

PhotoComiX (a group admin) edited this topic ages ago. There is something similar in Liquid Rescale when using mask(s):Īllow to create or edit a mask and then to refresh so the rest may be done automatically After you have selected the background, click Delete to remove background of the image into transparent. You can also manually add to this selection, just hold Shift and continue dragging the cursor around your background. This allow to manually edit the mask with whatever tool, when done is needed a click on the "refresh"( or anyway advice gmic that the mask is changed and that original info should be updated) Simply click and drag around the subject, and GIMP will create a smart selection. * Gaussian Blur this layer perhaps at 10 ) ( Paint in White on this layer for areas to be retained, Black to remove Ronounours What a wonderful tool you gifted to the Gimp community!Ībout doing in a single step will be great going automatically to this pointĪnd from there with 2 options for the those steps It would seem that up to the painting step could be acomplished as a single G'MIC step. The things I missed were Colors-Invert and Colors-Threshold under G'MIC-Colors * Finish any additional Post Processing such as blurring, Sharpening, color balance * Add White or other colored Layer….Move behind the Background Layer Let us have a look at the next method, which is by making a layer mask with. * Select Layer Mask and Paste….Then anchor pasted section Press the delete button on the keyboard, and the background will delete. * Turn Off all layers except Background…Select Background * Paint in White on this layer for areas to be retained, Black to remove * Select Colors Threshold and move right to 255…. Set Radius to 1 and Amount to 5, Output to New Layer and Select OK…. * Open G’MIC and again select Unsharp Mask

Set Contrast at 2.0 and Gamma 1.5 Output to New Layer and Select OK….

* Open G’MIC and select Colors-Black and White Removing backgrounds in Gimp can be a little tedious at times, but there are alternative ways to rem. * Open G’MIC and select Enhancement Unsharp Mask Use this Gimp Tip to Remove Picture Backgrounds Quickly. Using G’MIC to create Mask for Removing Background…. Helpfully, GIMP's default behavior when you attempt to delete pixels without an alpha channel is to just fill them with your background color and not tell you what's going on. Without an alpha channel, you can't have transparent pixels and so can't delete them. I just was working on a method to remove background with some loose hair.here are the results. 1 Right click the layer in the Layers view and click 'Add alpha channel'.
