This is the best tutorial I've ever seen. I believe this is because you know how to teach. Many people know GIMP, like many people know Chinese or how to fix a television. But that is not the important thing. Your teaching method is very good. You avoid the irritating tangents and "small talk", you avoided a long, useless introduction, you refrain from whipping your cursor around for no reason, you say precisely what you are doing, without useless comments, and the pace of your speech is good. Kudos to you!
I spent literally hours trying to accomplish this via steps learned in other tutorials. Within 30 minutes of watching this video I had fixed my son's school picture (red gradiated background) to a grey background, including the bits shining through his hair. Wonderful work, thank you for posting it.
I have watched many gimp tutorials and found this to be the best so far. I love that you had audio that explained what you were doing and also moved slow enough for me to follow along. Thank you so much!
You're a genius! I simply don't have a 'computer' brain and what you are able to do amazes me. Thanks for helping me to understand how much work is involved in using GIMP.
Thank you for such a clear and well made tutorial ... I have been GIMPing pics for SL for ages and its always taken so long to do the hair bit by bit ... thank thank thank
excellent tutorial. most of the gimp youtubers today don't explain/teach these kind of easy techniques because they want to sell their techniques in websites like udemy for people who can afford their fees. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge..👍🙏👏
Fantastic, thankyou. I have been trying to do this for ages watching someone elses video but I kept failing. Watched your video once and got it first time :-)
Thank you for keeping this simple and effective. Great technique for getting 90% of the way there. And your technique for using clone to fix the color is a game-changer for me. Awesome!
I've watched a few vids of yours, and I have to say I love that you don't beat around the bush, you don't have music playing in the background and you don't take forever to say what you mean. I'm pretty good with the things I know about Gimp and I'm great at figuring stuff out as I go but, darnnit, there are just some things someone needs to teach you. You're a GREAT teacher! Thanks for the vids. I would also love to know what you use to record your desktop and how to Zoom also! Thanks!
I have to say, YOU ARE TOTALLY AWESOME! I have been working working with Gimp for several years now, and am quite proficient. Creating a .png file from .jpg has always confounded me in the past... I've always taken the long way around, with the fuzzy select tool. Now I know the quick and simple way. Thanks for sharing... (5 Stars to you).
I've been doing this the hard way using the wand and selecting the backround(usually easier than doing the hair), feathering the selection, then making that transperent. It does have the advantage of preserving the original image better as you don't get the the issue she shows at 4:20 and hence no need to clone.
Another way to get rid of the white lining would be to edit the layermask with the curves tool. Either blur it and then level it with the curves, or try the curves themselves. That way you can keep the original hairline and if you get it to work it can be faster than using the copy tool. Great tutorial btw :)
Oh my gosh - I've seen similar tutorials (removing background from hair) and this is the first one that actually made sense to me! Excellent job! Thank you
This tutorial was fantastic thank you so much! I had to do some funky stuff with my particular image to get the masking to work (background was too similar to the flesh tone and uneven lighting) but you saved me SO much grief with getting the hair to look normal!
I found this concise, informative and incredible that you got all that and enlargements of controls, every second was full of detail no coughing, stuttering or hesitation, very professional presentation thanks.. Can i assume that a layer like this could remain with a transparent background and layered over another photo and if so have you made a tutorial of this?
I'm going to try this tutorial. I'm under the assumption that same idea applies if the subject is African-American with a brown complexion and black hair. Or sjhould it be easier since the hair color is already a stark contrast to the background if the background is a lighter color. Thanks for your help!
I wish I'd known how to do this YEARS ago....excellent tut; I'm subscribed, and am gonna start learning 4 real...1 lesson a day 4 60 days....thanx, teach!
Thank you! Do you have another video, removing the background of the subject. e.g. a person sitting on a stool/bench. Remove the background but not the stool/bench? Gimp 2.6 is new to me from 10 years of Adobe photodeluxe 1.0 Business edition (discontinued) on a still working Dell windows 98. Thanx loads!
Your tutorials are fantastic!! You have helped me so much!! Thanks you!!! I have what is probably a stupid question, but how do I make my brush larger? I have it on the largest selection, which is "circle19", but it is sooooo small. It takes FOREVER to color the whole face!
