Thank you. A great instructional video. As a newbie-starting with almost zero knowledge of photo editing and GIMP-it took me a while to follow along (I rewatched parts of the video several times) and get a similar result to yours. But finishing with passable results was a eureka moment for me in terms of ‘understanding’ gimp. (FYI, Matting Levin isn’t available on my version, which caused me some frustration at first, but the Matting Global finally worked when I turned the iterations up to 10!) Cheers, P
Thank you for this great tutorial, I somehow managed to skip the Path tools, I selected carefully with the Foreground Tool checking every edge, and then I have Add Layer Mask pressing Selection, selected the Selection tool and pressed somewhere not in the image in order to get rid of the selection and then I saved the transparent image.
Can you use Intelligent Scissors instead of Paths Tool to outline and crop out the image and then remove the background? Or am I better to follow all the steps in this tutorial? Hope this question makes sense.
Beginner here, thank you for your tutorial, I have been trying to do this 4:41 part by using same engine and same settings that you have kept but its processing longer than usual. Is there anyway i can do that a little fast?
I'm having a problem using the bucket fill tool. After using the path tool, the black colour fills the background instead of the foreground. How can I do it?
for 3 days i have been to every tutorial and i can not get my gimp to look like this...please send a link...i would be very grateful and want to follow all your totorials
Great tutorial, could follow with little experience in gimp. Took me 1-2 hours even though this is considered a quick method (had to do repathing). Makes me appreciating the effort that goes into editing much more now!
I'm also using 2.10.10 of gimp but for some reason, I can't find all the layers on the right and the tools on the left. Has it got to do with customization? Really hope you can help me because this has been putting me off using gimp
All of this things ks clearly possible for machine intelect to do by itself. There should be some great software tool existed which is intended to do different complicated manipulation on backgrounds.
Nice video - I am having this problem. After using foreground select when I want to move to brush tool, it starts computing aloha channel and then the computer gets frozen. Can you please advise where I could be doing wrong. Thanks
is there any other way to do this? everytime i try this i get "computing alpha of unknown pixels" then the whole program goes grey and not responding then i have to shut down my whole computer to get it back... just for some taking the background..... or ill just pay for photoshop
Stupid question- whenever I put a transparent BG on something, then put a new layer behind it (IE what he did in 11.30 ish) I retain the 'checkerbox' pattern & simply cant get rid of this. Even after flatten layers etc I still have the checker indicator. When he put the gradient behind the checker pattern disappeared- what have I got set differently? Any ideas anyoe? Cheers if you have!
Remove alpha channel on the background seems to have done it. Only taken me 5 vids to find that one! (Although none of the vids showed it). Complex software.
I saved a texture and when I scaled it I was left with a transparent background which I'm trying to get ride of I'm assuming it's the alpha which I learned about from you. Can you help me please?
Oops, don't understand what happened in 3:21 . After closing the selection I expected it outlined by "marching ants" but everything got blue instead...
I'm a newbie to all of this. By using this, is there a way to make the background transparent after you have removed the entire background without have to restart everything?
Right click on the image layer and go to "Add Alpha Channel." Then, hit the delete key when you have your selection area drawn. If you saved your selection as a path in your Paths dialogue, you can click "Path to Selection" to bring up the selection again. You may need to invert the selection (Select>Invert) if you don't have your background selected. Then press the delete key on your keyboard.
So I changed my background to a different picture and pasted myself on it on gimp. How do you make it less photoshopped on the background image? It looks very photoshopped!
Make sure antialiasing and feathered edges are selected when you're in the selection tools. This helps the edges blend into the background. Paste your selection on a transparency layer (above the background layer) before merging it with your background layer, and adjust the opacity down just a nudge, too.
Those of us that didn't need to "adjust", you kinda left us hanging. Also, another tip, go slower! It's easier to follow when you go a bit slower than trying to pause the video, do what you said, unpause.. etc. :) Otherwise tutorials are great!
This is why young people use phone apps to edit their photos. I have an app that will instantly remove the background from any image automatically. It does a better job than GIMP and I just have to upload the photo and wait 3 seconds for the AI to do it for me. If companies like GIMP don't get on the bandwagon and update their technology offerings, they won't be around 10 - 15 years from now.
I feel invaded by your library in the foreground of this video. What has it to do with Gimp? Do you know why the false icon Albert Einstein never received the Nobel Prize for "his" relativity theory? Yes, spot the clue. About the isolation of your portrait. The process is neither short nor simple. Show a qualified example, a person with Afro hair or an image with low contrast between fore- and background. Is contrast via channels possible with Gimp?
