I swear no one else out there shows you how to close the path so thank you for that.

9 years later and you are the only one who shows how to close the goddamn path, thank you!

Not only do you explain things nice and easily, your voice is very soothing and makes me actually pay attention all the way through (unlike most people and their tutorials).

Having never before used a picture manipulation program there was a lot to learn. I must say your tutorial was by far the best one to achieve this. I hope to go on learning. Thank you. I come from the other extreme of the island Devon, but now live in Australia.

I've been searching for a clear GIMP tutorial for absolute beginners. All others I've seen assume much background knowledge & are narrated by mumblers. Your video about the paths tool is clear, straightforward & makes the tool easy to understand & use, easier to understand than the info on the GIMP site, although GIMP is awesome! I would love a brief overview showing what each tool is called & what it does. Thank you, thank you, thank you - I anxiously await your further GIMP tutorials.

What an excellent tutorial! I had been using the free select tool for longer than I'd care to admit, and yours was the first video I came across after learning about the paths tool. I like that you thought to define the elements involved (like nodes and handles) while going through the steps of the process, and I really appreciate the tips for creating curves and manipulating the handles ahead of the next node. Thank you 10 years later!

@ArisAriawan657

Жыл бұрын

yeah, even after 10 years, his video still benefited us.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I couldn't find this anywhere else and the instructions gimp provides are just plain confusing. You've given a clear, step-by-step tutorial that I'm sure every gimp user appreciates. Again, many thanks!

@billps34

9 жыл бұрын

baileyellard1 you're welcome!

Probably best video on paths tool and background removal - thanks for this

This was amazing! You showed me EXACTLY what I needed to know, your voice is relaxing and calm, and the production of the video in general was great! Thank you so much!

Glad you enjoyed it Susan.

Just starting to learn GIMP. Yours is the best tutorial I have found so far because it is not too fast.

Thanks for your kind comments Sam. glad you enjoyed my tutorials.

Absolutely Positively Fantastic Tutorial. It is 100% comprehensive with simplified instructions spoken in a clear voice; each selection is explained, in detail, as opposed to so many others, where the author clicks all over the place without commenting as to what they are doing or why. For all of you who enjoy making KZread video's..... THIS IS HOW TO CREATE A Tutorial - Thanks So Very Much, Billy!!!

Couldn't for the life of me figure out how to end the anchor loop. The control click did the trick. Liked !

Very clear directions and you didn't leave any steps out. Now to see if I can actually follow them. :)

This was extremely helpful, and I appreciated the fact that you have a very pleasant voice. Thank you!

thank you so much! I have been learning Gimp for months and even with all the cool, more advanced stuff I can do now, I was still scared of paths! Probably because every time I tried to watch a tutorial it made NO SENSE. People forget that most of this is not particularly intuitive and they skip over the basics. This is the best tutorial ever! Subscribed!

@billps34

10 жыл бұрын

You're welcome. Yes I agree the paths tool is not intuitive for beginners. I came to use GIMP after having used Photoshop, so using the Paths tool was easy for me - as it's similar to Photoshop's Pen tool. Most tutorials I've seen don't use the Paths tool correctly, they just click lots of nodes. So I thought it would be good to create a tutorial which showed how to used the Paths tool interactively to create perfect curves by clicking and dragging as you select. The good thing about learning this, is that use of that tool is directly applicable to other software such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Inkscape (vector image editing software) - these also have a similar Bezier Path/Pen tool that works in a similar way to GIMP.

This was exactly the tutorial I was looking for. Thank you!

The most helpful thing I've found for using the paths tool. Thank You :)

FANTASTIC tutorial! I'm new to GIMP and I learned a lot from this. Thank you!

Nice and simple & easy to understand voice. Thank you for a great job explaining how to use the path feature to cut and paste.

Thank you for a crystal clear easy to follow tutorial. Absolutely brilliant!

Great, thanks very much. I had been using the Free Select tool for the longest time to isolate my images, but often the edges were too "square." It took a little while to get used to how to make the curves go the way I wanted with the Path tool, but I get a nicer looking image now.

Very clear and detailed explanation. Thank you so much!

Thank you Billy! Well done and shows exactly what I needed to do to cut out a logo from a background with the wrong color ...

I know its a year later, but I just started editing and your tutorial was very helpful and greatly appreciated. Easy to follow as well. Thanks!

Thanks Billy really enjoyed it, I hope I can do it will continue watching.

Glad you enjoyed it. Happy GIMPing.

DUDE. You are a freaking boss.

