If one doesn't use GIMP on a regular basis the learned foundation goes away. I was asked to manipulate an image and I NEEDED this tutorial. AND YES, you did mention in the video that there is more than one way to do this but this helped me immensely. Yes, it was lengthy but aren't ALL projects lengthy? A NEW SUBSCRIBER! We GIMP newbies need you!
Oh my word!! THANK YOU SO MUCH. I've just downloaded GIMP primarily to remove the background from some of my cake pics (I'm a cake artist). I have little to no knowledge about image manipulation technology, so finding your tutorial really, really helppful. I'll be back!
Good idea. But while watching I thought of something simpler (still, thanks for getting the thoughts started!) After turning the background black, one could use the magic wand to select the black area outside the woman, which would not select any of the dark areas inside her outline. Then one could simply eliminate the top layer, erase everything within the selection, and have the picture of the woman ready to insert into the other picture.
You are the best.. I searched over many videos but wasted almost half a day, but the moment i found your video, my editing finished in less than 15mins..Thanks keep continuing..
Absolutely brilliant, helped me update my logo so it was transparent on any image, can't thank you enough - if anyone is moaning it is too long, I did it as I worked, paused a lot and then fast forwarded on the white bit, easy to do, but it helped me achieve what I needed. Stop moaning for the sake of it!
This video is really helpful! I had used Photoshop previously, and only a few times, as a hobby. This tutorial is one of the proofs that GIMP is (non "geek"-)user-friendly. Will keep using GIMP and support open source projects! !
I usually just use "select by color" tool on the background enlarge the selection and then soften the selection, seems much faster to me. If the background is too complicated and blends too much with what I want to cut out I manually erease the edges.
Thanks for this detailed, step-by-step tutorial and the inclusion of the image files you used. As a complete novice in photo editing, I found the instructions so-o much easier to follow:I knew what the finished product was supposed to look like. I initially had a hard time figuring out how to add the alpha channel: the option was greyed out on the dropdown. Somehow, I noticed that the image as copied/pasted into GIMP came in with an alpha channel (which was why I couldn't click on the selection). Experimenting, I removed the layer, then was able to add it back (probably an extra step). Everything worked fine from then on. I also appreciated that you didn't have your mouse flying willy-nilly all over the screen; you just moved it to synchronize with your explanation..I'll definitely be viewing some of your other videos.
Very well explained. Great tip on not holding the mouse-button down too long. We all learn the hard way, when we slip into the main image and have to undo a ton of work.
Two observations bud: One I wouldn't have touched the area where her hair touches the background. That will cause issues when you try to use her image on a different background. AND two you could have selected the edge of the subject using one of the selection tools. By selecting an area you confine the brush tool just to the selected area and avoids your brush from bleeding into the blackout even if you stray into it with the tool. It would have allowed you to complete the project much faster. As it is usually the case there is more than one way to do things but the tips above would save a whole lot of ctrl+z. Great video
Many thanks for this. Do you think that in future tutorials you could explain the 'why' of each step in using this kind of thing (using masks) in GIMP in more detail? I want to understand the concept of painting black and painting white a little more, and also the function of the alpha layer.
im learning gimp for work and these videos are really great slow and very well explained, I followed along with you and the result was way better than using the select tool thanks a lot for the great content 👍
Right until the moment at 19:14 where you dragged your background image into the layers window, I was fine. Then my background image loaded 'Ontop'! So what went wrong? Can I fix this? TURK
Thanks for this. I don't mind the lack of editing to make it real time as it gave me time to work on my own image. Look forward to other methods as well which method fits which type of image best. For example my image didn't have the woman as the best lit element so her jumper blended into the background making the mask area a bit tricky. Real time mask editing whilst looking at the end result must be an option in Gimp (to save you turning the image layer on and off all the time)?
