If you want to learn more about how GIMP works, I have a 60+ part video series where I explain all of the tools and features in GIMP and demonstrate how they work. Here's the link if interested: logosbynick.com/gimp/
Quick advice, if you want to avoid the cleanup stage, use the pencil tool instead of the brush when you're tracing, when you use the paint bucket tool to fill in the areas, it won't leave pixels behind.
I've been using gimp to make logos for years, and I learned so much more from this tutorial than I knew I could. I learned stuff that I didn't know I didn't know. Bravo Sir
I just found this video, and within the day had downloaded GIMP (which I had never heard of) and made a first draft of a logo I've been scheming about for months but had no idea how to carry out. Thank you so much for this excellent tutorial, it was incredibly helpful and well done!
To get the outlines you can also use the drop shadow filter. Just set blur to 0, the offset to 0, and change the grow radius to your liking. Works for both the hand and black circle.
Man, just to show how much I like your channel, I ALWAYS watch the ads before your videos, I don't skip them! You deserve it! Your VIDEOS ARE AMAZING! Thanks!
I have never used any kind of image manipulation software. I recently decided that I wanted to learn graphic design and image manipulation just to expand my skill set as a hobby. I was seriously considering giving up because I was just not getting it. I learnt more in this 15min video than in the last weeks worth of tutorials. Thank you so very much!!!
I just looked for "keyboard shortcuts" for this like a week ago and found nothing on using the bracket keys...all the top results were trying to get you to program a custom hotkey :/ This tutorial was very good.
That was a very instructional video. I want to create a logo in GIMP and I never managed to get it right. But it seems the most difficult thing to do in GIMP is have a nice, clean and functional user interface. My menus are all over the place and most of the times I am confused while looking for the next tool... THank you very much for the wonderful tutorial! ✨🖌👏🏻🙏🏻
Hey Nick! Thanks so much for the tutorials! My Little Brother and I use them for homeschool material - he would be finishing the fourth grade if we didn't homeschool, so you can imagine these videos are really useful to us! Thanks a lot! Your tutorials are really to-the-point, they are well done, and your mic discipline is better than a lot of other tutorials (some of those guys smack their lips so much I just cringe.) Really useful - thanks!
TNice tutorials was honestly so helpful. I’ve been working around soft, whether it be church, singing in a band, or theatre for most of my life so tNice tutorials
Hi, great video. Anyone know if that feature to "grow" a selectio is a thing in photoshop, too and where I can find it? Thanks! edit: It´s select -> modify -> expand
Thank you, Nick. Your narration is excellent and the step-by-step guide through the menus is really helpful. I also like how you skip ahead through those repetitive steps!
Today, i searched free tools for Ai alternative, came out and found your video comparison.. im hooked by your video and lead me to your channel for a tutorial.. My first video tutorial watched @ Logos by Nick Super Awesome!
thanks for showing us how the sausage is made! i like how you speed up the tedious stuff but you still show us everything instead of just skipping ahead, helps a bunch thanks!
I've used a similar technique to create black and white art for rubber stamps. My suggestions if you want to use it for that is import the image you want. Lay a white layer over it and reduce the opacity until you can see the original image clearly. Select black to paint with then pick a good solid brush size for the outline and major lines of the image, and then a brush about half that size for the minor lines. When done bring the opacity back to 100% and delete the original image layer. Export it in an image style that's appropriate for the people making the rubber stamp. Don't try to capture every detail, most ink bleeds a bit when stamped on paper anyway. (Pro tip, a good non-bleed ink is the Palette line from Stewart Superior, it's a pigment ink not dye ink.) But experiment, find what works best for you. This is how I do it, and I like the style.
It's probably a new addition, but if you want to change a single-color image to some other color (like black) you can use Color -> Colorize instead of your method. Way easier and surer.
Love your videos! They're definitely one of the most helpful and detailed I've found. I've actually practiced a lot with what I've learned and created a decent amount. My icon for instance was made using a method I learned from you mixed in with my own design. Great work as always!
@@jazzram_ that happened to me the first time. My cord has to stay plugged in or it shuts off. I need a new battery. It has happened alot when my doggies get playing. 😞
From someone who barely knows how to cut out squares and do HORRIBLE meme shop jobs, you literally just performed magic in front of my eyes...TY for the video.
