Genius. The guy can make a video about advanced topics while talking in a way that both a complete beginner and an experience Gimp user can understand at the same time. Rare skill indeed.

I wish I had seen this a week ago. Ugh! Thank you so much for the tutorial. I re-did the work from last week and your method saves HOURS plus it is cleaner on the edges, especially hair

I've never used Gimp before, so this is a little complicated for me to understand, but I'm impressed with the capabilities. I've downloaded it and will begin learning...

Amazing video, thank you so much! I'm digitalising my watercolour paintings, so a lot of rough edges, fading, etc. This is the most helpful tutorial I've seen on removing background. Thank you!

This is life changing. Thank you so much for posting this.

THEE BEST Gimp functional tutorials with fast but good enough to keep up understanding

thank you so much for the tip, you uploaded at the perfect time.

Thank you for video! In addition to using a green layer I recommend to turn the visibility of the mask on and off. Unnecessary parts appear there in high contrast and easy to distinguish and remove. Right click on the mask (in the Layers tab) and select command 'Show layer mask'. The mask will shown. Do the same again to hide it.

Thanks Nick this is unbelievable.

By far the best method I've come across so far - there are lots of different methods and they probably have their place so I'm not knocking them but your method works best for me - thx Nick!

Great Nick! This technique blow my mind. ^.^

Great job! It's awesome, a very good job and nice model XD

OMG NICK! I have been using layer masks like mad, and getting friggin frustrated when I cant get everything the way I wanted it especially the fine details like you did!!!! Zooming in and using such fine and small brushes and getting so ticked that I can get it right! Layer masks do help, but they dont help in the fine detail like you have done...this helps out SO MUCH! THANK YOU SO MUCH! Thank YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!! *****BIIIIIGGGGGG HUGGGGGEEEE HUUUUUUGS*****

Thank you for this video! So helpful

Thank you for producing these wonderful tutorials. You are a great teacher. on, and you , well your voice is a dead ringer for Tom Ohmar:-)

Thank you for the Tutorial and awesome explaning of each step!

Thanks Nick...Super !!!

Wow! Your Gimp Tutorials are helpful AND inspiring. Thank you soo much! At some point, will you go over designing an ebook cover? I am brand new to design (thanks to your videos ahaha) and I am stumped. I can't find pictures to fit the height size of the ebook cover...and I don't want a simple plain background with white text. ha Thanks!

Unbelievable! And here i try to use Paths tool on images, wow. This keeps getting better and better.

@vighneshvighnesh844

6 жыл бұрын

Eterno Games . I do that too before i saw this unbelievably easy trick far more relaxing than the paths tool

@LogosByNick

6 жыл бұрын

It depends on the image, really. Sometimes the paths tool is best, sometimes this method is best. Sometimes another method is the way to go. The great thing about GIMP is that it gives you more than one way to do anything.

@eterno1610

6 жыл бұрын

Only thing that comes into my mind this won't work if image has more than one characters/people in it, right?

Thank you, awesome video!

Thanks, you are a great teacher!

Thanks for this great tip!

Seriously, you're such a great teacher.

amazing nick saporito.. you made awesome

@LogosByNick

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I hope your channel is doing well. Your work is very impressive lately.

This is perfect!

Great video I am having problems saving with transparency , i know that i can add backgrouds when using lawer mask , but saving with transparency that another headache have trying lot of things , when saving always came with the first backgroud lawer sometimes came as white Thanks for share this video

This video helped a lot. Thank you for the tutorial.

I hate cropping, this is easier, faster and better! Thank you :) Keep up the good work

Awesome! Thank you.

Thanks for the great tutorial bro

Very helpful tutorial! Thanks now I can make my thumbnails better

It’s funny how everyone does these tutorials on a white background. Maybe because it only works when the background is a solid color that contrasts the hair.

@RickHenderson

5 жыл бұрын

I just watched a video where the artist made the background contrast with the hair first, then went on to editing the hair. Yes it works better when the hair contrasts with the background. So make the hair contrast with the background before you start. I can post the link if you want it. Or maybe Nick can make tutorial for that too.

@Bobobratwurscht

4 жыл бұрын

@@RickHenderson Can you please post a link?

Thank u again nick

Thank you man!!!

I'm relatively new at this so I found it hard to follow why you were doing what you were doing from 3:10, but I'll do it myself and see if I can work out the 'why'. Thanks!

Excellent video as always, thank you. Can anyone tell me of any negatives to my newb method of zooming in REALLY CLOSE to work with the brush, or should I just crank it up as close as I can stand and fire away?

Succinct. Visual is great. Narration is great. My favourite KZread tutor.

Yours are best

I love this channel without you i would be lost

Hi there. I'd love a video on customizing the interface/ template. I tried the exploding text tutorial today but couldn't follow along because of the layout. Still can't figure out how to switch black to white in paint can. Any help would rock 🎸!

Nice video you r a very good teacher, Thanks

you have chosen a very good photo to explain this feature.

Very informative

This is great, but could you do tutorial for filling hair gaps? Thanks!

Good tutorial, how do I remove background from trees? you can't do the colouring in technique with trees :'(

Good job! But what about if the background is very dark like grey color and the hair is black and spiky complicated? Hair is almost the same color as the background. Very difficult to select the hair at all. Can anybody advise me how?