Not bad, but personally I use more of an unorthodox technique: I'll cut around the hour manually, also cutting out parts where you can see through the hair and whatnot, then I'll use a series of brushes to add the effect of strands. I then use a 'behind' paint tool on a medium blurred sphere of about 1.00 circumference and create bridges of hair strands, for want of a better term. Being doing that for years and it always turns out fine, once you add HSV noise or something any imperfections are basically imperceptible.
@glt82 she is using the white in the inverted image to blank out the entire area that you dont want to show up in mask she paused it so we didnt have to see the 5-10min it took to make everything white
Umm..... I enjoyed your voice lady.... Fell in love with it actually.... i just love the way you speak..... cool and huh..... very nice tutorial.... Thank you for creating one and keep making such tutorials.... Have a great life
Good Video I am having problems saving with a transparent backgroud , i know that i can add a backgroud with lawer mask , but saving with transparency have been a headache Thanks for share this video
I would suggest you lock the layer alpha channel while touching up the hair/removing the rest of the background color. There sure are more elegant methods than just cloning in hair from other parts, it is clearly visible that the structure is wrong. You could add some monochrome noise in those parts and use a smudge tool and so on, there are a lot of creative ways. When you use the clone tool, maybe you should choose a part of the image where the hair falls the same way.
Had the same problem, I don't know the solution either. I do know that if you go one point ahead you can move the previous one typically. Though I've had edges of images not take the points near the edge etc...
First of all, thank you for tutorial, really helpful and straight to the point, in second, for someone that is used to photoshop and want to try the alternatives, this is a mess
That's the problem with some open source programs: they are really powerful, but not so easy to use. Gimp and Blender come to my mind. But they are free and if you are interested, then you will learn it by using them and won't have to pay anything. Anyway, I also have to say that the Adobe software isn't easy either. Specially if you have never used it. I guess for you is easy becuase you have used it. But somehow I think their options are hidden and hard to find.
@GIMPtricks O.K. -- I did not migrate from anything either & Photoshop way too costly. Have just started hearing a few negatives about the other system, so will keep learning stuff on Gimp. Seems a bit complex but word is there may be a Gimp 3 further down the track that is simple. By then, this version will not seem so daunting. -- Seems the most important thing to learn is about layers. Rgds.
the second part looks like can be improved. After masking is possible just play with BLUE component on hair border(selected first that exclude face area), just change this blue-lights/middle to brown and no need manually editing. Or i miss something?
hi nice tutorial....although I need to put a person with long hair similar to the picture you used for this tutorial into a white background. Now, I've gone far enough to cut her out of the background using the path tool but the background colour remains in her hair. How do I put her in a white background and also remove the old background colour from her hair? Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Been sitting here for hours and can't get it done!
this is just the video I needed, I followed step by step, but I can't get my paintbrush to color in like yours did. clicked on paintburch, background color. moved the mouse around and nothing. what am I doing wrong. thanks RR
this is just the video I needed, I followed step by step, but I can't get my paintbrush to color in like yours did. clicked on paintburch, background color. moved the mouse around and nothing. what am I doing wrong. thanks
@GIMPtricks Hello, I'm a rookie with Gimp and tried to use it for the first time using this tutorial. I tried to do it with a picture of someone who had blond hair and the sun was sort of shining on it from one side but on the other side you just saw a normal (dark green) background . When I tried to use your method I couldn't manage to get the contrast between the hair and the background very well because the sun and the hair had sort of the same colour. I'll continue in another comment..
This is the best tutorial I've ever seen. I believe this is because you know how to teach. Many people know GIMP, like many people know Chinese or how to fix a television. But that is not the important thing. Your teaching method is very good. You avoid the irritating tangents and "small talk", you avoided a long, useless introduction, you refrain from whipping your cursor around for no reason, you say precisely what you are doing, without useless comments, and the pace of your speech is good. Kudos to you!
I know lol so glad I found her channel!
very good i am 80 and i understood her good luck
I spent literally hours trying to accomplish this via steps learned in other tutorials. Within 30 minutes of watching this video I had fixed my son's school picture (red gradiated background) to a grey background, including the bits shining through his hair. Wonderful work, thank you for posting it.