Awesome tuto. Just using GIMP from yesterday. As I was a PS user so it seems a little bit harder at first. but now I'm using it more easily than before. Hope it'll be more fantastic & enjoyable to use
Allan Savolainen Are you able to open the design he made in Inkscape, and convert it to vector to use as a logo? Or should it be made specifically in Inkscape, etc? I hope that question makes sense and wasn’t dumb lol.
@Joey Tech Talks What about making such kind of Logo in the desired software like GIMP and then just afterwards converting it to .SVG using a for example Inkscape, of-course it could be already completely made in any vector application but if somebody prefers an software like GIMP, Photoshop &co instead they should be able to use it too.
@@HopOnsWelcome as far as I'm aware and speaking from my very little experience, you can atleast sort of convert more "simplistic" logo like 2D graphics to a .SVG vector format using certain tracing tools of Vector applications like Inkscape. It can take a while finding proper tutorials for that though, I actually once made a tutorial for exactly said same purpose though apparently deleted it due to some reasons which I can't exactly remember ...
Logo master 👏 As a question, is it possible to do in gimp the effect of mirror dimension used in Doctor Strange? And if it was doable, would You explain how to get down to it?
hey i am using gimp since years now. sometime it has some unprecised things like in 6:38, so you have to work around (if you noticed the hole hand got filled after the second fill click so the hand got one pixel thicker, somethime you may not want that :D)^^ but all in all i think you can do everything you want to do with it. I use it mainly to make game designes,which includes character models, wallpapers, icons, UI window designs, textures... and it works perfectly fine for me :D
It depends on your task to be done. If sth quite simple or intermediate then in Gimp you can make it. If u wanna do sth advanced and really quickly , effectively then Photoshop will be truly powerful giving truly the best tools. For example I dislike some filters in Gimp cos they even don’t give u any view of result i.e. u can adjust some parameters but you don’t see any change until u apply it to your image. The same is with selections. Photoshop gives you way more advanced and effective.
11:20 why not use the magic wand in the hand-layer, swap layers and then delete? (maybe before the other delete operation, using a helper edge on the lower part of the hand)
Soeaking if thresholds. When u use the bucket fill tool. U can turn up the threshold a tiny bit. And it shouldn’t leave u with as many, or if any, unpainted spots
Good trick to get the first base is to use the blacks as mask. maybe you have to tinker a bit with the histogram. Your deletion of the inside of the hand is also easier if you select all transparent of the hand. Switch to the circle layer and delete.
You could convert the white hand into path then path to selection make a new layer then fill it with white color again then delete the old one. That will have a fine edges too.
You can hold shift to draw a straight line between mouse clicks, if you prefer that to dragging. I tend to do that more as I have a vertical mouse so pressing sideways is less convenient, but it lets me work far longer hours.
Awesome good tutoring. many thanks, this helped a lot, also to understand how some things can be done much easier then i did before. I am so happy to have found someone whos english is easy to understand for me as a non-english speaking guy. You Sir did a great Job.
You can speed up the process a little by creating the guidelines by left clicking on the measuring bars on top or left and dragging to the center of the work space.
It doesn't really apply to this design because the whole back is white anyway but hiding layers like that can potentially cause issues when printing via some processes like silkscreen where each layer is printed separately.
Even on 100% hardness the brush still has anti aliasing. So there's still pixels on the edge that get blended making them not exactly the same color. Double clicking the bucket tool revolves it. He also could've picked the pencil tool instead of the brush. (But this looks way worse while you're still tracing.)
Instead of filling it in twice I personally recommend you increase the threshold in the tool options of the bucket fill. This way, if fills it up better without adding extra thickness to the outline.
@@primalpenguin That's a good tip, but in this example it either won't matter or give a worse result. I'm not going to watch the video again, but I believe there's a step which makes the edges hard again. And if that step isn't included the end result will looks worse when you fill in the outline, it will also be harder to print.
Great video. Learnt a lot. Have been using GIMP only for vector conversions for a while. Never did any serious work with it. This video got me interested in following your step-by-step instructions. Came out pretty decent with an image I chose. Need to perfect my eraser and outline tracing better. Interested in designing t-shirt designs. Thanks so much for a very detailed video. Will head to your GIMP videos. 🙏
It's mind boggling how you know all the tools from all these programs. I haven't worked as a graphic designer in a long while but when I was I wasn't even using half the tools. Is this years and years of trial and error or did you go from top to bottom on all tutorials for hours and hours? I don't get it. You are a real master. Cheers!
