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Don’t worry if you need a different size, you can change it later. If your unit of measure is centimeters, start with a 1 cm diameter circle. Or cycle through units with the keyboard shortcut Command-Shift-Option-u/Ctrl-Shift-Alt-u.įor starters, try a circle. Or click on the cross-hair on the Info panel You can quickly change the unit of measure for a document by right clicking on the ruler origin to show the pop-up menu For this trick, an easy unit to work with is centimeters, but anything other than inches works (with some minor adjustments). One trick is to use width and height fields in the Control Panel, along with some keyboard shortcuts.įirst, consider your unit of measure. Is there a quick and easy way to do this? Would I be writing this post if there weren’t? ) What if you want equally spaced concentric shapes, like this? So if you repeat transformations, as your shapes get larger or smaller, so does the difference in their sizes. But transformations are percentage based. Have you ever created a design element with multiple concentric shapes? One way you can do it is by transforming a shape, scaling it up or down and repeating the transformation. Note that it’s not 100% required that you create a new layer to draw your circle on, but, layers are good things, and the sooner you get used to working with them, the sooner you’ll be a better Gimp user.OK I’m a little late for Pi day, but here’s a cool geometric drawing tip. To create a circle in Gimp, hold down the and keys as you drag the mouse, and you’ll see that it creates an actual circle. Creating an actual circle in Gimp (not an ellipse)Īs soon as you start drawing with the Gimp ellipse tool you’ll see that it really wants to create an ellipse, and not a circle. Using these steps, you should have created a hollow circle in Gimp that looks like the hollow circle on the left of this image:Īs noted in the Comments section below, if on Step 4 of these instructions you jump right to the “Fill with FG Color,” you’ll end up with a completely filled circle, as shown in the right of this image.
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