Jesus Christ this video may have been useful if I had been able to watch it among the ton of ads you've filled it with! Literally every time I tried to skip ahead a new ads started, WTF...It's ok adding a couple of ads man, but this really sucks.
wow so for the last two weeks I have been on UA-cam for hours and in all honesty his tutorial at time can appear to be complex but I end up always coming back to him because my images looks sloppy or fake and I'm missing the knowledge to fix it. My point for complete beginners, you got to take your time and learn these basics or your find your self always getting stuck which will result in you to loose motivation and to just give up on it. Like the GYM just going is the 1st step but you have to learn the right technic or you loose motivation and even can heart your self. Thank you for these amazing tutorials.
Opened up gimp and it looks NOTHING like what is in the video. Where is the toolbox and the foreground select tool? Worst tutorial ever but I guess you get what you pay for. I'm off to pay for Photoshop. Gimp crashed 3 times. I'm done with Gimp. [UPDATE - 20 minutes later] OMFG! I accomplished this is 3 minutes in Photoshop! Totally worth the cost!
Does anyone know why I cannot fill into a layer where there is transparency in GIMP and why the move tool moves the whole layer and not the selection! And why the 4 size Pixel brush is 3 pixels and when I make it one step bigger it is 5 pixels? GIMP is such garbage.. Either that or I am missing some major stuff!
Do you have a document explaining all the keyboard shortcut to zoom in and out and other useful keyboard shortcuts? By the way, you never explained how you created the blue background. Thank you for this tutorial. 🤔
I really love everything about GIMP except the selection tool because it's terrible at it, the Result isn't satisfying, at least for me the software struggle where to the point can't recognize my object and mess up everything it's funny how picsart in my phone give me better Result then GIMP I hope Developer improve the selection tool and make it better
Thank you. A great instructional video. As a newbie-starting with almost zero knowledge of photo editing and GIMP-it took me a while to follow along (I rewatched parts of the video several times) and get a similar result to yours. But finishing with passable results was a eureka moment for me in terms of ‘understanding’ gimp. (FYI, Matting Levin isn’t available on my version, which caused me some frustration at first, but the Matting Global finally worked when I turned the iterations up to 10!)
Cheers, P
This guy is a great professional with GIMP app. This guideline on image backgrounds could be useful for book covers. Good job, Davies Media Design.
This channel is pure gold. And you present the content in a very good way. Thank you very much for your effort!
Best background removal tutorial EVER!!!!
THANK YOU!
this saved money for me. I could use a photo with dark color for the visa application. Was easy to change it to white and apply with that. Thanks man!
"trust me. This is is super quick". LOL
if you can keep up with him... maybe it works. kinda gave up half way through.
Beg to differ, lol!
that part when you say "add alpha channel" saved my life haha, nobody says that config!, thanks!
I wanna go step by step on how to do this, based on your video, so i get it right!! How do you choose your preview color?
Thank you for this great tutorial, I somehow managed to skip the Path tools, I selected carefully with the Foreground Tool checking every edge, and then I have Add Layer Mask pressing Selection, selected the Selection tool and pressed somewhere not in the image in order to get rid of the selection and then I saved the transparent image.
Learnt something new today :) Thanks!
Thank you so much Michael Davies!
Can you use Intelligent Scissors instead of Paths Tool to outline and crop out the image and then remove the background? Or am I better to follow all the steps in this tutorial? Hope this question makes sense.
Great tutorial 👏🏻
Excellent tutorial. Very easy to follow and replicate.
Many thanks! Really helpful.
Thank you Davies
Helped me a lot..
Beginner here, thank you for your tutorial, I have been trying to do this 4:41 part by using same engine and same settings that you have kept but its processing longer than usual. Is there anyway i can do that a little fast?
Stroke width to 69 for foreground drawing. What a beast.
Helpful
I'm having a problem using the bucket fill tool. After using the path tool, the black colour fills the background instead of the foreground. How can I do it?
How are u getting all the icons on your left side n m not. But useing same 2.10 version only
Awesome tutorial....thanks for sharing... :)
This is a brilliant tutorial, thanks!
Nicely explained. Thankyou
for 3 days i have been to every tutorial and i can not get my gimp to look like this...please send a link...i would be very grateful and want to follow all your totorials
This helped me so much!! Thank you!