If you want to learn more about how GIMP works, I have a 60+ part video series where I explain all of the tools and features in GIMP and demonstrate how they work. Here's the link if interested: logosbynick.com/gimp/
Can we use this logo for our channels
@@StridingJack425 As long as it's your photo that you traced, go right ahead!
U can use photoshop also right!
@@maxedout2972 I guess the aim is to show that Gimp being a freeware is also able to do what Photoshop can do.
Thanx
Thanks for using open source software so we the hobbyists can do that too :)
just crack photoshop, not a big deal.
@@almog2795 yea right? Wtf
And thanks for showing us how to use it too. Not like the infamous 1,2,3 step owl painting.
@@almog2795 u mean Ai
Nicola Bechis They probably dont even know what that is.
Honestly this guy is good teacher, he's not boring, his videos are short and easy to understand.
Quick advice, if you want to avoid the cleanup stage, use the pencil tool instead of the brush when you're tracing, when you use the paint bucket tool to fill in the areas, it won't leave pixels behind.
I was in a photoshop class for three and a half months (which my teacher walked out on in the middle of the course) and I learned more in this video
Clearly, your "teacher" was no such thing.
bull crap
I taught myself photoshop since my teacher didn’t teach us anything. 😆
Guys cut his teacher some slack the underpaid teacher probably didn't know what he was doing
@@tausiftaha12 Yes that's the problem, they didn't know how to do their job, which is teaching you how to use photoshop
I've been using gimp to make logos for years, and I learned so much more from this tutorial than I knew I could. I learned stuff that I didn't know I didn't know. Bravo Sir
One of the best tutorials I've ever watched on anything. You explain every single thing you do, even ctrl-z for undo. amazing teacher
I just found this video, and within the day had downloaded GIMP (which I had never heard of) and made a first draft of a logo I've been scheming about for months but had no idea how to carry out. Thank you so much for this excellent tutorial, it was incredibly helpful and well done!
Great to hear that, thanks for the feedback.
I am new to Gimp and this has shown me that the program has more capabilities than I expected, Thank you, this was very helpful!
Glad to help!
To get the outlines you can also use the drop shadow filter. Just set blur to 0, the offset to 0, and change the grow radius to your liking. Works for both the hand and black circle.
Man, just to show how much I like your channel, I ALWAYS watch the ads before your videos, I don't skip them! You deserve it! Your VIDEOS ARE AMAZING! Thanks!
You're a Godsend, Nick. I've been wondering how to do this for quite a long time and your tutorial was very simple, effective, and easy to follow!
It's truly astounding how easy the internet makes learning these days. Thanks for the tutorial, my guy.
I loved this video. I love logo design.
Thank
Thank u both
I have never used any kind of image manipulation software. I recently decided that I wanted to learn graphic design and image manipulation just to expand my skill set as a hobby. I was seriously considering giving up because I was just not getting it. I learnt more in this 15min video than in the last weeks worth of tutorials. Thank you so very much!!!
"Go ahead and click ok" ! You gotta love these guys !!
this is unreal , this video has given me motivation to create a proper logo for my Music.
How's that going?
@@franz8072 Unfortunately Juke Lexis died a few months back.
@@KAIIRU. Sorry for your loss.
@@KAIIRU. wtf...
Haha yeah
After you traced it, the red outline around the hand looked so cool. Unique effect
Simien Hill You can recreate the same effect with Layer Effects, Glow in both Photoshop and GIMP.
14:08 put Layer #1 under Background layer.
It'll bypass the next step to delete white line inside circle
I don't comment on RUclips much but I just wanted to thank you for being so helpful and sharing your knowledge!
I've been using GIMP for years, and I never knew you could use the bracket keys to change the brush size. I guess you learn something new everyday!
I just looked for "keyboard shortcuts" for this like a week ago and found nothing on using the bracket keys...all the top results were trying to get you to program a custom hotkey :/ This tutorial was very good.
Till now, this is by far the best free software content available in the Internet. Keep up the good work Nick. Will be expecting more videos from you.
