Gimp Lesson 7 | Intro to Layers

welcome to another tutorial in this video we'll learn about the basics of layers within there's a couple different things to know about layers one is we can use layers across the top menu bar here we can create a new layer and there's some different options for layers we can delete or duplicate a layer and then the way that we interact with these layers is over here towards the right-hand side and right now we see we have one layer called background now if you're not seeing this or if it's not called background for example if this is close if we don't have a document our layers appears empty because we have no layer because we have no project but if we open up an image maybe I'll just open an image for a good example we'll choose an image and we'll open it up just a regular JPEG image and now we see the name of the image and it is also our layer we can change the name by just double-clicking in here and we can call this guy and so this is like the the guy layer but the reason layers are nice is because let's say we wanted to draw we want that like circle this guy well if we want if we draw the circle and then later on we get doing something else we adjust the colors and we want to move change this circle a little bit we've learned in the past we could kind of select there's different options but really since it's all on the same layer what we've done is we've drawn we've changed the pixels underneath this to black they're all just black now so if we want to move it we can grab the move tool but what we're going to end up doing is moving the circle and the image together and if that's not what we want to do what we could do is I'll do ctrl Z a bunch of times we can come over here and go layer new layer or I can right click in this area and just go to new layer and it brings up this dialog to create a new layer so I'll call this layer circle I was doing this earlier which is why that populated with that I'll leave everything else the same and hit OK so now I have this circle layer and it has a little white highlight around it that's telling me that that is the layer I'm on not the guy layer last time when I drew the circle I was on the guy layer so I'm going to click on this circle layer and now I'm going to go into dry circle just like last time and now if I want to move it'll just move the circle what it's really doing is moving everything on this layer and we could do we can grab like the resize at the scale tool and we can scale and change the size of this circle but again what we're really doing is changing the scale of everything on this layer and by that I mean if I if I had something else drawn over here and I wanted to do let me point like an arrow or something well if we go to move now it's going to move the circle but we can't select just the circle and move it separately without moving this arrow and also this I can also come over here to just the layer of the guy or just the layer of the entire image and I can move the entire image around now keeping these everything else is drawn on the other layer intact now if I'm going to drag it right here we see these dots these a sort of squares here we've looked at a little bit in the past this just shows that this is transparency so when this image is actually rendered out and let's just do it right now and see what it would look like if we go to export as and I'll call it test and put it on the desktop we can see what this image will look like I'll just export it so this image looks like this now it has white up here because it was transparent and it just defaulted to white and it cut off the bottom of that but it still has both these layers but now everything is all just together it's just a collection of pixels I can't edit these layers I can't move this arrow or the circle independently it's all just one flattened image that's called like flattened when you do that but in here I still can do that but I want to show you what that transparency looks like also over here we have these little eyes so we can turn off just this layer and keep looking at this layer maybe it's distracting us we want to just draw and then turn this on it's still there it's not deleted or anything it's just toggling whether it's viewable or not the eye when the eyes closed or off it's not viewable and when it's open it is viewable we can turn off the drawing part too and we could bring in another layer if we wanted we can right-click and go new layer we can just call this one whatever we want to and now we have this different type of this different layer here and maybe I'll do something well watch this if we grab the smudge tool and I try to apply smudge here or we try to do the clone tool and we try to clone different parts nothing's happening that's because we're referencing nothing the the layer were on is this so if I turn off these this is what we're really seeing so we're cloning but we're cloning transparency into transparency and when we grab the smudge tool we're smudging transparency and when we grab the move tool we're moving transparency so and that really is actually looks like it is moving the the layer you can layer because the layer is the same size it has attributes too but what I want to show with that is if we have everything turned on and let's take this one and let's just fill it with a color so that the transparency is not throwing us off let's fill it with red and now it fills everything but the black still there but the picture is gone right now this guy image is at the very bottom which is why we can't see it if we left click and drag it to the middle it's kind of above the red but it's behind the this circle that's why the circles on top but the red is behind the image and if we drag this on top then we just see the image well it's dragged down so we see a little bit differently but we can't see those black arrows on top let's say we grab this red layer it's just solid red and drag it on top well now we only see red so whatever is on top is what you see first and then if there's any gaps or transparency like those squares you'll see it behind that make sense so if we were to turn this off this red we see the transparency what's really there which is nothing transparent unless something's in its way and then it appears there this is a basic introduction there's a lot more that we're gonna get into with layers but go ahead and play with these for now toggling viewing it and then toggling when you're selected on the layer and just know when you have a certain tool selected like move make sure that you're moving the layer you can hover over and move the layer and not the selection because you can also move the selection like we learned about previously and that just moves what is selected it doesn't really move the lair this one you can either pick a lair to move so whatever lair you click on will move or if you say move active layer it'll move whatever layer is selected but always whenever you're using like a drawing tool or most of the tools over here it'll usually only apply to whatever layer has this little white highlight around it whichever one you're selected on well that's the basic layers hopefully I haven't confused you any more with that one go ahead and leave your questions and comments below if you have any and take a little time to play with layers because it's a very fundamental part of and understanding layers is going to help you be able to go a lot farther in thanks for watching catch you in the next video

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Length: 7min 30sec (450 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 15 2019