You have a great manner of teaching step-by-step. Thank you for sharing your talents with us.
I've seen tutorials on this subject 3 times in the past, yours as much better, as it usually is.
I tried a couple of different tutorials and methods before I found yours. Yours is the best! Thank you for explaining so clearly how to achieve this!
I have watched many gimp tutorials and found this to be the best so far. I love that you had audio that explained what you were doing and also moved slow enough for me to follow along. Thank you so much!
You're a genius! I simply don't have a 'computer' brain and what you are able to do amazes me. Thanks for helping me to understand how much work is involved in using GIMP.
Thank you for such a clear and well made tutorial ... I have been GIMPing pics for SL for ages and its always taken so long to do the hair bit by bit ... thank thank thank
The clone tool is what really sets this apart from other tutorials. I usually avoid brushing stuff in myself, but this made it look less intimidating.
excellent tutorial. most of the gimp youtubers today don't explain/teach these kind of easy techniques because they want to sell their techniques in websites like udemy for people who can afford their fees. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge..👍🙏👏
Fantastic, thankyou. I have been trying to do this for ages watching someone elses video but I kept failing. Watched your video once and got it first time :-)
Thank you for keeping this simple and effective. Great technique for getting 90% of the way there. And your technique for using clone to fix the color is a game-changer for me. Awesome!
This is the best tutorial I've seen yet on doing anything in GIMP. Thank you very much and keep it up!
Thank you for this excellent tutorial. I have returned to it many times.
I've watched a few vids of yours, and I have to say I love that you don't beat around the bush, you don't have music playing in the background and you don't take forever to say what you mean. I'm pretty good with the things I know about Gimp and I'm great at figuring stuff out as I go but, darnnit, there are just some things someone needs to teach you. You're a GREAT teacher! Thanks for the vids. I would also love to know what you use to record your desktop and how to Zoom also! Thanks!
Thanks Joley, this is so much easier than zooming and using the Lasso tool.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I have been looking for a good, clear tutorial that actually EXPLAINS how to do it!
THANK YOU!! I have curly hair and have been having a hard time cuting myself from pictures. Your tutorials are always the best.
This video tutorial is amazing. It's really nice to make PNGs now without having leftovers of the background. Thanks so much!
GIMPtricks, you are outstanding! Thanx again for a clear and to the point tutorial.
Saved my day, couldn't work it out until I had seen this. You have got my subscription
Still the best tutorial on this and it's 12 years old!
I did this from time to time but never came up with the idea of cloning! Great video. Thanks!
This tutorial is going to make my editing so much easier. I think I love you.
Very well done and so helpful. So much better than most tutorials I've seen for Gimp and thank you so much for the lesson.
Hands down the best hair masking tutorial I've seen so far. Fantastic job!
The viewer to like ratio is highly suspicious though.
Such an elegant way of achieving this!
Excellent tutorial. Your clear step by step instructions are easy to follow making this very helpful. Thank you!
This is the best tutorial I have seen on isolating hair in GIMP! Thank you! I need to go and try this out!
I have to say, YOU ARE TOTALLY AWESOME! I have been working working with Gimp for several years now, and am quite proficient. Creating a .png file from .jpg has always confounded me in the past... I've always taken the long way around, with the fuzzy select tool. Now I know the quick and simple way. Thanks for sharing... (5 Stars to you).
I've been doing this the hard way using the wand and selecting the backround(usually easier than doing the hair), feathering the selection, then making that transperent. It does have the advantage of preserving the original image better as you don't get the the issue she shows at 4:20 and hence no need to clone.
Awesome! I'm a Gimp noob and quite a ways from doing this kind of thing, but it's nice to know what I'll be able to do eventually! Thanks so much.
this is literally the most helpful thing ive found so far
Another way to get rid of the white lining would be to edit the layermask with the curves tool. Either blur it and then level it with the curves, or try the curves themselves. That way you can keep the original hairline and if you get it to work it can be faster than using the copy tool. Great tutorial btw :)
Thanks, really helpful!
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this is going to help make the cutouts in my yearbook designs so much better! thankyou :)
Oh my gosh - I've seen similar tutorials (removing background from hair) and this is the first one that actually made sense to me!
