Paint Tools in GIMP

GIMP provides a variety of paint tools. You may have already used some of them for sketching, on photos, or for manipulating. Here we show you the purpose of the paint tools for digital painting. Most of the paint tools simulate their real-life counterparts. The pencil, for example, paints with hard edges, whereas the airbrush tool will paint with soft edges and transitions. The paint tools can be divided into three groups: the basic set, specialized paint tools, and assistive paint tools.

The basic set of paint tools includes the following:

• Bucket Fill: Fills larger areas of the image with the same color
• Blend: Creates a seamless transition from one color to another
• Pencil: Draws lines with hard edges
• Paintbrush: Draws lines with soft edges