GIMP Layers and Layer Masks Explained | In-Depth GIMP Basics Tutorial
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
- In this GIMP basics tutorial, I provide an in-depth look at layers. This important concept forms the base of pretty much everything you'll be doing in GIMP - from editing images to creating graphic design projects. I discuss everything from how to create a new composition and new layer, layer transparency, the layers panel, the layer stacking order, layer groups, to layer masks. Everything you've ever wanted or needed to know about layers in GIMP is in this tutorial!
This is an update of a tutorial I did a few years ago on the same subject. I created this tutorial for beginners because a lot has changed about GIMP since my last video on the subject.
0:00 - Intro
1:06 - Layers Definition
2:31 - Creating Your First Layer
5:28 - Layer Transparency
13:10 - Layer Stacking Order
19:20 - Layer and Canvas Sizes
23:48 - Layers Panel
35:55 - Layer Masks
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I've been using GIMP for super basic needs (screenshots need a transparent background or drop shadow, etc.) for years. I just recently started experimenting with it for more in-depth custom designs for marketing and your videos have been so helpful. It's easy to feel a little lost in all of the options. Not only do you really break down a certain concept, but you include little tidbits of other tips too. I've picked up so many helpful tips outside of what I came to each video for.
came here for one thing, learnt loads of things. Feel like Gimp is easily as powerful as photoshop. Glad i moved.
gimp is free and photoshop is basicly renting the software witch I'm not a fan of
Just when you thought you knew it all there are a few nuggets of gold that get delivered. Always a pleasure and never a chore to watch your tutorials. Thank you for sharing your knowledge in the usual high quality, professional manner.
your way of explaining in simple and with all clarity to a new person is excellent . Thank you
The best tutorial about gimp I saw so far. Quick and straight to the point with good examples. Thank you.
I found and have been watching your tutorials for a couple months now and I finally decided, and just did, join your Master Class.
I'm so glad I came across this channel! I've been a casual user of GIMP for a while, but lately I've wanted to improve my skills with it. All of the other tutorial videos I've seen so far have been recipe based, that is, they simply give you a set of steps to follow to achieve one specific goal, but they don't explain why you'd choose those particular steps or what they're really doing. This video from Michael Davies is so much better. I feel like I'm really understanding what GIMP is doing and not simply following a fixed set of instructions. I"ll be subscribing and checking out all the other tutorials as soon as I can!
I never thought there's so much to learn about layers. Great explaination.
I have found this channel recently and this is why you stand out. You are thorough and the pace is realistic, There is useful content in other videos but they break 75 steps into ten minutes and It is so frustrating to have to pause over and over. If the information is new it won't be understood as quickly and I was watching a video a couple of days ago and it drove me insane. Good content and good delivery.
I've watched several of Mike's video, and his is the best one I've seen so far. He does a terrific job explaining everything.
As a beginner, this video certainly helped me to the core.
Keep up the good work mate!
Hopefully I'll make contributions to the channel.
Holy crap, Gimp is pretty cool!
Just what I need. Thank you very much for doing this.
"I do have an entire tutorial on how to learn Gimp from Davies if you want to check that out." Great video. Always enjoy your content.
Love the layers mask! Thanks!
Thank you for all the tutorials dude. I think I'm gonna learn well. 😀
Excellent tutorial. Many thanks!
Great teaching! Crystal clear!
Thanks exactly what I needed man, great tutorial.
Immediate thumbs up for “The Dude Talking.”
Perfect teacher, thanks for the efforts.
Great content, thank you for your wonderful work
Excellent tutorial. Thanks
Excellent tutorial. Thank you
Thanks for sharing, this was useful!
Hi Davies Media Design, your channel is a great equalizer. You are doing a great service. More power to your channel. 👏👏👏
Thank you for the video. It is very helpful
Thank you so much!!! It did work and took less than 5 minutes!
great teaching. Thank you
You explain it very good, its easy to learn even for a noob like me. Thank you!
excellent .... Thanks helps a lot
Wow, just incredible. Thank you ^10. Just signed up for course. Nice sale price currently.
Really helpful video
Thank you!
