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Can Gimp Draw Arrows (brushes don't work)? - dbareis - 04-07-2025
I'm a simple user of image editors, unfortunately it appears you have to be a professional editor to even attempt to use Gimp.
What I do is crop, resize, draw text, draw arrows from a to b (text to subject of text). Everyone seem to recommend brushes, but from my attempts that is not possible, for starters you don't define 'a' & 'b" and can't change the length. All of this is relatively trivial in Paint.Net and some other editors, I just thought I'd try GIMP out. I have looked for and failed to find much in the way of tutorials on any of the basics.
Am I missing something? Or is it not possible to draw arrows (a modified straight line with arrow head) in GIMP?
RE: Can Gimp Draw Arrows (brushes don't work)? - rich2005 - 04-07-2025
(Today, 06:52 AM)dbareis Wrote: ....snip...
What I do is crop, resize, draw text, draw arrows from a to b (text to subject of text). Everyone seem to recommend brushes, but from my attempts that is not possible, for starters you don't define 'a' & 'b" and can't change the length
.....snip....
Am I missing something? Or is it not possible to draw arrows (a modified straight line with arrow head) in GIMP?
There is a Gimp script that uses a path to define the position of an arrow.
A very long thread but the script is here: https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-Arrow-Script?pid=12419#pid12419
Download the zip, unzip and there are two files, use the arrow_v3.scm for Gimp 3.0
That goes in your User profile scripts folder C:\Users\"yourname"\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\3.0\scripts
Registers in the Tools menu Looks like this.
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Edit: If you are anotating text then you might want to keep all the arrows in their own layer. Once the arrow parameters are set (there is a Save / Load ) an arrow will repeat using Filters -> Repeat Last (ctrl-F)
A 60 second animation https://i.imgur.com/eHAxwMR.mp4
RE: Can Gimp Draw Arrows (brushes don't work)? - denzjos - 04-07-2025
rich, thanks for the link.
RE: Can Gimp Draw Arrows (brushes don't work)? - Ofnuts - 04-07-2025
(Today, 06:52 AM)dbareis Wrote: I'm a simple user of image editors, unfortunately it appears you have to be a professional editor to even attempt to use Gimp.
What I do is crop, resize, draw text, draw arrows from a to b (text to subject of text). Everyone seem to recommend brushes, but from my attempts that is not possible, for starters you don't define 'a' & 'b" and can't change the length. All of this is relatively trivial in Paint.Net and some other editors, I just thought I'd try GIMP out. I have looked for and failed to find much in the way of tutorials on any of the basics.
Am I missing something? Or is it not possible to draw arrows (a modified straight line with arrow head) in GIMP?
For this kind of graphics there are much simpler apps. See LibreOffice Draw for instance.