While you’re holding the Shift key, GIMP will automatically draw a straight line between the two points, showing the path that your auto-filled stroke will take. Hold down the Shift key, and move your mouse to the next corner. Select your chosen tool, and click at a point where you’d like to have one corner of your shape. This method has the advantage that it works with any of GIMP’s brush-based tools, from the Paintbrush to the Clone tool, which creates some interesting possibilities depending on the settings you choose. Usually, I wholeheartedly approve of silly things, but you don’t want to damage your tablet’s drawing surface! It’s possible to draw perfectly straight lines in GIMP using one of the many brush tools – and I don’t mean cheating by using a ruler on your drawing tablet, which is silly. If you don’t want to use either of the selection methods, there’s one last option that might work for you.

Click and drag on your image to create a rectangle or square.

This is probably the most flexible way of creating a rectangle/box/square in GIMP, and it can be combined with Method 1 or Method 3 to create more complex effects. Step 1: Create A Selection With your image open in GIMP, switch to the Rectangle Select tool using the toolbox or by pressing the keyboard shortcut R.

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