Thank you so much
great video mate i usually gotta click on a few prior to finding a good teacher but you got the thing there bro u r only 2nd up on the list
Thank you very much
Great Vid
Hey Dude You Take My Comment Serious Oh You Are Are My Best Friend My Favorite UA-camr
Yup... Me too 😊✌️
Thanks a lot
Thank you again for your tutorials!! Im searching for one tutorial, how to make half background back and white, and the other half in colors, or some part of the background in b&w and the rest in color !! I remember i sew some tutorial about that but cant remember where
Bro your are good awesome
Fire text effect tutorial
Hi David try learn some about gimp, thank you for your tutorials however can't see the labels of the channels and paths by side the layers in my gimp.
Brilliant, do you have any training as a teacher? Your pace is very good. I’m completely new to gimp today and I’m going to superimpose a patterned image of fabric over an image of a manuscript
How to cut large outdoor banner to tiles and leave overlap for printing and welding
Excellent tutorial! Question: Does your "GIMP Book of Layers" cover layers (and presumably layer masks) in any more detail than your Master Class? Thanks for posting!
They are pretty much the same - you won’t really get more out of the book than the masterclass. Main difference is Masterclass is video form - some people prefer the video others prefer the text.
Hey Mike, you once said that GIMP is going to change its UI in GIMP version 3 with some new toolset. However, while using Blender, there's just a zip file I need to download and click the exe file inside to enjoy the latest features and experimental features of Blender. I was wondering is there a way to download and check the latest GIMP just to enjoy and to test early features. I couldn't find any tutorials regarding that on UA-cam. Can you make a video on that?
I will watch all of your videos because I think you might actually be able to teach me to use Gimp. Now where to start?
A few questions.
1. Why when I used the eraser tool at around 6:20 did it put red everywhere instead of black? I had the fg/bg settings matching, but wasn't sure where it came from?
2. At 12:50 I dragged from white foreground to the layer and it did not fill it.
Other than that confusion. Thanks for the great tutorial!
Very helpful video. My GIMP doesn't have the small thumbnails of active documents across the top. How do I show those please?
Hi, we have a product bag template as the base layer and no matter how much we lock it our non-destructive cropping of upper image layers keeps cutting/cropping the base template layer - how on earth can we TRULY LOCK the bottom base layer?
Are there quick keys for moving layers in stacking order?
Hey quick question Michael plz; If I have 40 or more layers can I use that linking tool to transform pixels (like a colour inversion) on any or all linked layers at once ??
Curious. I have the same version of Gimp, but my screen doesn't look like yours. For example, my tool icons are much smaller and are in black and white whereas yours are in color. There are other differences as well. What would be the reason for this?
Can you set locks for layers within groups that act independently? Meaning layers that are locked together in a group can be move independently of the locks applied in other groups?
Excellent video. was following everything perfectly till we got to "delete cropped pixels." Couldn't find it anywhere. Things also look very diffrent on the Mac download. Thanks for this and any ideas about the missing tool setting"deleting cropped pixels."
Hey Joseph - thanks for the comment. The "Delete Cropped Pixels" feature was made available in GIMP 2.10.20 - and since GIMP for MAC is stuck on GIMP 2.10.14 this feature isn't available on MAC versions yet. I hear GIMP may be coming out with the MAC installer for GIMP 2.10.22 soon so keep an eye out for that. That feature will be available with that version.
My GIMP doesn't look the same being mostly black and white icons in the dialog boxes . . version 2.10.22. I like yours much better.
The most important thing to remember for tutor is to always let the tutees know the movement of the cursor apart from explanation. Otherwise one step lost means 10/20 minutes struggle to bridge the gap.
Tutees... that's a funny word.
Wills Thiek
You can just pause the video or play it on 0.75x speed.
You're watching this for free and still you don't make any effort from your side
@@CL_0804 its not about the speed. Visibility of the cursor is the issue for beginner like me..
Thank you
I have an issue where when using white mask and use black brush .. instead of revealing the layer below it show a pattern similar to the alpha channel even though I have no alpha channel ... Any help?!
How would I shift a selected area to a different area to only change whats behind it?
I have Linux Mint 19.3 installed. Is it correct to say that Gimp 2.9 and 2.10 will not run on that distro? i tried to update the repository and install 2.10 but it said i had the latest version - This is a great tutorial thanks.
i got questions guys if i turn on quick mask i just cant paint at all why is that ? i got selectet right fg and bg colors but my gimp just wont paint over my picture..thx for help
Hey! You forgot to mention somethingf important. Which file formats can I use that will preserve all the layer features you demonstrated?
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It need a separate tutorial only for Layer Mask!!!
