That advantage of this method instead of the one above (click – move – click – move using the path tool) is that this allows you to adjust the curve after you are done. The difference is that in this video we click – hold (down the left mouse button) – and drag the pointer to the next point on our tracing and click continue holding down the left mouse button and drag to the next point and repeat. This video uses the Path tool as does the video above. Here’s how to use the path tool in GIMP to achieve pro results when rendering out. Rendering, extracting, subtracting, snipping, call it what you will, the path tool is the easiest, safest, and best way to remove a background or isolate an object. GIMP Tutorial: The Best Way to Remove a Background (5:16) by Learn GIMP But if you’re just starting out, use the video above as it is easier to understand. The advantage of this method is that you can adjust the path after you’ve completed it. What you do in the video below is: click and drag from one point to the next. The above works but the tutorial below is another way to cut out the background. Then move the pointer to the next point in the picture and click on it and now you have a line between the two points. In the above video we click on the left mouse button to set a point and release the left mouse button. Then save it as a png as only png lets you have a transparent background.The checked background that you see just tells you that the background is transparent. Then hit the delete button on your keyboard – and your background is gone.5:00 Then you are going to invert it – so hit Control + I.Then we’ll reduce the size back to 100%.And you’ll click on Select then Click on From Path So now we right click inside the path.4:31 Click then and although there will not be a line between the first and last point, the path will be closed.When we get close to the first point of our tracing we will put the path tool over the original point and the plus sign will change to two crossed arrows.And move to the next point on our picture until we have traced out the picture. So we start our outline by clicking with the path tool selected, then move the pointer to the next point which we want our line to connect to.Next we’re going to blow the picture up to 800% so that it is easy to trace with the Path tool.Adding the alpha channel will make the background transparent.If you fail to add an alpha channel you’ll end up with your cutout of the picture on a white background.Now you need to right click on the background layer and add an alpha channel. And your picture is your background layer.This video shows how to remove the background using GIMP and the Path tool (another name for the Bezier tool and what GIMP calls it). I’ve been using Inkscape to remove the background by using the Bezier tool. How To Cut Out An Image Using Gimp (7:51) by tomakeawebsite8 You will use this especially when you are using the Move Tool or the Transformation tool.7:38 The last thing the author talks about is the key chain tool which allows us to link two different layers together so they move as one.GIMP Tutorial – Fundamentals of Layers (10:13) Micky Sains If it is unchecked than the canvas and toolbox and the dockable dialogue boxes will all be independent of each other which is not that good. You want to use (keep checked) the single window mode which lives in the Windows menu.So if you need to call it up, just go there and click on Layers.The layers tool lives in the Windows Menu in the Dockable Dialogues submenu.GIMP Tutorial – Where is my layers panel (3:14) by Micky Sains Just follow along step by step and pause the video when you need to. Maybe you can remove the background just by using this video: How To Cut Out An Image Using Gimp (7:51) by tomakeawebsite8 Uploaded on May 21, 2010. What follows are YouTube Videos on cutting out the background of an image also called rendering.
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