Brush & Selection Tools

Brush and selection tools belong to the most important tools in GIMP (agree??). The pics below show a visual overview for these groups of tools.

























Brush Tools
With brush tools, you can choose the brush types, configure the colors and start drawing on the canvas by "repetitive click", "click and drag", or "click & shift+click". The last operation is used to draw a straight line. Below are some examples.

































Selection Tools
With these tools you may work only on a certain part of the image. Selection can be done as simple as primitive shapes (rectangle, ellipse) or their derivative (using certain "operations" with the selection - union, intersect etc.) to more complicated and automatically "scriptable" ones. Additionally you might stroke the selection to obtain interesting effects.





























Credits
gimp.org | Seth Burgess, Francisco Bustamante Hempe