The next set of graphic design tools in the GIMP are used to help you work with the images and selections. This tutorial we're going to cover the first five tools in the second row. . You can watch the tutorial above or follow the outline below:
The Color Picker Tool - The color picker tool simply allows you to choose colors from your canvas. You can add these to your palette, or change the color to the foreground or background colors in the propeties box below the tools.
The Zoom tool - This allows you to zoom in or out of your image. Very handy when making free-hand changes to your image. You can zoom in real close and change one pixel at a time if desired.
The Measure tool - This tool measures angles and distances.
The Move tool - This will be a commonly used tool. With it, you can move selections or whole layers. Just click and drag, once you have this tool selected.
The Crop tool - You can reduce the size of your image by using the crop tool. If you want to crop out just a section of the image, simply click and drag the crop box around the area you want to crop, then hit enter. Everything not in the crop box is deleted. Very useful for cropping images and pictures.
Allows you to make smaller file sizes and helps with alignment issues with your images.
Up next, the Transformation tools, with these tools you can scale, rotate, skew and give your selection a different persepctive.
. You can watch the tutorial above or follow the outline below:
- The color picker tool simply allows you to choose colors from your canvas. You can add these to your palette, or change the color to the foreground or background colors in the propeties box below the tools.
- This allows you to zoom in or out of your image. Very handy when making free-hand changes to your image. You can zoom in real close and change one pixel at a time if desired.
- This tool measures angles and distances. 
- This will be a commonly used tool. With it, you can move selections or whole layers. Just click and drag, once you have this tool selected.
- You can reduce the size of your image by using the crop tool. If you want to crop out just a section of the image, simply click and drag the crop box around the area you want to crop, then hit enter. Everything not in the crop box is deleted. Very useful for cropping images and pictures.
