How to Remove Anything from a Photo in GIMP - Tutorial

hey guys welcome to yet another tutorial by Davies media design my name is michael davies and today i'm going to be showing you how to delete anything from a an image background in there's actually a similar tutorial to this for photoshop and so I'm just showing you how to do it in it's pretty easy depending on what background you have of what you're trying to get rid of before I get started on that so don't forget we're doing a 1 million view giveaway we're celebrating hitting 1 million views we're giving away a Samsung Chromebook laptop to find out how to enter to win that laptop just visit our website right here WWE B's media design comm slash 1 million view giveaway you can see the video right here on how to win the Chromebook you can also see the Chromebook laptop unboxing video and to enter the win just click right here where it says entering a win that'll bring you to the get newsletter page and here you can sign up for our newsletter which which is going to give you updates our 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lamp you can pretty much do this with any photo anything in the background you know it's a pretty easy technique it does take a little bit of time and a little bit of patience because it can be kind of tedious but it's that pretty easy to do so first I'm just going to kind of edit this image so that it looks a little better and I'm going to start with my color balance and I'm just going to play around here there's a lot of red in this image so I'm going to turn the red down a little bit okay that was the mid-tones I'm going to switch over to the shadows you then you can toggle the preview here so you can see before and after click ok next I'm going to do is go to my levels here I'm just going to drag from either side if you drag from this right side that's going to turn up kind of the brightness and the whites if you drag from this side it will turn up or down the darkness the blacks in the image and the middle is more of like the mid-tones or the grays sometimes I can add a little contrast to your image all right the next thing we do is brightness and contrast just a little bit you can do it before and after here and then hue and saturation you don't want to do this too much look okay and then the last thing I'm going to do here is I'm going to go to filters enhance and I'm going to just sharpen the image a little bit okay so after we've done that now we're going to work on what everybody came here for and that is the lamp here and to do this when you have a textured background like this the goal is to capture some of the textures and the same colors here and make sure that it all looks like one continuous thing going on here and since we do have to kind of invent whatever is behind here the more blurred out this background is the easier is going to be in my case the background is not blurred out that much but I also don't have a lot going on just mainly the bricks here what I'm going to use primarily for this is the clone the clone tool and what the clone tool does is it takes basically a patch of something you know from an area and it just kind of copies it or clones it so that it looks like a continuation is going on what I'm going to do is I'm going to hold ctrl and that's going to allow me to select an area you'll see there's a little circle there and that's the area that is being selected so go ahead and click that make sure like in this case if you need a little bit of the the mortar in there the gray stuff that you get a little bit of that in a circle but you don't want to get too much of it or accidentally get some of the brick below so just make sure you get just enough so now that you have an area selected what you're going to do is click where you want to start this clone and the clone is going to follow you until you hit the original so you basically have this much room until it's going to start showing the lamp again and that what you want to do is you want to make sure that you are even with whatever the clone is or you're at least starting where the clone is starting you'll see what I'm talking about here like I'm going to try to clone the bottom of this brick here so if I started in the middle you would start to see some of that border showing up in the middle and that's not what we want so I'm going to click and drag and also keep in mind that if you release the mouse it's going to make you start over again so that's definitely not something you want to do and you'll see here that I went a little too far to the left so it started drawing right here and I'll zoom in a little bit it started drawing the beginning of this brick right here so that's not what we want to do but it's not a complete screw-up so grab that clone stamp tool again and I hold ctrl to grab a little area of the brick that I want to duplicate or clone and then just go ahead and draw that so we don't want this brick to be too big otherwise it's not going to look very realistic so what we need to do is find a brick that's a similar to color this brick and find out where it stops like right here and grab that clone tool and you can even decrease the size of the clone tool right now it's set to 20 so if I decrease it to like 10 now that gives me a smaller brush here so now I can hit control and go over here to where this ends and come up here and wherever I want I can start drawing the end of the brick there and it may not be perfect but it's going to look you know better than having whatever you don't want in the picture there so as you can see it does kind of look like a whole brick is there now where the lamp used to be so I'm going to go ahead and turn the size back up aspect ratio is going to make your brush either less round you know more oval shaped or if you set it to zero it'll just be a circle so I do want to make sure that this is set to zero and turn this back down 20 all right so for this brick since it's pretty much the same color this brick looks like it's going to be the same cloth as this one we can either just copy this one or if we want to make it look you know less like it's just been copied then we can come up here and grab this brick which looks like it's a pretty similar color as well make sure we're holding ctrl and I come over here and make sure we're starting in the top corner since that's where we chose to clone right there and go ahead and draw that brick now since you can't really see what's going on with this brick here we can pretty much just steal this the brick from up here that same row that we just did the clone 4 and again when you stop when you let go the click it's going to make you start over so make sure to a whole lot of that click while you're doing this if you can otherwise you can always grab another sample from the next area if you're trying to start from the next brick for example all right so now it looks like nothing was ever right here the bricks kind of just keep going and that's the same thing with it we're going to do for the rest of this image here we're just going to grab this brick right here and because I don't want to start you know with this corner brick because I'm going to be erasing from right here I'm going to describe somewhere in the middle and hit ctrl and then draw as much as it'll let me now here I'm going to have to pretty much create a brand new break I'm going to go up here and