thanks for an amazing video! Having a custom logo is a must for any good business!
GIMP has gotten fancy over the years, so I will start using again! Great tutorial!!!
Love this... simple but very effective....I've never used Gimp but I'm going to now...
Thanks
first time in your channel and you explained awesome. And thanks for choosing open source.
I have never used any kind of image manipulation software. I recently decided that I wanted to learn graphic design and image manipulation just to expand my skill set as a hobby. I was seriously considering giving up because I was just not getting it. I learnt more in this 15min video than in the last weeks worth of tutorials. Thank you so very much!!!
This was a really nice tutorial, never heard of GIMP before but I pretty much installed it right away, I actually followed along with the video, made "my" first Logo, ever, and it was just too much fun! Thank you!
with this one video you've merited a subscription. I love learning and the way that you communicate is simple and engaging. Appreciate you man
This inspired me to create my own profile picture. Thanks, Nick!
Thank you very much for this detailed video, Nick. I was lazy and made my logos thru a software with presets already, but now I'm doing it manually. Again thanx!
Man, I've been using gimp for a couple years and I didn't realize you could add to selection! I'm dumb! Thanks for this!
Your work style is amazing
I've been using GIMP for years, and I never knew you could use the bracket keys to change the brush size. I guess you learn something new everyday!
I just looked for "keyboard shortcuts" for this like a week ago and found nothing on using the bracket keys...all the top results were trying to get you to program a custom hotkey :/ This tutorial was very good.
It's truly astounding how easy the internet makes learning these days. Thanks for the tutorial, my guy.
I'm a photoshop user and I love the way you explained every detail that too with simple techniques. Thank you so much, Subbed!!!
thanks so much for your amazing tutorial, helped out so much. absolutely brilliant
Love your videos! Thanks for this :3
Wow! Logo design and the whole process is entertaining. It's amazing to see what people come up with. Very cool!
Love how you explain the use of masks and layers.
I don't know how to thank you for this amazing tutorial.
It literally saved my life :)
Very well done. You are an awesome speaker, presenter, teacher.
Keep making content please.
I don't comment on UA-cam much but I just wanted to thank you for being so helpful and sharing your knowledge!
This is also the only place that actually taught me how to centre images as well! Tysm
I loved this video. I love logo design.
Thank
Thank u both
14:08 put Layer #1 under Background layer.
It'll bypass the next step to delete white line inside circle
I love that you say the keyboard shortcuts and how to do the. Most tutorials don't say how to do thing they just say do it. Thanks for the tutorial!
I know how to do only a few things with gimp but this video alone added so much to my toolbox. Thanks for making it easy to understand!
Nick: Don't worry about it being to perfect...
Me (4hours later with exactly perfect lines): okay...whats next!?
Me
Same
Symmetry is pretty good in logos though
It would be sad if u the computer got unplugged (if it’s laptop, imagine being dead batt)
Same🤣
@@jazzram_ that happened to me the first time. My cord has to stay plugged in or it shuts off. I need a new battery. It has happened alot when my doggies get playing. 😞
Can you please make a video and tell about gimp .... Like the controls and the basic type of editing (for beginners)
True
Excellent. Thank you. Informative, simple to understand, and follow along and no fluff.
"Go ahead and click ok" ! You gotta love these guys !!
i'm going to try this for my new businesses logo! a different picture, of course...
Been using gimp for years, learned some new ways to use layers here.
Same here
oh
This tutorial is a thing of beauty. Thank you so much.
Amazing work Nick!!! Please keep on making Gimp tutorials.
It's probably a new addition, but if you want to change a single-color image to some other color (like black) you can use Color -> Colorize instead of your method. Way easier and surer.
Hi, great video. Anyone know if that feature to "grow" a selectio is a thing in photoshop, too and where I can find it? Thanks!
edit: It´s select -> modify -> expand
Thank you for sharing
2 years later you still got thank you from me because making this video in human language :)
Great video. Learnt a lot. Have been using GIMP only for vector conversions for a while. Never did any serious work with it. This video got me interested in following your step-by-step instructions. Came out pretty decent with an image I chose. Need to perfect my eraser and outline tracing better. Interested in designing t-shirt designs. Thanks so much for a very detailed video. Will head to your GIMP videos. 🙏
Good tute...
I started with gimp but moved quickly to photoshop so didnt know it was so good...
