Uploaded July 2020 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago

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In this tutorial I’ll be giving you a rundown of all 39 tools found in GIMP, along with a brief explanation of what they do.

Want to learn more about how GIMP works? Check out The GIMP Series - a comprehensive collection of over 60 videos where I go over all of the major tools, features and functions in GIMP and explain what they are and demonstrate how they work. Learn more here: logosbynick.com/gimp

The tools and timestamps are as follows...

00:00 Intro
00:33 Move
00:51 Alignment
01:08 Rectangle Select
01:34 Ellipse Select
01:53 Free Select
02:19 Scissors Select
02:46 Foreground Select
03:20 Fuzzy Select
03:55 Select By Color
04:16 Cropping
04:41 Rotate
05:11 Scale
05:35 Shear
05:55 Flip
06:17 Perspective
06:43 Unified Transform
07:11 3D Transform
07:29 Handle Transform
08:03 Warp Transform
08:25 Cage Transform
08:42 Bucket Fill
09:03 Gradient
09:25 Paintbrush
09:47 Pencil
10:09 Airbrush
10:30 Ink Tool
10:52 MyPaint Brush
11:14 Eraser
11:48 Clone
12:08 Perspective Clone
12:30 Healing
12:53 Smudge
13:12 Blur & Sharpen
13:31 Dodge & Burn
13:56 Paths
14:20 Text
14:36 Color Picker
14:56 Measure
15:24 Zoom

Intro song: "In Da Mood" by Combustibles, used with written permission