Great tutorial! I had problem when I tried to scale my mask layer, it would resize the visible but the mask wouldn’t move with it so you saw the white inverted left in the original position. I got it to work by right clicking on the mask layer and new layer choosing “new from visible”. I am not sure what I did wrong from your tutorial as you didn’t have that problem. Maybe this will help someone else. Thanks for the tutorial. Very helpful. Yes, it’s a bit more time consuming but it’s pretty crisp and clean around the edges unlike the wand or scissor tool.
In the layer which contains the layer mask, click on the thumbnail on left side which has the image and then resize, do not select the back and white layer mask as this will only resize the layer mask...
Question: I hope you can help. Currently running GIMP 2.10.10 and suddenly when switching from fill bucket to paint brush it loses the settings I had for paint brush. Becomes square when initially set up for round. Forces me to have to stop to change it each and every time. What could the problem be?
This helped me a great deal but I am unable to insert another background photo into the layer when I get to that point any idea why? I have jpeg photos I'm trying to use for the background but when I tried dragging them into the layer they won't go in. help!
Hi, I wondered how would this work if the background was a similar colour to the foreground, I'd imagine if that was the case when you invert the image the colours would be the same/similar and therefore when you try to adjust the levels it would be a bit of a struggle?
Oh WOW..... and you're a perfectionist like me. lol I really love the last step of being able to move the object around and even scale it off of the background image. You can do so much with this. Thanks so much.
I usually like to do this so that I lower the opacity when painting the mask so I don't have to click on the eye to check stuff. It maybe takes a little time to get used to as you kinda may miss a spot but after a while it makes masking a bit faster and smoother.
A great lesson on creating a mask. The only issue she doesn't fit that background the background is more in focus than her. All I would do is to blur the background so she would look like this was shot in-camera not a composited photo.
I have gimp 2.10.24 everything appears to be the same but at the point where I go to colors, desaturate and desaturate again it doesn't change my picture gray, it doesn't appear to do anything with my picture, Any advice
really nice vid, but now i'm trying myself and i find that this only works on an image that presents a brighter (white or alike) background compared to a darker subject. Moreon, i could think about inverting colors but some subject cast shadows in a part of their body so brightness can't be separated from background... Is there any other way or am i doing it the wrong way?
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I need help ! Plz ! when I try to put the background for my picture I wan to do another layer pops up with the background I want to do it with and the original picture then appears a mini square. All I have done all the steps you have done like what ?
I learned to convert JPEG to a PNG, set alpha channel, then can use the magic wand tool, to select and delete large areas of the image, then eraser tool, zooming down to achieve fine eraser lines, Zooming in and out , I dont use this method, seems to be to many things to do, like making the whole like photo negative. I use gimp for cut outs for video parts and for music album art.
Thank you for this. Useful GIMP tutorials are fairly thin on the ground. Can I suggest that you skip ahead when masking out. Other than that it is very helpful.
All the tutorials I seem to find are of perfect pics. There's always a shadow or something in all mine that just doesn't work. I end up using like 3-4 different software to achieve a result that I feel I should be able to do in just one! Thanks though!
@@dcpwebdesignersI have done that, no problem. Funnily enough, I was born in Khartoum, Sudan not Ilford. I am English but living in South Africa. Anyway, just sharing.
@@dcpwebdesigners May I ask a question. I am trying to do a Caricature on GIMP, but when I come to move the head to 'Float' I can't as it is grey out. What am I doing wrong? Help, please!
When I try to scale the image of the person, it either disappears or scales the outline I made (so it just becomes a different section of the picture). It works fine when I move the person and I've selected the picture rather than the blackout in the layers section. How can I stop it doing this and just scale the person?
DCP Web Designers Thanks my kind sir. I have always had difficult cutting things out but recently my friend recommended Gimp since I can’t afford photoshop atm......Thanks for the link and replying btw!
My G! Thanks for this tut, really helped me on my small project, I was just thinking, if you know how, or can find out, as i don't know how, maybe you can do the lapse edit next time, that way it speeds up the slow parts for you and the vid still stays short how you wanted it, just an idea. Thanks again for the tut, just what i needed!
