So in the current versions of gimp, these things are done very easily. But ya, you have shown what was good at that version, so no complains for that 🙂👍. So after you have made the selection of model using select tool, you can go to select > invert. Then simply filters > blur > gaussian blur and set the blur value to a desirable one, that's it 👍

@diaz722

2 жыл бұрын

wow that was SO much easier and saved me having to get any add ons. thank you!!

@alainsuarez2833

Жыл бұрын

Absolute legend!

Thanks, found your plugin video and then followed this one. Really appreciate the great instructional videos.

Thank you this worked great! I also found when you're refining the mask around soft edges (like hair or a fuzzy sweater) if you use a soft edge brush (like brush 2 with a hardness set at 25) and you make the brush larger (I used 50) you can soften the mask edges to make it look more natural.

I've tried this method and the easy method with just cutting out the model and blurring the background directly. I find this method (around 20 steps, yes, but doable) so much more natural! I have made a note of the steps and am altering now a lot of my recent photos from Venice carnival. (After 5 photos I know what to do without checking my list, so it's definitely not overly complicated.) Thanks for this tutorial.

hi there i follow ur guide, but why is my original layer is changing also as i do that lasso function in my model removed layer?🤔

This guys has the best tutorial on udemy. You teach very good and finally managed to blur out an image for my business. Thank you!

Thank you! That really helped me improve a photo I was working on. Excellent!

Is there a technique to gaussian blur gradually? i.e. From clear to a little blur to a lot of blur? Maybe with the gradient tool and/or grey-ish brush + opacity over non-masked background?

Hi and thank you for the tutorial!!! I downloaded the plug-in and used the filter, but it didn't work, any suggestions? Thank you!! :)

This was great! I successfully created a blurred background. :-) Thank you for the easy-to-follow instructions.

how do i get the foreground select "mode options" to appear on the left side because I dont see that tool option on my gimp. I have to go to tools-selection tools-foreground select then I see a small window on the right says preview mask underneath but on my left side it just shows the different pic layers and not the tool options that you have.

excellent tutorial, this is the best one on KZread

From a total novice, thank you. It's time-consuming but pays off!

really helped man!!

video helped a lot thank you :) i leave a like

this almost worked I drew a foreground mask but it would not let me select the background of an invert mask will try another tool.

Wow this saved me a metric ton of time and frustration, much appreciated!

Nice, Thumbs UP!

This is nice!

Nice work sir

I've been currently looking for a more efficient method of blurring background, I guess I'm a Hands-On person, but does this produce a more quality image than just duplicate your layer, use a blur tool on the entire image and use opacity to get the desired level of blur and sharpness and then use your eraser tool at various opacities to bring your foreground back into Focus, I found this method although time consuming and tedious to be effective, correct me if I'm wrong?

is resynthesizer still working? This procedure does not work on my computer.... plug-in crash

Sorry for the dumb question, but when I use the lasso tool, it selects from both my layers and therefore when I do Filter>Enhance>Heal Selection, the heal affects both of my layers. I would assume there is quite an easy fix for this but I have yet to find it on my own. Thanks for all the very helpful videos !

@nickjason4480

5 жыл бұрын

Oh, I just found it.. The opacity on the original layer was set by default at 5%..

resynthesizer is pre installed in Gimp 2.10.36 but it's not working

I think the important thing is the process what you do with the Resynthesizer Plugin, I mean as you said you need to "replicate" the pixels around the girl. I was testing with other suggestions in these same comments, but I realized at the end if I do not "clone" the around pixels, the blur effect distorts the contour. Many thanks for the tutorial.

Nice tutorial

Just what I needed. Thank you so much.

@DaviesMediaDesign

9 ай бұрын

Glad it helped!

Wouldn't it be many times easier just to do a careful draw around the model to create selection of everything that isn't the model and blur it?

ty!!

I am getting an error with the plug in loading in gimp. Any fixes?

Great video! Please could someone direct me to the link for the plug-in.

I don't have the heal selection and i'm using 2.10.12

@tuneboyz5634

4 жыл бұрын

u have to download it

@acegabrielgo5422

3 жыл бұрын

Download the plug in file.

@nord7556

3 жыл бұрын

@@acegabrielgo5422 From where? Can you provide me the link please.

@jdarrrr

2 жыл бұрын

@@nord7556 exactly

Is there another way without downloading additional features from third parties?

yeah, keeps getting errors when using heal selection....

I usually use the right lens to get an blurred background and there are fundamental differences between blurred background between real and fake. First, the parts deeper in the background are more out of focus than parts close to the subject. Blurring whole background will make it very unnatural looking. I am still not sure how to solve this right and was not able to reproduce this effect with GIMP. The second thing is, based on the lens, you can get in example rings or "bokeh" effects on spotlights and such. This is also hard to cover.

@Patrick-vr2hb

5 жыл бұрын

You might want to try Zoom Motion Blur if you haven't already, and you can also find some Bokeh brushes for GIMP.

@thingsiplay

5 жыл бұрын

@@Patrick-vr2hb That is an entirely different effect. What I mean is, blur needs to take the third dimension into account, which is quite not possible with 2D images. Maybe in the future with the help of some AI this can be achieved in a more natural looking way.

Or we can Just take a picture of the background and then your picture and add the background picture and then open as layers and add the other pic and resize it then take the earse tool and then don't earse the subject earse the background 😁

Is re-synthesizer dead? I get this message now: "The dying plug-in may have messed up GIMP's internal state. You may want to save your images and restart GIMP to be on the safe side."

@karl2405

2 жыл бұрын

No it works. if it's broken download a new one and follow installatio instructions

GIMP 2.10.34 don't have the healing tool

@DaviesMediaDesign

Жыл бұрын

Yes it does - hit the "h" key to bring it up (it's also behind the "clone" tool in the toolbox, inside a tool group)

This is so much work ugh

@pafaccount4454

3 жыл бұрын

This is certainly a cleaner way to do it, but there are honestly a lot faster ways to do it. The way I like to do it is to use the path tool in place of the lasso to select the model, invert and erase the background, use the filter on the background layer, then paste the model down onto it. From there you can fine tune it and do very minor transforms to hide mistakes.

Certainly, photoshop is quicker to do this but not back GIMP!

Michael I love you but, that hairdo is not working for you at all. You looked way better before.

@thingsiplay

5 жыл бұрын

This was my first thought too. :D He looks good without facial hair, but we have to respect it if he wants it.

@cpdexterhuxley

5 жыл бұрын

I think his hair looks good (on Lego® people).

The edges of the subject look very harsh and unnatural.

Good for professionals I guess? But who has hours to burn doing a 1,874 step procedure? GIMP is free, but it is in no way user friendly...not enough time in a day to use it. Thanks anyway.

to many ads

A bit over complicated for something that can be done in like 4 steps without a 3rd party plugin

With all due respect, but sorry this does not at all look natural, not like a photograph

Too many steps...