basic questions

[vinyahuinewen]

I've been messing around in the Gimp over the past few days and I think I've done a pretty good job learning on my own (so to speak...I made the userpic I'm using. I'm fairly proud of it xD)

So I feel kind of stupid since these seem like things I should be able to find on the net (I searched before I posted, honest!) but first of all when making

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[aquietmess]

I can tell you how I do it, but there could many other ways to do them.

1. Borders: First I select the layer that is filled with a colour, there should be now moving ants, then go to Select->Shrink. And depending on how wideyou want your your border to be, you have to enter the amount. All you have to do now is to cut/delete the selection.

It's nearly the same method to get rounded edges. You select the layer or image and go to shrink. In the "Select" menu there is a "Rounded Rectangle" dialog. After using it I normally invert(Select->Invert) the selection and hit delete.

3. Outlines: That's quite easy, I think. First of all, the image you want to outline schould be on a tranparent layer. Then right click and "alpha to selection", the moving ants should now be around your image. In the next step you go to Select->Grow and enter how thick you want your outline to be. Create a new layer, pick the colour of your outline and fill the selection. Finally move this layer under the layer with your image

[vinyahuinewen]

ahhh thank you both! :D this has helped a lot. It seems so simple now xD

[shrike_15]

If you really want to use the brushes to paint or draw the best idea might be to get a tableau and pen. I use a WACOM graphire3 DIN A5.

I have a comic page up on deviantART. I don't know if I could have done this without the tableau. =)