For the white outline, you also could have merged the two layers, New layer, Alpha to selection, Grow selection, Fill selection with white
True, but that would have been too easy and this video wouldn't have been 15 minutes long lol
I love that you say the keyboard shortcuts and how to do the. Most tutorials don't say how to do thing they just say do it. Thanks for the tutorial!
RUclips: "You may like this"
Me: "I LOVED THIS!"
RUclips algorithm sent me here and I think I found what I've always wanted to do. I'm going to learn this from scratch. Thank you
That was a very instructional video. I want to create a logo in GIMP and I never managed to get it right. But it seems the most difficult thing to do in GIMP is have a nice, clean and functional user interface. My menus are all over the place and most of the times I am confused while looking for the next tool... THank you very much for the wonderful tutorial! ✨🖌👏🏻🙏🏻
If you raise the threshold on the bucket fill tool it will get rid of those gaps when you fill an area. It's on the tool options side panel.
This is the most helpful comment.
You have... THE BEST tutorials like always. Thank you so much!
Agreed!
Hey Nick! Thanks so much for the tutorials! My Little Brother and I use them for homeschool material - he would be finishing the fourth grade if we didn't homeschool, so you can imagine these videos are really useful to us! Thanks a lot! Your tutorials are really to-the-point, they are well done, and your mic discipline is better than a lot of other tutorials (some of those guys smack their lips so much I just cringe.) Really useful - thanks!
with this one video you've merited a subscription. I love learning and the way that you communicate is simple and engaging. Appreciate you man
TNice tutorials was honestly so helpful. I’ve been working around soft, whether it be church, singing in a band, or theatre for most of my life so tNice tutorials
Hi, great video. Anyone know if that feature to "grow" a selectio is a thing in photoshop, too and where I can find it? Thanks!
edit: It´s select -> modify -> expand
Thank you for sharing
The best video I've watched on GIMP. Thank you brother.
Best GIMP tutorials in youtube, thanks alot mate you helped me alot.
Thank you, Nick. Your narration is excellent and the step-by-step guide through the menus is really helpful. I also like how you skip ahead through those repetitive steps!
Thank you for using gimp and teaching people how to use it.
Today, i searched free tools for Ai alternative, came out and found your video comparison.. im hooked by your video and lead me to your channel for a tutorial..
My first video tutorial watched @ Logos by Nick
Super Awesome!
I'm curious: why did you choose to do this in GIMP (raster) instead of directly tracing it in Inkscape (vector)?
thanks for showing us how the sausage is made! i like how you speed up the tedious stuff but you still show us everything instead of just skipping ahead, helps a bunch thanks!
Can you please make a video and tell about gimp .... Like the controls and the basic type of editing (for beginners)
True
I've used a similar technique to create black and white art for rubber stamps. My suggestions if you want to use it for that is import the image you want. Lay a white layer over it and reduce the opacity until you can see the original image clearly. Select black to paint with then pick a good solid brush size for the outline and major lines of the image, and then a brush about half that size for the minor lines. When done bring the opacity back to 100% and delete the original image layer. Export it in an image style that's appropriate for the people making the rubber stamp.
Don't try to capture every detail, most ink bleeds a bit when stamped on paper anyway. (Pro tip, a good non-bleed ink is the Palette line from Stewart Superior, it's a pigment ink not dye ink.) But experiment, find what works best for you. This is how I do it, and I like the style.
You truly are a “Natural” with this!! amazing tutorial thanks!!!
Love how you explain the use of masks and layers.
It's probably a new addition, but if you want to change a single-color image to some other color (like black) you can use Color -> Colorize instead of your method. Way easier and surer.
Best tutorials on RUclips you are literally a god
Love your videos! They're definitely one of the most helpful and detailed I've found.
I've actually practiced a lot with what I've learned and created a decent amount. My icon for instance was made using a method I learned from you mixed in with my own design.
Great work as always!
Lord Takahashi Amazing logo!
You earned a subscriber here. I was searching for this video for a decade! Oh my God. Now I can do something about my logo
You have become my new favorite channel. I'm so mad I didn't find you sooner 😂
I'm a photoshop user and I love the way you explained every detail that too with simple techniques. Thank you so much, Subbed!!!
Very well done. You are an awesome speaker, presenter, teacher.
Keep making content please.