Do you have a video on how to change the lighting of the front ground image? So it can match... Or how to add accent colours from the background? Thank you. :)
First time trying to work with GIMP 2.10.12. Gotta say -- I HATE IT! Yeah, maybe once I've figured out where everything was moved to and hidden -- and how it works differently now! -- it'll be good once again... maybe. But, the 'click on the eyeball' to switch between B&W layer and the actual picture? IT NEVER WORKS! It "locks" ... something to something -- on both little icons in the dialog box -- and then I cannot get into the actual photo (it's locked!) ... and working back up through the Undo history to the last "Paint" and starting over (and over and over!) doing the Select all, Cut, TRY to get to the actual photo and add alpha layer and paste.... Nope. A plain-full-white box (sometimes) shows up in the dialog box next to the photo when I paste. Did manage once -- not sure how -- to get the white cut-out part to show on top of the photo.... but that isn't removing the background!! "Upgrading your user experience." ARGH! (Sorry - just have to blow off steam after spending 2+ hours turning the background black and the item white... apparently for naught! . I'm gonna go reinstall the earlier version of GIMP so I can get my work done.)
Thank you for the tutorial, it was very helpful, very cool stuff! If you don't mind me saying, for future videos, you may want to show the technique and then cut to the next portion, instead of recording the whole process. Kind of like they do in cooking shows. Anyhow, I look forward to your next videos.
YEP, If you convert your JPEG to a PNG, import the image, set your alpha channel layer, you can just use your eraser tool and erase the background. ALSO...dont use the eraser as brush, set your eraser tool as solid, it makes it easier, especially when max zoom for getting close to the image.
I'm a Gimp user and a free software user in general but I have to admit that the Photoshop tool to remove backgounds is far much easier and efficient as for what I've seen in the purpose of removing backgrounds
Oh my gosh! This was/is helpful! I've been looking for so long on how to get rid of a background to make it transparent the easy way! Thank you so much :)
Great video for removing the sky from my picture, now I am running into some issues with re-scaling the new background, it is way too small for my main image and it has the weird cut outs when I move it around, HELP!?
Very good result! But all this could take me only a few clicks using other on line free programmes such as remove background and lunapic (adding artistic effects and animation while I'm at it) and the job is done cleanly in less than two minutes. Why should I have to suffer all this using Gimp?
Thank you for your video in this tutorial you exampled the process very well step by step in half pace to a beginner like myself I have subscribed to your channel of course :)
i have a butterfly image with designs on the front, and when I inverted the image parts of the front of the butterfly turned also black along with the outside
When I'd gotten my cutout image onto the new background, I tried to scale down the cutout the same way, holding down the shift key while in the scale tool. The cutout reduced in size nicely, but when I clicked "scale," it turned into a fragment of the original image with the old background. What am I doing wrong? (I'm in 2.10.8)
Not sure what you are doing wrong, I will try to make another tutorial soon using latest version of Gimp, as the tutorial you are viewing I made a while ago so it sure if anything has changed. The layer mask and the image need to be scaled the same size to work correctly.
when i click on the paintbrush it doesnt let me paint the way you just did, it gives me the big gimp logo thing and whenever i click somewhere on the picture it places the gimp logo
When I drag the background photo in, it's always smaller than my photo ( the woman photo). And when I change the size, both photo size change. Can you tell me how to adjust the background photo? thanks
yes mate I had this problem to: if you click the little eye icon next to the layer it should hide/ display the layer. so just hide the layer after you cut it by clicking the eye (you will delete it later anyway)
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If one doesn't use GIMP on a regular basis the learned foundation goes away. I was asked to manipulate an image and I NEEDED this tutorial. AND YES, you did mention in the video that there is more than one way to do this but this helped me immensely. Yes, it was lengthy but aren't ALL projects lengthy? A NEW SUBSCRIBER! We GIMP newbies need you!