Having an issue. I'm working on a project where everything needs to be in printable 8.5 by 11 inch sheets. Each finished sheet is unique with many layers, but I'm using many of the same layers multi times from sheet to sheet. I want to keep all of the layers in the inches I set it at and I want to keep the full sheet in the 8.5 by 11 inch format. But when I'm coping and pasting these layers or importing finished sheet into a brand new sheet it doesn't always work. Gimp is making size decisions for me I don't want it to make and I don't know how to tell it to NOT make those decisions. I've stopped working on this project because of this issue. The project is an old school roleplaying/board game where I need multi-layers for each sheet; there are between 10 to 30 layers per completed sheet. When I complete the sheet I export it into a PDF file. Each layer is simple art so it's easy to read the sheets. I was able to sort of fix this issue in Gimp 10.8 but since the update nothing seems consistent. Repeating myself, but I really want to keep everything in the 8.5 by 11 format, and each layer in the inches I've set it as.
I've listed a few examples of what I'm trying to accomplish but what is happening instead.
As an example: if a layer is 2.5 inches by .5 inches. When I copy this layer and paste it into the new document it doubles or shrinks; even though the canvas is set at 8.5 by 11.. Want to keep the layer at 2.5 by .5 inches.
Another example: I have gimp set, so every new sheet is at 8.5 by 11 Inches. 1) I click file 2) Click New- little screen pops up with my preset 11 by 8.5 I click okay, another screen pops up I hit okay. 3) a full sheet (canvas) shows up it's in an 8.5 by 11 inches format. 4) I click file, click open as layers button, I click onto the document--sometimes all of the layers fit into the canvas as they were saved but other times they end up really big or really small. It's very annoying to have the layers turn out to be a different size than the ones I saved them as.
Another example: I open up a PDF, I highlight a section, then make it into it's own layer, but when I try to paste it into the new sheet it shrinks. I dislike this because when I expand it to the size I want the layer gets pixels. I'm repeating myself again, I just want it all to stay consistent.
Can anyone help?
I need some help. I just started using GIMP. I'm creating images for a pitch deck. I have about 11 layers going on, as I'm creating a mock film poster. I started to notice, yellow-ish lines, appearing in the project. They are clearly from where I have taken a photo, dropped it into Gimp (a layer) and created a path around an object (like an actress), shrunk them down to place them in the image to create the look I am after. It looks as though the initial outline (prior to shrinking the image) still remains, in faded form in the project. WHAT AM I DOING WRONG? CAN ANYONE HELP ME FIGURE OUT HOW TO REMOVE THEM? As they are clearly ruining the overall image I am building. Thank you! Simon
Is that a poison ivy plant on your desk, behind your laptop??!!
i wouldn't call it a lock icon. its a chain link. i'd call it a link icon, especially since that's what it does. it links them together
since i activated alpha to my background i am unable to reveal alpha pixels, why?
Wha theme are you using all my icons are black and white?
Did not know Christian Bale did side hustle by teaching GIMP
I have a quick question. OFF SUBJECT! How do I put GIMP on my TASKBAR in windows 10? THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
Find gimp on drop down menu on start, right click, click pin to start then drag that Gimp icon to the task bar. It will stay there on every startup
Dang it... while this would be, for my current situation, helpful if I was more of a beginner... it still doesn't cover what I'm trying to do in Gimp right now... Given this is practically the only guy on UA-cam I know of who I could imagine having a tutorial on this... I'm at a loss. Sure, someone might say "try searching it up", but I've tried doing that and did not find anything...
whats the shortcut for zoom in out
ctrl+mouse wheel or hit the z key to grab the zoom tool
Is not working 😣I'm so dome trying to put two images together both of them rotate at the same time
I saw this tutorial...first thing I thought was "Shaved face Michael Davies is...cursed"
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Perhaps it would make more sense if you referred to the "Transform Lock" as a "Transform Link", after all, the icon is a chain link?
Oh . . fixed . . .found Icon preferences . . .
pfff I'm on Mac and nothing works like you say...
Not me, spending this entire video post Shape addition, seeing the Japanese flag behind that dirt bike photo....
Awesome content! Keep up the good work. If you have a second go have a browse of my account and follow if you enjoy it 💜💖
I enjoy the videos you present, but I would make one suggestion. Stop the uptalk. It is quite annoying. Content is great and the presentation is logical and flows well. But the uptalk, oh my.
Why the hell did you not go over, if you wanted more from the picture? You just took a very small part of the image.... Downvote
Thank you!