Hey guys. If you want to ask questions on this video tutorial, I'll try my very best to answer. However since youtube comments went all Googleyplussy, I'm not sure if I even know what I'm doing any more. So if I miss your question, please forgive me.

thank you bill i am so new at this and you put me on the right path so to speak!

Great Video, short and to the point, learned just what I needed to know, Thanks.

Just lovely. Well Done

Super helpful and simple for someone who is new to gimp! Thankyou!

@DerrickLucas

Жыл бұрын

Hello 👋 how’re you doing, I hope you’re having a great day?

A fellow Scot!! Unheard of on KZread lol. Thank you so much for this excellent tutorial. Helped me lots.

Once you have made your path around the outside of the object to be cut out, make another path inside. If you check out my other videos I have a tutorial for a photo montage with a coffee cup, using the paths tool in that way to cut around the inside of the handle of the cup.

Thank you so much! This was very helpful.

This was a helpful video. Nice work! Clear instructions.

Great video, very simple and straight forward easy to follow. Thank you !

@Andy B, thanks, glad you enjoyed it.

Yow! You do that with such skill - with the edges so smooth. Great tutorial ☺

Thank you so much for your tutorial. It helps me so much !

Thanks Bill, very helpful and uncomplicated. Cheers.

This was incredibly helpful 10/10

Thank you for this great tutorial!

This was really helpful,thank you.

And I also like how I can go back and adjust the path after closing it off, unlike the Free Select tool.

Thanks! That's exactly the information I was looking for.

This is very helpful TUTORIAL! thank you very, very much! :)

Thanks for this video! Very helpful!

Excelent, thank you Bill.

Thank you, this was very helpful!

Yes - it's out!!

Now for your other problem. After you create the new layer filled with black and your screen turns black, you need to click and drag the black layer underneath the flower layer. You will need to use the layers dialog to do that. Hope it works for you.

Yes. You can use any image as a background layer. To open another image as a layer in GIMP click File > Open As Layers. When layer appears, click and drag the layer thumbnail below the flower layer in the layers dialog, you can resize the background by using the Scale Tool.

Thankyou for these!!!

Thanks man, you are awesome for doing this. I will pay it forward:-)

Yes, your voice is nice - but I would listen to Tom Waits if he gave me such good information. I appreciate that you were covering from a beginner's point of view, and this really helped me. Now I need to read the User's Guide about Control, Shift and Alt in GIMP.

If you have a separate path inside your first path, when you turn it into a selection GIMP automatically inverts it.

Well done. good tutorial.

1:20 Center button drag! Nice! I didn't know that one!

Thank you, very helpful!

very clear explanation

Great tutorial, I should have looked up how to use it, an hour prior , thanks for doing this.

@DerrickLucas

Жыл бұрын

Hi 👋

Rena, you can use the crop tool (looks like a knife icon) to trim an image dpwn to size.

Hay thanks man for getting back, yeah I think it would be easier using photoshop for more complex extractions but hay GIMP and help with extracting people and simpler objects just as well as photoshop. Thanks again.

Thank you, I will be using this method...

Good tutorial. Thanks

That was very helpful indeed.

Hay dude great tutorial I was wondering if there was an easier way to use the same method above to extract more complex shapes like trees using GIMP or would I be better off using photoshop? thanks.

Yeah, 2.8 was a long time coming, so far I mainly like it - I feel it still needs a few of the rough edges taken off it however - but like every version of GIMP so far, I guess it's still a work in progress. Have you checked out my tutorial on adding themes to 2.8?

My GIMP is in Single Window Mode. In GIMP click Windows > Single Window Mode. You can reset your GIMP if you've mucked it up by clicking Edit > Preferences > Window Management > Reset Saved Window Positions to Default Values. That'll bring back all the toolbars and icons.

it was really great thank you

Having lost my photoshop due to a PC upgrade I am getting to grips with GIMP. I have struggled to close the path and this tutorial was so clear and easy to follow. Now I need to find out how to create a drop shadow legacy of the image :(

@billps34

2 жыл бұрын

There's a filter to add a drop shadow. Choose Filters > Light and Shadow > Drop Shadow.

Thanks for the lesson

Save it as a jpeg, or png, or gif. In GIMP to save for the web, you use File > Export

Thanks Billy. I don't know if you saw my first question below but it was "This is my first time using a program like this, it's so complicated! Is it possible to cut out an image and just use it, for instance on a letterhead? When I put the image I have now on the letterhead, I can't type past the image border. Thank you & God bless you for a of your hard work. Rena

Brilliant Thanks

This is my first time using a program like this, it's so complicated! Is it possible to cut out an image and just use it, for instance on a letterhead? When I put the image I have on the letterhead now, I can't type past the image border. Thank you & God bless you for aof your hard work. Rena

Hey billy great tutorial , just a likkle question , you kno how you put the flower onto a black backround how could i put it onto another picture ?