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Oh my word!! THANK YOU SO MUCH. I've just downloaded GIMP primarily to remove the background from some of my cake pics (I'm a cake artist). I have little to no knowledge about image manipulation technology, so finding your tutorial really, really helppful. I'll be back!
Cool 😎 thanks 👍
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Absolute zero day newbie to GIMP who found your tutorial easy to follow and remember, very useful for slow learners like me!
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My head exploded when you imported the second image to Layers directly! Yes, I'm a GIMP newbie. Thank you immensely!
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Good idea. But while watching I thought of something simpler (still, thanks for getting the thoughts started!) After turning the background black, one could use the magic wand to select the black area outside the woman, which would not select any of the dark areas inside her outline. Then one could simply eliminate the top layer, erase everything within the selection, and have the picture of the woman ready to insert into the other picture.
Yes you can do this but magic wand will not cut around fine hair detail so that might be lost...
You are the best.. I searched over many videos but wasted almost half a day, but the moment i found your video, my editing finished in less than 15mins..Thanks keep continuing..
Thanks 👍 have fun 👍
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Absolutely brilliant, helped me update my logo so it was transparent on any image, can't thank you enough - if anyone is moaning it is too long, I did it as I worked, paused a lot and then fast forwarded on the white bit, easy to do, but it helped me achieve what I needed. Stop moaning for the sake of it!
Cool 😎 thanks 👍 have fun 👍
This video is really helpful! I had used Photoshop previously, and only a few times, as a hobby. This tutorial is one of the proofs that GIMP is (non "geek"-)user-friendly. Will keep using GIMP and support open source projects!
!
Cool 😎 thanks 👍 more
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I usually just use "select by color" tool on the background enlarge the selection and then soften the selection, seems much faster to me. If the background is too complicated and blends too much with what I want to cut out I manually erease the edges.
Ok
Thanks for this detailed, step-by-step tutorial and the inclusion of the image files you used. As a complete novice in photo editing, I found the instructions so-o much easier to follow:I knew what the finished product was supposed to look like. I initially had a hard time figuring out how to add the alpha channel: the option was greyed out on the dropdown. Somehow, I noticed that the image as copied/pasted into GIMP came in with an alpha channel (which was why I couldn't click on the selection). Experimenting, I removed the layer, then was able to add it back (probably an extra step). Everything worked fine from then on. I also appreciated that you didn't have your mouse flying willy-nilly all over the screen; you just moved it to synchronize with your explanation..I'll definitely be viewing some of your other videos.
Many thanks 😊
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Very well explained. Great tip on not holding the mouse-button down too long. We all learn the hard way, when we slip into the main image and have to undo a ton of work.
Thanks 😎
Two observations bud: One I wouldn't have touched the area where her hair touches the background. That will cause issues when you try to use her image on a different background. AND two you could have selected the edge of the subject using one of the selection tools. By selecting an area you confine the brush tool just to the selected area and avoids your brush from bleeding into the blackout even if you stray into it with the tool. It would have allowed you to complete the project much faster. As it is usually the case there is more than one way to do things but the tips above would save a whole lot of ctrl+z. Great video
Thanks for the tips 👍 awesome
Easiest step I ever seen. I don't have photoshop cuz I have to pay for em. By using this, this just makes my life easier.
Cool 😎 thanks 👍
I was able to watch this video and remove the background for my image right away. Super helpful. Thanks so much!
Excellent and well done 👍🚀
Really helpful, I found this method of removing the background although a bit of work has really good results. Added to my bookmarks
Thanks 😊
This is Best GIMP tutorial on youtube , thanks for all the efforts in making and sharing this .
Thanks 😎
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Many thanks for this. Do you think that in future tutorials you could explain the 'why' of each step in using this kind of thing (using masks) in GIMP in more detail? I want to understand the concept of painting black and painting white a little more, and also the function of the alpha layer.
