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 Post subject: GIMP Has a SECRET WEAPON for Drawing Shapes ....Shhh Don't Tell Adobe
PostPosted: Sun Sep 28, 2025 12:54 pm  (#1) 
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I wasn't sure where to place this, so I placed I here in Gimp Tutorials. The video is not mine it belongs to Davies Media Design. Even though this video was posted 4 years ago, I just recently found it and I think it could be useful for everyone else. You can skip to 1 minute & 44 seconds to get to the tutorial itself.
Anyway, here's the video:

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 Post subject: Re: GIMP Has a SECRET WEAPON for Drawing Shapes ....Shhh Don't Tell Ad
PostPosted: Mon Sep 29, 2025 12:17 am  (#2) 
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I have watched many of Davids videos. I have tried to get him to post here but he ignores me. LOL

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 Post subject: Re: GIMP Has a SECRET WEAPON for Drawing Shapes ....Shhh Don't Tell Ad
PostPosted: Mon Sep 29, 2025 1:02 am  (#3) 
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Rod wrote:
I have watched many of Davids videos. I have tried to get him to post here but he ignores me. LOL


LOL, Rod. I didn't know that the creator of this video, Michael Davies is a member here. That's cool.


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 Post subject: Re: GIMP Has a SECRET WEAPON for Drawing Shapes ....Shhh Don't Tell Ad
PostPosted: Mon Sep 29, 2025 1:42 am  (#4) 
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Thank you so much mackenzieh. I had no idea that Gimp had this weapon for drawing. It is very interesting. :coolthup
I'll see this tutorial in detail.
Thanks :) :bigthup

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 Post subject: Re: GIMP Has a SECRET WEAPON for Drawing Shapes ....Shhh Don't Tell Ad
PostPosted: Mon Sep 29, 2025 5:23 am  (#5) 
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Issabella wrote:
Thank you so much mackenzieh. I had no idea that Gimp had this weapon for drawing. It is very interesting.
I'll see this tutorial in detail.


Please be very careful with gfig, It goes back to Gimp 1.x and really is well past its sell-buy date. There plenty posts over the years where users have lost their work while using gfig.

If you wait for the next update, Gimp 3.0.6 which should be soon, it should have the Vector Layer function that Rod mentioned in another post. You can draw your own paths or even start a collection from pre-made svg shapes.

This a quick, not very good animation, showing a vector layer. You can edit the path, add NDE filters (example is drop shadow and waves) change those and the result shows on the canvas.

https://i.imgur.com/dUz5GXU.mp4


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 Post subject: Re: GIMP Has a SECRET WEAPON for Drawing Shapes ....Shhh Don't Tell Ad
PostPosted: Mon Sep 29, 2025 12:04 pm  (#6) 
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Issabella wrote:
Thank you so much mackenzieh. I had no idea that Gimp had this weapon for drawing. It is very interesting. :coolthup
I'll see this tutorial in detail.
Thanks :) :bigthup


You're welcome Issabella. :) I didn't know about it either until it showed up at random when was searching for how to do a color splash in gimp. I also saw a video in my random search:
www.youtube.com Video from : www.youtube.com


which I thought was pretty cool.


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 Post subject: Re: GIMP Has a SECRET WEAPON for Drawing Shapes ....Shhh Don't Tell Ad
PostPosted: Mon Sep 29, 2025 12:08 pm  (#7) 
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rich2005 wrote:
Issabella wrote:
Thank you so much mackenzieh. I had no idea that Gimp had this weapon for drawing. It is very interesting.
I'll see this tutorial in detail.


Please be very careful with gfig, It goes back to Gimp 1.x and really is well past its sell-buy date. There plenty posts over the years where users have lost their work while using gfig.

If you wait for the next update, Gimp 3.0.6 which should be soon, it should have the Vector Layer function that Rod mentioned in another post. You can draw your own paths or even start a collection from pre-made svg shapes.

This a quick, not very good animation, showing a vector layer. You can edit the path, add NDE filters (example is drop shadow and waves) change those and the result shows on the canvas.

https://i.imgur.com/dUz5GXU.mp4


I hadn't seen any posts about users losing their work while using gfig, but thanks for the heads up.


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 Post subject: Re: GIMP Has a SECRET WEAPON for Drawing Shapes ....Shhh Don't Tell Ad
PostPosted: Tue Sep 30, 2025 3:01 pm  (#8) 
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gfig is bad, just use Grok's AI shapes plugin
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=21708

and or the vector path shapes that CMYK Student is working on in 3.0.6.


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 Post subject: Re: GIMP Has a SECRET WEAPON for Drawing Shapes ....Shhh Don't Tell Ad
PostPosted: Tue Sep 30, 2025 11:39 pm  (#9) 
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I agree, GFIG is very outdated.

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 Post subject: Re: GIMP Has a SECRET WEAPON for Drawing Shapes ....Shhh Don't Tell Ad
PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2025 12:49 am  (#10) 
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If Gfig is as bad and very outdated as everyone says, then why did it end up in GIMP 3.0.4? I'm just curious because shouldn't gfig be cut from future upgrades if it's not going to be updated along with Gimp?


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 Post subject: Re: GIMP Has a SECRET WEAPON for Drawing Shapes ....Shhh Don't Tell Ad
PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2025 1:28 am  (#11) 
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Surpised too with the other stuff in there. Maybe once the vector layers are in it will be taken out.

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 Post subject: Re: GIMP Has a SECRET WEAPON for Drawing Shapes ....Shhh Don't Tell Ad
PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2025 1:51 am  (#12) 
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sallyanne wrote:
Surpised too with the other stuff in there. Maybe once the vector layers are in it will be taken out.


Maybe. We can only hope that it will be taken out. As of right now Gfig still works as does the Grok's AI Shapes Plugin option.


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