Hello and welcome to yet another tutorial by Davies Media Design my name is Michael
Davies and in today's tutorial I'll be showing you how to create a single column toolbox in
GIMP. I'll also be showing you some GIMP toolbox customizations that I typically work with. I'll be
using GIMP version 2.10.20 which is the latest version of GIMP at the time of this tutorial,
and I do recommend using GIMP version 2.10.18 or newer to take full advantage of what we're
going to discuss in this tutorial. Before I get into that don't forget to check out my
website at DaviesMediaDesign.com. I have tons of video tutorials on here, my GIMP Book of Layers,
and free software help articles so definitely check that out. You can enroll in my GIMP 2.10
Masterclass: From Beginner to Pro Photo Editing on Udemy, you can enroll in any of my Skillshare
classes by visiting GIMPSchool.com, and you can get more with a premium membership to Davies Media
Design. I'll include all the relevant links from this tutorial in the description of the video.
Alright so here is my current setup inside of GIMP 2.10.20. We're not going to quite have the exact
same setup by the time this tutorial is over, but you can see over here on the left side this is the
Toolbox here for those of you who are unfamiliar with GIMP. And right now everything is grouped
together - that's because in GIMP 2.10.18 or newer GIMP has decided to group all the tools together
by default. So everything's grouped together, and we have a single column. But let me reset
this and show you guys what you're probably looking at. So I'll go to Edit>Preferences,
and I'll come over here to "Window Management," and right here you'll see it says "Reset saved
window positions to default values." So I'll click on that and I'll click "OK." Click "OK"
again and let's exit out of GIMP. So now we need to reopen GIMP. Alright so here we are
back to the default positions for things like the Toolbox, the Tool Options, and on the right
side you have pretty much all the default tabs that originally display when you first download
GIMP. So the first step towards a single column Toolbox layout is that you need to drag all of
the dockable dialogues that are located below the Toolbox to another location in GIMP. So by default
under here you'll see we have a variety of default dockable dialogs starting with the Tool Options,
and then you have "Device Status," "Undo History," and "Images." So we need to move all four of these
tabs out from underneath the Toolbox, and I can do that by clicking and dragging and you can see
that once I do that these blue highlight areas will show up indicating where I can drag this. I
can also simply release this like so and that will release this as its own little floating dialog. I
don't recommend doing that but it is an option. And now what I'll do - I can click on this tab
again and drag it, and we could drag it over here - this is where I prefer to have my Tool Options,
on this left side here. You'll see the entire left side will highlight. So I'll release and
now my tool options are over here. And I just need to do the same thing for the remaining three
tabs. So you can also stack tabs on top of each other or dockable dialogs I should say you could
stack them on top of each other. So I'll click and drag my core pointer dialog and I can drag
it up top here. You'll see that will highlight - that will light up. I'll release, and I'll do the
same thing here - and I can drag this next to the "Device Status" like so. And lastly we have the
"Images" tab. We can drag that over here and I'll release. Quick note: you can drag these over here
with these other tabs that are already open if you prefer. But like I said I prefer having all this
stuff over here in a second column. Once we have those dialogs relocated I can come over here and
you'll see these three dots. If I hover my mouse over it you'll see my mouse pointer will change,
and I'll click and drag this to the left. And as I do that this will automatically reposition my
tools. So I can stop right there if I want or I can keep going until this is basically as small
as it'll possibly go for those of you who want more canvas room, or you can give yourself a
little more space like so and release your mouse. Now we have a single column Toolbox. And once you
do have this single column toolbox, by default when you hover your mouse over the various tool
groups it will display the tools inside that tool group. For some of you that may have been
all you wanted to know from this tutorial, which is totally fine, but I will cover some additional
Toolbox customizations. So I can always customize my toolbox by going to Edit>Preferences, and I'll
come down here to Toolbox. So for starters you can turn off the tool groups just by checking this
option, and there you'll see the groups will now dissipate and become individual tools - much like
it was before the GIMP 2.10.18 update. You can always change this from a single column like so to
a double column if you want to be able to see all the tools. In my case I will use the tool groups,
and I will change this back to a single column. But you can also change the menu. So as I said
when you hover your tools over this in single column mode it'll automatically display the tools
inside here. I could turn that off by coming over here and changing this to "Show on click." So now
when I hover my mouse over each tool group it'll tell me what's inside the tool group, but it won't
necessarily allow me to select the tool. I have to click and hold my mouse now and that will allow me
to select a tool from the group. I can also change what tools are displayed here. I can hide groups
entirely if I don't want them there. So that first group is now hidden. Or I can rearrange these - I
can regroup all the tools if I want just by clicking and dragging a tool from one group
to another, just like I would do a layer. I'm not going to do that right now but that is an option.
And if you want to reset back to the default you can come over here and click the little reset
button. Lastly if I wanted to change the style of my icons - I have color icons right now - I can
go over to "Icon Theme," and here you have all the options for the icons. So as I said I have
this set to "Color." You can do "Legacy," which is basically the old-school look for the icons,
you can go with something like "Symbolic" if you want to do single color, which is more similar to
something like Photoshop, or "Symbolic Inverted" if you prefer a darker set of icons. Obviously we
can't see those because we are also in dark mode here for the theme. But you also have "Symbolic
Inverted" if you want to have these a little bit more visible - still not super visible there. I'm
gonna come back up to color. That's just what I prefer. Lastly, you can adjust the size. So down
here I have my icons for my tools set to "Custom icon size." You can use the default size for your
screen resolution for your computer, or based on the default values from the themes set up
by the GIMP team. I prefer to go custom icon size and you can make these icons as small or as large
as you want, pretty much. So I'll click "OK" to apply those changes, and there's our final setup.
Alright so that's it for this tutorial, hopefully you liked it. If you did you could check out my
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