Well, Nick...this IS THE TUTORIAL. Simply awesome. THANK YOU!!
first time in your channel and you explained awesome. And thanks for choosing open source.
I have been trying to learn gimp and even though this video is just on making a logo, it has been the most helpful! thank you.
Love this... simple but very effective....I've never used Gimp but I'm going to now...
Thanks
Excellent. Thank you. Informative, simple to understand, and follow along and no fluff.
Nick: Don't worry about it being to perfect...
Me (4hours later with exactly perfect lines): okay...whats next!?
Me
Same
Symmetry is pretty good in logos though
It would be sad if u the computer got unplugged (if it’s laptop, imagine being dead batt)
Same🤣
@@jazzram_ that happened to me the first time. My cord has to stay plugged in or it shuts off. I need a new battery. It has happened alot when my doggies get playing. 😞
From someone who barely knows how to cut out squares and do HORRIBLE meme shop jobs, you literally just performed magic in front of my eyes...TY for the video.
Been using gimp for years, learned some new ways to use layers here.
Same here
oh
Awesome tuto.
Just using GIMP from yesterday.
As I was a PS user so it seems a little bit harder at first. but now I'm using it more easily than before.
Hope it'll be more fantastic & enjoyable to use
try krita
@@ppang Is it more user friendly & easy?
@@banglarbagh6675 it serves my purpose very well. its your win if it turns out good for you anyway. :p
This inspired me to create my own profile picture. Thanks, Nick!
I like that you talk and explain while preforming
If you are doing all that manually, better use of your time is to vectorize it, don't do bitmaps, they don't scale well.
Allan Savolainen Are you able to open the design he made in Inkscape, and convert it to vector to use as a logo? Or should it be made specifically in Inkscape, etc? I hope that question makes sense and wasn’t dumb lol.
Joey Tech Talks Oh ok, thanks.
@Joey Tech Talks What about making such kind of Logo in the desired software like GIMP and then just afterwards converting it to .SVG using a for example Inkscape,
of-course it could be already completely made in any vector application but if somebody prefers an software like GIMP, Photoshop &co instead they should be able to use it too.
@@HopOnsWelcome as far as I'm aware and speaking from my very little experience, you can atleast sort of convert more "simplistic" logo like 2D graphics to a .SVG vector format using certain tracing tools of Vector applications like Inkscape.
It can take a while finding proper tutorials for that though, I actually once made a tutorial for exactly said same purpose though apparently deleted it due to some reasons which I can't exactly remember ...
just seen your comment which exactly answered my question after I posted mine ..
Big up KG and the channel... Onward and Upward. Big tingz agwan ✊🏾
Logo master 👏
As a question, is it possible to do in gimp the effect of mirror dimension used in Doctor Strange? And if it was doable, would You explain how to get down to it?
I'm not sure, I'd have to look into that a bit. Seems interesting though.
GIMP has gotten fancy over the years, so I will start using again! Great tutorial!!!
Is GIMP as powerful as Photoshop ?
Can one use it as replacement?
hey i am using gimp since years now. sometime it has some unprecised things like in 6:38, so you have to work around (if you noticed the hole hand got filled after the second fill click so the hand got one pixel thicker, somethime you may not want that :D)^^ but all in all i think you can do everything you want to do with it. I use it mainly to make game designes,which includes character models, wallpapers, icons, UI window designs, textures... and it works perfectly fine for me :D
It depends on your task to be done. If sth quite simple or intermediate then in Gimp you can make it. If u wanna do sth advanced and really quickly , effectively then Photoshop will be truly powerful giving truly the best tools.
For example I dislike some filters in Gimp cos they even don’t give u any view of result i.e. u can adjust some parameters but you don’t see any change until u apply it to your image.
The same is with selections. Photoshop gives you way more advanced and effective.
Oh my God... this video left me speechless ...thanks a lot my friend.
Amazing tutorial
Yes, I would always make sure a finished logo is vector.
11:20 why not use the magic wand in the hand-layer, swap layers and then delete? (maybe before the other delete operation, using a helper edge on the lower part of the hand)
i'm going to try this for my new businesses logo! a different picture, of course...
I know how to do only a few things with gimp but this video alone added so much to my toolbox. Thanks for making it easy to understand!
I don't know how to thank you for this amazing tutorial.