find a good size brick and just go ahead and click and drag in the corner and come down here control-z make sure I'm starting at the top corner here and go ahead and start drawing so I've drawn that too far because the other bricks up top here is starting so I'm just going to draw this as far as I can go make sure you keep your eye on the brick up top so that you can see where that brick ends and you can kind of stop drawing at the right time and now for right here I'm going to hold control and again I'm going to just kind of fill in for this brick right here I'm going to need some of the motor up top here so I'm going to make sure to include some of that up here while holding control and then just go ahead and draw right here I'm going to decrease the size of my brush to about ten again and I'm going to choose a little bit of mortar here and go ahead and just draw so I can erase some of the pink that's right here and I'm going to choose some back here as well okay so now that whole top part of the lamp is gone and I'm just going to keep going until the entire lamp has disappeared essentially but it's a it's the same thing throughout the whole image so if you see too many lines like right there I just had a line going straight down it's good to just grab from another area of the brick and try to cover that up a little bit same things kind of happening right here so we need to draw an end to this brick here and so we're going to come over here to this brick which is a pretty similar color and I'm gonna grab near where this line is and I'm going to go ahead and draw that here here we go so the next portion is going to be a little easier I'm just going to show this row of bricks right here and because they're all these small bricks and there's a lot of them there's a whole other row up here what I'm going to do is just steal this row from a brick that's about this color and just go as far as I can and replace all this I should be able to do it in a pretty much one stroke so I'm going to go ahead and grab the clone tool again come up here let me zoom in a little bit so I need to find a brick that's about the same color as this one so I'm going to come up here and this one looks pretty close so is this one let's try this one and I'm going to make sure when I come down here that I start kind of similar to where this started so come down start about here I should be able to just we draw this whole row and without really having to do a whole lot all right so I just want to make sure this last break is that you know the same color as where it starts showing right there so I'm actually just going to grab maybe a brick up here grab this one and we're just gonna draw that break-in over here you this one again since there's a lot of the brick already showing we're just going to kind of make a copy of itself and make sure we draw an end at some point and to draw the end I'm just going to grab this one right here because it's pretty similar color and I'm going to just go ahead and start with that start it there okay and we're going to do the same over here for this brick you so as you can see it looks like we completely didn't even have that lampshade there to begin with I'm going to skip doing this portion because it's pretty much the same thing and I'm going to come down here and I'm just going to show you how to erase the base of the lampshade here and it's just the same exact technique you're just grabbing the stamp tool you're choosing an area not too far outside because you want the colors to be the same this is a little too bright so I'm just grabbing an area right there and I'm just painting over this you might want to even grab a little closer that and you want to make sure you're painting with the grain here and the less you lift your mouse while you're doing this the better it'll be and you have the lamp shadow here so you're going to want to get rid of that as well and it kind of carries over on the here's wall so you just want to get rid of that and some of this was a little bit darker so I'm going to just paint over that again now you've pretty much gotten rid of the whole lampshade down here you can kind of zoom in grab your brush tool your airbrush tool and grab the color picker tool and grab a color nearby click OK and just start kind of shading in some of the areas that maybe didn't come out too well or areas that you want to start blending and you can play around with the opacity if you want to you know only only shade that in a little bit you know without entirely covering it also if you are ever in a situation where you are getting rid of something in the foreground but you want to make sure something right next door doesn't get screwed up or touched at all what you can do is come up here to the pen tool and draw around the object that you want to get rid of so in this case we can say it's this lamp here the lamppost and I'm just clicking and to make a curve like that all you're doing is clicking and dragging and I'm just going to do a rough one because I'm not really using this but so you click to make these anchor points here and then you click and drag if you want them to be curved a little bit this one I'll click and drag downward to make the curve go up and then I'll click down here and grab this anchor point and bring it to the end here and then what you do once you've drawn around the object you want to go ahead and hit selection from path and that will give you a little selection area and now you can draw within the selection area without screwing up whatever is around the object you're trying to delete so just to give you an example I can grab this stamp tool and grab part of this brick and if I draw like this it's not going to erase anything outside of that selection we just created so the last thing you may want to do is fill in some of the shadow here because when we added some brick some of the shadow disappeared if it wasn't included in the other area that we took the brick from the area that we cloned so what I'm going to do is grab my airbrush tool turn the size up a little bit and turn the opacity down a little bit go even more and we can actually instead of using black use the color picker and choose one of the colors that's already right there and then just draw a little bit with the airbrush to kind of replace some of that shadow that maybe disappeared when we added back the brick alright so that's it for this tutorial if you liked it please subscribe to our youtube channel at youtube.com slash Davey's media design you can also follow us on Twitter at Davey's media des and on facebook at 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Channel: Davies Media Design

Views: 224,388

Keywords: GIMP tutorial, GIMP photo editing, GIMP basics, GIMP for beginners, remove anything from a photo, how to, photoshop, GIMP 2.8, how to remove anything from a photo, graphic design, photo editing, photo manipulation

Id: Z35ZbxXxsbs

Length: 20min 56sec (1256 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 22 2016

Reddit Comments

[u/[deleted]]

If you have python installed, there are plugins to do this automatically. http://registry.gimp.org/node/27986

[u/[deleted]]

This is good tutorial! But unfortunately in Gimp, the Clone Tool doesn't displays the clone source position and includes a preview displayed over the brush. It have in Photoshop and in PixPlant. This feature helps to save a lot of time.