When I hit the enter key after selecting the foreground as you do at 4:26 Gimp freezes/stops responding. Any idea why this is?
Very good tutorial, thanks
Great tutorial, could follow with little experience in gimp.
Took me 1-2 hours even though this is considered a quick method (had to do repathing). Makes me appreciating the effort that goes into editing much more now!
You can do this on photoshop in 5 lmao
Thank you very much. Very useful, as always.
I'm also using 2.10.10 of gimp but for some reason, I can't find all the layers on the right and the tools on the left. Has it got to do with customization? Really hope you can help me because this has been putting me off using gimp
There is a tab lower down. If that isn't there, there is also a button to configure this tab and in there you can add the layers view
MUCH appreciated!
GIMP is so cool.....
All of this things ks clearly possible for machine intelect to do by itself. There should be some great software tool existed which is intended to do different complicated manipulation on backgrounds.
Nice video - I am having this problem. After using foreground select when I want to move to brush tool, it starts computing aloha channel and then the computer gets frozen. Can you please advise where I could be doing wrong. Thanks
is there any other way to do this? everytime i try this i get "computing alpha of unknown pixels" then the whole program goes grey and not responding then i have to shut down my whole computer to get it back... just for some taking the background..... or ill just pay for photoshop
great tutorial. thank you
The background color always keeps on being added after I added an alpha channel and deleted the white color.
When I click on the Paths icon everything is locked out so I can't choose my selection to path option. Any Idea why these are locked out?
same here!!
Stupid question- whenever I put a transparent BG on something, then put a new layer behind it (IE what he did in 11.30 ish) I retain the 'checkerbox' pattern & simply cant get rid of this. Even after flatten layers etc I still have the checker indicator.
When he put the gradient behind the checker pattern disappeared- what have I got set differently?
Any ideas anyoe? Cheers if you have!
Remove alpha channel on the background seems to have done it. Only taken me 5 vids to find that one! (Although none of the vids showed it). Complex software.
Can you create short clips of these videos.
I saved a texture and when I scaled it I was left with a transparent background which I'm trying to get ride of I'm assuming it's the alpha which I learned about from you. Can you help me please?
Free select takes a lot more clicks but seems much simpler, and takes about the same amount of time or less.
How did you get the tools so large and in color..mine are very small.
You don't show how you increase brush size
I don't know form any key in keyboard
my gimp keeps crashing when I try to do this step: your video 4:57 in...
Oops, don't understand what happened in 3:21 . After closing the selection I expected it outlined by "marching ants" but everything got blue instead...
I'm a newbie to all of this. By using this, is there a way to make the background transparent after you have removed the entire background without have to restart everything?
Right click on the image layer and go to "Add Alpha Channel." Then, hit the delete key when you have your selection area drawn. If you saved your selection as a path in your Paths dialogue, you can click "Path to Selection" to bring up the selection again. You may need to invert the selection (Select>Invert) if you don't have your background selected. Then press the delete key on your keyboard.
thank you!
Too good to upload
Can I pan around the image when zoomed in the same way like in PS? I prefer to press Space and then drag the picture.
Nice, thumbs UP!
lol, he is very fast for beginners !
awesome
On 8:44 when my background does not changes to alpha... why?
Seriously? You call that easy. The more of these Gimp things that I watch the more I realize just how superior Photo Shop is.
thanks
Napoleon Hill- Think and Grow Rich is the book that ultimately led me here lol
I didn't know you could smile.
I set my engine to Mark Levin, too.
😅 REAL TITLE : "Change the background on a studio shot specifically made to be able to change the background in post"
Lol
So I changed my background to a different picture and pasted myself on it on gimp. How do you make it less photoshopped on the background image? It looks very photoshopped!
Make sure antialiasing and feathered edges are selected when you're in the selection tools. This helps the edges blend into the background. Paste your selection on a transparency layer (above the background layer) before merging it with your background layer, and adjust the opacity down just a nudge, too.
I’m new to this so how do I do all that! Thanks!!
Those of us that didn't need to "adjust", you kinda left us hanging. Also, another tip, go slower! It's easier to follow when you go a bit slower than trying to pause the video, do what you said, unpause.. etc. :) Otherwise tutorials are great!
Thank you :)
easier way is planning your backdroop composition before take a shoot
Wayyy too fast.. An hour in, I was close but the instructions became too rapid-fire.. slow it down a smidge. Thanks anyway.