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im learning gimp for work and these videos are really great
slow and very well explained, I followed along with you and the result was way better than using the select tool
thanks a lot for the great content 👍
Have fun ☺️
Brilliant..am discovering how do use GIMP to do these cool things. Thanks for sharing! Very nice tutorial.
Thanks 👍
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Right until the moment at 19:14 where you dragged your background image into the layers window, I was fine. Then my background image loaded 'Ontop'!
So what went wrong?
Can I fix this?
TURK
On the layer left click and drag the background layer down
@@dcpwebdesigners WOW, that was quick ................... almost like you were looking over my shoulder! ; )
I'll give that a go
Thanks
TURK
You mean the layer in the 'Layers' window on the right? been trying that, doesn't work!? : (
You need to left click and hold down the mouse button when dragging
Or click on the bottom layer and create a new blank layer, try to drag that to the bottom and the select that layer and the import the background
Thanks for this. I don't mind the lack of editing to make it real time as it gave me time to work on my own image. Look forward to other methods as well which method fits which type of image best. For example my image didn't have the woman as the best lit element so her jumper blended into the background making the mask area a bit tricky. Real time mask editing whilst looking at the end result must be an option in Gimp (to save you turning the image layer on and off all the time)?
Hi, thanks 😎
I have made some other Gimp remove background tutorials, check my TH-cam channel / playlist = Gimp tutorials
Been changing the opacity of the mask layer to see the copy layer underneath, it's really been helping a lot.
Yup good idea
Great tutorial! I had problem when I tried to scale my mask layer, it would resize the visible but the mask wouldn’t move with it so you saw the white inverted left in the original position. I got it to work by right clicking on the mask layer and new layer
choosing “new from visible”. I am not sure what I did wrong from your tutorial as you didn’t have that problem. Maybe this will help someone else. Thanks for the tutorial. Very helpful. Yes, it’s a bit more time consuming but it’s pretty crisp and clean around the edges unlike the wand or scissor tool.
In the layer which contains the layer mask, click on the thumbnail on left side which has the image and then resize, do not select the back and white layer mask as this will only resize the layer mask...
That is what I was clicked on but it still did it .
Nice tuts. thank you
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Thank you so much for the tutorial on removing backgrounds, saved me such a headache in doing my artwork :). This was so awesome and simple!
Cool thanks 😎
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Question: I hope you can help. Currently running GIMP 2.10.10 and suddenly when switching from fill bucket to paint brush it loses the settings I had for paint brush. Becomes square when initially set up for round. Forces me to have to stop to change it each and every time. What could the problem be?
Try in install latest build version of Gimp
This helped me a great deal but I am unable to insert another background photo into the layer when I get to that point any idea why? I have jpeg photos I'm trying to use for the background but when I tried dragging them into the layer they won't go in. help!
Try to graf the image into the canvas
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Thanks for the tip to release the mouse when you were painting the background. It is frustrating when you slip and loose all of the work you just did.
Awesome - thanks :)
Hi, I wondered how would this work if the background was a similar colour to the foreground, I'd imagine if that was the case when you invert the image the colours would be the same/similar and therefore when you try to adjust the levels it would be a bit of a struggle?
Yes similar coloured content need to be cut out manually so is a much longer process
@@dcpwebdesigners thanks
We need more GIMP tuts!!!
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Oh WOW..... and you're a perfectionist like me. lol I really love the last step of being able to move the object around and even scale it off of the background image. You can do so much with this. Thanks so much.
Thanks 😊
I usually like to do this so that I lower the opacity when painting the mask so I don't have to click on the eye to check stuff. It maybe takes a little time to get used to as you kinda may miss a spot but after a while it makes masking a bit faster and smoother.
Cool thanks for the tip 👍
would thatbe same as using the select scissors tool then copy and paste to selection?
Yes similar but layer mask is more accurate
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I really enjoy your programs and appreciate your humor and humility. You have made my experience playing with my new Fuji XT 3 much more meaningful .
