For a line without round edges, select the block brush. Hold Shift and move your cursor to the endpoint. To draw straight lines, select your desired brush tool and click the starting point of your line.
Move your cursor to the desired location of the shape.For a perfect circle or square, set the aspect ratio to 0.
Change the size and aspect ratio to your preferences.Select a brush type that resembles the shape you want, such as block, star, or ellipse.In the Tool options menu, select the Brush icon.Select the Pencil Tool from the tools menu.You can also create shapes by changing the brush type and size. Using the shape of the brush to create shapes To edit anything outside the selection, right-click, and choose Select, then None.Fill the selection with color by clicking inside of it.Select the Bucket Fill Tool from the tools menu.If desired, change the position of your selection by clicking inside the shape and dragging it.When an area is selected, only pixels inside that area may be modified. Drag your cursor to the edge of the shape to create a selection area.Move your cursor to the desired center location of your shape.For a perfect circle or square, enable Fixed aspect ratio from the tool options menu, and enter an aspect ratio of 1:1 into the text box.Enable Expand from center from the tool options menu.Select the Rectangle Select Tool or Ellipse Select Tool from the tools menu.To create rectangles and ellipses using selection tools, follow the steps below. Using selection tools to create rectangles and ellipses To begin, create a new document, or opening an existing one, then follow these steps. Draw a gradient from point 1 to point 2 on the picture.There are multiple methods for adding geometric elements to your GIMP projects. Press D to reset the colors to black and white. In the layers dialog right click the layer and add a layer mask. Move the part to the same position as before. Click the “New layer”-Button to get this layer to a seperate one. Draw a rectangle selection over the bottom (the flipped) arrow.Ĭut the part by using CTRL+X and paste it with CTRL+V. Now make the background visible again and fill it white. Go to ( GIMP 2.2: Layer /) Colors / Brightness & Contrast and lower the brightness by -25, set the contrast to +25. Take the selection tool and cut the arrowheads so that they have a nice horizontal edge. and move the layer 4 px to the right with your keyboard. Press CTRL+M or go to Image / Merge visible layers. To speed things up, click the eye symbol in the layers dialog of the background layer. You should then have 5 layers of this in total. The click the “Right arrow”-key on you keyboard to move the layer exactly 1px to the right.ĭuplicate the duplicate again, activate it and move it with you arrow key again to the right.
That should be the layer below the original one. Duplicate this layer, activate the duplicate in the layers dialog by clicking it. Merge down these two layers again so that the arrow and the flipped one are on a single layer. Move the layer down as seen on the picture. Use the Bumpmap filter again, and apply the same values as before to this layer. Draw the gradient from the left bottom to the top right. Fill the layer susing the gradient tool. Choose #b1d631 as FG color and #55a32a as BG color. In the layers dialog click right: “Selection from Alpha”. We now have the whole arrow on one single layer. To do this click the layer at the top, right click it in the layers dialog and choose “merge down”. If the rounded Rectangle is to big cut the bottom. Make the layer that we made insvisible visible again by clicking the eye icon in the layers dialog.Īrrange both layers so that you get an arrow as seen below. Now draw a rectangle selection above more than a half of the rotated quadrate and remove that part of the object by pressing CTRL+K (if you’re using GIMP 2.3 just press DEL).Īfter that go to SELECTION / None to deselect all. Fill the selection with the same color as before: #929292. After that create a new layer.ĭraw a quadrate. Deactivate the selection afterwards (CTRL+SHIFT+A)ĭeactivate the visibility of this layer (click the eye icon in the layers dialog). To get rounded corners go to: Selection / Rounded Rectangle: 35pxįill the Selection with: #929292. The first step is to create the basic form of the arrow. Set the background to any color of your choice. Tutorial detailsĬreate a new file: 300×300px. We're demonstrating the 3D-effect with a simple arrow that could be used as a download-button. Motivation Want some cool 3d-icons? Then you're right here ) We're going to create some 3d-icons today.
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