How do i cut out something that is on the inside of a picture? Say for instance your hands are on your hips. and you want to cut out the background in between your hands and hips...how would you do that without cutting the entire picture? :O

Thank you .That solved the problem..

Thank you

thank you

hi nice video. Thank you . Once I have removed the image and have a transparent background how do I save that image and use it in an ad or a website banner I am trying to build how do I place into the new graphic?

@billps34

6 жыл бұрын

Save it as an XCF File, then when you need to get it into another image click File > Open As Layers. Everything in the XCF will be imported as layers. To output the finished work for a website click File > Export As, and save in PNG or JPEG format.

Thank you kind sir!

@billps34

8 жыл бұрын

you're welcome!

very informative

I am new at this. My image is a necklace that needs to have the path inverted as well as outlining the necklace as a whole. My question is do I need to make two layer masks to overlay each other. I am not sure what to do. Please help

I have cut out an image and given it a white back ground I know want to paint on the back ground but it wont let me, it will only let me paint on the area i have cut out what can i do?

@billps34

10 жыл бұрын

You need to select the background layer first.

:O Gimp 2.8 is out? must get naow!!!

You're welcome!!!

How do you use the path tool(or any tool) to cut out a face with hair sticking out everywhere?

@billps34

Жыл бұрын

Not with the Pen tool. There are other techniques though. Check this nice tutorial: kzread.info/dash/bejne/hIp41bieY9GwYbg.html

Getting perfect results cutting out complex images like trees and individual hairs is difficult in GIMP and Photoshop. A great way to extract more complex images is by creating a layer mask. The same technique would be used in Photoshop to do complex image extractions. I'm afraid that perfect magic/automatic extraction techniques don't exist.

Done everything right except the last part. When i try to position the image to the center, i lost some section of it ( i.e the full image did not moved along with it ). Any idea how to solve this problem? This video has been a great help to a beginner like me who is using gimp for the first time. Great tutorial.

@billps34

10 жыл бұрын

You still have the layer mask selected. To move the flower and mask together you need to select the flower in the layers dialog. Watch me select it at 5:41 in the video - then I select the move tool, then I click and drag to move the flower

@leehengchoon

10 жыл бұрын

Billy Kerr Tqvm..really enjoy your tutorial which any first timer will be able to follow easily.

HELP I got halfway through and then hit some button that made my path go away and now there's a yellow path around the whole image. All my work appears to be in my undo history but clicking back doesn't make my path show up again. What have I done???

@billps34

3 жыл бұрын

Hmmm . . . . Can't you just select the path again, in the Paths dialog?

I lost this tutorial and almost lost my mind trying to find it; as I've said before it is the most comprehensive of all I've found on this product (GIMP 2.8). Can you tell me? Once I'm done with using the paths tool to cut around an image and then add a background as you have in your video tutorial? How do I go about finalizing (or is it called flattening) or whatever it's called to turn it back into a picture or at least something my card maker program will recognize. Other videos say to save it as a one extension others say to use another. I'm happy with what I have accomplished with your tutorial, how then do I turn it back into say a jpg. I use an online program for card making called VistaPrint. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again.. Andy

@billps34

10 жыл бұрын

In GIMP 2.8 you need to save the file as an XCF first, if you ever want to edit the layers again. Once you have done that you can export the image as a jpeg. Click File > Export give your file a new name and end with the extension .jpg, then click Export, then Export again when the jpeg dialog comes up.

did you say press ctrl shift J on the keyboard?

@billps34

7 жыл бұрын

Yes - CTRL+Shift+J = zoom to fit image in Window

I'm cool with the default theme lol but I'll check it out encase there is something I just HAVE to have lol

HELPEED ME OUT SOO MUCH THX

Sir, There was a dotted rectangle till end. How to remove it ? 07-01-2020.

@billps34

4 жыл бұрын

In GIMP dotted rectangles (sometimes called marching ants) show either the layer boundary (in yellow), or a selection (in white/grey). They are not really there, and are not part of the image - it's just GIMP's way of displaying what has been selected, or where the layer boundary is. You can just ignore them. When you export your final image it will be gone. You can switch them off but I wouldn't recommend it, because then you won't know what parts of the image you are working on.

@karunanithir1510

4 жыл бұрын

@@billps34 Thank you very much Sir for your kind response and guidance.