Cool thanks 😎
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Thanks mate.
Most move to fast.
You don't.
Brilliant
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A great lesson on creating a mask. The only issue she doesn't fit that background the background is more in focus than her.
All I would do is to blur the background so she would look like this was shot in-camera not a composited photo.
Thanks 😎 yes I agree, was my first attempt 👍
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how would i keep the backround transparent? this seems to leave it there but hidden, it shows back up when i drop the image into powerdirector
Export file using PNG format
What about image where contrast aren't that strong and unfortunately the part of hair is very "confused". I ended up have a shadow around the hairs
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I have gimp 2.10.24 everything appears to be the same but at the point where I go to colors, desaturate and desaturate again it doesn't change my picture gray, it doesn't appear to do anything with my picture, Any advice
Make sure to select the correct layer
really nice vid, but now i'm trying myself and i find that this only works on an image that presents a brighter (white or alike) background compared to a darker subject. Moreon, i could think about inverting colors but some subject cast shadows in a part of their body so brightness can't be separated from background... Is there any other way or am i doing it the wrong way?
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@@dcpwebdesigners thanks a lot
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Very nicely taught, took your time but yet thank you very much.. looking forward for more thanks..
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I need help ! Plz ! when I try to put the background for my picture I wan to do another layer pops up with the background I want to do it with and the original picture then appears a mini square. All I have done all the steps you have done like what ?
You can use dodge and burn tool to clean mask without woring to much about edges. Or set blend mode of the brush to opacity.
Sorry, overlay not opacity.
Thanks for tip
The curves are still really hard, but I really like this video tutorial you did! Thanks!
Cool 😎
I learned to convert JPEG to a PNG, set alpha channel, then can use the magic wand tool, to select and delete large areas of the image, then eraser tool, zooming down to achieve fine eraser lines, Zooming in and out , I dont use this method, seems to be to many things to do, like making the whole like photo negative. I use gimp for cut outs for video parts and for music album art.
More than 1 way to cut out and image...... This way has most control for me...
You can do the edges more easily if you use the dodge and burn tools at a very low setting instead of the paint brush.
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This works. Recommended to try this out. Thanks a lot for your help
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How can I make multiple text sizes? When I highlight one word it changes every single word so frustrating.
Create separate layers for each text size
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Awesome... Thank You So Much!! I was able to follow step by step instructions...
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Why not use fuzzy select when prepping the image for filling white areas?
Fuzzy select too will not do a good job on fine hair lines....
10:00 Wouldn't it have been better to use the pencil tool which has the hard edge?
Yup always a better way to improve this tutorial, did my best with the knowledge I had at the time 👍
Thank for the tip 👍
Thank you for sharing the knowledge. I learned two methods to do this today. From this video and another one. Keep it up!
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Super Helpful. Thank You!
Cool :)
This is an awesome tutorial. Thank you so much for putting this together!
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How are you able to get GIMP 2.10 to move fast while painting or editing?
Use a lower Res image
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Intresting but I'd just use the foreground selection tool after duplicating the layer, or possibly a quick mask selection
Ok I will check them out soon
Hi, is possible to remove background in multiple steps? I mean, if I've removed the sky and saved the image, can I remove the floor later?
Yes you can do this but you will need to edit the layer mask after
Thank you am new to gimp and this is so helpful
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6:32 why not just magic want tool on the black, invert it and then delete and make the entire thing white with the bucket, rather than drawing white?
Good question, just a another way to do this...
Magic wand will probably not work well if there is fine detail like strands of hair...
Thank you for this. Useful GIMP tutorials are fairly thin on the ground. Can I suggest that you skip ahead when masking out. Other than that it is very helpful.
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All the tutorials I seem to find are of perfect pics. There's always a shadow or something in all mine that just doesn't work. I end up using like 3-4 different software to achieve a result that I feel I should be able to do in just one! Thanks though!