Excellent job!
Thank you
This tutorial was fantastic thank you so much! I had to do some funky stuff with my particular image to get the masking to work (background was too similar to the flesh tone and uneven lighting) but you saved me SO much grief with getting the hair to look normal!
Stunning good lesson to achieve a difficult visual edit task with ease.
I found this concise, informative and incredible that you got all that and enlargements of controls, every second was full of detail no coughing, stuttering or hesitation, very professional presentation thanks.. Can i assume that a layer like this could remain with a transparent background and layered over another photo and if so have you made a tutorial of this?
This is just great! After I successfully followed your directions I was siting in front of the monitor speechless! THANK YOU SO MUCH!! :D
gimp tricks what if the background has different colors haw you can make it one color
Thank you make it sound doable. I look forward to trying it.
Versions have changed over the years but the concept is the same.
I'm going to try this tutorial. I'm under the assumption that same idea applies if the subject is African-American with a brown complexion and black hair. Or sjhould it be easier since the hair color is already a stark contrast to the background if the background is a lighter color. Thanks for your help!
感謝老師教導‼️🙏😑😊
This is very useful, I have often had trouble with hair. Thanks!
I wish I'd known how to do this YEARS ago....excellent tut; I'm subscribed, and am gonna start learning 4 real...1 lesson a day 4 60 days....thanx, teach!
I love you I love you I love you God !!!!! I tried in million way to get hair perfectly and now this video shine me.. thank you so much !
very good tutorial covers a lot of points in an easy to understand way.
thank you very much! it was very helpful! I use it in other images... not only ones with hair and it worked perfectly... so thanks...
Wow, this was more informative than a couple classes I took at college . . lol , because it's in a conveinyent video format :]
Wonderful tutorial. Thank you so much, Anita!
Brilliant! What a great idea, cutting out hair is always such a pain. Thanks!
Great tut., very instructing, i always have that exact problem. i wont using it right now, but i will soon enough. It goes to favorites.
Thank you! Do you have another video, removing the background of the subject. e.g. a person sitting on a stool/bench. Remove the background but not the stool/bench? Gimp 2.6 is new to me from 10 years of Adobe photodeluxe 1.0 Business edition (discontinued) on a still working Dell windows 98. Thanx loads!
You are a total life saver! :) ty...still learning gimp but you have just made it simple to use. Give great direction. TY TY TY
Incredible tutorial!! It inspired me to make an updated version using different technique. I've done it on my channel.
Thank you for this great presentation
Thank you! That is very helpful and I am impressed by your mastery of Gimp technique.
Your tutorials are fantastic!! You have helped me so much!! Thanks you!!! I have what is probably a stupid question, but how do I make my brush larger? I have it on the largest selection, which is "circle19", but it is sooooo small. It takes FOREVER to color the whole face!
Thanks for making it clear and simple!
Not bad, but personally I use more of an unorthodox technique: I'll cut around the hour manually, also cutting out parts where you can see through the hair and whatnot, then I'll use a series of brushes to add the effect of strands. I then use a 'behind' paint tool on a medium blurred sphere of about 1.00 circumference and create bridges of hair strands, for want of a better term. Being doing that for years and it always turns out fine, once you add HSV noise or something any imperfections are basically imperceptible.
thanks so much! Your videos are answering so many questions about things in both gimp and photoshop! :)
@glt82 she is using the white in the inverted image to blank out the entire area that you dont want to show up in mask she paused it so we didnt have to see the 5-10min it took to make everything white
Umm..... I enjoyed your voice lady.... Fell in love with it actually.... i just love the way you speak..... cool and huh..... very nice tutorial.... Thank you for creating one and keep making such tutorials.... Have a great life
I always come back to this video. I can't seem to remember how to do this. Anyway, thanks for all the help.
verry good
Wow. That was concise, informative, and accurate.
VERY well done!! Thank you so much.
what i learned..............choose images without hair LOL
Good Video
I am having problems saving with a transparent backgroud , i know that i can add a backgroud with lawer mask , but saving with transparency have been a headache
Thanks for share this video
Thanks by far the easiest way for me to cut out the background.
