Who needs shape tool when we have text tool
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Set a large pencil brush size and click a large black dot. Then make the brush smaller and white, then click once in the middle.
If you need it precise and adjustable use 2 layers and concentrate them with the alignment tool.
You can also use the brush tool and just draw a circle that's completely filled in at whatever size you want and then remove the inner portion that you don't want by switching to the erase tool and then shrinking the size of the circle brush to what you don't need and clicking directly in the center of the circle.
Btw, clicking exactly in the middle is the hardest part
You know?
You made me think about this for a minute and I think I figured it out.
Use the circle pin to draw the circle.
Then use the select tool to select the circle that you drew.
Then use the grow/shrink tool to shrink the selection by however many pixels thick you want the circle to be.
Then use the erase tool to erase all the parts of the circle that you don't want.
Easy peasy.
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Thank you. I was afraid I was being a little too subtle.
you motherfucker
edit -> stroke selection
Circles are easy. Squares and rectangles, too. What gets me is curvy lines. Not just randomly curvy because my hand is shaky, but like precise curves. I use mspaint every time.
Someone tell him why he's wrong from using vectors in a raster editor or something.
Not gonna lie, I don't even know what that means. I just do things
It's just a classic GIMP response to what you posted that it's essentially a meme. Curved lines, like shapes, are best done in a vector editor like inkscape or illustrator. Raster edits bitmaps, which, being squares, don't make good curves no matter how steady your hand is. Gimp does have a path tool though.
Ah, I gotcha now.
Yeah honestly the only thing I do with gimp is use it to make shitty memes and decent gifs. It's really solid for animating in my opinion.
You know, like the South Park kind, not the good kind
Have you looked into vector graphics editors?
Nah I just have a lot of very inorganic lines in my stuff