Practice makes perfect 👍
I did enjoy this tutorial, thank you
As a newbie I need these.
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@@dcpwebdesignersI have done that, no problem. Funnily enough, I was born in Khartoum, Sudan not Ilford. I am English but living in South Africa. Anyway, just sharing.
@@dcpwebdesigners May I ask a question. I am trying to do a Caricature on GIMP, but when I come to move the head to 'Float' I can't as it is grey out. What am I doing wrong?
Help, please!
Please post your issue with example on Facebook group as I am not sure, but others may be able to help facebook.com/groups/gimptuts/?ref=share
Thank you for taking the time to do this step by step! :)
Cool 😎 thanks 👍
When I try to scale the image of the person, it either disappears or scales the outline I made (so it just becomes a different section of the picture). It works fine when I move the person and I've selected the picture rather than the blackout in the layers section. How can I stop it doing this and just scale the person?
Inside the layer you will see the image and mask side by side, try clicking on the image and resizing
@@dcpwebdesigners That's what I did but it's still not working
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Thank you very much , now I will understand the functionality
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This won’t work so well with a light background I’m assuming.... Is there an easier way to do it manually?
You can check other Gimp background removal tutorials here
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DCP Web Designers Thanks my kind sir. I have always had difficult cutting things out but recently my friend recommended Gimp since I can’t afford photoshop atm......Thanks for the link and replying btw!
use paths tool bro
My G! Thanks for this tut, really helped me on my small project, I was just thinking, if you know how, or can find out, as i don't know how, maybe you can do the lapse edit next time, that way it speeds up the slow parts for you and the vid still stays short how you wanted it, just an idea.
Thanks again for the tut, just what i needed!
Thanks 😎 yeah that video was a bit long lol
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Do you have a video on how to change the lighting of the front ground image? So it can match... Or how to add accent colours from the background? Thank you. :)
Will try make a tutorial when I get some more free time 👍
You need to colour correct each layer, hue, saturation etc
It's work thanks ,,
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when I get to l;evels and bring slider to right The whole pic turns black not just the background?
Make sure you have selected the correct layer
Awesome job! How do I blur the background first to give it a more realistic feel or a more bokeh effect?
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First time trying to work with GIMP 2.10.12. Gotta say -- I HATE IT! Yeah, maybe once I've figured out where everything was moved to and hidden -- and how it works differently now! -- it'll be good once again... maybe. But, the 'click on the eyeball' to switch between B&W layer and the actual picture? IT NEVER WORKS! It "locks" ... something to something -- on both little icons in the dialog box -- and then I cannot get into the actual photo (it's locked!) ... and working back up through the Undo history to the last "Paint" and starting over (and over and over!) doing the Select all, Cut, TRY to get to the actual photo and add alpha layer and paste.... Nope. A plain-full-white box (sometimes) shows up in the dialog box next to the photo when I paste. Did manage once -- not sure how -- to get the white cut-out part to show on top of the photo.... but that isn't removing the background!! "Upgrading your user experience." ARGH! (Sorry - just have to blow off steam after spending 2+ hours turning the background black and the item white... apparently for naught! . I'm gonna go reinstall the earlier version of GIMP so I can get my work done.)
Not sure why you having issues, latest version of Gimp works well for me
Thank you for the tutorial, it was very helpful, very cool stuff! If you don't mind me saying, for future videos, you may want to show the technique and then cut to the next portion, instead of recording the whole process. Kind of like they do in cooking shows. Anyhow, I look forward to your next videos.
Thanks 😎
Well done, you're a STAR. Easily the best demonstration I've seen ( and I've seen quite a few over the last week).Mike.
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Nice tut. Can you show us how to quickly change the background of an image to white for ecommerce product pages. Thanks.
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That was awesome. Thanks for sharing with us.