I would suggest you lock the layer alpha channel while touching up the hair/removing the rest of the background color. There sure are more elegant methods than just cloning in hair from other parts, it is clearly visible that the structure is wrong. You could add some monochrome noise in those parts and use a smudge tool and so on, there are a lot of creative ways. When you use the clone tool, maybe you should choose a part of the image where the hair falls the same way.
.......that selection idea was freaking brilliant
Can you do a tutorial on how to remove stray hairs? and what is the equivelint of THE SPOT HEALING BRUSH?
Had the same problem, I don't know the solution either. I do know that if you go one point ahead you can move the previous one typically. Though I've had edges of images not take the points near the edge etc...
You explained this tutorial in such great detail! Thank you so much for your help!!
First of all, thank you for tutorial, really helpful and straight to the point, in second, for someone that is used to photoshop and want to try the alternatives, this is a mess
That's the problem with some open source programs: they are really powerful, but not so easy to use. Gimp and Blender come to my mind. But they are free and if you are interested, then you will learn it by using them and won't have to pay anything.
Anyway, I also have to say that the Adobe software isn't easy either. Specially if you have never used it. I guess for you is easy becuase you have used it. But somehow I think their options are hidden and hard to find.
Thanks a ton! Your tutorials are absolutely amongst the best!
Brilliant tutorial. Deleting background from a picture which contains details like hair can be time consuming.
@GIMPtricks O.K. -- I did not migrate from anything either & Photoshop way too costly. Have just started hearing a few negatives about the other system, so will keep learning stuff on Gimp. Seems a bit complex but word is there may be a Gimp 3 further down the track that is simple. By then, this version will not seem so daunting. -- Seems the most important thing to learn is about layers. Rgds.
the second part looks like can be improved. After masking is possible just play with BLUE component on hair border(selected first that exclude face area), just change this blue-lights/middle to brown and no need manually editing. Or i miss something?
The lady is Dutch and sadly became unwell, hopefully she is better now, I cannot say, but her graphics videos are legend :D
I hope she got better! I absolutely adore her.
her voice is adorable 4 sure :D
She passed 24-10-2018
@@wilstijger1958she was a beautiful person, life is just so fragile, its almost hello and goodbye. RIP Gimptricks.
@@wilstijger1958 oh bad :(
Watching this in 2019, and still the best! Thanks!
This was very nicely done, and timely. thanks.
hi nice tutorial....although I need to put a person with long hair similar to the picture you used for this tutorial into a white background. Now, I've gone far enough to cut her out of the background using the path tool but the background colour remains in her hair. How do I put her in a white background and also remove the old background colour from her hair? Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Been sitting here for hours and can't get it done!
I enjoy these new tutorials. Thanks
Thanks , would you put a video how to replace the background ?
Incredible. Thank you for this great tutorial
At 2:41, what did you click to make it automatically color the rest of the hair white?
this is just the video I needed, I followed step by step, but I can't get my paintbrush to color in like yours did. clicked on paintburch, background color. moved the mouse around and nothing. what am I doing wrong. thanks RR
Great way to explain the procedure. Found it simple and very helpful. Thank you!
very clear instructions, great demo - thank you
Might you show how to remove small hair strands on the picture models forehead, like a photo touchup?
and i've been cropping my pictures manually.
You and I both buddy ... I wish I learned these tricks earlier ;-/
this is just the video I needed, I followed step by step, but I can't get my paintbrush to color in like yours did. clicked on paintburch, background color. moved the mouse around and nothing. what am I doing wrong. thanks
Thank you so so so so so much! I just started using gimp tonight and this really helped. Great job!
@GIMPtricks Hello, I'm a rookie with Gimp and tried to use it for the first time using this tutorial. I tried to do it with a picture of someone who had blond hair and the sun was sort of shining on it from one side but on the other side you just saw a normal (dark green) background . When I tried to use your method I couldn't manage to get the contrast between the hair and the background very well because the sun and the hair had sort of the same colour. I'll continue in another comment..
After coloring the face white, how did you make the hair all white?
OMG! THANK YOU SO SO SO MUCH! This is brilliant, I've been manually cropping hair out all this time, damn! Thank you again ^^
Thanks very much, this is what I was looking for. Much appreciated.