It literally saved my life :)
Wow! Logo design and the whole process is entertaining. It's amazing to see what people come up with. Very cool!
Just find this video, watch it first, then practice it. And, zombies hand as my results.
This video just so simple and easy to understand. Thanks !
Glad it helped!
Hey!
Soeaking if thresholds. When u use the bucket fill tool. U can turn up the threshold a tiny bit. And it shouldn’t leave u with as many, or if any, unpainted spots
Well, that's why i'm a subscriber... from a very long time ago!
Thank you for the support!
@@LogosByNick You're welcome, and i'll be always here for you.
Good trick to get the first base is to use the blacks as mask. maybe you have to tinker a bit with the histogram.
Your deletion of the inside of the hand is also easier if you select all transparent of the hand. Switch to the circle layer and delete.
thanks so much for your amazing tutorial, helped out so much. absolutely brilliant
You could convert the white hand into path then path to selection make a new layer then fill it with white color again then delete the old one. That will have a fine edges too.
Love your videos! Thanks for this :3
You can hold shift to draw a straight line between mouse clicks, if you prefer that to dragging. I tend to do that more as I have a vertical mouse so pressing sideways is less convenient, but it lets me work far longer hours.
Your work style is amazing
hats off to you sir, because of your video I was able to make my own logo. wish you more success in your future work!
Well i see you're using GIMP, I hit that like button immediately
Whats the benefit of GIMP vs doing this in PS or Illustrator?
3rd Gunman it is free
Awesome good tutoring. many thanks, this helped a lot, also to understand how some things can be done much easier then i did before.
I am so happy to have found someone whos english is easy to understand for me as a non-english speaking guy.
You Sir did a great Job.
Why you choose to use bitmap instead of tracing it with the pen tool for that one?
this """design""" was sketchy lmao...
You can still convert it to a vector graphic later on.
You can speed up the process a little by creating the guidelines by left clicking on the measuring bars on top or left and dragging to the center of the work space.
Actually, you can use this tutorial to replicate almost the entire process in photoshop as well. Even the shortcuts are the same in PS.
Legit tutorial, thanks for using GIMP!
I normally use the pen tool for tracing
One Of the best editing and informative videos i have seen. Thank You.
Couldn't you just put the "Layer#1" all the way to the back instead of making a mask?
It doesn't really apply to this design because the whole back is white anyway but hiding layers like that can potentially cause issues when printing via some processes like silkscreen where each layer is printed separately.
@@stumbling what about flattening layers together then?
ikr......
I was thinking the same thing.
He also could have combined hand and circle and just create a white border for both
@@stumbling you can just merge the two layers together
Nick it definetely helps. Thank You so much, you're a good teacher
why does it look so pixelated up close after you filled it in twice?
Even on 100% hardness the brush still has anti aliasing.
So there's still pixels on the edge that get blended making them not exactly the same color.
Double clicking the bucket tool revolves it.
He also could've picked the pencil tool instead of the brush. (But this looks way worse while you're still tracing.)
Instead of filling it in twice I personally recommend you increase the threshold in the tool options of the bucket fill. This way, if fills it up better without adding extra thickness to the outline.
@@primalpenguin That's a good tip, but in this example it either won't matter or give a worse result.
I'm not going to watch the video again, but I believe there's a step which makes the edges hard again.
And if that step isn't included the end result will looks worse when you fill in the outline, it will also be harder to print.
Great video. Learnt a lot. Have been using GIMP only for vector conversions for a while. Never did any serious work with it. This video got me interested in following your step-by-step instructions. Came out pretty decent with an image I chose. Need to perfect my eraser and outline tracing better. Interested in designing t-shirt designs. Thanks so much for a very detailed video. Will head to your GIMP videos. 🙏
Good tute...
I started with gimp but moved quickly to photoshop so didnt know it was so good...
Now onto after effects..:)
Gr8 video, Gr8 clarity of actions, GR8 teaching. Thankyou!!!!
Cannot help but picture Henry Rollins when I hear this guys voice haha! Great videos though. Really helpful.
It's mind boggling how you know all the tools from all these programs. I haven't worked as a graphic designer in a long while but when I was I wasn't even using half the tools. Is this years and years of trial and error or did you go from top to bottom on all tutorials for hours and hours? I don't get it. You are a real master. Cheers!