Cool 😎 Many thanks 😊
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This is a great to the point one. Pretty simple rather! Thanks
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YEP, If you convert your JPEG to a PNG, import the image, set your alpha channel layer, you can just use your eraser tool and erase the background. ALSO...dont use the eraser as brush, set your eraser tool as solid, it makes it easier, especially when max zoom for getting close to the image.
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I'm a Gimp user and a free software user in general but I have to admit that the Photoshop tool to remove backgounds is far much easier and efficient as for what I've seen in the purpose of removing backgrounds
Yes I agree Photoshop is awesome but Gimp is free so is also awesome
Yes, anyway, I only use free softwares. But this feature is really missing. Thank you anyway for the tutorial
Nice..You explain so good ..Thanks
Thanks 😎
Oh my gosh! This was/is helpful! I've been looking for so long on how to get rid of a background to make it transparent the easy way! Thank you so much :)
Cool 😎
Great video for removing the sky from my picture, now I am running into some issues with re-scaling the new background, it is way too small for my main image and it has the weird cut outs when I move it around, HELP!?
You need to find and image which is hi resolution like the original image you edited
Try
Unsplash.com
Pexels.com
Pixabay.com
All free images !
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Very good result! But all this could take me only a few clicks using other on line free programmes such as remove background and lunapic (adding artistic effects and animation while I'm at it) and the job is done cleanly in less than two minutes. Why should I have to suffer all this using Gimp?
Simply use the tool that gets the job done
Thank you for your video in this tutorial you exampled the process very well step by step in half pace to a beginner like myself I have subscribed to your channel of course :)
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Cheers mate very helpful and detailed, appreciate it
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Seems like it would be more efficient to select the black background and then invert the selection and fill the selection with white.
Yes that is possible as well , many ways to remove background 👌
Very useful for the beginner like me . Good Job!
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i have a butterfly image with designs on the front, and when I inverted the image parts of the front of the butterfly turned also black along with the outside
When I click alpha channel it doesn’t do anything app art from changing the text of the photo?
Alpha channel is used for transparency in image, should be applied before you do any editing
When I'd gotten my cutout image onto the new background, I tried to scale down the cutout the same way, holding down the shift key while in the scale tool. The cutout reduced in size nicely, but when I clicked "scale," it turned into a fragment of the original image with the old background. What am I doing wrong? (I'm in 2.10.8)
Not sure what you are doing wrong, I will try to make another tutorial soon using latest version of Gimp, as the tutorial you are viewing I made a while ago so it sure if anything has changed. The layer mask and the image need to be scaled the same size to work correctly.
This was very helpful. Thank you very much for your tutorial
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when i click on the paintbrush it doesnt let me paint the way you just did, it gives me the big gimp logo thing and whenever i click somewhere on the picture it places the gimp logo
Hmmmmm very strange! Uninstall gimp and Download the latest version
This method is effective but quite laborious.
When I drag the background photo in, it's always smaller than my photo ( the woman photo). And when I change the size, both photo size change. Can you tell me how to adjust the background photo? thanks
Make sure the background is on separate layer before resizing
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For some reason whenever I get to the cut step when I cut it just turns the whole background white or black any help?
yes mate I had this problem to:
if you click the little eye icon next to the layer it should hide/ display the layer. so just hide the layer after you cut it by clicking the eye (you will delete it later anyway)
Close to the first of the video when I go to adjust my layers -- the picture gets lighter instead of darker.
Try doing the tutorial again but with basic image and see if it works ok
Any idea why once I've removed the background I can't draw on the foreground image? The brush just erases the image!
Add a transparent layer above
The current layer is using layer mask, so when your are painting you are effecting the mask not the image, simply add layer Adobe
I have no idea what I did wrong. Once it reached the pasting step it just became a 3rd layer
Try the same process again but use a simple image and simple layer mask, i.e. get use to the process before doing complex maks
May I know the size of the woman picture and the size of the background image?
Please check TH-cam description - I have added links to images I used.
Perfect, thank you so much!
Cool 😎 thanks 👍
could u show us the threshold found under color ?
Ok
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