You can use the paths tool (hotkey b) to draw a shape, then do a "stroke path". You can also make a circular or rectangular selection and drag a colour into it to fill the selection to make a solid shape. That said, if you find you are doing this a lot, I recommend Inkscape, as it's not only easy to make shapes in the manner you are wanting, but also allows resizing and other modifications without pixelisation/blurring the results. Until gimp fully supports vector layers, it will always be a bit of a hack to get what you want. Hope it helps. -C On 27 Aug 2017 19:01, "Paul Naudé" <paulnaude01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi I am an everyday user of GIMP (awesome, awesome product - wish I could program to help but you guys rock) and have just one suggestion to add: I still often need to use MS Paint, to quickly add something like a block, line or circle. Unless I am unaware of a plug in for this purpose, it would be great if GIMP could do that too (just these basic things so I can remove Paint from my taskbar altogether ;-) [image: Inlynprent 1] My permanent taskbar shortcuts: [image: Inlynprent 2] Regards Paul Naudé _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