Now onto after effects..:)
Well, that's why i'm a subscriber... from a very long time ago!
Thank you for the support!
@@LogosByNick You're welcome, and i'll be always here for you.
Nick it definetely helps. Thank You so much, you're a good teacher
You earned a subscriber here. I was searching for this video for a decade! Oh my God. Now I can do something about my logo
Logo master 👏
As a question, is it possible to do in gimp the effect of mirror dimension used in Doctor Strange? And if it was doable, would You explain how to get down to it?
I'm not sure, I'd have to look into that a bit. Seems interesting though.
If you are doing all that manually, better use of your time is to vectorize it, don't do bitmaps, they don't scale well.
Allan Savolainen Are you able to open the design he made in Inkscape, and convert it to vector to use as a logo? Or should it be made specifically in Inkscape, etc? I hope that question makes sense and wasn’t dumb lol.
Joey Tech Talks Oh ok, thanks.
@Joey Tech Talks What about making such kind of Logo in the desired software like GIMP and then just afterwards converting it to .SVG using a for example Inkscape,
of-course it could be already completely made in any vector application but if somebody prefers an software like GIMP, Photoshop &co instead they should be able to use it too.
@@HopOnsWelcome as far as I'm aware and speaking from my very little experience, you can atleast sort of convert more "simplistic" logo like 2D graphics to a .SVG vector format using certain tracing tools of Vector applications like Inkscape.
It can take a while finding proper tutorials for that though, I actually once made a tutorial for exactly said same purpose though apparently deleted it due to some reasons which I can't exactly remember ...
just seen your comment which exactly answered my question after I posted mine ..
This was awesome! I'm starting a channel about my path to becoming a maverick helicopter pilot and motorcycle rider. I followed along with this tutorial and made myself a logo that I'm actually kind of proud of! Thanks for the step by step guide :)
I like that you talk and explain while preforming
Cannot help but picture Henry Rollins when I hear this guys voice haha! Great videos though. Really helpful.
I'm curious: why did you choose to do this in GIMP (raster) instead of directly tracing it in Inkscape (vector)?
Your videos are INCREDIBLE! Thank you, sir!
This was amazing. You're really talented and creative!
Well i see you're using GIMP, I hit that like button immediately
Whats the benefit of GIMP vs doing this in PS or Illustrator?
3rd Gunman it is free
Amazing tutorial
Yes, I would always make sure a finished logo is vector.
You explain it so well. Thumbs up, hope to see more of your GIMP tutorial.
TNice tutorials was honestly so helpful. I’ve been working around soft, whether it be church, singing in a band, or theatre for most of my life so tNice tutorials
Bro I've used this video so many times to make thumbnails for songs lol, and here I go again
Just find this video, watch it first, then practice it. And, zombies hand as my results.
This video just so simple and easy to understand. Thanks !
Glad it helped!
Hey!
Thanks Nick you made this look so easy and simple! Great tutorial I definitely had to subscribe after this video 🙌🙌
Great job. Fascinating to watch. Also, love the intro and outro audio track.
I normally use the pen tool for tracing
Actually, you can use this tutorial to replicate almost the entire process in photoshop as well. Even the shortcuts are the same in PS.
Thank you very much for helping us with these tutorials! Man, you're awesome!
thanks a bunch love learning new things while refreshing my mind on old things !
i just hit the like button because it's Nick
Man I wondered why your gimp looked so weird with a lot of cool tools, then I realized version 2.10 was out (while I was at 2.8)
S3G.Sourc3 So did you update to ver 2.10? and was it worth it? What I mean is did you get more functions and was it still similar to navigate like 2.8?
@@NINJUTSUguy totally worth it.. for me I got more out of it with more fuunctions and tools than what is on the previous version..
But it's still somewhat the same to navigate so not too much changed on the layout :)
@@therealsourc3 If I update, will all my fonts come over to the new version too?
They should. I encountered no problems in that regard when i updated.
I have been trying to learn gimp and even though this video is just on making a logo, it has been the most helpful! thank you.
Thanks for posting this video. I was looking for a new photo editing program and GIMP really works!
does anyone know how to make a triple color gradient?
I’ll do this but with 👌
Gotta do it to em 😫👌
very well done! also the little "how to's" that you say en passant are very helpful
Awesome tutorial, I am brand new to this and you explained it really well, my logo looks great, thanks man