How to draw a circle in gimp?

The requirement is very simple. Just draw a red bordered circle in a specific position.

1 Answer

For a clean result (uniform thickness, smooth and clean edges):

1. Use the Ellipse select tool to make a selection
2. Select>To path
3. Select>None (otherwise step #4 will only create half of the line)
4. Edit>Stroke path in "Line" mode

Simplifications

• If you do several circles, you can do a selection with several circles in step 1 (shift click for additional circles), and execute steps 2-4 only once.
• For thin lines (3px or less); you can replace steps 2-4 by a Edit>Stroke selection (but this is ugly on tick lines)
• You can of course do both together (many thin circles)