Great tutorial! Thank you for it! I am complete beginner and I was left with the ready cropped image - and now don't know how to save it? Export image doesn't quite work, can anyone help me?

@LogosByNick

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks. You can export it as a .png if you'd like to use it elsewhere while maintaining the transparent background. Or you could save it as a .xcf (native gimp file) if you'd like to preserve the layers and masks so you can go back and edit it later.

I think it's better to make sure the black/white layer is completely black in the middle before cutting and pasting. Some tips are very useful to me to improve the cropping of images, thank you very much.

@LogosByNick

6 жыл бұрын

Good point.

Thank you.

06:00 before use brush tool, quick select all posible space you need with Free select tool and fill with white collor. Next select brush tool and fill details like shoulders and hair with white color when you need. This will speed up work and reduce frustration.

Thanks

Love your videos Nick. Was wondering if it would be a huge imposition to, below each video, add the steps. I ask because you go through some stuff so quickly, I have a hard time keeping up. Something like, "click edit" "select 'color'" "select something else" "click on that" etc. Would that add a bunch of time to creating these amazingly helpful videos? Was wondering. Thank you for all this great content.

@bobd5119

Жыл бұрын

Ditto on that. Most KZread GIMP videos are demonstrations of virtuosity. They leave noobs like me in the dust.

If I had such a picture, with a pure white background, I wouldn't even need to cut anything out. Or maybe I would use the ''select by color'' tool with a an appropriate threshold to remove the white background.

how to crop it from a more complex background?

how to cut an image like a donut and cut the hole in the middle as well? Because I see how to go all the way around but how you cut the pieces in the middle?

Thumbs UP!

This is cool way ;)

Lol what happens when your model isn't in front of a while canvas?

What if there are some shadows that the mask picked up. How do I clean those up? Or how could i clean up the cut-out?

how about the checkerd background how to mask it

In time .keep it up man! 3rd view first like and comment. Can u do another gimp and inkscape mashup or collab. Great thumbnail btw. I regret not knowing this sooner.

How would I do that with an all-black background?

where is image link bro

@LogosByNick

6 жыл бұрын

Just added the link. Sorry about that.

any idea how to turn this into a silhouette?

Does this work for green screen too?

👍

Can this be done reasonable well with Inkscape?

@LogosByNick

4 жыл бұрын

Inkscape would not be the best tool for this. The features used in this video aren't in Inkscape.

white background is easy it must be colored background

How to zoom without mouse wheel

@K9L808

5 жыл бұрын

the plus icon

@generalheller3081

5 жыл бұрын

@@K9L808 thank u

My image turns transparent.

Thanks. Always have difficulty with this task! Love the quality of these videos and your technique. I'd like to have you revisit banners. You usually make flat design banners and I'd really like to see you do a full one like I've seen done for Illustrator that does many styles including the curved 3D flag style with pinstriping, gradients, shadows and arcing following the curves on more than a single axis. It seems really easy to do with Illustrator especially with its 3d extrude, warping, and arc. (i.e. kzread.info/dash/bejne/hJqrvLOGXa_Hlpc.htmlm23s) Also, you use envelope distortion to place the letters on it which seems to work well only if the curve is along a single dimension. That is, it's all still sitting on a flat plane. How about lattice deformation?

@patrickbui9241

6 жыл бұрын

Perhaps, your technique might be related to this other tutorial however with your usual tutorial video production quality, a little touch more efficiency, more smooth on initial creation of those curves, and ... (uhh... in english if you don't mind please) kzread.info/dash/bejne/iYxrlKeJdNjFddo.htmlm36s

dislike, how often you have white background on photo?

ok good technique, but the demonstration should have been done on a real background. A white background does not need anything to be removed. The complication is in color casting when the background is complex.Still I thank you for the video, but I suggest to anyone who wants to try, that after removing the white background of this image, add another background, found essam images and then try to redo this technique. Notice that the result is quite different.

Way more complicated than it has to be

goes too fast for a beginner

I really asked for a tutorial many times, and i had great hopes as i saw this video in my list. But this is such a great disappointment. This stupid layer mask method works only on this high contrast stuff, which you normally not have in 99% of all cases. Sry i hoped for more.

@LogosByNick

6 жыл бұрын

Sorry you're not happy with the lesson, but just because it's not what you were looking for that doesn't mean it's not useful, and it doesn't mean that it's "stupid" either. As for your tutorial request - I'm always open to suggestions, but please understand that I am in no way obligated to fulfill them. If the information that I provide is going to be free and publicly accessible then I'm ultimately going to create it at my own discretion.

@Nova-ul3vv

6 жыл бұрын

Nick Saporito as maybe already knew from reading my post it is my personal opinion. Additionally, i didn't say you have to do a certain tutorial i said i asked for somekind of this sometime. Fact is that the method shown is old and nothing new for me, as well as not fitting in the most realistic cases. I think it is important to give feedback, even if you dont like it.

@LogosByNick

6 жыл бұрын

Feedback is appreciated when it's respectful and constructive. Calling something "stupid" accomplishes nothing and is not the type of criticism that is welcomed on my channel. Consider that a warning.