The Path tool (previously known as Bezier Selection) is a powerful tool in GIMP. The rectangle- and ellipse-selections are not very flexible if you happen to need something more special. And since many of us GIMPers don't have a graphics tablet, it's not so easy to make the mouse pointer move the way you want. The paths can solve the problem by using smooth mathematical curves instead your own shaky mouse trail. Paths are also very useful when used with gradient fills.

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Since GIMP is an image manipulation program and not a painting program it doesn't include tools to draw shapes like squares and circles. However this doesn't mean you can't paint them, in fact there are some interesting options regarding this subject when it comes to GIMP. The solution is to use the selection stroking capabilities of GIMP.

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On this page, the first section of our ever growing collection of tutorials, we will demonstrate the basic operation you will need to perform over and over again in your life as a computer artist: Generate isolated parts of a picture and combine them with a random background. What we want to achieve in this example is to generate a 3-dimensional text logo flying (and movable) over the background (a simple uni-color layer in our case, but you will easily see that you could use any other (stack of) layers/images instead. Start with a plain white picture, black as the foreground color and open the layer dialog!

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You have TheGIMP installed on your computer and need to make a simple change to an image. This tutorial was written to help people brand new to image manipulation use TheGIMP to make those simple changes to images. The same information could also be useful to you if you are used to a different application and need to see how TheGIMP does these things. The goal is to step you through some basic and often necessary tasks and help you to make friends with TheGIMP and even prepare you for more complex tasks.

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