I had to hit pause several times but it was worth it. Great instruction.
its very tough
This is why young people use phone apps to edit their photos. I have an app that will instantly remove the background from any image automatically. It does a better job than GIMP and I just have to upload the photo and wait 3 seconds for the AI to do it for me. If companies like GIMP don't get on the bandwagon and update their technology offerings, they won't be around 10 - 15 years from now.
why is something so simple so damn complicated?
I feel invaded by your library in the foreground of this video. What has it to do with Gimp?
Do you know why the false icon Albert Einstein never received the Nobel Prize for "his" relativity theory? Yes, spot the clue.
About the isolation of your portrait. The process is neither short nor simple. Show a qualified example, a person with Afro hair or an image with low contrast between fore- and background. Is contrast via channels possible with Gimp?
This version of Gimp sucks. Why cant I just use the eraser tool to erase? I want 2.8 back
That's a lot of hair product
Jesus Christ this video may have been useful if I had been able to watch it among the ton of ads you've filled it with! Literally every time I tried to skip ahead a new ads started, WTF...It's ok adding a couple of ads man, but this really sucks.
This could be explained in 5 mins tbh
your eyes r so blue
Wayyy too fast..
You are too talkative without showing techniques and step by step. How can you help being so talkative?
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*AYS
Why is my path to selection connecting the starting point to a point diagonal from it that’s nowhere near it
Yeah too simple
Crying in the corner 🥲🥲🥲
Very good tutorial, as always.
But... I keep wondering: how many more videos before we cannot see him behind all the pretentious-looking books? :-D
perhaps you can do a video teaching us when to use what tools to cut out items thank you
wow so for the last two weeks I have been on UA-cam for hours and in all honesty his tutorial at time can appear to be complex but I end up always coming back to him because my images looks sloppy or fake and I'm missing the knowledge to fix it. My point for complete beginners, you got to take your time and learn these basics or your find your self always getting stuck which will result in you to loose motivation and to just give up on it. Like the GYM just going is the 1st step but you have to learn the right technic or you loose motivation and even can heart your self. Thank you for these amazing tutorials.
why are you tools on the left are large and in color?
I just installed my 2.10, mine are just small and black and white..
what version you running?
why can't I just find a tutorial that shows gimp has a magic wand feature like photoshop just to remove a background, ugh!
Very professional tutorial. Thank you very much for presenting this method! It was quick, agile and very useful. Best!
G'mic has great tool for this, my main gimp tool is eraser now, g'mic + resynthesizer = fantastic photo retouch machine.
Opened up gimp and it looks NOTHING like what is in the video. Where is the toolbox and the foreground select tool? Worst tutorial ever but I guess you get what you pay for. I'm off to pay for Photoshop.
Gimp crashed 3 times. I'm done with Gimp.
[UPDATE - 20 minutes later] OMFG! I accomplished this is 3 minutes in Photoshop! Totally worth the cost!
Does anyone know why I cannot fill into a layer where there is transparency in GIMP and why the move tool moves the whole layer and not the selection! And why the 4 size Pixel brush is 3 pixels and when I make it one step bigger it is 5 pixels? GIMP is such garbage.. Either that or I am missing some major stuff!
Another great tutorial. Thanks again for taking the time to make these videos. A big thumbs up.
Do you have a document explaining all the keyboard shortcut to zoom in and out and other useful keyboard shortcuts? By the way, you never explained how you created the blue background. Thank you for this tutorial. 🤔
I really love everything about GIMP except the selection tool
because it's terrible at it, the Result isn't satisfying, at least for me
the software struggle where to the point can't recognize my object and mess up everything
it's funny how picsart in my phone give me better Result then GIMP
I hope Developer improve the selection tool and make it better
right click here form alpha channel. ok what do you do if not selection list appears when you left click in that area?
Nice video by far the best video I've found so far, a lot of others are very situational (worked well on a detailed image I was working on)
it says is gimp 2.10 but my gimp does not look like this one DX
I want to know that can we increase the light and makes the image smioth
why are you changing window so much,,, such an annoying
Thanks for the tutorial ... and your eyes are stunning.
After I press enter when I'm done selecting the foreground, it goes back to the original image and puts vertical lines on the picture.
This may be a bug from a previous version. Update to the latest version of GIMP if you haven't already (especially if you're on a MAC).
Ridiculous number of Ads. 🤨