How to Draw a Circle in Gimp

Creating a Bordered Circle with the Path Tool

1. Click the Ellipse Select Tool in the Toolbox. You'll find this in the upper-left corner of the Toolbox. It looks like an oval with a dashed border.

2. Click and drag on your canvas to begin creating an ellipse. By default, you'll be creating a freeform ellipse shape.

3. Press and hold .⇧ Shift while dragging to make a circle. Holding ⇧ Shift after you start dragging will allow you to make a perfect circle instead of a freeform ellipse. If it doesn't work at first, you may need to start a new ellipse and try again.

   1. If you need to make a circle of a specific size, use the "Size" fields in the bottom section of the Toolbox.

4. Click the Select menu from the GIMP menu bar and choose "To Path." This will create a vector object from your circle.

5. Click the Select menu again and choose "None." The circle you created will seemingly disappear. This is normal.

6. Select the color you want to use for the border in the color picker. Click the current foreground color in the Toolbox and select the color you want to use as the border for the circle.

7. Click the Edit menu and select "Stroke Path." A new window will appear. You'll be converting the circle to a

8. Set the width of the circle border in the "Line width" field. By default, this will be pixels but you can change it to another unit of measurement.

   1. You can choose to create the stroke with different tools for a more artistic effect.

9. Click "Stroke" to create the circle. The circle will be created with the border in the color and size you selected.

10. Fill the circle with another color if you'd like. You can use the Bucket Fill Tool to fill the circle with a different color after creating it. Select the color you want to use from the color picker, then click inside the circle with the Bucket Fill Tool selected.^[1]